"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wacken Open Air is one of the world's largest heavy metal festivals, and it took place over the last view days in Germany. Headliners for the 2025 festival included Guns n' Roses, Machine Head, Papa ...

We may already know one major name on next year’s edition of Wacken Open Air, but the organizers of one of the largest European festivals also released the first list of bands slated to play next year ...