On the last day of the Wacken Open Air 2018 the promoter announced the first bands for the 2019 edition: Sabaton, Parkway Drive, Demons & Wizards, Powerwolf, Airbourne, Rose Tattoo, Within Temptation, Meshuggah, Krokus, Dark Funeral and Avatar!
A couple of hours later the festival was completely sold-out!
To get you in the right festival mood we want to advice our live review about the W:O:A 2018.
The Wacken Open Air 2019 will be held from August 1-3 but the party will start one day before on Wednesday in the party tent. Here you have the chance to explore the best newcomers from all around the world in the W:O:A Metal Battle.
Quickly avowed: since years the W:O:A offers young bands across all genres and countries the possibility to take the next step. Every country sends the best local band to the finals at the W:O:A. Voted by a professional jury the best five peformances will receive prices and payments. Also every band can take the chance to build connections with managers and other artists backstage. If you are interested take a look in our band section and also our YouTube Channel with a lot of interviews.
Find information about the international bands and the contest itself on Metal Battle website.
For the 30th Anniversary the organizers left no stone unturned for an amazing line-up which will be worth every penny of the 220 Euro festival ticket. Here is a list of all confirmed bands in alphabetical order:
Aborym, Acranius, Acres, Airbourne, Alabama Black Snakes, All Hail The Yeti, Angelus Apatrida, Anthrax, Asrock, Avatar, Axxis, Baby Face Nelson, Bai Bang, Battle Beast, Beyond The Black, Black Stone Cherry, Bleed From Within, Bloodywood, Only German Open Air Show, Body Count feat. Ice-T, Brass Against, Brenner, Bullet for My Valentine, Cancer, Cesair, Christopher Bowes and His Plate of Beans, Coppelius, Cradle of Filth, Crazy Lixx, Crematory, Crisix, Critical Mess, Crobot, Only German Festival Show, D-A-D, Damnation Defaced, Dampfmaschine, Dark Funeral, Deathstars, Delain, Only German Festival Show, Demons & Wizards, Der Fluch des Drachen, Diamond Head, Diary of Dreams, Die From Sorrow, Die Happy, Die Kassierer, Dirty Shirt, Downfall of Gaia, Dream Spirit, Drunken Swallows, Duivelspack, Eclipse, Eisbrecher, Eluveitie, Emil Bulls, Equilibrium, Evergrey, Extrabreit, Fiddler's Green, For I Am King, Frog Leap, Gama Bomb, Gernotshagen, Girlschool, Gloryful, Gloryhammer, Grave, Hamferð, Hammerfall, Harpyie, Hellhammer performed by Tom Warrior's Triumph of Death, Hämatom, Jared James Nichols, Jinjer, Kaizaa, Krokus, Kvelertak, Kärbholz, Lagerstein, Legion Of The Damned, Life of Agony, Lucifer Star Machine, Manticora, Meshuggah, Michale Graves, Molllust, Mono Inc., Monstagon, Monster Magnet, Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen, Myrath, Nachtblut, Nailed To Obscurity, Nashville Pussy, Nasty, Necrophobic, Night In Gales, Nordjevel, Of Mice & Men, Operus, Opeth, Paddy and The Rats, Parkway Drive, Powerwolf, Primordial, Prong, Prophets of Rage, Queensrÿche, XIII feat. Lingua Mortis Orchestra, Rage, Ragnaröek, Reckless Love, Reliquiae, Rose Tattoo, 20th Anniversary Show, Sabaton, Santiano, Saor, Savage Messiah, Saxon, Septicflesh, Sibiir, SikTh, Skew Siskin, Skyclad, Skyline, Skynd, Skáld, Final German Festival Show, Slayer, SOiL, Soul Demise, Stoneman, Subway to Sally, Suidakra, Sweet, Tanzwut, Tausend Löwen Unter Feinden, TesseracT, Testament, The Adicts, The BossHoss, The Crown, The Damned, The Lazys, The Linewalkers, The Moon And The Nightspirit, The New Roses, The Night Flight Orchestra, The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats, The Quireboys, The Rumjacks, Special Rock & Metal Show, The Sinderellas, The Sisters of Mercy, The Vintage Caravan, The Wild!, Thy Art Is Murder, 35th Anniversary Show, Torment, Tribulation, tuXedoo, UFO, Unleashed, Uriah Heep, Vampire, Velvet Viper, Venom Inc., Versengold, Victims of Madness, Violons Barbares, Vltimas, Vogelfrey, Warkings, Wiegedood, Windhand, Within Temptation, Witt, Zuriaake
All information about the festival as well as tipps for your journey to the Holy Ground can be foudn on www.wacken.com
Watch the offical W:O:A 2019 trailer now: