Tickets for the next Wacken Open Air heavy metal music festival in July and August 2025 have already sold out, according to festival promoters on Monday. The 85,000 tickets for the festival in the ...

"Wacken - rain or shine." It's a good catchphrase, though there was definitely more of one than the other at this year's event as Wacken Open Air returned for its 34th edition, boasting a host of ...

Northern Germany's Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival, in a rural area northwest of Hamburg, opened today. Rainy weather turned the festival's grounds muddy, and organizers were forced to tell fans ...

Germany's Wacken Open Air festival has halted all admissions due to excessive rainfall and muddy festival grounds. Wacken Open Air was originally expected to have roughly 85,000 metal fans on site, ...

Wacken Open Air is one of the world's largest heavy metal festivals, and it took place over the last view days in Germany. Headliners for the 2025 festival included Guns n' Roses, Machine Head, Papa ...

Wacken Open Air Festival made history on August 2 when they officially enshrined Motörhead‘s Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes as part of their annual celebration of metal. Although the festival was riddled ...

The 2020 edition of Germany's long-running Wacken Open Air festival has officially been canceled due to the country's recently invoked ban on mass gatherings until Aug. 31 due to the coronavirus ...

Next year’s edition of German metal festival Wacken Open Air sold out in six hours, according to organizers. The entire ticket allocation was sold out during the pre-sale, Variety understands.