Wacken Open Air Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is one of the leading summer open air heavy metal music festivals. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 80,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of roughly 82,500 attendees in 2010, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal, folk metal, and even metalcore and hard rock from around the world. The festival was first held in 1990 as a small event for local German bands. By 1998 the event had become the major festival on the European metal calendar and has included over 70 bands from all over Europe, North America and Australia. W:O:A is usually held at the beginning of August and lasts three days, during which the festival-goers camp on several large camping grounds surrounding the actual festival area. The 70 or more bands perform across four separate stages over the course of the event. Size of the festival site: 220 ha Festival infield: 42.000 qm Number of visitors: 75.000 W:O:A 2014 was sold out in less than 48 hours! http://www.wacken.com/ |
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This year we get best schedules, more stages, a lot of rock legends and over-the-top acts, and more Mambo Kurt than ever!!
Main bands of the day include:
WEDNESDAY 1 (AUGUST)
Nazareth
Sepultura
Fish
Backyard Babies
Toxic Holocaust
Mambo Kurt!!
Doro
and of course the International Metal Battle!
THURSDAY 2 (AUGUST)
Dokken
Dirkschneider
Danzig
Vince Neil
Behemoth
Judas Priest
Tremonti
Vallenfyre
Belphegor
Dying Fetus
Converge
Watain
FRIDAY 3 (AUGUST)
Adler's Appetite
Amorphis
Epica
Children of Bodom
Nightwish
In Flames
Cannibal Corpse
Korpiklaani
Doro
Running Wild
Ghost
Amaranthe
Mr. Big
Firewind
Destruction
Blues Pills
Mantar
Sons of Apollo
Soen
SATURDAY 4 (AUGUST)
Alestorm
Gojira
Arch Enemy
Dimmu Borgir
Wintersun
Skindred
Steel Panther
Helloween - Pumpkins United
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Ensiferum
Eskimo Callboy
Nocturnal Rites
Enslaved
Samael
Manilla Road
Solstafir
Bonfire
And many, many more!!
Date: 23.03.2018
City: ES - Barcelona
Venue: Hellfire Metal Club
Website: www.facebook.com/hellfiremetalclub
Date: 06.04.2018
City: Hamburg
Venue: Kaiserkeller
Link: www.facebook.com/events/1790090584361835/
Date: 27.04.2018
City: Wetzlar
Venue: Event Werkstatt
Website: www.facebook.com/Event-Werkstatt-Wetzlar-1491002114529781/
Date: 19.05.2018
City: Kitzingen
Venue: Alter Keller
Link: www.rockmania.de
Date: 26.05.2018
City: ES - Madrid
Venue: Big Four Rock Bar
Website: www.facebook.com/BigFourBar
Learn more about Warm Up Parties here!
We can announce 4 new bands and new "theme day" for the upcoming W:O:A!
Gojira will return to Wacken!
The French band Gojira must undoubtedly be on every list of these days most exciting metal bands. With each new album, they easily manage to break down the boundaries of the genres. Without ever sounding arbitrary and interchangeable or sacrificing their own trademarks!
Whether you call it Technical Death Metal, Progressive Death Metal, Progressive Groove or simply Metal, one thing is clear for sure: Gojira always deliver high class!
Tremonti will join Wacken for the very first time! Head of the band is Mark Tremonti, who is already well known as guitarist of Creed and co-founder of Alter Bridge. With Tremonti, he can now follow his own musical visions. To do this proper, he isn't only playing the guitar but also took over the lead vocals.
Destruction will smash the Wacken Open Air 2018 too! The German thrash metal pioneers haven't played at the holy land since 2007, but now it is finally time for them to return!
Last but not least: Rezet Rezet are another new addition for our lineup. Semi-official, the band has already played Wacken twice, namely in the old Metal Market tent, which had a separate program.
They will be part of the new Wasted Wednesday: The Wasteland Stage, which has been repeatedly upgraded in recent years, will be conquered by a terrific, old-school thrash and speed metal lineup. Get rid of your hangover in no time and bang your head to some solid metal!
GET YOUR W:O:A-TICKET NOW AT METALTIX!
W:O:A 2018 – 02.08. - 04.08.
With: Judas Priest, Nightwish, In Flames, Ghost, Helloween - Pumpkins United, Running Wild, Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Children Of Bodom, In Extremo, Hatebreed, Gojira, Steel Panther, Doro, Dirkschneider, Samael, Cannibal Corpse, Schandmaul, Destruction, Clawfinger, Korpiklaani, Eskimo Callboy, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Converge, Riot V, Epica, Tremonti, Wintersun, Oomph!, Amorphis, Vince Neil and many more acts!
Wacken Open Air 2018 is already casting huge shadows and today we can announce the next fantastic acts for next year. The bands speak for themselves, so we do not want to lose many words in advance.
Let's begin with the one and only JUDAS PRIEST! Rob Halford and his band are soon celebrating their 30th anniversary with a new album in 2018 and will once again write live history at Wacken!
The next Band is the black metal legend DIMMU BORGIR, which will play their only German festival show at Wacken 2018! Mötley Crüe may be history but frontman VINCE NEIL will come to Wacken to play a best-of show of the CrÜe at the upcoming festival!
Another Finnish cult band arrives with Children of Bodom which will also play their only German festival show in 2018! Last but not least we want to complete this amazing package with AMARANTHE, one of Swedens most successful metal bands!
Get your tickets now at Metaltix!
FASTER, HARDER, LOUDER! SEE YOU IN WACKEN – RAIN OR SHINE!
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