"Wacken - rain or shine." It's a good catchphrase, though there was definitely more of one than the other at this year's event as Wacken Open Air returned for its 34th edition, boasting a host of ...

Wacken Open Air has been setting up some pretty tight bills mixing various styles of metal over the last few years, and it seems the 2025 fest will be the same. They announced the first 34 bands over ...

Tickets for the next Wacken Open Air heavy metal music festival in July and August 2025 have already sold out, according to festival promoters on Monday. The 85,000 tickets for the festival in the ...

Abstimm-Aschenbecher beim Wacken Open Air: Das haben die neuen Ballot Bins für Zigaretten beim Festival 2025 gebracht – dafür ...

The Wacken Open Air festival, also known as W:O:A, began in 1990 as a small festival with just 800 rock fans and a few local metal bands. The initial venue was a former gravel pit on the outskirts of ...

Der Ticketverkauf für Wacken 2026 geht schleppend voran. Während die Karten zuletzt nach Stunden ausverkauft waren, gibt es ...

Northern Germany's Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival, in a rural area northwest of Hamburg, opened today. Rainy weather turned the festival's grounds muddy, and organizers were forced to tell fans ...

Germany's annual Wacken Open Air, like some other international heavy metal festivals, is having a tough time finding the figurative ground to mount a comeback amid the pandemic. Wacken Open Air 2021, ...

In one of the most insane announcements likely to come this week, organizers for Wacken Open Air 2023 have confirmed that the festival sold out—a grand total of 80,000 tickets sold in six hours. It is ...

Earlier this week, the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany announced their summer festival would be postponed until 2022 and good news has now arrived as the first 18 bands for next year have been ...

More information will be available soon. Festivals are a little hit and miss right now. Unfortunately Wacken Open Air has fallen into the "miss" category and will now take place between August 4 and 6 ...