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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 ...

BERLINBERLIN — The Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival in northern Germany is opening on Wednesday with a reduced audience after persistent rain turned the grounds to mud and forced organizers to ...

Update: Official video from the Wacken Open Air performance of Dio Disciples utilizing the Ronnie James Dio hologram has been posted by the hologram's creator, Eyellusion. Watch the video in the ...

Before this year's Wacken festival in northern Germany was even wrapped up this weekend, the organisers announced – via video messages and a bonkers drone show – the first load of bands for its 35th ...

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The pandemic is winding down… but not fast enough: the organizers of the annual Wacken Open Air Festival have postponed this year’s event to the weekend of August 4, 2022. The silver lining, such as ...

Germany's Wacken Open Air festival has halted all admissions due to excessive rainfall and muddy festival grounds. Wacken Open Air was originally expected to have roughly 85,000 metal fans on site, ...

It was the story of the summer — two pensioners snuck out of a retirement home in northern Germany to attend Wacken Open Air, the world's biggest heavy metal festival, only to be later found by police ...

Yesterday (Aug. 7), Itzehoe police spokesman Peter Berndt confirmed this information, stating the two, aged 58 and 59, were seen in the town on Friday (Aug. 3). Festival attendees spotted the two ...

Alice Cooper's Aug. 3, 2013, concert at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany, will soon be available for mass consumption. 'Raise the Dead - Live From Wacken' will be released on Oct. 21 as ...