… Andrea K - Ottenbüttel All winners will beinformed by email! Tomorrow we will announce the next bands and xmas winners!And here are the x-mas winners from the 2nd of december 2018:0Patrick J - Rielasingen…
01-12-18
Our X-Mas Calendar starts - with Gloryhammer and Myrath!
…Our X-Mas calendar on xmas.wacken.com has started and since midnight the first two new bands for the W: O: A 2019 are ready to be unveiled! Also the first daily raffle has started - 5x2 guest list places will be raffled…
30-11-18
Wacken Stories: Thomas Jensen
…Not many bands are as close to the hearts of the two Wacken bosses like Motörhead. In 1997, Lemmy and his gang played their first show at the festival, overall they appeared eight times. Lemmy’s spirit has been felt at…
29-11-18
Wacken Stories: Holger Hübner
… and off we went. Remember that during the latter half of the Nineties there were some huge stadium rock bands like Guns N’ Roses, Metallica and Bon Jovi, but Heavy Metal was pretty much dead. But that’s our kind…
Wacken Stories: Scott Ian
… friends, it’s like summer camp. That aspect I really like: getting to catch up with friends in other bands. Wacken is one of the destination festivals. If I see Wacken on the schedule for next summer, I would…
21-11-18
Wacken Stories: Salman U. Syed
… festival every year. It all happened because I used to manage Kryptos, one of India’s biggest metal bands. They were the first group from my country to do a European cross-country tour back in 2010. Wacken…
17-11-18
Wacken Stories: Birutė Surinenaite
… have been a part of the story since 2002. I have travelled to Wacken with my friends, with Lithuanian bands as participants of Wacken Metal Battle, with other people and recently with my husband. I’m experienced…
09-11-18
Wacken Stories: Andreas „Maschine“ Pooch
… lucky enough to work at the festival, like writing reports for papers and magazines or interviewing bands for my own site nitrox.tv. My job as a host started at the Bullhead City Circus, presenting the Metal…
19-10-18
Wacken Stories: Liz Vegas
… now, seven of which I also worked in Wacken. I do not actually work for the festival though, usually bands contact me and ask me to come to the W:O:A. Over the years I had quite a number of clients even from…
10-10-18
Wacken Stories: Andreas Stein
… him sending out that demo. He’s also been traveling the world multiple times, selling march for various bands: Andreas „Stoney“ Stein really is a veteran of metal. But besides being a true professional for 30…
