Photo Credit: ICS Festival Service GmbH
The Scene
It's been dubbed The Mecca of Heavy Metal Culture. For three days in August, the population of the tiny town of Wacken swells from 2,000 to 75,000 for this annual gathering of German metalheads. This monster of a festival started off small in 1990 as a showcase for local bands, but has become a juggernaut of the metal festival scene.
2013 Artist Lineup
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- Agnostic Front
- Alestorm
- Alice Cooper
- Alpha Tiger
- Amorphis
- Anthrax
- Arch Enemy
- As I Lay Dying
- ASP
- Benighted
- Black Messiah
- Bob Wayne
- Bull-Riff Stampede
- Bullet
- Callejon
- Candlemass
- Chrome Molly
- Coppelius
- Corvus Corax Meets Wadokyo
- Crematory
- Deep Purple
- Devil Driver
- Dew-Scented
- Dezperadoz
- Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
- Die Kassierer
- Doro
- Dr. Living Dead
- Dunderbeist
- Eat The Gun
- Eisbrecher
- Eskimo Callboy
- Faun
- Fear Factory
- Fejd
- Feuerschwanz
- Grave Digger
- Haggard
- Hardcore Superstar
- Harpyie
- Hate Squad
- Hellride
- Henry Rollins
- Ihsahn
- Kamikaze Kings
- Kärbholz
- Kryptos
- Lamb of God
- Legion Of The Damned
- Leprous
- Lingua Mortis feat. Rage
- Mandowar
- Motörhead
- Mustasch
- Nachtblut
- Naglfar
- Neaera
- Nightwish
- NullDB
- Pampatut
- Powerwolf
- Pretty Maids
- Rabenschrey
- Ragnarok
- Rammstein
- Rebattered
- Russkaja
- Sabaton
- Scott Ian – Spoken Word
- Secret Sphere
- Soilwork
- Sonata Arctica
- Stahlmann
- Subway To Sally
- Thunder
- Tristania
- Trivium
- Ugly Kid Joe
- Versengold
- Whitechapel