… and off we went. Remember that during the latter half of the Nineties there were some huge stadium rock bands like Guns N’ Roses, Metallica and Bon Jovi, but Heavy Metal was pretty much dead. But that’s our kind…
Wacken Stories: Scott Ian
… friends, it’s like summer camp. That aspect I really like: getting to catch up with friends in other bands. Wacken is one of the destination festivals. If I see Wacken on the schedule for next summer, I would…
21-11-18
Wacken Stories: Salman U. Syed
… festival every year. It all happened because I used to manage Kryptos, one of India’s biggest metal bands. They were the first group from my country to do a European cross-country tour back in 2010. Wacken…
17-11-18
Wacken Stories: Birutė Surinenaite
… have been a part of the story since 2002. I have travelled to Wacken with my friends, with Lithuanian bands as participants of Wacken Metal Battle, with other people and recently with my husband. I’m experienced…
09-11-18
Wacken Stories: Andreas „Maschine“ Pooch
… lucky enough to work at the festival, like writing reports for papers and magazines or interviewing bands for my own site nitrox.tv. My job as a host started at the Bullhead City Circus, presenting the Metal…
19-10-18
Wacken Stories: Liz Vegas
… now, seven of which I also worked in Wacken. I do not actually work for the festival though, usually bands contact me and ask me to come to the W:O:A. Over the years I had quite a number of clients even from…
10-10-18
Wacken Stories: Andreas Stein
… him sending out that demo. He’s also been traveling the world multiple times, selling march for various bands: Andreas „Stoney“ Stein really is a veteran of metal. But besides being a true professional for 30…
10-10-18
Wacken Stories: Gerhard Tolksdorf
…ution for any problem.“
Gerhard Tolksdorf’s wish for the 30th W:O:A, if anything was possible:
„As far as bands go, pretty much everything is ok for me. I’d rather have Thomas Hess back (who suddenly passed away in…
05-10-18
Wacken Stories: Björn Luig
… few beers and listened to music from the car radio. At some point we decided to go and check out some bands. So we grabbed our stuff and slammed the car door shut – with the keys inside and the radio still…
02-10-18
Naked Six will release their Debut EP on October 26th, 2018!
… a talented twosome, now a trio, described by Soundsphere Magazine as “One of the most exciting pure rock bands to come out of Yorkshire in the last decade. Without doubt. Insane talents”.
Naked Six actually take…
