This Is Nuts: Wacken Edition

Christian and I always talked about doing Wacken Open Air together someday. At this point in my life, I doubt it will happen. The fact is, we're all getting older and vacation days are precious and I'm not sure I can convince my husband to camp with Christian and me in the middle of a field in Germany, even if I did get there using airline miles! Still, I always enjoy checking out the Wacken lineup and reading show reviews. This past weekend, the fest was even streamed live on the internet, so I got to watch some of it in my jammies - no camping necessary! Imagine my surprise when the news hit that Wacken Open Air sold out the entire 2015 festival in - wait for it - 12 hours. That is freaking bonkers. We're talking about 75,000 tickets here for bands that aren't exactly on the radio. This news gives me faith in humanity!

Here are the bands confirmed for next year so far:

SAVATAGE
TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA
RUNNING WILD 
IN FLAMES 
IN EXTREMO 
U.D.O. 
SABATON 
AMORPHIS 
DEATH ANGEL 
POWERWOLF 
ENSIFERUM 
KATAKLYSM 
CANNIBAL CORPSE
SEPULTURA 
THYRFING

This festival trailer is awesome and totally made me a little weepy. I love big vacations wrapped around a music fest. Oh, to dream!

Comments

[Christian]

Wow - that is amazing. Yeah, I still dream of wacken, but it's probably out of reach :( some great bands there. I LOVE the new sabaton

[Metalboy!]

Hey, Christian... God forbid (pun intended), I saw Sabaton open for Accept point blank a couple years back. They were killer, especially their magnum opus, "Metal Machine". I look forward to hearing their new one.

That said, aside from Sabaton, I don't look forward to anything in the line-up at Whack-off except Savatage, UDO, Death Angel and Powerwolf.

[Christian]

Hey MetalBoy

I saw them open for Nightwish, but the whole band bar the singer has been replaced since then. The new CD is brilliant, their best ever.

Yes, I'd love to see all those bands. I'd hope also for perhaps Hammerfall, Avantasia, Edguy, Primal Fear, etc to be there.