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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Festival-goers celebrate in front of the stages at the end of the Wacken Open Air. Tickets for the next Wacken Open Air heavy ...

Wacken Open Air is in the books for 2017, but not without one very memorable closing moment to the festival. Motorhead were constants at the German festival, and with the death of Lemmy Kilmister, ...

The Wacken Open Air festival, also known as W:O:A, began in 1990 as a small festival with just 800 rock fans and a few local metal bands. The initial venue was a former gravel pit on the outskirts of ...

You're never too old to rock on. Two elderly men managed to slip away from their nursing home in Germany to attend the Wacken Open Air, the largest heavy metal festival in the world, over the weekend, ...

The Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival in northern Germany is opening on Wednesday with a reduced audience after persistent rain turned the grounds to mud and forced organizers to order a halt to ...

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Seven years since they last played there, Wacken Open Air have announced Sabaton as the closing headliners for this year's 35th anniversary edition. The war-mad Swedish metallers join an already ...

When Thomas Jensen co-founded Wacken Festival in 1990, the idea was simple. Book a few bands, get some beers in, and invite some mates to have the time of their lives. Thirty-five years later, the ...