The legendary German Metal singer Udo “the German Tank” DIRKSCHNEIDER comes to Wacken in 2020 for two very special concerts! Under the Dirkschneider banner he will review the complete Accept cult album Metal Heart from 1985, which is one of the most important albums of his career, in an exclusive show on the occasion of…

Who is ready for another round? W:O:A 2020 is already shaping up nicely with the first batch of kickass band confirmations and a new theme for the entire festival that’s not limited to the look. Are you ready to dive into the Mayan and Aztec cultures? As always, music comes first. So organisers are proud…

The sudden death of The Prodigys’ Keith Flint has shaken us, just like you, massively. He was not just an exceptional artist, but also a hole in the line-up that can not be filled. However, it is important to festival organisers to give you a balanced billing at the top and to make all those…

Winter has been banished, and although you may have given up a thing or two for Lent, great music shouldn’t be one of them. The DAS FEST family has added three more gems to its line-up: FABER, RIVAL SONS, and QUERBEAT will be heading to Mount Klotz for southern Germany’s biggest family festival DAS FEST…

ALESSO, DJ SNAKE, LOST FREQUENCIES, LEXY & K-PAUL, LUCAS & STEVE, OFENBACH, QUINTINO, SUNNERY JAMES & RYAN MARCIANO, TCHAMI and many more join the line-up. Only five months have passed since the 18th edition of AIRBEAT ONE, Northern Germany’s largest electronic music festival. From 10 to 14 July, the global DJ elite will meet at…

Festival organisers have announced another wave of bands for upcoming Wacken Open Air 2019! A total of 26 bands join the lineup today. At this point we want to pay special attention to three acts that have never been seen in Wacken before: Since 1969 URIAH HEEP have been on the road without any notable…

Lollapalooza Berlin has released its 2019 lineup featuring KINGS OF LEON, SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA, TWENTY ØNE PILØTS, KRAFTKLUB, MARTIN GARRIX, KHALID, BILLIE EILISH, HOZIER, DON DIABLO, ALAN WALKER, COURTNEY BARNETT and many more. The fifth edition will take place September 7 and 8 at Olympic Stadium and Olympic Park, located in the heart of Berlin….

New Horizons Festival is bringing MARTIN GARRIX to Germany this summer for his only show in Western Germany this year! With the current DJ Mag #1 DJ included, the now complete Line Up Phase 1 looks like this: The amazing hosts of the Hardstyle-Stage and the Trap-Stage will be announced soon. Stay tuned! Ticket and accommodation packages for New Horizons Festival 2019…

With CARDI B, currently the hottest US rap superstar has been confirmed for Wireless Festival Germany 2019. Together with TRAVIS SCOTT, two of the most influential new icons of urban-pop music will be performing exclusively at the Urban Music & Lifestyle Festival in Frankfurt am Main on the 5th and 6th July. Wireless Festival Germany…

SSSLLLLAAAAAAAYYYYYYEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!! The biggest and most important Thrash Metal band in history is currently on their Farewell Tour, so we are extremely proud that Slayer once more return to W:O:A. Everybody who has witnessed the phenomenal European shows just a few weeks ago will agree, that saying goodbye to this band is even harder now. So…

You do not have to introduce THE KOOKS any more, you know them as festival goers and concert goers. When The Kooks go on tour, they are known to pull a wide trail of languishing hearts behind them. And that will lead them to DEICHBRAND Festival in 2019. The British indie rock band from Brighton…

It’s been a while since this band hit SUMMER BREEZE. 16 long years, to be exact! That’s why we’re all the happier to be able to announce that DIMMU BORGIR will demolish the stage at SUMMER BREEZE 2019! If you don’t know these Norwegians you must live on the dark side of the moon, because…

It is really no surprise, that SUBWAY TO SALLY will play in Wacken again, but it’s still a reason to be happy! The other two bands of today’s wave, on the other hand, are anything but regular guests – so the right mix is provided again. SUBWAY TO SALLY are one of Germany’s most successful…

At SUMMER BREEZE there’s a handful of bands that are always at the top of the popularity polls, and our next confirmation is one of them: ELUVEITIE! The Swiss are always in the top ten of your wishlists, no matter if they just played that year or not. The band certainly appreciates your loyalty, and…

When it comes to Thrash/Death Metal LEGION OF THE DAMNED are without a doubt one of the best bands out there. Their upcoming record „Slaves of the Shadow Realm“ hits you right in the face and we expect nothing less from fourth W:O:A-performance by these Dutchmen. You like your Hardcore with the qualities of a…

Appearing at SUMMER BREEZE 2019: the masters of the metalcore rulebook: BURY TOMORROW! The five Englishmen will play Dinkelsbühl once again, this time with their newest record ‘Black Flame’, which has already been praised by critics everywhere. BURY TOMORROW are a band that is already counted among the big names of metalcore. Especially as of…

We are increasing the speed: Four bands from four different genres of metal are announced today! German symphonic metal hope BEYOND THE BLACK returns to Wacken with their current album Heart of the Hurricane! The stages of Wacken are not an unknown place for Jennifer Haben and her colleagues and we are looking forward to…

Icelandic vikings SKÁLMÖLD are bringing their powerful, melodic, epic viking metal to this year’s SUMMER BREEZE! Their compositions meld traditional Icelandic folk music with various metal influences. Fans of the Icelandic darkness and norse mythology will get their money’s worth with SKÁLMÖLD ‘s stylistic variety. The band’s goal is to honor the cultural heritage of…

In 2019 a beast is coming to SUMMER BREEZE, a beast which has fought with power and might to earn its rightful place on the big heavy metal battlefield. BEAST IN BLACK is the new band led by former Battle Beast guitarist and songwriter Anton Kabanen. The Helsinki-based band’s debut album ‘Berserker’ was inspired by…

Today one British and two German bands join the lineup. Let’s clear the stage for…. The Brits of TESSERACT belong to the kind of musicians who can’t be satisfied with the status quo of their genre. The sound of TesseracT is idiosyncratic and eccentric. And magical, if you have the will to get into it. You…

KODALINE stands for great hymns, great choruses, great feelings. In the life of the band something happens constantly, which has to be processed in songs. KODALINE, with their elegant sound and sonorous productions, manage to turn the therapeutic function of music into big songs. They draw their small and big stories from the full life…

Modern metal, cheerful party folk or a dark mass? Today’s door once again offers a package suitable for fans of several genres Leo Moracchioli’s videos on YouTube have over 650 million views – and now he’s bringing FROG LEAP Studios onto the stages of the world! His unique and impudently successful metal covers of pop…

The single most consistent band in death metal is coming to the BREEZE 2019. Or have you ever seen a bad NAPALM DEATH show? No, because there is nothing like that. NAPALM DEATH are and will always be like a Swiss clock. With astonishing regularity they deliver one killer album after the next and then…

Some people out there light the third candle on the Advent wreath today. But Wacken Open Air does not – Instead we continue to announce more bands for 2019! What do you get by combining the vibe of Black Sabbath’s doom, the dirty punk attitude of Suicidal Tendencies and the speed and precision of Slayer?…

These boys from stylish London do not just look at their indie look – their indie sound also delights our ears. WHITE LIES have provided their alternative music style with the perfect pinch of post-punk revival. And the fact that the three Britons found each other early and shared the same taste, pays off today:…

The Bay Area’s elemental force is back in Dinkelsbühl after three years: TESTAMENT will be on site at SUMMER BREEZE 2019! With this band you get pure, fast and heavy thrash metal, which is often infused with melodic mid tempo parts. The Californians play so hard on stage that you can impossibly escape the live…

Beings from the darkest northern climes get ready to let you run freezing goose bumps in July. Powerful, dark, majestic and for the first time at Rock Harz Festival DIMMU BORGIR! DIMMU BORGIR is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. The name is derived from Dimmuborgir, a volcanic formation…

Get ready for a total inferno: ANAAL NATHRAKH will lay waste to SUMMER BREEZE in 2019. It’s really cool that the band managed such a killer album with ‘A New Kind Of Horror’, so that half of the SUMMER BREEZE office crew didn’t listen to anything else for weeks. It goes without saying we had…

Today we serve you one of the oldest German Thrash Metal bands as well as two Wacken premieres and a colourful metal package to boot! Welcome back for the seventh time! TORMENT from Hamburg are always guaranteed to kick some serious ass with fines German Thrash mixed up with just a little bit of Rock’n’Roll….

“Say hello to the devil in you,” and look forward to a funky live show with SUBWAY TO SALLY at the DEICHBRAND Festival 2019! As everyone knows, the live qualities of the band are legendary. With hard rock and metal, enriched with instruments like bagpipe, hurdy gurdy, lute, violin or flute, there really is hardly…

Crossover fans rejoice, because RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR will go down to SUMMER BREEZE 2019! Since 2008 already the band have been combining thrash metal, metalcore and 90s New York hardcore in their compositions. The Paris-based musicians also cite 1990s hip hop and shonen manga among their influences. In their lyrics they often make references…

Today there is new material for fans of power and extreme metal – but also people with a soft spot for Neue Deutsche Härte should be happy with this one! All three acts will play at Wacken for the first time. Joachim Witt is one of the most famous and versatile rock artists from Germany….

Today we can announce SUIDAKRA, VELVET VIPER and MANTICORA who will play next summers Wacken Open Air festival! Oh boy, time does fly. Has it really been six years since we last welcomed SUIDAKRA here at W:O:A? Doesn’t matter anyways, because we are more than happy to welcome these germans back for their seventh performance…

Nobody has to be unaware of the winter – just before the end of the year comes the Annunciation: ARCH ENEMY, LIMP BIZKIT and PARKWAY DRIVE will be at the FULL FORCE Festival from 28-30. Celebrate the biggest demolition in Ferropolis as headliner! ARCH ENEMY – For a few years now, the Swedish melodic death…

How do you become a regular guest at SUMMER BREEZE? Well, always be at the top of the wishlists, and you get confirmed for Dinkelsbühl. And EQUILIBRIUM know how to achieve this! Heavy, powerful and majestic is how Bavaria’s pagan power metallers sound, a mixture that is highly appreciated among all of you. And at…

So people – let’s bring some momentum to the store! I mean, you did not honestly believe that organisers would let you hang into the new year, as far as the upcoming line-up is concerned, right? The first wave of acts reads angrily, because where others just spatter, we paddle in violent rainbow colors. So,…

We are approaching the half time of the calendar with big steps – 32 bands have already been announced, but let’s talk about today’s confirmations first: Turn on the good mood! BLACK STONE CHERRY are coming to Wacken with their energetic Southern Rock. The Americans can turn even the lamest party into a fantastic happening. All…

Just like the black pest, which brought fear and despair to large parts of Europe from the Bronze Age until the late 19thcentury, ROTTING CHRIST will also descend on Dinkelsbühl in August to spread one of the blackest plagues of all among you: The plague of black metal! Musically, ROTTING CHRST have been following their…

Here comes one who wants to go to the top – and fast. At any rate, CHARLOTTE DE WITTE is currently playing one mega-event after the next with her uncompromisingly electronic industrial sound. Some idolize her, some no longer realize when confronted with her stunning appearance in combination with the hard, cool techno she smashes…

The moment we have all been waiting for has finally come! Festival organisers are announcing their first Headliner for the 2019 edition of New Horizons Festival and can now proudly say: MAJOR LAZER will be visiting the Nürburgring, home to our beautiful kingdom, for their only show in Germany in 2019! Famed for their huge hits like…

The stream of new bands doesn’t stop and all of today’s bands haven’t played at the Wacken Open Air yet! The legendary SISTERS OF MERCY have released only three albums, but more was not necessary to leave a lasting impression on the scene. Even if they don’t like to hear it themselves: The band especially…

In 1999, almost 20 years ago, RAGE released their most successful album to date. 13 is it name and it is one of three orchestral albums Rage recorded. In 2019 Rage will dedicate a very special show to this album’s anniversary, together with the Lingua Mortis Orchestra of course! This show will only be performed…

Formed in 1990, SUBWAY TO SALLY came to SUMMER BREEZE for the first time in 2000, and this year will already mark their eighth appearance in Dinkelsbühl. This means they’re already part of the festival inventory. With their medieval folk metal Eric Fish and Co. are among the biggest acts of the medieval rock scene….

Above all, this volume unites three things: Social Criticism – Tanzwut – Playfulness! The Italian group TALCO was created in the style of Manu Chao’s Patchanka band Manu Negra. The world music sound tears one off accordingly as it combines punk rock and folk music, with latin and ska elements. The mix of hymn-like brass,…

With Battle Beast we already had a former Metal Battle winner yesterday – with CRISIX we have a second one today! The Spanish Thrash monsters will turn the field to the left next year at our Wasted Wednesday. Spanish Thrash metal champions CRISIX released their last album Against the odds this April via Listenable records…

We prefer New Year’s Eve. And Christmas. And a little bit of Easter and your birthday. You know what? Why do not you just imagine the Easter Bunny throwing exploding eggs at the Christmas tree while your mum tries to put out the burning curtains with a birthday cake? Now you have an idea of…

Two of today’s bands were founded in 1990 just like Wacken Open Air festival, while the third one has been active since 1985. Today belongs to the veterans accordingly. And here they are: SKYCLAD are an integral part of the history of both Folk Metal and W:O:A and we look forward to the band’s return. Recently…

To all fans of proper deathcore, listen up! THY ART IS MURDER will be part of SUMMER BREEZE 2019! Their birthplace of New South Wales didn’t have much to offer to these kids in terms of leisure, so they decided to practice their instruments instead. Since their formation in 2006 the Australians have left a…

Ho, ho, ho! Santa Claus is here and has brought you something: Not one, not two, but three fat gifts that barely fit into the boot. Their discographies could fill books, their names are legendary and in 2019 they will honour us at the ROCKHARZ Open Air – partly for the very first time: In…

Day 7 of the annual Summer Breeze Open Air advent band releases, what is in store for us today? Our next confirmation will cause quite a stir at SUMMER BREEZE 2019: LEGION OF THE DAMNED! Formed in 2004, the band play a mix of fast thrash and death metal. Their songs usually possess a dark…