Wacken Open Air is 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. 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.
Ticket Price: ?140 (3-Day)
Headliners
Festival lineup
- Amon Amarth
- Axel Rudi Pell
- Coroner
- Cradle of Filth
- Danko Jones
- Dark Funeral
- Dimmu Borgir
- Endstille
- Forbidden
- GammaRay
- HammerFall
- Henry Rollins
- In Extremo
- Machine Head
- Ministry
- Moonspell
- Napalm Death
- Opeth
- Paradise Lost
- Saturnian
- Scorpions
- Sick Of It All
- Six Feet Under
- Suicide Silence
- U.D.O.
- Volbeat
- Watain
- Winterfylleth
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