Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is the
largest exclusively metal music festival in the world.[citation needed]
It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in
Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 60,000 festival visitors,
and including personnel a total of over 72,000 attendees in 2007,[1] it
attracts metal music fans 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 one of the most important in the world and 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 artists perform across four separate stages over the course of the event.
More deatailed information you can browse the webpage of the festival, it is available in many different languages to easy the navigation. You can find there exact running order of all the performing bands.
More information: http://www.wacken.com
ATTENTION THE FESTIVAL IS SOLD OUT!
Tickets are available at Metaltix ( www.metaltix.com ), +49 (0)4627-18 38 38
for EUR 99,00 (incl. EUR 20,00 for Full Metal Service) plus pre-sale-fee EUR 10,00 (you don´t pay more at the advance ticket offices) + postage.
This includes for example.:
> free parking (for any verhicle equaly if car, bus, motorbike, or camper)
> free camping - directly at your vehicle for the W:O:A Feeling (as far as the weather allows it).
> Like before there is no limitation for drinks or any food on the parking- and camping area
> only greenfields and direct ways to the fesivalarea (as far as the weather allows it).
> Shuttle to the Wacken or Schenefeld swimming-bath.
> Garbage will be collected from us for free – No garbage deposit
> Festivalstickers
> free CD
> many little suprises = Full Metal Bag
> and many more......
This years lineup is very inviteing. There is more than 60 bands who confirmed thier participasion in this event and there meybe even more artist comming. Here they are, in the alphabetical order:):
- 3 Inches of Blood www.3inchesofblood.com/
www.myspace.com/3iobl
- As I Lay Dying http://www.asilaydying.com/
- At the Gates www.atthegates.se
- Autumn www.autumn-band.com
- Avantasia http://www.tobiassammet.com/
- Axel Rudi Pell www.axel-rudi-pell.de/
- Axxis http://www.axxis.de/
- Before the Dawn www.beforethedawn.com
- Carcass www.earache.com
- Children of Bodom http://www.cobhc.com/
- Corvus Corax www.corvuscorax.de
www.cantusburanus.de
www.myspace.com/cantusburanus
- Crematory http://www.crematory.de/
- Destructor www.myspace.com/maximumdestructor
- Dream of an Opium Eater http://www.myspace.com/dreamofanopiumeater/
- Ex. Grindfuckers http://www.excrementory.de/
- Exodus www.exodusattack.com
- Girugämesh www.girugamesh.com
www.myspace.com/girugamesh
- Gorerotted http://www.gorerotted.com/
- Gorgoroth www.theforcegorgoroth.org
- Grave www.myspace.com/gravespace
www.grave.se/
-Hatebreed www.hatebreed.com
- Head Hunter www.myspace.com/officialheadhunter
www.officialheadhunter.com
- Iron Maiden http://www.ironmaiden.com/
-Job for a Cowboy www.myspace.com/jobforacowboy
www.jfacmetal.com/
- Killswitch Engage http://www.killswitchengage.com/
- Kreator http://www.kreator-terrorzone.de/
- Krypteria http://www.krypteria.de/
- Leaves Eyes www.myspace.com/leaveseyespage
www.leaveseyes.de/
- Lord Belial http://www.lordbelial.com/
- Lordi http://www.lordi.fi/
- Machine Men www.machinemen.net
www.myspace.com/machinemenband
- Mercenary www.mercenary.dk
www.myspace.com/mercenarydenmark
- Nifelheim www.nifelheim.co.nr
- Nightwish www.nightwish.com
- Obituary http://www.obituary.cc/
- Opeth www.opeth.com
- Powerwolf http://www.powerwolf.net/
- Primordial www.primordialweb.com/
- PsychoPunch www.psychopunch.com/
- Sabaton http://www.sabaton.net/
- Saltatio Mortis www.saltatio-mortis.com
- Soilwork www.myspace.com/soilwork
www.soilwork.org
- Sonata Arctica http://www.sonataarctica.info/
- Sturm und Drang www.sturmunddrang.fi
www.myspace.com/sturmis
- The Bones http://www.bonesrocknroll.com/
- Torture Squad www.myspace.com/torturesquadband
www.torturesquad.com
- Unearth www.myspace.com/unearth
www.unearth.tv/
- Warbringer www.myspace.com/warbringer
- Watain www.myspace.com/watainofficial
www.templeofwatain.com
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 one of the most important in the world and 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 artists perform across four separate stages over the course of the event.
More deatailed information you can browse the webpage of the festival, it is available in many different languages to easy the navigation. You can find there exact running order of all the performing bands.
More information: http://www.wacken.com
ATTENTION THE FESTIVAL IS SOLD OUT!
Tickets are available at Metaltix ( www.metaltix.com ), +49 (0)4627-18 38 38
for EUR 99,00 (incl. EUR 20,00 for Full Metal Service) plus pre-sale-fee EUR 10,00 (you don´t pay more at the advance ticket offices) + postage.
This includes for example.:
> free parking (for any verhicle equaly if car, bus, motorbike, or camper)
> free camping - directly at your vehicle for the W:O:A Feeling (as far as the weather allows it).
> Like before there is no limitation for drinks or any food on the parking- and camping area
> only greenfields and direct ways to the fesivalarea (as far as the weather allows it).
> Shuttle to the Wacken or Schenefeld swimming-bath.
> Garbage will be collected from us for free – No garbage deposit
> Festivalstickers
> free CD
> many little suprises = Full Metal Bag
> and many more......
This years lineup is very inviteing. There is more than 60 bands who confirmed thier participasion in this event and there meybe even more artist comming. Here they are, in the alphabetical order:):
- 3 Inches of Blood www.3inchesofblood.com/
www.myspace.com/3iobl
- As I Lay Dying http://www.asilaydying.com/
- At the Gates www.atthegates.se
- Autumn www.autumn-band.com
- Avantasia http://www.tobiassammet.com/
- Axel Rudi Pell www.axel-rudi-pell.de/
- Axxis http://www.axxis.de/
- Before the Dawn www.beforethedawn.com
- Carcass www.earache.com
- Children of Bodom http://www.cobhc.com/
- Corvus Corax www.corvuscorax.de
www.cantusburanus.de
www.myspace.com/cantusburanus
- Crematory http://www.crematory.de/
- Destructor www.myspace.com/maximumdestructor
- Dream of an Opium Eater http://www.myspace.com/dreamofanopiumeater/
- Ex. Grindfuckers http://www.excrementory.de/
- Exodus www.exodusattack.com
- Girugämesh www.girugamesh.com
www.myspace.com/girugamesh
- Gorerotted http://www.gorerotted.com/
- Gorgoroth www.theforcegorgoroth.org
- Grave www.myspace.com/gravespace
www.grave.se/
-Hatebreed www.hatebreed.com
- Head Hunter www.myspace.com/officialheadhunter
www.officialheadhunter.com
- Iron Maiden http://www.ironmaiden.com/
-Job for a Cowboy www.myspace.com/jobforacowboy
www.jfacmetal.com/
- Killswitch Engage http://www.killswitchengage.com/
- Kreator http://www.kreator-terrorzone.de/
- Krypteria http://www.krypteria.de/
- Leaves Eyes www.myspace.com/leaveseyespage
www.leaveseyes.de/
- Lord Belial http://www.lordbelial.com/
- Lordi http://www.lordi.fi/
- Machine Men www.machinemen.net
www.myspace.com/machinemenband
- Mercenary www.mercenary.dk
www.myspace.com/mercenarydenmark
- Nifelheim www.nifelheim.co.nr
- Nightwish www.nightwish.com
- Obituary http://www.obituary.cc/
- Opeth www.opeth.com
- Powerwolf http://www.powerwolf.net/
- Primordial www.primordialweb.com/
- PsychoPunch www.psychopunch.com/
- Sabaton http://www.sabaton.net/
- Saltatio Mortis www.saltatio-mortis.com
- Soilwork www.myspace.com/soilwork
www.soilwork.org
- Sonata Arctica http://www.sonataarctica.info/
- Sturm und Drang www.sturmunddrang.fi
www.myspace.com/sturmis
- The Bones http://www.bonesrocknroll.com/
- Torture Squad www.myspace.com/torturesquadband
www.torturesquad.com
- Unearth www.myspace.com/unearth
www.unearth.tv/
- Warbringer www.myspace.com/warbringer
- Watain www.myspace.com/watainofficial
www.templeofwatain.com
