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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.
Festival Poster
2019 Artist Lineup
Anthrax
Parkway Drive
- Acranius
- Airbourne
- All Hail The Yeti
- Anthrax
- Avatar
- Battle Beast
- Beyond The Black
- Black Stone Cherry
- Bleed From Within
- Body Count feat. Ice-T
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Cradle of Filth
- Crematory
- Crisix
- Critical Mess
- D-A-D
- Dark Funeral
- Delain
- Demons & Wizards
- Die Happy
- Die Kassierer
- Downfall of Gaia
- Eisbrecher
- Emil Bulls
- Equilibrium
- Evergrey
- For I Am King
- Frog Leap
- Gama Bomb
- Gernotshagen
- Girlschool
- Gloryful
- Gloryhammer
- Grave
- Hamferð
- Hammerfall
- Harpyie
- Hämatom
- Jinjer
- Kaizaa
- Krokus
- Kärbholz
- Lagerstein
- Life of Agony
- Manticora
- Michale Graves
- Myrath
- Nashville Pussy
- Nasty
- Necrophobic
- Night In Gales
- Of Mice & Men
- Opeth
- Parkway Drive
- Powerwolf
- Primordial
- Prophets of Rage
- Queensrÿche
- Rage
- Rose Tattoo
- Sabaton
- Santiano
- Septicflesh
- Skyclad
- Slayer
- SOiL
- Subway to Sally
- Suidakra
- Sweet
- Tausend Löwen Unter Feinden
- TesseracT
- Testament
- The Adicts
- The BossHoss
- The Crown
- The Night Flight Orchestra
- The Sisters of Mercy
- The Vintage Caravan
- Thy Art Is Murder
- Torment
- Tribulation
- UFO
- Vampire
- Velvet Viper
- Venom Inc.
- Versengold
- Vltimas
- Vogelfrey
- Windhand
- Within Temptation
- Aborym
- Angelus Apatrida
- Asrock
- Baby Face Nelson
- Crazy Lixx
- Crobot
- Deathstars
- Dirty Shirt
- Eclipse
- Hellhammer performed by Tom Warrior’s Triumph of Death
- Lucifer Star Machine
- Monster Magnet
- Nachtblut
- Nordjevel
- Prong
- Savage Messiah
- Skew Siskin
- The Damned
- The Lazys
- The New Roses
- The Quireboys
- The Wild!
- Uriah Heep
- Warkings
- Wiegedood
- Zuriaake
- Acres
- Alabama Black Snakes
- Axxis
- Bai Bang
- Bloodywood
- Brass Against
- Brenner
- Cancer
- Cesair
- Christopher Bowes And His Plate Of Beans
- Coppelius
- Damnation Defaced
- Dampfmaschine
- Der Fluch Ddes Drachen
- Diamond Head
- Diary Of Dreams
- Die From Sorrow
- Dream Spirit
- Drunken Swallows
- Duivelspack
- Extrabreit
- Fiddler’s Green
- Jared James Nichols
- Kvelertak
- Molllust
- Mono Inc
- Monstagon
- Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen
- Nailed To Obscurity
- Operus
- Paddy And The Rats
- Ragnaröek
- Reckless Love
- Reliquiae
- Saor
- Saxon
- Sibiir
- Sikth
- Skald
- Skyline
- Skynd
- Soul Demise
- Stoneman
- Tanzwut
- The Linewalkers
- The Moon & The Nightspirit
- The O’Reilleys and The Paddyhats
- The Rumjacks
- The Sinderellas
- Tuxedoo
- Unleashed
- Victims of Madness
- Violons Barbares