More W:O:A 2024 bands for you on the third of Advent!
Advent, Advent, Advent! The three is your lucky number. This is what our warlocks and witches also predicted. On the 3rd Sunday of Advent we put a great bunch of bands under the Christmas tree. There are legendary guitarists, talented fire-breathers, Hard Rock highlights and new whizkids: It will be fabulous, fiery and brute!
In 1999 AXEL RUDI PELL played their first gig at W:O:A. Back then the Ruhrpott legend wanted to smash his e-guitar at the end of the show, what unfortunately did not succeed. Now everything works out as planned: A quarter-century, some memorable Wacken shows and 14 studio records later the Hard Rockers come again to the Holy Ground. This will be magic.
2024 will be hot: FEUERSCHWANZ will lay our stages in ashes with their number 1 album „Fegefeuer“. The 8-headed-powerhouse conquered the hearts of a huge fanbase and enjoys a good reputation as a great and creative Folk Metal band. Welcome back!
Since 2012 Holland’s Gothic Metal combo BLACKBRIAR are out there and they have released three EPs and their highly anticipated debut album with Joost van den Broek. After that they were signed by the legendary Metal label Nuclear Blast and the sophomore album „A Dark Euphony“ saw the light of day. Dark. Melancholic. Catchy. It’s time to see the female-fronted-sensation in Wacken!
Ready for some brutal Old School Death Metal? EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY is the answer. With their debut album „Prophecies Of The Conjoined“ the riff-smithery had no other ambition than bringing back the pure 90s Death Metal sound. And they did it! Prepare your mane, you will need it!
They combine brutal riffs and breakdowns, catchy vocal lines and the Nu Metal sound of the 90s. HALF ME, the high flyers from Hamburg, have just released their debut album „Soma“ and with their strong will they are on the best way to play themselves to the front of the scene. And so they will do it at W:O:A 2024!
At the JESUS PIECE shows, everything is reduced to rubble! In the finest New York Hardcore style, people become stepping stools, railings and tables become springboards and everything that isn't nailed down becomes a projectile! Seven years into a career built on an uncompromising ethos and a carefully crafted, brutal sound, JESUS PIECE fuse intelligence and aggression in a way that not only pushes the rigid boundaries of the genre. This is Hardcore Music of the future.
Be enchanted by the Norwegian Gothic Metal Queen LIV KRISTINE! She transformed our Holy Ground into a cave of longing back in 1996 as the dark goddess of Theater Of Tragedy. Together with her Viking ship and folk-metal band Leave Eyes, we went into battle with her at W:O:A 2008 and 2012! Liv Kristine's balladic vocal power can be found on her sixth solo album "River Of Diamonds" and finally at Wacken again in 2024!
The big finale is coming - MR. BIG are going on a farewell tour after 36 years of band history! As four young hard rock guys from LA, they started making music together in 1988 and quickly conquered the charts and radio stations of the world with mega hits like "To Be With You" and "Wild World" - until today! In over 30 years, a lot of stories have come together that we can't even list here: as at W:O:A 2018, we - and Mr. Big - can hardly keep our feet still to headbang live to the Best Of songs one last time.
Dutch modern tech metal pioneers TEXTURES are back after 6 years! Their break-up in 2018 left a big hole in the global progressive metal community. But "the dead live longer": with a new album, they will reclaim their position as a must-see festival band at W:O:A 2024!
In 2023, Australians THE AMITY AFFLICTION went straight to number 56 in the German charts with their latest LP 'Not Without My Ghosts'! The emotional lyrics of singer Joel Birch - about suicide, gun violence, religion and mental illness - paired with the heavy, hard sound of the post-hardcore band show The Amity Affliction at their brutal best. We won't miss the joint battle with inner demons in the pit in 2024!
More music is also included as prize of today's door of the W:O:A X-Mas Calendar - You can win tickets for the upcoming Doro Pesch Tour! This way!
yours
W:O:A team
