Wacken Open Air (W.O.A) is a summer open air metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 80.000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of roughly 86.000 attendees in 2011, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black, death, power, trash, gothic, folk, metalcore, nu and hard rock from around the world.
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The festival was first held in 1990 as a small event for local German bands. W.O.A. is usually held at the beginning of August and lasts three days. Since 2002, the Wacken Firefighters, the local volunteer fire department band, opens the festival. This year the confirmed bands Death Angel and Iced Earth canceled their summer shows including Wacken Open Air.
Double Main Stage, Thursday 31st July:
- Letz-Zep
- Skyline
- Bülent
- Ceylan
- Hammerfall
- Steel Panther
- Saxon
- Accept
- Masterplan
Friday, 1st August:
- Chthonic
- Skid Row
- Endstille
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Bring me the horizon
- Heaven shall burn
- Children of Bodom
- Apocalyptica
- Motörhead
- Slayer
- King Diamond
- WASP
Saturday, 2nd August:
- Arch Enemy
- Sodom
- Behemonth
- Devin Townsend Project
- Emperor
- Amon Amarth
- Megadeth
- Avantasia
- Kreator
- Van Canto
This journey was amazing and my favourite place was Alkmaar, it´s a municipaly and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of Noord Holland. Alkmaar is well known for its traditional cheese market. For tourists, it´s a popular cultural destination.
Thanks to: Victor Van Canto, Hector Our Destiny, Lu of the North, Melanie the Croatian, Alfa Romeo Mito, Joacim Cans, Oscar Dronjak, Michael Starr, Biff Byford, Mark Tornillo, Roland Grapow, Jorn Lande, Ivan Moody, Alexi Lahilo, Eicca Toppinen, Lemmy Kilmister, Johan Hegg, Dave Mustaine, Tobias Sammet, Michael Kiske, Amanda Somerville, Stefan and Ross "Rakkataka", Holland and Germany for putting up with us. Someday we will come back to another adventure.
Long live to Rock and may the force be with you...only time will tell.
