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Wacken Open Air – 30 July – 2 August 2025 – Wacken (DE)

To celebrate today's Wacken Winter Nights Spectaculum at L LGH Wacken we also reveal the program of the Wackinger Stage!

Beards and bandits, poets and halunks, warriors, mischief makers and also gloomy figures... Over the years, the Wackinger Stage has already seen so many displaced people on their stages - and even though this year's motto may seem rather futuristic, the stage remains true to its musical roots!

Here comes the wild horde for your Feyerey 2025

Miracle of Sound, Moonsorrow, Tabernis, HARPYIE, Coppelius, Helsott, In the Woods..., Istapp, Letzte Instanz, Manegarm, Mystopera, Saint City Orchestra, Samsas Traum, Shantallica, Suidakra, The Rumjacks, Vermaledeyt, Musikzug Wacken Firefighters e.V.

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“What are we getting for Christmas? What are we getting for Christmas?”—that’s the sound echoing through many households during the pre-Christmas season. You’ve waited patiently, and today you’ll find ten steel-hard, handpicked gifts under the tree.

What would Christmas be without someone getting naked? Exactly! That’s why we’ve brought you true experts in the field: Wölfi and Die Kassierer.

For musically sophisticated chorales, we’ve secured none other than Nightwish frontwoman Floor Jansen. With that, nothing will stand in the way of our application to become the Heavy-Metal equivalent of the Vienna Opera Ball next year.
While Fear Factory and Static X add even more highlights to the high-tech arsenal of W:O:A 2025 - and are certainly not being deployed to the Holy Ground to take prisoners - Eihwar will aim to seduce you to the Viking dancefloor Metalheads with their unique sound: a mix of heavy tones and danceable electronic elements.

Careful, don’t shake the sixth gift! What’s rattling inside might make you suspect it’s prehistoric bones, but it’s actually the drumsticks of Komppi Momppi, drummer of our favorite dinos—Heavysaurus!

With Mastodon and The Hellacopters, we’re adding two more acts to the lineup that’ll blast through your eardrums and give you a serious sonic workout. Love electricity? Then you’ll love these rascals!

After an incredible debut in 2017, we can also look forward to a special icon in music history in 2025: Sir Bob Gedolf! It is no coincidence that we find him under the tree today. With his Boomtown Rats he is responsible for the anthem of all Monday grouches, but with Live Aid he probably delivered the most heartwarming Christmas classic in the world: “Do they know it’s Christmas”. On the Holy Ground, the Boomtown Rats will certainly be as ruthless as usual.

To close things out with a royal touch, King Diamond is bringing darkness, horror, chills, and occultism to the Holy Ground. The King is a true icon of heavy music and will strike fear and awe as a real highlight of the festival.

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W:O:A 2024 is nearing its end and, in addition to some rain and a whole lot of shine, had everything we could want from a festival. And while the last riffs are played, we continue exactly where we left off and as you can see, in 2025 it continues in a very futuristic way!

The first silhouettes are already appearing on the horizon next year - 34 to be exact.

This group is led by 4 unique, not entirely unknown faces from the metal scene:

Saltatio Mortis:
Old love never rusts. It doesn't matter that you spend most of your time on stage in knight's armor. Saltatio Mortis and the W:O:A – that is love. With their powerful album Finsterwacht, the Karlsruhe band have once again cemented their excellent reputation within the metal universe.
Without a doubt, the band around frontman Alea is one of the most successful representatives of hard music on the German market.
We don't have to introduce them to you anyway, because you seem to love the band as much as we do. They are back on the holy ground and are bringing with them a very special birthday set for their 25th anniversary. If we're being completely honest, we can't think of a better place to mark this milestone.

Machine head:
Machine Head – a thrash institution. At a time when the genre was on the verge of death, it was Machine Head who defied wind and weather as a benchmark set in stone. They mixed groove and brutality in their very own style. They found the melody and enriched it with merciless riff attacks.
“Burn My Eyes”, “Through The Ashes Of Empires” and above all the oversized “The Blackening” pass all the tests of time.
Only a few names in Wacken history will give metalheads as much goosebumps as Robb Flynn and Co. Their legendary show in 2009 is burned into the collective Wacken memory.
And because it was so nice, we're inviting the gentlemen back! We recommend: Warm up your neck muscles!

Papa Roach:
Iconic is just one of many words that comes to mind when we think of Papa Roach. How quickly time flies becomes unavoidably apparent when we realize that the band has been in the business for over 30 years. Hits like “Last Resort”, “Scars” and “Help” have just been released, haven’t they? The Americans have now been awarded multiple platinum records and have gained a gigantic fan base thanks to their unique mix of nu-metal, hard rock and alternative.
Anyone who knows the band can look forward to an energetic and rousing show, which frontman Jacoby Shaddix in particular brings to the stage.
The sound of an entire generation united in one show at the largest heavy metal festival in the world. This combination promises another unforgettable evening in the long list of legendary Wacken concerts.

Gojira:
When we talk about the greats of modern metal, the name Gojira cannot be missing. Well known on the Holy Ground for a long time, they are finally coming back to Wacken.
Anyone who followed their show at the Olympic Games knows exactly what we are in for: The band virtuously combines a wide range of styles in their music. These sounds are packaged in a stage production that is second to none. With “Magma” from 2016, the band became the first French band ever to place an album at number 1 on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums. A modern classic!
Metalheads buckle up, because one thing Gojira won't do is slow down. We can expect a lot here on the Holy Ground.

Of course, we don't stop there. One or two acquaintances also cast their shadows - and more new faces also appear on the horizon!

Apocalyptica
Saxon
Within Temptation
Dimmu Borgir
Ministry
Michael Schenker “My Years With UFO“ Set
Peyton Parrish
Beyond The Black
Clawfinger
Grave Digger “45th Anniversary Show”
Obituary
Windrose
Brothers Of Metal
Tarja & Marko Hietala
Hanabie
Decapitated
Destruction
Celeste
Orange Goblin “30th Anniversary”
Angel Witch
Dominum
Exhorder “Slaughter In The Vatican Show”
Night Demon “Curse Of The Damned 10th Anniversary Show”
Mimi Barks
Seven Spires
Clowns
Dool
Crownshift
Midnight “Complete & Total Hell Set”