Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

WACKEN BAND A DAY ANNOUNCEMENT W.O.A organisers have already announced 4 new bands – Winterfylleth, Moonspell, In Extremo and Dark Funeral, and will also be announcing one new amazing band on each day until Sunday. Be sure that we will be something for every taste. So be prepared!!!! For more WACKEN OPEN AIR information – [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

FREI.WILD – Confirmed as last Act for this year´s Wacken Open Air South Tirol´s most successful “Deutsch-Rock” band Frei.Wild has been confirmed as last official act for this year´s Wacken Open Air. Thereby the last mysterious “tba” slot at the festival running order has been disappeared.  FREI.WILD will take over a headliner position on the [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

DANKO JONES ADDED TO W.O.A. LINE UP After their last successful gig in 2006 the Canadian Garage Rock Icons return to Wacken! We are of course talking about DANKO JONES and his comrades in arms John Calabrese and Dan Cornelius. The band will play songs of their newest output “Below The Belt” as well as [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

MEDIEVAL AND PAGAN METAL ADDED TO WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL The German medieval band RELIQUIAE always is on search for musical relic, Their goal is to attend to the original music and its culture. Though the fun and pleasure of Reliquiae´s music is in the fore which the bands divides with their following. The Finish [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

GERMAN AND NORWEGIAN ADDITIONS TO THE WACKEN LINE UP! Organisers have revealed that Norwegians KVELERTAK and German death metallers DEADLOCK are heading for this year’s festival! With their mix of Hardcore Punk, Rock´N´Roll and Black Metal the guys will enter the stage with high speed! Their texts which are written in Norwegian exclusive shouldn´t be [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

SKINDRED AND RABENSCHREY ADDED TO W.O.A LINE UP For everyone who wants to know how a mix of Jamaican sounds, hard metal riffs, punk as well as drum and bass sounds like SKINDRED is definitely the best choice to find out! The band of vocalist Benji Webbe which was touring all around the world with [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

ONKEL TOM ADDED TO WACKEN LINE UP He is back! Besides playing with Sodom in Wacken, Uncle Tom Angelripper will catapult us into beer mood again with his solo project! After the successful Shows at Wacken 2009 and many other shows in 2010, the band went back into their rehearsal room to write new material [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

SLIME PLAY LIVE AT WACKEN OPEN AIR AFTER 16 YEARS AWAY! They are back! After more than 16 years of live abstinence, 3 of the original band members of SLIME announced their reunion. With 2 new members the band, which is also one of the main influences for bands like for example Kreator, will rock [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

SOME GOOD & BAD NEWS FROM WACKEN OPEN AIR! First the good news -  ENISFERUM have been confirmed for this year’s festival! The band mixes lots of elements from modern metal to the point of traditional finish musical instruments – Don´t miss their show in Wacken this summer! Now for the bad news – EXODUS [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

GERMAN ROCK ‘N’ ROLLLERS PUSSY SISSTERS JOIN THE WACKEN LINE UP Fans of Rock´N´Roll will not get a raw deal this year is Wacken’s claim  – PUSSY SISSTERS are on a mission to resurrect the Glam / Sleaze era a la Mötley Crüe and Guns´n Roses and they are very sucessfull with it!  Their brand [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

GERMAN AND CANADIAN ADDITIONS TO THE W.O.A. LINE UP Today organisers have confirmed one of the most successful German Metal Bands – HELLOWEEN! After 25 years in the business, countless tours through Europe and the world HELLOWEEN published their 15 album in 2010.  “7Sinners” is faster and harder than any album before and at  their [...]

Wacken Open Air Festval – Germany

SWEDISH BAND BULLET COMING TO WACKEN OPEN AIR BULLET is a Swedish Heavy Metal band whose music needs to be played on stage, so they will be tearing up Wacken later this year!  In the meantime you can look forward to their newest album “Highway Pirates” which will be released in February. For more WACKEN [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

CRASH DIET CONFIRMED FOR WACKEN OPEN AIR Fans of bands like Skid Row, Kiss or Mötley Crüe will get their money worth with seeing the Swedish hair metal band CRASH DIET who make their first appearance at Wacken this year. For more WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL information – click here >>>

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

WACKEN REVEAL A NEW BAND – SHINING! SHINING is a Norwegian Black Metal-Jazz band.  In their starting time SHINING mostly made acoustical music but let metal more influences their music in past years. In 2010 their album “Blackjazz” was released from which they present you some tracks at Wacken 2011. For more WACKEN OPEN AIR [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

WACKEN OPEN AIR BRINGS 4 MORE BANDS TO THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL Torture Squad – In 2007 the band won the Wacken Open Air Metal Battle. and now they are returning to W:O:A again The Finnish band Eläkeläiset covers famous Pop and Rock Songs and with their special style and traditional finish influences Eläkeläiset are creating [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

MORE CONFIRMATIONS FOR WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL Firstly we have some folk rock with HORCH and ALBERLOUR’S followed by a helping of classic metal from VICTIMS OF MADNESS Next up is the US band VENOMIN JAMES with their Black Sabbath, Clutch, AC/DC influenced rock & metal and finally UK thrash metal band ONSLAUGHT hit the [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL – LATEST NEWS….. There are only another 10,000 tickets for the 22nd Wacken Open Air festival available – So if you don’t have a ticket yet, you should get onto it now. One of the best line-ups in the history of the W:O:A and the greatest fans of the world pledge [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

HAIL OF BULLETS ARE COMING TO W.O.A 2011 Death Metal fans watch out! Confirmed for Wacken 2011! The band of ex – Bolt Thrower vocalist Martin van Drunen will destroy Wacken for the very first time. No death metal fan should miss this show! For more WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL information – click here >>>

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

TRIOSPHERE, SHRAPHEAD & STORMZONE at WACKEN 2011 We start with the Norwegian progressiv metal heads of TRIOSPHERE with female singer Ida Hauklund.  The second band also comes from Norway and is dealt as one of the Thrash metal newcomers of the year – SHRAPHEAD! The band will also release their first full length album in [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival – Germany

Morbid Angel and Blowsight announced for W:O:A Throughout history, only a handful of artists have been able to rise to a truly iconic level within any given genre. MORBID ANGEL are among those select few. The founders of Florida Death Metal are back at W:O:A BLOWSIGHT – Again innovation comes from up north, from Sweden [...]