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.
2015 Artist Lineup
Rob Zombie
- Alkbottel
- Amorphis
- Anaal Nathrakhh
- Ancient Bards
- Angra
- Annihilator
- Armored Saint
- Asrock
- At The Gates
- Avatar
- Baltic Sea Child
- Bembers
- Biohazard
- Black Label Society
- Blood Red Throne
- Bloodbath
- Butcher Babies
- Cannibal Corpse
- Combichrist
- Cradle of Filth
- Crossplane
- Cryptopsy
- Danko Jones
- Dark Tranquility
- Deadiron
- Death Angel
- Ensiferum
- Epica
- Exumer
- Falconer
- Godsized
- Grailknights
- Ill Nino
- In Extremo
- In Flames
- Judas Priest
- Kaerbholz
- Kataklysm
- Khold
- Kommando
- Kvelertak
- Lord Of The Lost
- M.O.D.
- Mantar
- Metaprism
- Morgoth
- Mushroomhead
- My Dying Bride
- New Model Army
- Noctiferia
- Nuclear Assault
- Obituary
- Opeth
- Powerwolf
- Queensryche
- Rob Zombie
- Rock Meets Classic
- Running Wild
- Sabaton
- Samael
- Savatage
- Sepultura
- Shining
- Skiltron
- Skindred
- Stoneman
- Stratovarius
- Subway To Sally
- Tears for Beers
- The Answer
- The Black Spiders
- The BossHoss
- The Gentle Storm
- The Quireboys
- Thyrfing
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- Truckfighters
- U.D.O. with Bundeswehr Musikkorps
- Waltari
- Within Temptation
- Zodiac