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W:O:A Reveal New Bands For Valentine’s Day


Wacken Open Air Festival revealed new bands for Valentine’s Day. Read their news statement below:

Happy Valentine’s Day! We love you so much that this week we’re hitting you with EIGHT bands, and they all put on their best shiny suits and armour to please you on the Holy Ground. Well in once case, they took off their shiny attire: None other than Gene Simmons is hitting the road to deliver his solo program, and he’s not coming alone, but with a highly decorated all-star band

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W:O:A Unveil 10 more bands as part of Advent Calendar Event


Advent Advent – ​​and the first candle burns! What this means for the Wacken Metalhead is pretty clear: W:O:A has revealed its first December-Sunday band announcements!  To go in with a bang, we present to you two heavyweight champions.

Both Testament and Armored Saint will be joining us back on the field and everyone can probably agree that both bands were able to absolutely smash their Holy Ground gigs every time.

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Wacken Open Air Adds New Bands on Black Friday!


While some people are enjoying Black Friday today, it’s actually “Black Everyday” for most of our Wacken Metalheads!

And we know that at the end of the day, no discount can make you happier than a new batch of bands. Hence, we are presenting five new line-up additions that are sure to make your dark hearts beat faster.

First and foremost is warlock Dani Filth, who is visiting us with his eerily chic demon-gang Cradle Of Filth. For 30 years, they have been wheezing, shrieking, crowing on stages and constantly smudging the boundaries between Black, Symphonic and Death Metal with black corpse paint.

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The W:O:A X-Mas Sale 2023!


How about a little Christmas trip to beautiful Wacken? As every year W:O:A opens its doors for 3 days next week to offer you delicious mulled wine, their X-Mas collection and of course all the other goodies. See you there!

From November 30th until December 2nd, 2023 you can browse as you please and get the right Christmas present for your loved ones (or yourself)!

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THE FIRST 33 BANDS FOR THE 33RD WACKEN OPEN AIR ANNOUNCED + W:O:A 2024 SELLS OUT IN RECORD TIME!


While the last riff storms were still being cast over the holy ground at this year’s event, Wacken revealed the first preview of the 33rd edition of the Wacken Open Air and one thing we can promise you! It will be magical!

The number 33 is not only a magic number but also quantifies for the first time this year the number of bands we will unleash in the first band wave.

In 2024 we will transform the Holy Ground into a mystical playground – supported by all kinds of legends from the sagas of heavy metal!

The first band wave will be led by some legendary companions who have already graced us several times at the W:O:A:

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W:O:A 2023 Map Now Available!


Wacken has released the 2023 maps:

Now the time has come and after a few last-minute changes, we finally have the festival maps ready for you!
As always there is an overall map that shows you the big picture, as well as a detailed plan that focuses on the actual event area. 

In addition to many small innovations there are also some larger ones which we would like to list here in detail:

This year the capacity of the wristband exchange was increased significantly. The wristband exchange at the top left of the camping plaza has 54 counters where metalheads can pick up their wristbands at the same time. Pay attention to the walking direction from the camping areas in the direction of Camping Plaza! All of you arriving by bus can pick up your wristband directly at the bus station. Other wristband exchanges are in the Wheels of Steel area, in the Residenz Evil and Moshtel for visitors of this respective areas.

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