A German nursing home alerted police after they noticed two men were missing. They were later found at 3 a.m. at the Wacken Open Air metal festival. Two elderly German men escaped the confines of their nursing home on Friday to attend Wacken Open Air, police said. The nursing home…
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SCHMIER – DESTRUCTION
INTERVIEW WITH SCHMIER OF DESTRUCTION The German thrash metal is an institution in the metal world. The thrash metal scene has had a huge impact on bands and their sounds and of course, imagery. The thrash metal icons Destruction have been thrashing since the 80’s and since then kept pounding…
Less than 10,000 tickets available for W:O:A 2018
The pre-sale for Wacken Open Air 2018 turns into the home straight. Less than 10.000 tickets are still available for the festival, about three months before we open the gates again. If you want to be part of the biggest metal party of the year, you should order your tickets…
Wacken Metal Battle Canada: Hamilton’s PROFANER Win 2nd Place At International Wacken Metal Battle At Wacken Open Air
Free Download – Vol 4. Compilation featuring over 90 bands and 7 Hours of Canadian Metal – here. Hamilton, ON’s PROFANER conquered the 2016 WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA competition this past June beating out over 100 bands from across the country to be the ‘One Band To Rule Them All’ and perform at the world’s largest metal fest Wacken…
WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA 2016! Band Submissions Open Nov 5th! New Cities Added!
2016 Trailer Video – www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQcxqsxchkQ WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA is proud to return for its fourth year showcasing Canada’s top independent metal talent to the world stage at Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany, which holds an attendance of over 80,000 metalheads from around the world. For the last…
SAVATAGE/TSO – Al Pitrelli, Chris Caffery and Paul O’Neill
INTERVIEW BY MARKO SYRJALA AND ARTOLEHTINEN Savatage and Trans Siberian Orchestra literally blew the two stages away by offering a huge visual spectacle at Wacken Open Air this August. The whole show was beyond normal human comprehension and understanding. Seeing this one of kind spectacle can’t be compared to any…
Wacken Open Air 2015
Wacken being sold out is a kind of mystery, for sure. The event is somehow sold out every year, but this year’s sell out wasn’t a surprise as Savatage with Trans Siberian Orchestra and Judas Priest were headliners. Thousands and thousands of metal fans from every corner of the world…
Wacken 2015 (Preview)
The Wacken Open Air festival is held nearby Hamburg in a village simply called Wacken every year in the end of July and beginning of August. Every year about 100,000 metal maniacs gather to witness great performances by several metal bands in the festival. Booked bands on the bill…
Submissions Now Open! Wacken Metal Battle Canada Returns! ‘One Band To Rule Them All’
Submissions Now Open! Wacken Metal Battle Canada Returns! ‘One Band To Rule Them All’ Last year’s first ever Wacken Metal Battle Canada was witnessed to Toronto, ON’s epic power/death metal band Crimson Shadows not only winning the 2013 Canadian final but conquering the international final in Wacken, Germany where they performed in front of thousands unknown to their behemoth sound of…
WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA Unleashes FREE DOWNLOAD Compilation of Competing Bands
Wacken Metal Battle Canada has unleashed a FREE DOWNLOAD compilation to promote some of the top Canadian metal talents competing in this year’s largest metal contest for one true champion to represent the nation with the highest honor at this summer’s 2013 edition of Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany. Promo Video – Wacken Metal…
W:O:A 2013 – Run for tickets is still unbroken
Hello Metalheads, The W:O:A 2013 presale runs on high speed so this week provide you with the next update regarding the current ticket sale. Further we present the a real unique special of ex-Nightwish vocalist Tarja and Pledge Music as well as news from the Hamburg Metal Dayz. Further issues:…
Wacken Open Air 2012 – 2nd – 4th August
Metal-Rules.com will be attending and covering the festival… Watch for it! The words Wacken and Sold Out always seem to go together a little too easily, so it will come as no surprise that once again the top of the heavy-metal-festival-pyramid has long been oversubscribed. In fact it would appear…
Wacken 2007
Wacken Open Air 2007 Wacken is a blessed mecca of the whole metal world. Again this year it was entirely sold out when ten thousands of metal manics travelled from all around the world to gather and witness plenty of ass kicking bands. The weather forecast for Wacken didn’t look that promising. The chaotic…
On the Silver Mountain — Wacken Open Air 2004
On the Silver Mountain The Wacken 2004 Experience By Michael De Los Muertos Additional Commentary by Ice Maiden Photos by Ice Maiden, Alison Jacob and Michael De Los Muertos
WACKEN OPEN AIR 2000
WACKEN OPEN AIR 2000 We are please to present you with our exclusive coverage of the Wacken Open Air 2000 Festival. For those of you who haven’t heard of this festival, Wacken is a Mecca for metalheads in Europe, and for those elsewhere who can afford to fly there :-)!…