Germany, Wacken - Wacken Open Air 2010
| Location: | Germany, Wacken (Festivalgelände) |
| Date: | 04-07 August 2010 |
| Website: | wacken.com |
| Organizer: | ICS Event Service |
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Tickets: |
130 ? Buy at www.metal-train.de |
Wacken Open Air 2009 was a huge disappointment for many metal fans. In 2008 the world's biggest heavy metal festival has booked Iron Maiden as headliners and has raised the bar a bit too high for its own good. In 2009, the 20th anniversary of this legendary festival, a lot of bands appeared which have played in the years before already, but no uber headliner a la Iron Maiden to justify the high ticket price. Many people blamed the W:O:A to rely on its name only as the 20th edition was sold out eight months prior to the festival. In 2010 however the Wacken Open Air proves all these critics wrong...
Iron Maiden are back again! And this time they aren't the uber headliners of 2008, but only primus inter pares ("first among equals"): thrash titans Slayer, glam metal monsters Mötley Crüe and the father of shock rock Alice Cooper are also confirmed as headliners for the 21st edition. And as always there are a few special performances: Grave Digger celebrate their 30th anniversary by performing the entire "Tunes of War" album, a show which will also feature some special guests, while Swedish gothic metal pioneers Tiamat will be performing their legendary "Wildhoney" album, 20 years after the band Treblinka mutated into the Tiamat we know today. But even if you don't care for either of these bands, Wacken once again offers a wide array of metal styles for almost everyone: black metal with Immortal and 1349, death metal with Cannibal Corpse and grindcore supergroup Lock Up, power metal with Kamelot and Stratovarius, heavy metal with U.D.O. and W.A.S.P., modern metal with Fear Factory and Soulfly, etc. etc. etc.. All in all a whopping 122 acts will perform on five stages over a period of four days.
Wacken Open Air takes plays in - surprise! - Wacken in Northern Germany, a small village with merely 2,000 inhabitants on 361 days of the year. The town is located 10 km north of Itzehoe and 50 km northwest of Hamburg. There will be shuttle buses from the festival site to the train station in Itzehoe as well as to the airports in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. For more info on getting there and away check the festival page here.
Certainly not the cheapest, but probably the most fun way to get to and from Wacken has to be the Metal Train. The "railway to hell" equals one huge party of 850 metalheads in one train with 16 wagons, which includes two dedicated disco wagons. Check the website for the schedule and prices.
The festival is officially sold out since April. Most tour operators (e.g. Metal Train for Germany, Bock Tours for the Netherlands, Germany, Austria or Switzerland, Argon Events for the UK) still have tickets in stock though.
Another way to acquire your ticket would be the ticket exchange in the official forum which aims for eliminating the black marketing going on eBay and reducing the risk of acquiring fake tickets. In this exchange the Wacken staff supervises the ticket prices and acts as trust which means that the seller sends the ticket(s) to the staff who verifies the authenticity of the ticket(s) and reports it to the buyer. After the buyer has transferred the money to the seller, the Wacken staff will pass on the ticket(s) to the buyer. More information on this model can be found here (in German).
Further readings:
Wacken 2009 review
Wacken 2008 review
Wacken 2007 review
Headliners
DAY 1 (04.08)
W.E.T. Stage
| Victims Of Madness | 12:00 - 12:30 | |
| Void Creation (Metal Battle Austria) | 12:50 - 13:15 | |
| No Dawn (Metal Battle Norway) | 13:35 - 14:00 | |
| Snakebite (Metal Battle UK) | 14:20 - 14:45 | |
| Raging Mob (Metal Battle China) | 15:05 - 15:30 | |
| Dymytry (Metal Battle Czech Republic) | 15:50 - 16:15 | |
| By The Patient (Metal Battle Denmark) | 16:35 - 17:00 | |
| Forever Storm (Metal Battle Ex-Yugoslavia) | 17:20 - 17:45 | |
| Metal Battle Finland | 18:05 - 18:30 | |
| Frontal (Metal Battle France) | 18:50 - 19:15 | |
| Vice (Metal Battle Germany) | 19:35 - 20:00 | |
| Total Riot (Metal Battle Greece) | 20:20 - 20:45 | |
| Wistaria (Metal Battle Iceland) | 21:05 - 21:30 | |
| Missing In Action (Metal Battle Israel) | 21:50 - 22:15 | |
| Penthagon (Metal Battle Italy) | 22:35 - 23:00 | |
| Soul Stealer (Metal Battle Lithuania) | 23:20 - 23:45 | |
| Mambo Kurt | 00:00 - 01:00 |
Wackinger Stage
| Lord Of The Lost | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
| Fiddler's Green | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
| Red Hot Chili Pipers | 22:00 - 23:00 |
Beergarden Stage
| W:O:A Firefighters | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
| Mambo Kurt | 22:00 - 23:00 |
Red Bull Bus
| Rock Rotten's 9mm Assi Rock'n'Roll | 13:30 - 14:15 |
DAY 2 (05.08)
True Metal Stage
| Alice Cooper | 17:30 - 19:00 | |
| Iron Maiden | 21:30 - 23:30 |
Black Stage
| Skyline | 16:00 - 16:45 | |
| Metal Hammer Awards | 16:50 - 17:25 | |
| Mötley Crüe | 19:30 - 21:00 |
W.E.T. Stage
| Orcus O Dis (Metal Battle Mexico) | 12:00 - 12:25 | |
| Seven Ends (Metal Battle Netherlands) | 12:45 - 13:10 | |
| Demolished (Metal Battle Belgium) | 13:30 - 13:55 | |
| The Sixpounder (Metal Battle Poland) | 14:15 - 14:40 | |
| Prayers Of Sanity (Metal Battle Portugal) | 15:00 - 15:25 | |
| Altar (Metal Battle Romania) | 15:45 - 16:10 | |
| Vita Imana (Metal Battle Spain) | 16:30 - 16:55 | |
| Katana (Metal Battle Sweden) | 17:15 - 17:40 | |
| Hathors (Metal Battle Switzerland) | 18:00 - 18:25 | |
| Cangaço (Metal Battle Brazil) | 18:45 - 19:10 | |
| Black Out Beauty (Metal Battle Luxembourg) | 19:30 - 19:55 | |
| Ghost Brigade | 20:15 - 21:00 | |
| Macbeth [GER] (Metal Masters Winner) | 21:20 - 21:50 | |
| Crysys | 22:10 - 22:40 | |
| Gojira | 23:00 - 23:45 |
Wackinger Stage
| Svartsot | 17:00 - 18:00 | |
| Torfrock | 19:00 - 20:00 | |
| Hanggai | 21:00 - 22:00 |
Beergarden Stage
| Mambo Kurt | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
| W:O:A Firefighters | 20:00 - 21:00 |
Red Bull Bus
| Secret Show | 13:30 - 14:15 |
DAY 3 (06.08)
True Metal Stage
| Amorphis | 11:45 - 12:45 | |
| Ill Niño | 14:15 - 15:15 | |
| The BossHoss | 16:45 - 17:45 | |
| Kamelot | 19:15 - 20:15 | |
| Grave Digger | 21:45 - 23:00 | |
| Anvil | 00:45 - 01:45 |
Black Stage
| Dew-Scented | 11:00 - 11:40 | |
| Orphaned Land | 13:00 - 14:00 | |
| Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | 15:30 - 16:30 | |
| Endstille | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
| Arch Enemy | 20:30 - 21:30 | |
| Slayer | 23:15 - 00:30 | |
| Cantus Buranus | 02:00 - 03:00 |
Party Stage
| End Of Green | 11:00 - 11:40 | |
| Job For A Cowboy | 13:00 - 14:00 | |
| Voivod | 15:30 - 16:30 | |
| Frei.Wild | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
| Tarja | 20:30 - 21:30 | |
| 1349 | 23:15 - 00:15 | |
| Atrocity | 02:00 - 03:00 |
W.E.T. Stage
| Brutus | 11:00 - 11:30 | |
| Dead Means Nothing | 11:55 - 12:25 | |
| Suicidal Angels | 12:50 - 13:20 | |
| Astral Doors | 13:45 - 14:15 | |
| Hackneyed | 14:40 - 15:10 | |
| Mad Max | 15:35 - 16:05 | |
| The Other | 16:30 - 17:00 | |
| Eternal Legacy | 17:25 - 18:00 | |
| Evile | 18:25 - 18:55 | |
| Lizzy Borden | 19:20 - 19:55 | |
| Broilers | 20:25 - 21:10 | |
| Holy Grail | 21:40 - 22:10 | |
| Secrets Of The Moon | 22:40 - 23:25 | |
| Ihsahn | 23:55 - 00:40 | |
| Imperium Dekadenz | 01:10 - 01:40 | |
| Raven | 02:10 - 02:55 |
Wackinger Stage
| Schelmish | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
| Letzte Instanz | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
| Equilibrium | 22:00 - 23:00 |
Beergarden Stage
| Hells Belles | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
| Fanfara Kalashnikov | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
| Mambo Kurt | 22:00 - 23:00 |
DAY 4 (07.08)
True Metal Stage
| Caliban | 13:15 - 14:15 | |
| Overkill | 15:45 - 16:45 | |
| W.A.S.P. | 18:15 - 19:15 | |
| Edguy | 20:45 - 21:45 | |
| Soulfly | 23:15 - 00:15 | |
| U.D.O. | 01:35 - 02:50 |
Black Stage
| Ektomorf | 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| Unleashed | 14:30 - 15:30 | |
| Lock Up | 17:00 - 18:00 | |
| Cannibal Corpse | 19:30 - 20:30 | |
| Immortal | 22:00 - 23:00 | |
| Fear Factory | 00:30 - 01:30 |
Party Stage
| Smoke Blow | 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| Kampfar | 14:30 - 15:30 | |
| Delain | 17:00 - 18:00 | |
| Stratovarius | 19:30 - 20:30 | |
| Candlemass | 22:00 - 23:00 | |
| Tiamat | 00:30 - 01:30 |
W.E.T. Stage
| Nightmare | 12:00 - 12:30 | |
| The New Black | 12:55 - 13:25 | |
| Degradead | 13:50 - 14:20 | |
| Crucified Barbara | 14:45 - 15:15 | |
| Skanners | 15:40 - 16:10 | |
| Die Kassierer | 16:35 - 17:20 | |
| Metsatöll | 17:45 - 18:15 | |
| Varg | 18:40 - 19:10 | |
| Debauchery | 19:35 - 20:05 | |
| Sólstafir | 20:25 - 21:10 | |
| Lake Of Tears | 21:35 - 22:20 | |
| Rotting Christ | 22:45 - 23:15 | |
| Despised Icon | 23:40 - 00:15 | |
| Killing Machine | 00:45 - 01:30 | |
| The Devil's Blood | 02:00 - 02:45 |
Wackinger Stage
| The Keltics | 18:00 - 19:00 | |
| Týr | 20:00 - 21:00 | |
| Orden Ogan | 22:00 - 23:00 |
Beergarden Stage
| W:O:A Firefighters | 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| Fanfara Kalashnikov | 19:00 - 20:00 | |
| Hells Belles | 21:00 - 22:00 | |
| Mambo Kurt | 22:30 - 23:30 |
Who was there?
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News
Reviews
| 17.09.2010 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 5th August 2010 by Promonex |
| 17.09.2010 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 6th August 2010 by Promonex |
| 17.09.2010 | Wacken Open Air - Wacken, Germany, 7th August 2010 by Promonex |
| 15.09.2010 | The Railway to Hell - A Prologue to Wacken by Promonex |
Photo galleries
| 07.08.2010 | Wacken Open Air 2010 - Day 3 by Promonex | 124 images |
| 06.08.2010 | Wacken Open Air 2010 - Day 2 by Promonex | 146 images |
| 05.08.2010 | Wacken Open Air 2010 - Day 1 & Miscellaneous (NSFW!) by Promonex | 55 images |
| 03.08.2010 | Metal Train 2010 by Promonex | 120 images |
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3134 |
Written by Promonex on 29.03.2010 at 15:39 I didn't know they were related to the Onkelz. And even then it doesn't make much sense to book them for a festival like this. I didn't understand booking the Onkelz anyway, maybe that's where the money lies. Meanwhile they confirmed Victims Of Madness (also a frequent flyer there lately) and The Keltics. The latter recieve my brand new annual worst-band-name-ever award.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by corrupt on 28.03.2010 at 22:51 Never even heard of Frei.Wild, so I can't judge. Hype? well, maybe in Germany but certainly not in the rest of Europe. Bohse Onkelz I know and quite like. But then aagin I love Die Toten Hosen 
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3134 |
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by corrupt on 30.03.2010 at 14:46 What's wrong with die Toten Hosen? If you like punk it is almost impossible to dislike Die Toten Hosen. 
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3134 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 30.03.2010 at 15:12 It kinda goes into the same direction as my comment on Burden Of Grief. I do like punk. If it's well-written. In that regard, Campino's lyrics and vocals are way too blunt and simple to be taken any seriuosly as good music. As a punk band you either do the noisy screamy thing or the ironical rock thing. Die Toten Hosen are so self-involved, insisting upon themselves and overdoing their stuff in about 90% of the time. The result is plain boring 3-4 minute predictable simplcity with the added annoyance of Campinos vovel-elongation style of singing (whenever his lyrics don't seem to fit into the rhythm). There are way better punk bands out there.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by corrupt on 30.03.2010 at 15:28 Aha, I see. You're one of those people that find the lyrics to be the defining thing for a band to be good/enjoyable or not. Well, that's we two differ a lot. They could be singing about baby rabbits being brutally raped by a unicorn and I don't care as long as the music is good.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3134 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 30.03.2010 at 15:32 We've had this conversation before. It's not so much the defining factor for the overall quality as more the last piece of the puzzle that is a song or an album as a whole. I can enjoy bands with lyrics I don't find particularly special (I do enjoy the old Dimmu Borgir after all) but for me to really love a piece of music, the lyrics and singing do play an important role, yes. And everything below a certain level just sounds awful to my ears. To keep the example of Dimmu Borgir, on my first listen of Enthrone Darkness Triumphant I thought the album was really good, until I reached Tormentor Of Christian Souls. That one almost made me throw it away. Took me a hell of a lot of time to recover from that experience. Let's say I exaggerated a little bit there, but you get the point 
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10084 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 30.03.2010 at 15:32 i don't think it's the main thing he looks at when it comes to bands. i know he also hates Subway to Sally and In Extremo partly also because of this, but also because of the (and i agree with him on this point) enormous unfounded hype these bands have in Germany. seriously, from what i have noticed, Subway to Sally is almost completely unknown outside of Germany, but there's hardly one person there who hadn't heard of them. reminds me of the mainstream romanian hard rock bands Cargo, Iris and Trooper(that's right, "who the hell is this guy talking about?") as for my chances of getting to this fest, it's possible, but highly unlikely. i'd have to get a job in Germany and take 2-3 days off or something. and even then it would be a last-minute thing.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Valentin B on 30.03.2010 at 16:41 Alwaysthought Subway to Sally were also quite big outside of Germany because they certainly are big over here in The Netherlands
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3134 |
Written by Valentin B on 30.03.2010 at 16:41 First and foremost I don't like the bands for their music. The hype and their playing every place that has a stage and power is an annoying addition to that which simply makes it hard to just ignore them. You can't dislike a band solely for the hype around them. If people do that it's their loss but I happen to believe that I'm not that superficial.
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| OnJackTallBeck? Posts: 1472  |
This will be my first metal festival in europe, can anyone who's been to one give me some pointers, like what to expect (apart for the best metal my brain can process  ), like how is the camping conditions? bathroom? will I have the chance to get a drunken tatoo? hahahaha........any info is helpfull.tnks ps: Its been a very long time since i've posted here....It's good to be back m/  m/
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| Promonex Cathemeral Elite Posts: 9720 |
Anvil have been added. Also a preliminary running order has been uploaded. I'm working on it right now and in a few minutes it should also be up there.
---- All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...At least for now. - The Mystery of Life, Vol. 841 Ch. 26
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| Promonex Cathemeral Elite Posts: 9720 |
Further new additions: Crysys, Fanfara Kalashnikov, Lord Of The Lost, Skyline (with Doro and Udo Dirkschneider as guests) And Maroon have disappeared from the lineup.
---- All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...At least for now. - The Mystery of Life, Vol. 841 Ch. 26
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| Promonex Cathemeral Elite Posts: 9720 |
And I've just seen that they plan to put Equilibrium on the tiny medieval stage! That's fucking madness!!
---- All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...At least for now. - The Mystery of Life, Vol. 841 Ch. 26
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237  |
Yeh, that is absolutely stupid. I never actually saw the medieval stage last year.
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10084 |
Written by OnJackTallBeck? on 02.04.2010 at 00:13 bring ear plugs(4-5 AM is generally when sleepytime begins at Wacken), a thick jacket(it can get absurdly cold) and the most resilient shoes/boots you have(it's fairly muddy most of the times there). showers were 11 euros for 5 entries, and they were decent enough. don't know about tattoos, but if you look in the metal market(which you have to walk through to get from the campsite to the stages area) you could find, amid the absurdly expensive shit, some really cheap stuff. also, make sure you buy your booze from the supermarkets in Gribbohm(or whatever village that is, they're all pretty much one big roadside series of houses), you'll save a lot of money - from the camping ground entrance just turn left and walk. or if you're super-raw(like me) exit through the VIP area when no-one's looking and sneak up behind a van when you get to the barrier so the guy at the barrier doesn't see you hahahahah.. and then turn left lol. you can't enter the stage area with bottles and stuff, but you can enter with tetra-paks like the ones they make for milk. just drink the milk from the box, clear the smell with water from the open-air bathrooms(0.5 euros one entry) and fill up with jagermeister/whiskey/whatever, instant wastedfying. or you could add vodka to the milk box and have 1 liter-worth of white russians beats having to shell out 30 euros a night on beer costing 3.5 euros/glass.(and most of what they sell is Beck's too, which isn't that bad but still impossibly overpriced)all in all, imo Wacken is heaven on earth if you know how to navigate the area and where to buy stuff 
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3134 |
Whoow, at first I thought they let Amorphis and Kataklysm as well as Immortal and Edguy play at the same time. Luckily that's not the case and if they keep their alternating stage pattern, this is what it might look like. What I don't get is why a noname band that has their own motion picture suddenly gets the prestigious fridaynight closing slot on the True Stage. Also, dear Wacken people, Caliban hardly play "true metal"... I only hope Ihsahn plays when Die Apokalyptischen Reiter and Frei.Wild are playing. That would be too perfect.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by corrupt on 05.04.2010 at 14:58 Guess you mean Anvil. Since when are they a noname band? Metal On Metal and Forged In Fire were immensely influential albums (especially for thrash) and at the time Anvil was huge in Europe. It's a good thing that documentary was released cause now finally Anvil starts getting the credit it deserves.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10084 |
U.D.O. being the last band on the last day = awesomeness. i'm pretty sad i probably won't be able to get there. also, i thought this was the final bill, but it seems there are 3 other bands left to be announced. shit!
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| Promonex Cathemeral Elite Posts: 9720 |
Written by Valentin B on 05.04.2010 at 19:37 Fixed
---- All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...At least for now. - The Mystery of Life, Vol. 841 Ch. 26
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10084 |
Written by Promonex on 05.04.2010 at 19:53 lol come on, it just wouldn't be Wacken if they didn't go out with a bang(what song UDO usually plays live as the last track is a pretty easy guess)... and "A Pocket Sized Sun" isn't quite a "bang"(but it's awesome nevertheless )
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| Promonex Cathemeral Elite Posts: 9720 |
Written by Valentin B on 05.04.2010 at 20:01 I wouldn't mind them going out with style for a change. Especially after last year's "It's after dark now and Wackenland is closed, we've been served ice-cold beer and Wacken was our host."
---- All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...At least for now. - The Mystery of Life, Vol. 841 Ch. 26
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10084 |
Written by Promonex on 05.04.2010 at 20:05 lol who said that? the guy from Subway? hahah.
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
Written by Valentin B on 05.04.2010 at 20:10 That was the Wacken song... it was played over the system at the end after all the bands... Did Doro play the song too? I don't remember.
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| Promonex Cathemeral Elite Posts: 9720 |
Written by Valentin B on 05.04.2010 at 20:10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXM9NoS7TjY Actually they were supposed to go out with a bang, i.e. "Julia und die Räuber" and not with a failed attempt at singing in English. That they crippled a D-A-D song doesn't make things any better.
---- All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...At least for now. - The Mystery of Life, Vol. 841 Ch. 26
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| Promonex Cathemeral Elite Posts: 9720 |
Written by Baz Anderson on 05.04.2010 at 20:20 Nah, the Wacken song was Doro's "We Are the Metalheads", which you can hear as intro song on their website: http://www.wacken.com/
---- All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu... This is the truth! This is my belief! ...At least for now. - The Mystery of Life, Vol. 841 Ch. 26
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13237 |
Written by Promonex on 05.04.2010 at 20:22 Oh yes, I remember now, hahaha. I'm getting mixed up.
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10084 |
Written by Promonex on 05.04.2010 at 20:21 LOLOL what a cheesy song. i haven't even heard it(but i probably didn't miss anything lol), the only StS song i knew back then was Sieben, and i stopped for a moment to listen to it while i was wandering for glasses, but that was it. Julia & die Rauber >>>> that piece of crap also, apart from the horribly cheesy lyrics, "We Are the Metalheads" imo was a GREAT anthem(just like Onkel Tom's "Auf Nach Wacken", or however that song is called, one of the catchiest things i've ever heard  ), and "We Are... " did kinda move me when i first heard it at Skyline's set.
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Admin Posts: 3134 |
Written by Valentin B on 05.04.2010 at 20:26 If you could even stand to listen to that song once, you're a trooper man. Not to mention listening to it again and again or even enjoying it. You must have been the only guy on the whole festival.
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