The bands behind the 14th door – Heavy, Death and Industrial Metal!

Another day with three new names for 2017: Today we can announce bands for the Heavy Metal and Death Metal fans and also a special act for the…

Three crossover acts behind door 13!

Today we can announce three acts from the crossover area – none of them has ever been in Wacken before!

More Metal Battle districts are starting new application rounds

South Africa and Newcomer USA and Indonesia have now launched the new Metal Battle preliminary rounds and expect many, many applications.

Power Metal, Industrial and Punk behind door 12

Thrash, Sludge and Metalcore on Sunday!

Today’s Sunday brings you three more names for the upcoming festival. And again we can present one band that wasn’t in Wacken before!

Power Metal and Deathcore behind door 10!

Next to another Power Metal act, we can also announce a pinch of Deathcore for our Lineup.

The bands behind the 9th door

Another day with three names for W:O:A 2017. And next to some old friends, we can also announce another premier!

Hotel Packages with / without W:O:A Tickets available via Metal Travel!

Hotel Packages with / without W:O:A 2017 Tickets are from now on available via Metal Travel!

New start of the Wacken Music Camp2017!

The application phase for the Wacken Music Camp 2017 has just started. Further one participation slot will be raffled in the christmas season. Find…

Three kinds of styles behind door 8

Behind door 8 at xmas.wacken.com, there aren’t only nice prizes for our big raffle, but also three new names for the festival!

Project "Festivalzombie" – We need your feedback

Zombies are metal, W:O:A is metal – why don't we combine those two things? That's what Fritjof thought who has now presented us his idea for the…

Newly confirmed for Full Metal Mountain: Pyogenesis

We are honored to present you with the next band for Full Metal Mountain: Pyogenesis will join us in Nassfeld!