Wacken Open Air 2008; Video Report, Photo Gallery Available
August 4, 2008, 15 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Spiegel.de:
Last week, over 75,000 people from all over the world convened in the small German town of Wacken for an annual ritual held in celebration of all things heavy metal.
The festival - known as Wacken Open Air - is now in its 19th year, after having been started in 1990 as a small gathering of local heavy metal bands. This year's event drew dozens of bands to the gathering's four stages. For three nights starting Thursday, participants enjoyed over 80 hours of music from all the sub-genres of heavy metal, including death metal, power metal, thrash metal and folk metal.
This year's Battle Of The Bands winner was the Israeli band THE FADING.
In between events, concert-goers drank, played in the copious mud and socialized with the town's 1,800 year-round residents, who have generally come to enjoy the festival's annual arrival.
Festival founder Thomas Jensen has announced that next year's festival will be held in San Paolo, Brazil, and will be called Wacken Rocks Brazil.
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A video report in German can be viewed below:
