Wacken Open Air

For other uses of Wacken, see Wacken (disambiguation).

Wacken Open Air
Genre	Metal
Dates	July, August
Location(s)	Wacken, Germany
Years active	1990–present
Founders	Thomas Jensen and Holger Hübner
Website	www.wacken.com

Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is one of the leading summer open air heavy metal music festivals. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 80,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of roughly 82,500 attendees in 2010, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal, folk metal, and even metalcore and hard rock from around the world.

The festival was first held in 1990 as a small event for local German bands. By 1998 the event had become the major festival on the European metal calendar and has included over 70 bands from all over Europe, North America and Australia. W:O:A is usually held at the beginning of August and lasts three days, during which the festival-goers camp on several large camping grounds surrounding the actual festival area. The 70 or more bands perform across four separate stages over the course of the event.

Since 2002, the Wacken Firefighters, the local volunteer fire department band, opens the festival.

The 2009 edition set a sales record; it sold out on 30 December 2008. All 70,000 tickets were sold over 200 days before the opening of the festival.

Wacken Open Air

1990

Wacken Open Air 1990, the first incarnation of the festival, was held on Friday, 24 August and Saturday, 25 August.

Lineup
Friday	Saturday
Skyline	5th Avenue Ax'n Sex Motoslug Sacret Season Wizzard

1991

Wacken Open Air 1991 was held on Friday, 23 August and Saturday, 24 August.

Lineup
Bon Scott Gypsy Kyss Kilgore Life Artist	Ruby Red Shanghai'd Guts Skyline

1992

Wacken Open Air 1992 was held on Friday, 21 August and Saturday, 22 August.

Lineup
5th Avenue Asmodis Ax'n Sex Bad Sister Bai Bang Blind Guardian De La Cruz Doc Eisenhauer Dr. Hörp Eddie E. Highlander Ides of March Incubator	Jolly Hangman Mama's Boys Morbid Mind Motoslug Pagan Spell Paradise Play'n'Bleed Saitensprünge Saxon Störspatzen of Des STS 8 Mission The Waltons Vivian

1993

Wacken Open Air 1993 was held from Friday, 20 August to Sunday, 22 August, and was headlined by Doro and Fates Warning.

Main Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Piracee Railway Gorefest Skew Siskin Riverdogs Doro Bon Scott	Heavenward Restless Blondes Saintcatee Warpath Plan B Jingo de Lunch Trespass Holocaust Fates Warning Highlander	Abi Wallenstein Toy RAX Bad Sister Châlice Vivian Ax'n Sex

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
Fast Lover Blue Velvet Bai Bang Samael Gary Hughes Sahara Ballroom Bones Stoney Rudolph	Torment Grinning Sinner Häwi Mädels Jack's Hammer Noisy Act of Protest Michael Dickes (acoustic) Riverdogs (acoustic) Buddy Lackey Sahara 5th Avenue

1994

Wacken Open Air 1994 was held on Friday, 19 August and Saturday, 20 August, and was headlined by Paul Di'Anno's Killers.

Main Stage
Friday	Saturday
Suiciety Pagandom Skyclad The Tea Party	Saintcatee Chemical Breath Decision D U.K. Subs Gamma Ray Rausch Paul Di'Anno's Killers

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
Moray Many Acts of Maniacs Deceased Stoney Rudolph & The Happy McCardies Hannes Bauer & Orchestra The Waltons Tears for Beers	Roan Riff Raff Easy Livin' (Uriah Heep feat. Markus Grosskopf) Torment Ace Öf Spades Ken Tamplin Prollhead Atrocity Dixie Gunworks

1995

Wacken Open Air 1995 was held on Friday, 19 May and Saturday, 20 May, and was headlined by D:A:D and Tiamat.

Lineup
5th Avenue Amentia Angra Bad Sister Châlice Creep D:A:D Dark At Down Das Auge Gottes Depressive Age Dixie Gunworks	Ghosts of Dawn Graue Zellen Hate Squad Laberinto More About Dogs Morgoth Paragon Phantoms of Future Pothead Power of Expression Pretty Maids	Prime Rape Revelation Schweisser Solitude Aeturnus Temple of the Absurd Tiamat Trauma Trieb Vanden Plas Vocation

1996

Wacken Open Air 1996 was held on Friday, 9 August and Saturday, 10 August, and was headlined by Böhse Onkelz.

Double Main Stage
Friday		Saturday
Grind Machine Big Nothing Desert Storm Bad Sister Dice Grave Digger Pyogenesis	Gorefest The Gathering The Exploited Crematory Kreator Tom Angelripper Asylum	Gorn Ricochet Whils Sieges Even Dritte Wahl Temple of the Absurd Manos Secret Discovery Vicki Vomit	Atrocity Randalica Schweisser Oomph! Kingdom Come Dimple Minds Böhse Onkelz Tom Angelripper Ramones Mania

1997

Wacken Open Air 1997 was held on Friday, 8 August and Saturday, 9 August, and was headlined by Motörhead.

Double Main Stage
Friday		Saturday
Aion Undish Lake of Tears Dissection Virgin Steele Dimmu Borgir Saviour Machine	Sodom Theatre Of Tragedy Samael Therion Rage & Lingua Mortis Orchestra Love Gun	Scanner Hassmütz Zed Yago Raven Tank Sinner U.D.O. Iron Savior Overkill	Birth Control HammerFall Waltari Grave Digger Amorphis Motörhead Rock Bitch Subway to Sally Tom Angelripper

W.E.T. Stage
Friday	Saturday
Don Bosco Steiger Paunch Sceptic Acceptance Mummlox In Flames Dismember Late September Dogs	Entrust Gainsay Headcase Fox Force Five The Automanic Totenmond Torment Umbra et Imago Grinning Sinner Soilent Green

1998

Wacken Open Air 1998 was held on Friday, 7 August and Saturday, 8 August. The festival was headlined by Savatage, J.B.O., Blind Guardian, and Doro.

Double Main Stage
Friday		Saturday
Metal Worx Angel Dust Unrest Fair Warning Arch Enemy Iron Savior Sweet Savage Stratovarius	Blitzkrieg Cradle of Filth Anvil Doro Warrior J.B.O. Goddess Of Desire Haggard	Sweet Noise Lacuna Coil Hollow Rough Silk Stahlhammer Holy Mother Primordial Sentenced Sacred Steel Bonfire Pegazus Gamma Ray	Voivod (canceled) Virgin Steele Primal Fear Iced Earth Exciter Blind Guardian Riot Savatage Atrocity Tom Angelripper In Extremo

W.E.T./Black Stages
Friday		Saturday
Third Teeth Incubator Telltalehard Custard God Dethroned Soulburn Stigmata IV Dew-Scented Darkseed	Krabathor Manos Children of Bodom Am I Blood Benediction Tankard Crematory Skyclad Temple of the Absurd	Murder One Lost Resistance Night in Gales Silent Scream Borknagar Postmortem Old Man's Child Crack Up Raise Hell Disbelief Sadist	Heavenwood Agathodaimon Skyclad Hades Almighty Dritte Wahl Gorgoroth Vader Covenant Hypocrisy Grober Spass

1999

Wacken Open Air 1999 was held from Thursday, 5 August to Saturday, 7 August.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Death SS Fates Warning Spock's Beard	Edguy Witchery Leatherwolf Blind Passengers Dokken Crematory U.D.O. Destruction HammerFall Mayhem Rage Mercyful Fate Saxon In Extremo Tygers of Pan Tang	Dr. Death Marshall Law Amon Amarth Wardog Tristania Metalium In Flames The Bullheadz The Gathering Primal Fear Subway to Sally Axel Rudi Pell Six Feet Under Pretty Maids Cannibal Corpse Metal Church Atrocity Dee Snider Dimmu Borgir Therion & Orchestra Onkel Tom

History Stage	Party Stage
Friday		Saturday
In Aeternum Graveworm House of Spirits Eisregen Sinister Temple of the Absurd Pariah Freedom Call Warhammer Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Enslaved The Waltons Vicki Vomit	Powergod Totenmond Richthofen Roland Grapow & Band Sinner Girlschool Napalm Death Eläkeläiset Reverend Jürgen & Igor	The Crown Memory Garden Threshold Dark Tranquillity Marduk Angra Axxis Jaguar Nevermore Warrant Umbra et Imago

W.E.T. Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Tankwart Skyclad	Paragon Bewitched The Sygnet Brainstorm Mystic Circle Killers Immortal God Dethroned Jag Panzer	Mindfeed Paradox Lefay Labyrinth Steel Prophet Agent Steel Destiny's End Razor Torment Solitude Aeturnus Whiplash

2000

Wacken Open Air 2000 was held from Thursday, 3 August to Saturday, 5 August.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Krokus Molly Hatchet The Company of Snakes	Vader Samson Dark Funeral Royal Hunt Umbra et Imago Angel Witch Marduk Rhapsody Immortal Stratovarius Overkill Iced Earth Hypocrisy Gamma Ray Six Feet Under	Dark Age Freedom Call Immolation Labyrinth Ancient Blaze Sentenced Lizzy Borden Entombed Nightwish Morbid Angel Doro Rose Tattoo Thin Lizzy Venom Zakk Wylde Chantal Chevalier Onkel Tom

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
Dark at Dawn Gaskin 31 October Desperados Pink Cream 69 Artillery Liege Lord	SHARD Late Nite Romeo Agathodaimon Pain Solstice Demon Spiritual Beggars Heir Apparent Raise Hell Engine

W.E.T. Stage
Friday	Saturday
Deranged Savage Lock Up Grim Reaper Praying Mantis Black Sweden Breaker	Mob Rules Nightmare Steel Attack Squealer Vanishing Point Hades Jacob's Dream Skew Siskin Knorkator Twisted Tower Dire

2001

Wacken Open Air 2001 was held from Thursday, 2 August to Saturday, 4 August.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Knight Errant Finntroll Crematory W.A.S.P.	Deceased Stigma IV Carnal Forge Lacuna Coil Holy Moses Napalm Death Exciter Primal Fear Paul Dianno Nevermore Overkill Therion (with choir) Helloween Saxon Dimmu Borgir	Warhammer Cryptopsy Brainstorm Dark Tranquillity Metalium Culprit Annihilator Rage Subway to Sally Grave Digger In Flames Nightwish HammerFall Motörhead Sodom

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
Nostradameus Nightfall Soilwork Blackshine Cage Kamelot Nasum Exhumed Sonata Arctica Mortician Desaster The Haunted Exumer Rawhead Rexx	Trail of Tears Deströyer 666 Vintersorg Krisiun Soul Doctor Tad Morose Artch Tankard Jag Panzer Naglfar Opeth Death SS Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Mägo de Oz

W.E.T. Stage
Friday	Saturday
Bionix Crystal Shark 16 Hell Ventiler Smoke Blow Sacraphyx Circle of Grief Wizard (canceled) Behemoth Silent Force	Kju The Traceelords Chinchilla The Centre of Gravity Paragon Lost Horizon Arch Enemy Night in Gales

2002

Wacken Open Air 2002 was held from Thursday, 1 August to Saturday, 3 August.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Messiah Kiss Kotipelto Blaze Doro Rose Tattoo	Stormwarrior Vomitory Domine Necrophobic Iron Savior Debris Inc. Angra Dying Fetus Pretty Maids Borknagar Savatage Destruction Bruce Dickinson Children of Bodom J.B.O. In Extremo Warlord	Stormwitch Criminal Wizard Amon Amarth Vicious Rumors Macabre Nuclear Assault Immortal Exodus Hypocrisy Edguy Cannibal Corpse Blind Guardian Kreator U.D.O. Onkel Tom

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
Avalanch Dornenreich Wolf Rebellion Metalucifer Nocturnal Rites Lock Up Dimple Minds Megaherz Dragonlord Pungent Stench Torfrock My Dying Bride Candlemass Red Aim	Rottweiler Evergrey Mezarkabul Thunderstone Angel Dust Shakra Falconer Vanden Plas Sinergy Sabbat Heathen Unleashed Blitzkrieg Green Carnation Haggard

W.E.T. Stage
Friday	Saturday
Antagonist Justice Withering Surface Fleshcrawl Alabama Thunderpussy Heavenly Mob Rules Eisregen Primordial	Victims of Madness Centre of Gravity Kalmah Hollenthon Vision Divine Dream Evil Suidakra Mörk Gryning Nightmare

2003

Wacken Open Air 2003 was held from Thursday, 31 July to Saturday, 2 August.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Circle II Circle Annihilator Victory Saxon (Surprise show) Running Wild	Dew-Scented Extreme Noise Terror The Crown Diamond Head Dismember Freedom Call Sentenced Primal Fear Testament Gamma Ray In Flames Twisted Sister Subway to Sally	Sinister Thyrfing Malevolent Creation Metalium Carpathian Forest Masterplan Soilwork Rage Dark Funeral Stratovarius Nile Slayer Vader Onkel Tom

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
The Quill Seventh One Dark Age Lotto King Karl Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Assassin Lordi	Raunchy Twisted Tower Dire Evidence One Eidolon Kataklysm Sinner Sonata Arctica

W.E.T. Stage
Friday	Saturday
Obscenity V8 Wankers Psychopunch Oratory Raise Hell Symphorce Rotting Christ	Human Fortress Graveworm Callenish Circle Cryptic Wintermoon Bai Bang Ancient Rites Heaven Shall Burn Darkane Breed 77

2004

Wacken Open Air 2004 was held from Thursday, 5 August to Saturday, 7 August.

This edition of the festival marked the introduction of the Metal Battle, a battle of the bands-style tournament in which the finalists from their respective countries perform on the W.E.T. Stage, with the winner receiving endorsements, a worldwide label deal, and a slot on the W.E.T. Stage at the following year's festival. Eleven finalists competed in 2004, with Reckless Tide from Germany emerging as the winner.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Zodiac Mindwarp Motörhead Böhse Onkelz	Orphanage Paragon Cathedral Weinhold Arch Enemy Brainstorm Mayhem Grave Digger Feinstein / The Rods Dio Destruction Doro & Warlock Amon Amarth	Bal-Sagoth Death Angel Unleashed Anthrax Cannibal Corpse Nevermore Hypocrisy Helloween Children of Bodom Saxon Satyricon & Nocturno Culto J.B.O.

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
Mnemic Raunchy Dionysus Satan Kotipelto Eläkeläiset Quireboys	Mystic Prophecy Ektomorf After Forever Thunderstone Knorkator Schandmaul

W.E.T. Stage
Friday	Saturday
Methedras Vanguard Artefact Engine of Pain Gutbucket Astral Doors Hobbs' Angel of Death Misery Index Sufferage	Dr. Rock Everfest Thora Voodoma Supersoma Reckless Tide Gun Barrel Disbelief Griffin

2005

Wacken Open Air 2005 was held from Wednesday, 3 August to Saturday, 6 August.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Tristania Candlemass Oomph! Nightwish	Naglfar Morgana Lefay Illdisposed Sonata Arctica Bloodbath Metal Church Obituary Edguy Within Temptation Machine Head Apocalyptica Corvus Corax Samael	Zyklon DragonForce Suffocation Overkill Dissection Axel Rudi Pell Marduk HammerFall Kreator Accept Sentenced Stratovarius (surprise act) Onkel Tom

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
Mercenary Marky Ramone Ensiferum Hanoi Rocks (canceled) Eisregen Gorefest Turisas	Mob Rules Count Raven Holy Moses Finntroll Equilibrium Torfrock emKay (Surprise act)

W.E.T. Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Doomfoxx Hatesphere	Victims of Madness Snake Eye Gorilla Monsoon Sinners Bleed Hatedrive Vanguard Saeko Suidakra Reckless Tide Mucc Cataract Metalium Potentia Animi Teräsbetoni Contradiction	Stigma Unleash the Fury Manifest Agonizer Tuatha de Danann Machine Men Hard Time Panic Cell Noise Forest Regicide Endhammer Primordial Endstille Goddess of Desire

Jim Beam Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Mambo Kurt	Doomfoxx Los Los	Doomfoxx

2006

Carnivore performing live at W:O:A 2006

Wacken Open Air 2006 was held from Wednesday, 2 August to Saturday, 5 August.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Faster Inferno (feat. Tyson Schenker) Victory Michael Schenker Group Scorpions (with special guests)	Mystic Circle Wintersun Legion of the Damned Danko Jones Six Feet Under Nevermore Opeth In Extremo Carnivore Children of Bodom Celtic Frost Ministry Amon Amarth	Aborted Caliban Arch Enemy Fear Factory Morbid Angel Gamma Ray Soulfly Whitesnake Emperor Motörhead Finntroll Subway to Sally

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
End of Green Born From Pain Ektomorf Soilwork Korpiklaani D'espairsRay Primal Fear	Metal Church Bloodthorn Orphaned Land Atheist Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Rose Tattoo

W.E.T. Stage
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Mambo Kurt	Gutlock Malefactor Transilvanian Beat Club Mortal Sin C.O.R. Mambo Kurt	Monster Joe Würm Cadaveric Crematorium Kottak Nikki Puppet Gorilla Monsoon Fleshgore Vreid Krypteria Dezperadoz Hellfueled Metal Inquisitor Battlelore	Morbus Gravis Drone Infinight The Dogma Suidakra Tourettes WE Lake of Tears Krieger Obscenity Delirious Forever Slave

2007

Wacken Open Air 2007 was held from Wednesday, 1 August to Saturday, 4 August.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Blitzkrieg Rose Tattoo Sodom (with guests) Saxon	Suidakra Amorphis Napalm Death Therion Possessed Grave Digger Turbonegro J.B.O. Lacuna Coil Blind Guardian Dimmu Borgir Iced Earth Die Apokalyptischen Reiter	Sonic Syndicate Sacred Reich Moonspell Stratovarius Dir En Grey Rage (with Lingua Mortis Orchestra) Destruction (with guests) Type O Negative Immortal In Flames Cannibal Corpse Subway to Sally

Party Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
The Sorrow Narziss Neaera Animal Alpha All That Remains Hatesphere Overkill	The Black Dahlia Murder Communic Volbeat Falconer Enslaved Schandmaul Samael	Disillusion Heaven Shall Burn Dimension Zero Norther Stormwarrior (featuring Kai Hansen) Haggard

W.E.T. Stage
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Mambo Kurt	Krossbreed Wargasm Roots of Death Gutbucket Týr Letzte Instanz Electric Eel Shock Maroon	Red Ink Corruption Ecliptica Crystal Blaze Torture Squad Mennen Drone Pharao Sabbat Chthonic Black Majesty The Answer Belphegor Sahg Fastway Kampfar	Sheephead Fracture Abstract Rapture Mythlorian Fair to Midland Secrets of the Moon The Vision Bleak Swallow the Sun Turisas Benedictum Moonsorrow Municipal Waste Unheilig 1349 Vital Remains

2008

Wacken Open Air 2008 was held from Wednesday, 30 July to Saturday, 2 August. The festival was headlined by Iron Maiden, Children of Bodom, Avantasia, and Nightwish.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Girlschool Lauren Harris Airbourne Avenged Sevenfold Iron Maiden	Grave Mortal Sin Job For a Cowboy Unearth Ensiferum Kamelot Soilwork Sonata Arctica Opeth Children of Bodom Corvus Corax Avantasia Gaahl and King ov Hell (as Gorgoroth)	3 Inches of Blood Sweet Savage Holy Moses Exodus Hatebreed As I Lay Dying Carcass Killswitch Engage At the Gates Nightwish Kreator Lordi

Party Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Mustasch Nashville Pussy Sturm und Drang Leaves' Eyes	Primordial Cynic Headhunter Sabaton Massacre The Haunted Crematory	Machine Men Mercenary Obituary Krypteria girugämesh Axxis

W.E.T. Stage
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Metakilla Sweet Savage Mambo Kurt	Concept Insomnia Negură Bunget Alestorm	The Fading The Rotted Destructor Autumn Stam1na Psychopunch Nifelheim van Canto Saltatio Mortis Excrementory Grindfuckers	Ripsaw Evocation Before the Dawn Enemy of the Sun Powerwolf Warbringer Torture Squad Dream of an Opium Eater Watain Lord Belial The Bones

2009

Wacken Open Air 2009 was held from Wednesday, 29 July to Saturday, 1 August, and marked the festival's 20th year.

Running Wild's set on Thursday was their last before they split up. The performance was recorded for a pending CD/DVD release.

Kampfar were originally scheduled to perform on the Party Stage on Saturday, but were forced to cancel their appearance due to personal reasons. Their slot was filled by Onkel Tom.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Skyline Schandmaul Der W Running Wild Heaven & Hell	Vreid UFO Endstille Gamma Ray Walls of Jericho Nevermore Airbourne HammerFall Bullet for my Valentine Motörhead In Flames Doro Amon Amarth	Einherjer Rage Cathedral Testament Heaven Shall Burn Axel Rudi Pell In Extremo Volbeat Machine Head Saxon GWAR Subway to Sally

Party Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
D-A-D J.B.O. BossHoss Lacuna Coil	Napalm Death Retrospect Tristania DragonForce Coheed and Cambria Epica ASP	Suidakra Onkel Tom Borknagar Pain Enslaved Korpiklaani

W.E.T. Stage
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Victims of Madness Bai Bang Bon Scott Onkel Tom Mambo Kurt	X-Plod Furion 5th Avenue The Waltons Drone Bloodwork Grand Magus	Leave Scars Reason to Kill Ade Insidead Scarred Kielwater Irr Beneath Silence Means Death Callejón Bring Me the Horizon Whiplash Nervecell Insidious Disease Eths Sarke Pentagram (Chile)	None Cadaver Race A Fine Day to Exit Crysys T.A.N.K. Trinitys Blood Ferium Split Heaven The Fading Trouble U.K. Subs Engel Turisas Tracedawn Torment

Medieval Stage
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Fejd Ragnaröek	Reincarnatus Cumulo Nimbus	Swashbuckle Ingrimm	Adorned Brood Rabenschrey Feuerschwanz

2010

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Alice Cooper performing live at W:O:A 2010

Wacken Open Air 2010 was held from Wednesday, 4 August to Saturday, 7 August. The festival was headlined by Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Mötley Crüe, and Slayer.

Several bands played special sets at the festival. Corvus Corax played a show entitled "Wacken Burns" to close out the main stage performances on Friday. To celebrate their 30th anniversary, Grave Digger performed their 1996 album, Tunes of War, in its entirety. Likewise, Tiamat performed their entire 1994 album, Wildhoney, in honor of both their 20th year together and the 15th birthday of the album.

Double Main Stage
Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Skyline (with special guests) Alice Cooper Mötley Crüe Iron Maiden	Dew-Scented Amorphis Orphaned Land Ill Niño Die Apokalyptischen Reiter BossHoss Endstille Kamelot Arch Enemy Grave Digger Slayer Anvil Corvus Corax	Ektomorf Caliban Unleashed Overkill Lock Up W.A.S.P. Immortal Edguy Cannibal Corpse Soulfly Fear Factory U.D.O. Subway to Sally (covering "It's After Dark" by D-A-D)

Party Stage
Friday	Saturday
Suicidal Angels Job For a Cowboy Frei.Wild Voivod Tarja Turunen 1349 Atrocity	Smoke Blow Kampfar Delain Stratovarius Candlemass Tiamat

W.E.T. Stage
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Victims of Madness Void Creation† No Dawn† Snakebite† Raging Mob† Dymytry† By the Patient† Forever Storm† Battle Beast†‡ Frontal† Vice† Total Riot† Wistaria† Missing in Action† Penthagon† Soul Stealer† Mambo Kurt	Orcus O Dis† Seven Ends† Demolished† The Sixpounder† Prayers of Sanity† Altar† Vita Imana† Katana† Hathors† Cangaço† Black Out Beauty† Ghost Brigade MacBeth Crysys Gojira	Brutus Dead Means Nothing Skanners Astral Doors Hackneyed Mad Max The Other Eternal Legacy Evile Lizzy Borden Broilers Holy Grail Secrets of the Moon Ihsahn Imperium Dekadenz Raven	Nightmare The New Black Degradead Crucified Barbara End of Green Die Kassierer Metsatöll Varg Debauchery Solstafir Lake of Tears Rotting Christ Despised Icon Killing Machine The Devil's Blood
† - Metal Battle 2010 finalists ‡ - Metal Battle 2010 winner

Wackinger Stage
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Lord of the Lost Fiddler's Green Red Hot Chilli Pipers	Svartsot Torfrock Hanggai	Letzte Instanz Schelmish Equilibrium	The Keltics Týr Orden Ogan

Red Bull Bus		Bullhead City Tent
Wednesday	Thursday		Friday	Saturday
9mm	Apocalyptica (surprise show)	Spit Like This	The Circus of Horrors

2011

Wacken Open Air 2011 will be held from Wednesday, 4 August to Saturday, 8 August.

Bands confirmed so far
Accu§er ACHREN† Airbourne Apocalyptica As I Lay Dying Avantasia Battle Beast Blaas of Glory Blind Guardian Blowsight Bülent Ceylan Bullet Children of Bodom Cradle of Filth DevilDriver	Excrementory Grindfuckers Eccentric Pendulum† Exodus Ensiferum The Haunted Hail of Bullets Hayseed Dixie Heaven Shall Burn Hellsaw Iced Earth In Solitude Judas Priest Kataklysm Khold Knorkator Kreator	Mayhem Morbid Angel Morgoth Motörhead Onslaught Ozzy Osbourne Primal Fear The Prophecy²³ Rhapsody of Fire Russkaja Saltatio Mortis Sepultura Sirenia Skálmöld Ski King	Tauthr Shining The Smack Ballz Sodom Stier Subway to Sally Suicidal Tendencies Tokyo Blade Tsjuder Trivium Visions of Atlantis Volcano Vreid Warrant
† - Metal Battle 2011 finalists

Wacken Rocks

2009

Wacken Rocks South

27–29 August 2009: 9mm, Agathodaimon, Age of Evil, Alestorm, AM/FM, Axxis, Bai Bang, Chrome Molly, Cripper, Debauchery, Der W, Dezperados, Doro, Drone, Edguy, Eisbrecher, Fatal Smile, Feuerschwanz, Five and the Ted One, Flotsam & Jetsam, Freiwild, Girlschool, Grave Digger, Hämatom, Hank III & Assjack, Heaven Shall Burn, Herman Frank Band, In Extremo, Krypteria, The New Black, Parity Boot, SAHG, Secrets of the Moon, Slayer, Stainless Steel, Stratovarius, Suidakra, Tribe, U.D.O., Volbeat, Warpath

Wacken Rocks Seaside

28–30 August 2009: Age of Evil, Agathodaimon, Alestorm, Axxis, Bai Bang, Cripper, Debauchery, Der W, Dezperadoz, Dirty Deeds, Doro, Edguy, Eisbrecher, Fatal Smile, Five and the Red One, Flotsam & Jetsam, Freiwild, Girlschool, Hank III, Herman Frank Band, Heaven Shall Burn, In Extremo, J.B.O, Kneipenterroristen, Krypteria, Mob Rules, Ohrenfeindt, Parity Boot, SAHG, Secrets of the Moon, Slayer, Stratovarius, Suidakra, sexy Glitter, Torfrock, Tribe, U.D.O, Victims of Madness, Volbeat, Warpath

See also

• Full Metal Village, a 2007 documentary by Sung Hyung Cho about the village of Wacken and the influence of the festival on it.
• Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, and Global Metal, documentaries by anthropologist Sam Dunn which feature the festival.

External links

• Official website
• Wacken 2007 photos
• Wacken 2008 photos
• Wacken 2009 photos
• Wacken 2010 photos
• Festival pictures and review of the festival
• Review of W:O:A 2008
• Review of the Dutch Wacken Metal Battle 2008