Germany, Wacken - Wacken Open Air 2009
Location: | Germany, Wacken (Festivalgelände) |
Date: | 29 July 2009 - 01 August 2009 |
Website: | www.wacken.com |
Organizer: | ICS Event Service |
Tickets: |
SOLD OUT!! |
20 years! 20 fucking years! That's how long the Wacken Open Air exists already. And it has come a long way from a garden party with 800 guests and 6 bands to the biggest metal festival in the world with more than 75,000 visitors and close to 70 bands performing on four stages. Said stages have seen performances by nearly every important band in the world of metal as well as numerous underground acts, so expectations are quite high for this year's lineup. Already confirmed are several fan favorites from the previous editions, such as Saxon, Motörhead, Machine Head, In Flames and Doro who has announced a special Warlock show. Further highlights are the two hour farewell show of metal veterans Running Wild, who will show the young lads how pirate metal is really done, and the performance of recently reunited viking metal legends Einherjer. And as always the lineup will please metalheads of every age: the older folks will be delighted by the confirmations of Heaven And Hell and UFO while Bullet For My Valentine, Walls Of Jericho and Bring Me The Horizon represent the newest generation of metal(-related) music.
The namesake and host of the festival is the small town of Wacken in Northern Germany. For just short of a week the town's population skyrockets from a mere 2,000 souls and turns the village into the world's metal mecca. The town is located 10 km north of Itzehoe and 50 km north/west of Hamburg. There will be shuttle buses from the festival site to the train station in Itzehoe as well as to the airports in both Hamburg and Lübeck. For more info on getting there and away check the festival page here.
The festival is sold out since December already. If you haven't got your ticket yet, but want to go there nonetheless, you can circumvent the black marketing going on eBay and reduce the risk of acquiring fake tickets by using the ticket exchange in the official forum. 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 German).
Headliners
DAY 1 (29.07)
W.E.T. Stage
Victims Of Madness | 19:00 - 19:30 | |
Bai Bang | 20:00 - 20:45 | |
Bon Scott | 21:15 - 22:15 | |
Onkel Tom | 22:30 - 23:30 | |
Mambo Kurt | 00:00 - 01:00 | |
Metal Karaoke | 01:00 - 06:00 |
Beer Garden Stage
W:O:A Firefighters | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
The Smack Ballz | 21:00 - 22:00 |
Medieval Stage
FEJD | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
Ragnaröek | 22:00 - 23:00 |
DAY 2 (30.07)
Black Stage
Skyline | 16:00 - 16:45 | |
Schandmaul | 17:00 - 18:00 | |
Der W | 18:30 - 19:45 | |
Running Wild | 20:15 - 22:00 | |
Heaven And Hell | 22:30 - 00:00 |
Party Stage
D-A-D | 17:00 - 18:00 | |
Anthrax | 18:30 - 19:30 | |
Secret Show | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
The BossHoss | 21:30 - 22:30 | |
Lacuna Coil | 23:00 - 00:00 |
W.E.T. Stage
Metal Battle Finland | 16:00 - 16:25 | |
X-Plod (Metal Battle Romania) | 16:40 - 17:05 | |
Furion (Metal Battle Ex-SFRY Republics) | 17:20 - 17:45 | |
S.A.W. (Metal Battle China) | 18:00 - 18:25 | |
5th Avenue | 18:45 - 19:25 | |
The Waltons | 19:50 - 20:30 | |
Drone | 21:00 - 21:45 | |
Bloodwork | 22:05 - 22:50 | |
Grand Magus | 23:10 - 00:00 | |
Metal Karaoke / Metal Hammer Party | 00:00 - 06:00 |
Beer Garden Stage
W:O:A Firefighters | 16:00 - 17:00 | |
The Smack Ballz | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
Mambo Kurt | 19:30 - 20:30 |
Medieval Stage
TBA | 16:00 - 17:00 | |
Reincarnatus | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
Cumulo Nimbus | 20:00 - 21:00 |
DAY 3 (31.07)
Black Stage
Vreid | 11:00 - 11:40 | |
Endstille | 13:00 - 14:00 | |
Walls Of Jericho | 15:30 - 16:30 | |
Airbourne | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
Bullet For My Valentine | 20:30 - 21:30 | |
In Flames | 23:15 - 00:30 | |
Amon Amarth | 02:00 - 03:00 |
True Metal Stage
UFO | 11:45 - 12:45 | |
Gamma Ray | 14:15 - 15:15 | |
Nevermore | 16:45 - 17:45 | |
HammerFall | 19:15 - 20:15 | |
Motörhead | 21:45 - 23:00 | |
Doro | 00:45 - 01:45 |
Party Stage
Suidakra | 11:00 - 11:40 | |
Retrospect | 13:00 - 14:00 | |
Tristania | 15:30 - 16:30 | |
DragonForce | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
Coheed & Cambria | 20:30 - 21:30 | |
Epica | 23:15 - 00:15 | |
ASP | 02:00 - 03:00 |
W.E.T. Stage
Leave Scars (Metal Battle Belgium) | 11:00 - 11:25 | |
Reason To Kill (Metal Battle Netherlands) | 11:45 - 12:10 | |
Ade (Metal Battle Italy) | 12:30 - 12:55 | |
Insidead (Metal Battle Greece) | 13:15 - 13:40 | |
Scarred (Metal Battle Luxembourg) | 14:00 - 14:25 | |
Kielwater (Metal Battle Lithuania) | 14:45 - 15:10 | |
Irr (Metal Battle Norway) | 15:30 - 15:55 | |
Beneath (Metal Battle Iceland) | 16:15 - 16:40 | |
Silence Means Death (Metal Battle Brazil) | 17:00 - 17:25 | |
Callejon | 17:45 - 18:25 | |
Bring Me The Horizon | 18:55 - 19:35 | |
Whiplash | 20:05 - 20:45 | |
Nervecell | 21:15 - 21:55 | |
Insidious Disease | 22:25 - 23:05 | |
ETHS | 23:35 - 00:15 | |
Sarke | 00:45 - 01:45 | |
Pentagram [CHI] | 02:15 - 03:00 | |
Metal Karaoke | 03:00 - 06:00 |
Beer Garden Stage
W:O:A Firefighters | 11:00 - 12:00 | |
The Smack Ballz | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
Mambo Kurt | 22:00 - 23:00 |
Medieval Stage
TBA | 11:00 - 12:00 | |
Swashbuckle | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
Ingrimm | 22:00 - 23:00 |
DAY 4 (01.08)
Black Stage
Einherjer | 12:00 - 12:45 | |
Cathedral | 14:15 - 15:15 | |
Heaven Shall Burn | 16:45 - 17:45 | |
In Extremo | 19:15 - 20:15 | |
Machine Head | 21:45 - 22:45 | |
Gwar | 00:45 - 01:45 |
True Metal Stage
Rage | 13:00 - 14:00 | |
Testament | 15:30 - 16:30 | |
Axel Rudi Pell | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
Volbeat | 20:30 - 21:30 | |
Saxon | 23:00 - 00:30 | |
Subway To Sally | 02:00 - 03:00 |
Party Stage
Napalm Death | 12:00 - 12:45 | |
TBA | 14:15 - 15:15 | |
Borknagar | 16:45 - 17:45 | |
Pain | 19:15 - 20:15 | |
Enslaved | 21:45 - 22:45 | |
Korpiklaani | 00:45 - 01:45 |
W.E.T. Stage
None (Metal Battle Poland) | 12:00 - 12:25 | |
Cadaver Race (Metal Battle Austria) | 12:45 - 13:10 | |
A Fine Day To Exit (Metal Battle Switzerland) | 13:30 - 13:55 | |
Crysys (Metal Battle Spain) | 14:15 - 14:40 | |
T.A.N.K. (Metal Battle France) | 15:00 - 15:25 | |
Metal Battle Germany | 15:45 - 16:10 | |
Ferium (Metal Battle Israel) | 16:30 - 16:55 | |
Split Heaven (Metal Battle Mexico) | 17:15 - 17:40 | |
The Fading | 18:00 - 18:30 | |
Trouble | 19:00 - 19:40 | |
UK Subs | 20:10 - 20:50 | |
Engel | 21:20 - 22:00 | |
Turisas | 22:30 - 23:10 | |
TBA | 23:40 - 00:20 | |
Tracedawn | 00:50 - 01:30 | |
Torment | 02:00 - 02:45 | |
Metal Karaoke | 03:00 - 06:00 |
Beer Garden Stage
W:O:A Firefighters | 12:00 - 13:00 | |
The Smack Ballz | 19:00 - 20:00 | |
Mambo Kurt | 22:00 - 23:00 |
Medieval Stage
Adorned Brood | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
Rabenschrey | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
Feuerschwanz | 22:00 - 23:00 |
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News
30.07.2009 | Wacken Open Air - Live Online Broadcast And Giveaway Winners |
28.06.2009 | Wacken Open Air - W:O:A Live Stream |
Reviews
26.08.2009 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 30th July 2009 by Baz Anderson |
26.08.2009 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 31st July 2009 by Baz Anderson |
26.08.2009 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 1st August 2009 by Baz Anderson |
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