On today’s St. Nicholas Day we dare a tiny statement: We don’t care about your gender, we don’t care about your origin. If you like metal, then you are welcome in Wacken. In front of the stage and also on stage. Every year we try to put a colourful Hard & Heavy program on stage and also 2019 will be no exception. To illustrate this there are three bands today from three countries, which serve three different genres and which don’t only consist of people of the same gender.
Symphonic Metal ala Nederland is already well represented on the W:O A with Within Tempation, but we like to add a little extra – DELAIN also comes to Wacken! The last time they visited us was in 2012. Welcome back!
From humble origins in Zwolle, Netherlands, to their current status as one of the hottest bands in the entire heavy music world, DELAIN have written their own story, with every successive chapter taking them deeper into the spotlight’s glare. They began life as a symphonic metal band with big ambitions and bigger ideas, led by keyboard maestro Martijn Westerholt and the supreme vocal talents of Charlotte Wessels. Emerging at a time when the world was clearly in need of music with a big heart and a grand vision, the Dutch crew made an immediate impact with their 2006 debut album Lucidity, singles Frozen and See Me In Shadow /and/ the extensive touring that followed, wherein these young musicians swiftly developed a reputation for putting on a dazzling show. In the decade that has followed Lucidity’s release, DELAIN have marched remorselessly forward, gaining momentum and winning over thousands of converts with each successive album and tour. Their most significant breakthrough came with 2012’s We Are The Others, and now, two years on from the release of fourth album The Human Contradiction, DELAIN are back to further cement their status as modern metal champions.
The sky’s the limit for this most ambitious and enthusiastic of bands. Moonbathers proves that their artistic impulses are still firing with full force and with an ever-expanding global audience anticipating their return to the live arena, this band are plainly on the fast track to ever greater and more enduring success.
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Having only formed in 2008, BATTLE BEAST went on to win the Wacken Metal Battle in 2010 and signed a record detail with the renown German metal label Nuclear Blast.
In April 2018, BATTLE BEAST is going on another US tour with KAMELOT and DELAIN, before performing at selected summer festivals and playing a couple of club shows in between. But be aware: In the silent corners of the band’s tour bus, new hymns for their 5th opus – which will tentatively be released in early 2019 – are in the making. And its content should already be clear: “100% heavy metal – 0% bullshit.”
Ukraine sends its finest Metalcore wrecking ball to Wacken! JINJER have been making Europe insecure since 2009 and shine with their unusual mix of elements from various genres.
Ukraine based JINJER creates an explosive mixture of groove metal and hardcore flavored with progressive elements. Since 2013, when this 4 piece were acknowledged as the Best Ukrainian Metal Band, they have managed to keep the leadership on the alternative stage in their country. JINJER already has a huge fan base throughout Europe following massive European tours and festival performances. Their latest effort King Of Everything infects the whole planet with feisty growls and soul-shattering clean vocals, front-woman extraordinaire Tatiana Shmailyuk holds the balancing elements that keep it all together and guarantee to rattle your bones! Keep your eyes and ears open!