When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Pep Bonet When Thomas Jensen co-founded Wacken Festival in 1990, the idea was simple.

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 ...

Heavy Hawaii was formed in 2009 by guitarist Matt Bahamas (née Barajas), who formerly played in Fantastic Magic with future Wavves frontman Nathan Williams (who played mandolin). Heavy Hawaii were ...

Are you part of a Canadian metal band and want to one day play Wacken Open Air? Your chance to make that dream a reality is here, as the annual Wacken Metal Battle has made its way to the Great White ...

Two of Motörhead’s surviving members, guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee, participated in enshrining the ashes of the band’s late frontman, Lemmy Kilmister, in a ceremony at the Wacken ...

Wacken Open Air has been setting up some pretty tight bills mixing various styles of metal over the last few years, and it seems the 2025 fest will be the same. They announced the first 34 bands over ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — The Wacken Open Air heavy ...

It’s hard to say whether the all-metal festival Power Trip was a success or a failure. All six bands put on extraordinary shows over the weekend at the Empire Polo Club and made Power Trip the ...