Germany, Wacken - Wacken Open Air 2011
Location: | Germany, Wacken |
Date: | 03-06 August 2011 |
Website: | www.wacken.com |
Organizer: | ICS Event Service |
Tickets: |
130 ? |
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It was about time! Finally, in its 22nd year of existence, the biggest metal festival in the world will welcome the Prince of Darkness, one of the founders of the music we have all come to love: Ozzy Osbourne will headline Wacken Open Air 2011!
Ozzy's performance at Wacken will be his only German festival show in 2011. The metal opera Avantasia take it even further and will make their performance at Wacken Open Air their only show in 2011 worldwide! Witnessing Tobias Sammet (Edguy) and his myriad of guests in front of tens of thousands of fans under the open sky certainly isn't your everyday concert experience.
And of course there's also American power metallers Iced Earth who will be performing for the very last time with legendary singer Matt Barlow.
But these three acts aren't the only ones with exclusive performances: NWOBHM legends Judas Priest, who are currently on their last world tour ever, TNBM front-runners Mayhem and Australian hard rockers Airbourne will also perform their only German festival shows at Wacken Open Air, and for Trivium it will even be their only festival show on European soil in 2011.
But even if you don't care for either of these bands, Wacken once again offers a wide array of metal styles for almost everyone, like power metal (e.g. Blind Guardian), extreme power/melodeath metal (e.g. Children Of Bodom), thrash metal (e.g. Kreator), death metal (e.g. Kataklysm), rock'n'roll (e.g. Motörhead), glam metal (e.g. Crashdïet), j-rock (Dir En Grey), folk metal (e.g. Moonsorrow), stoner (Kyuss Lives!) and then some. For a complete listing of all 120+ bands, filled to the brim with big names of the scene, you'll only have to scroll down.
Wacken Open Air takes place in - surprise! - Wacken in Northern Germany, a small village with merely 2,000 inhabitants on 361 days of the year. The town is located 10 km north of Itzehoe and 50 km northwest of Hamburg. There will be shuttle buses from the festival site to the train station in Itzehoe as well as to the airports in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. For more info on getting there and away check the festival page here.
The festival is officially sold out since February, but some tour operators (e.g. [url= http://www.metal-train.de/pi2/index.htm]Metal Train[/url] for Germany, Bock Tours for the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Argon Events for the UK) still have some coach trip/festival ticket packages in store. More tour operators can be found here.
Another way to acquire your ticket would be the ticket exchange in the official forum which aims for eliminating the black marketing going on on eBay and other auctioning sites, and reducing the risk of acquiring fake tickets. In this exchange the Wacken staff supervises the ticket prices and acts as trust which means that the seller sends the ticket(s) to the staff who verifies the authenticity of the ticket(s) and reports it to the buyer. After the buyer has transferred the money to the seller, the Wacken staff will pass on the ticket(s) to the buyer. More information on this model can be found here (in English) and here (in German).
Further readings:
Wacken 2010 ? [url= http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/article.php?article_id=826]Metal Train 2010[/url] ? Wacken 2009 ? Wacken 2008 ? Wacken 2007
Headliners
DAY 1 (03.08)
W.E.T. Stage / Headbangers Ballroom
Mother Of God | |
Leash Eye | |
Dust Bolt | |
Hammercult | |
Virginia Clemm | |
Death Clocks | |
Noein | |
Atrum | |
Paralytic | |
Eccentric Pendulum | |
Aphyxion | |
Mambo Kurt |
Wackinger Stage
The Aberlour's | |
Reliquiae | |
Horch |
Bullhead-City Wrestling Tent
Russkaja | |
Ski King | |
Victims Of Madness |
Beer Garden Stage
W:O:A Firefighters | |
Blechblosn |
DAY 2 (04.08)
True Metal Stage
Ozzy Osbourne | |
Helloween |
Black Stage
Blind Guardian | |
Skyline | |
Bülent Ceylan |
W.E.T. Stage / Headbangers Ballroom
Battle Beast | |
Pneuma | |
Tanker | |
Aeon Throne | |
Seven Stitches | |
Achren | |
Coldwar | |
Rude Revelation | |
Exquisite Pus | |
X-Tinxion | |
Sacramental |
Wackinger Stage
Russkaja | |
Reliquiae | |
Maiden United |
Bullhead-City Wrestling Tent
Onkel Tom Angelripper | |
Kvelertak | |
Ski's Country Trash | |
Stier | |
Jim Breuer |
Beer Garden Stage
Edelweiss | |
Hayseed Dixie | |
Blechblosn | |
Mambo Kurt | |
W:O:A Firefighters |
DAY 3 (05.08)
True Metal Stage
Judas Priest | |
Airbourne | |
Trivium | |
Sodom | |
Suicidal Tendencies |
Black Stage
Morbid Angel | |
Apocalyptica | |
Triptykon | |
Heaven Shall Burn | |
As I Lay Dying | |
Ensiferum |
Party Stage
Rhapsody Of Fire | |
Kyuss | |
Morgoth | |
Saltatio Mortis | |
Van Canto | |
Primal Fear |
W.E.T. Stage / Headbangers Ballroom
Suidakra | |
Skindred | |
Accu§er | |
Sirenia | |
Tsjuder | |
Slime | |
Bullet | |
Deadlock | |
Negator | |
Khold | |
The Prophecy²³ | |
Skálmöld | |
Pussy Sisster | |
Volcano | |
Pharao | |
Shraphead |
Wackinger Stage
Ignis Fatuu | |
Rabenschrey | |
Reliquiae |
Bullhead-City Wrestling Tent
Russkaja | |
Smack Ballz | |
Betontod | |
Jim Breuer | |
Ghost |
Beer Garden Stage
Edelweiss | |
Hayseed Dixie | |
Mambo Kurt |
DAY 4 (06.08)
True Metal Stage
Avantasia | |
Motörhead | |
Iced Earth | |
Subway To Sally | |
Dir En Grey | |
Crashdïet |
Black Stage
Children Of Bodom | |
Kreator | |
Sepultura | |
Mayhem | |
Kataklysm | |
Moonsorrow |
Party Stage
Knorkator | |
Danko Jones | |
Vreid | |
The Haunted | |
Visions Of Atlantis | |
Eläkeläiset |
W.E.T. Stage / Headbangers Ballroom
Hail Of Bullets | |
Tokyo Blade | |
Excrementory Grindfuckers | |
In Solitude | |
Blowsight | |
Warrant [GER] | |
Venomin James | |
Tauthr | |
Skeletonwitch | |
Shining [NOR] | |
Hämatom | |
Stormzone | |
Torture Squad | |
Triosphere | |
Hellsaw | |
The Murder Of My Sweet |
Wackinger Stage
Lacrimas Profundere | |
Reliquiae |
Bullhead-City Wrestling Tent
Girlschool | |
Onslaught | |
Hayseed Dixie |
Beer Garden Stage
W:O:A Firefighters | |
Edelweiss | |
Mambo Kurt |
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News
03.08.2011 | Avantasia - Wacken Show Live On German TV |
22.07.2011 | Cradle Of Filth - Cancel Wacken Performance Due To Injury |
24.09.2010 | Mayhem - Returns To Wacken In 2011 |
08.08.2010 | Wacken Open Air 2011 - First Bands Announced |
Reviews
02.10.2011 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 6th August 2011 by Promonex |
02.10.2011 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 5th August 2011 by Promonex |
02.10.2011 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 3rd and 4th August 2011 by Promonex |
Photo galleries
06.08.2011 | Wacken Open Air 2011 - Day 3: Saturday by Promonex | 168 images |
05.08.2011 | Wacken Open Air 2011 - Day 2: Friday by Promonex | 131 images |
04.08.2011 | Wacken Open Air 2011 - Day 1: Thursday by Promonex | 43 images |
03.08.2011 | Wacken Open Air 2011 - Day 0: Wednesday & Miscellaneous by Promonex | 44 images |
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