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Germany, Wacken - Wacken Open Air 2010




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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Maxx666 (USA) 100%
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Marcelo Hissa (Brazil) 100%
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Aelitha (Russia) 100%
nihil (Turkey) 100%
Nachtblueter 100%
Tinuviel (Canada) 100%
funnelweb (Turkey) 100%
ANArhia (Romania) 100%
JuliusForgeron (France) 100%
huntlus (Estonia) 100%
zmya (Croatia) 100%
Princeps (The Netherlands) 100%
anaavila (Portugal) 100%
Vihtori Raivoisa (Finland) 100%
infernall (Romania) 90%
Suisaidfet (Indonesia) 90%
Brave Sir Robbo (UK) 80%
kott 80%
thunder_lord (UK) 80%
Metalpii (Switzerland) 80%
mel (Turkey) 80%
Lola 8 (Croatia) 80%
omermetalol (Israel) 80%
Fabiana Thoresen (The Netherlands) 70%
iluvatar1 (Israel) 70%
Sludge Cowboy (Greece) 60%
bacho_dato (Georgia) 60%
kaoskrew (UK) 50%
Elegy (Belgium) 50%
enanox (Uruguay) 50%
Den Gode Hr. Kim (UK) 50%
RimV (Vietnam) 50%
Yomyael (Vatican) 50%
Nefarious (UAE) 40%
In_tallica (Sweden) 10%
Dr.TeM (Syria) 10%
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07.12.2009 - 13:51
Valentin B
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Next up is Caliban, even though i haven't seen any of these bands so i'm not entitled to whine lol i find it weird that Wacken concentrates mostly on European bands for some reason
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07.12.2009 - 14:09
Marcel Hubregtse
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Written by Valentin B on 07.12.2009 at 13:51

Next up is Caliban, even though i haven't seen any of these bands so i'm not entitled to whine lol i find it weird that Wacken concentrates mostly on European bands for some reason

Oh you're entitled to whine about Caliban, cause they are SHIT
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07.12.2009 - 15:19
Valentin B
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 07.12.2009 at 14:09

Written by Valentin B on 07.12.2009 at 13:51

Next up is Caliban, even though i haven't seen any of these bands so i'm not entitled to whine lol i find it weird that Wacken concentrates mostly on European bands for some reason

Oh you're entitled to whine about Caliban, cause they are SHIT

can't judge on Caliban yet, but i give them credit though for variety in the line-up of next year, this year there were no death metal bands apart from some obscure groups on the WET stage or something and very very few black metal bands, i actually voted for more death metal on the 2009 survey, simply because i felt there were a bit too many power/heavy metal bands on the bill(and half of them boring ones at that, Dragonforce, Hammerfall, Rage, Axel Rudi Pell, Gamma Ray which have precisely 2 good songs, Heart of the Unicorn, which of course they didn't play, and I Want Out(which is also a Helloween "cover"), etc.).

on a side note i've started listening to Cannibal Corpse and i actually like it, for the December announcements i'm still hoping for Candlemass, Scorpions, 3 Inches of Blood, Blind Guardian and Iced Earth.
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07.12.2009 - 17:14
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Written by Valentin B on 07.12.2009 at 15:19

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 07.12.2009 at 14:09

Written by Valentin B on 07.12.2009 at 13:51

Next up is Caliban, even though i haven't seen any of these bands so i'm not entitled to whine lol i find it weird that Wacken concentrates mostly on European bands for some reason

Oh you're entitled to whine about Caliban, cause they are SHIT

can't judge on Caliban yet, but i give them credit though for variety in the line-up of next year, this year there were no death metal bands apart from some obscure groups on the WET stage or something and very very few black metal bands, i actually voted for more death metal on the 2009 survey, simply because i felt there were a bit too many power/heavy metal bands on the bill(and half of them boring ones at that, Dragonforce, Hammerfall, Rage, Axel Rudi Pell, Gamma Ray which have precisely 2 good songs, Heart of the Unicorn, which of course they didn't play, and I Want Out(which is also a Helloween "cover"), etc.).

on a side note i've started listening to Cannibal Corpse and i actually like it, for the December announcements i'm still hoping for Candlemass, Scorpions, 3 Inches of Blood, Blind Guardian and Iced Earth.

Seen Caliban a number of times unwillingly because they prostitute themselves whereever there's a microphone and power. Their music really doesn't speak to me but what I think is worse is their choice of singer. Their singer has no charisma at all and a voice that even I could top. But one of the other band members (a bass or a guitar player) who sings a few lines here and there really has a beautiful and powerful deep voice allowing him to growl breathtakingly without having to scream to even make a noise like the other guy. If they changed that, maybe they could convince me
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07.12.2009 - 18:51
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Written by Promonex on 05.12.2009 at 03:40

Summer Breeze has confirmed Ahab and Dying Fetus.

Already sounds like a pretty solid line-up they have there !
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07.12.2009 - 18:51
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Written by Promonex on 05.12.2009 at 03:40

Summer Breeze has confirmed Ahab and Dying Fetus.

Already sounds like a pretty solid line-up they have there !
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07.12.2009 - 22:37
Warman
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So far it's only two bands I'd pay money to see.
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08.12.2009 - 02:07
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This christmas calendar of theirs seems to have a few serious bugs. Looks almost as if they fed the daily content manually into the page at some time between 4 and 8am. Every other night if I think of it, I check it out and it never once worked before I got out of bed.

Seriously lame.
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08.12.2009 - 11:03
Valentin B
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Written by corrupt on 08.12.2009 at 02:07

This christmas calendar of theirs seems to have a few serious bugs. Looks almost as if they fed the daily content manually into the page at some time between 4 and 8am. Every other night if I think of it, I check it out and it never once worked before I got out of bed.

Seriously lame.

well i can see why they'd do that since someone could easily hack into their database, that or maybe they aren't already done booking bands lol

ATM it's not working for the 8th, gonna try a bit later.
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08.12.2009 - 11:10
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Written by Valentin B on 08.12.2009 at 11:03

Written by corrupt on 08.12.2009 at 02:07

This christmas calendar of theirs seems to have a few serious bugs. Looks almost as if they fed the daily content manually into the page at some time between 4 and 8am. Every other night if I think of it, I check it out and it never once worked before I got out of bed.

Seriously lame.

well i can see why they'd do that since someone could easily hack into their database, that or maybe they aren't already done booking bands lol

ATM it's not working for the 8th, gonna try a bit later.

I don't know what a bad-ass hacker you are or what information about their security you have but the last time I actually hacked a remote database is quite some time ago and it took me weeks. And I don't think the knowledge of a festival's booked bands is worth the hussle. And the only quick way there could possibly be is through injection or xss since they have these forms there but even then you don't know if that data ends up in the same database (which is unlikely) or is processed othewise. Plus, there are way easier means of protecting agains fraud like that. You would think that the hour work put in a sanitizing filter is a small price compared to manually work on the server once a day.

Maybe they're just lazy programmers and didn't do a lot of testing
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08.12.2009 - 11:44
Valentin B
Iconoclast
Next band is Ghost Brigade, don't tell me Marcel, they're shit huh?
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08.12.2009 - 11:48
Marcel Hubregtse
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Written by Valentin B on 08.12.2009 at 11:44

Next band is Ghost Brigade, don't tell me Marcel, they're shit huh?


Nope they are
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08.12.2009 - 11:56
Valentin B
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2009 at 11:48

Written by Valentin B on 08.12.2009 at 11:44

Next band is Ghost Brigade, don't tell me Marcel, they're shit huh?


Nope they are

is there any other band you don't hate on the lineup? lol
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08.12.2009 - 11:57
Marcel Hubregtse
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Written by Valentin B on 08.12.2009 at 11:56

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2009 at 11:48

Written by Valentin B on 08.12.2009 at 11:44

Next band is Ghost Brigade, don't tell me Marcel, they're shit huh?


Nope they are

is there any other band you don't hate on the lineup? lol


Immortal, Die Apokalyptischer Reiter, The Devil's Blood (although live quite boring)
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08.12.2009 - 18:22
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2009 at 11:57

...Die Apokalyptischer Reiter...

You're joking right?
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08.12.2009 - 18:30
Valentin B
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Written by corrupt on 08.12.2009 at 18:22

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2009 at 11:57

...Die Apokalyptischer Reiter...

You're joking right?

knowing him he's probably talking about their demo's or (best case) their first album lol
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08.12.2009 - 19:06
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Die Apokalyptischer Reiter are a great band. I've seen them three times now, always entertaining.
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08.12.2009 - 20:43
Marcel Hubregtse
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Written by corrupt on 08.12.2009 at 18:22

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2009 at 11:57

...Die Apokalyptischer Reiter...

You're joking right?



Okay, I don't like what they are currently doing but I absolutely love... Allegro Barbaro, All You Need Is Love, Have A Nice Trip and Samurai is decent.
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08.12.2009 - 23:33
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2009 at 20:43

Written by corrupt on 08.12.2009 at 18:22

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2009 at 11:57

...Die Apokalyptischer Reiter...

You're joking right?



Okay, I don't like what they are currently doing but I absolutely love... Allegro Barbaro, All You Need Is Love, Have A Nice Trip and Samurai is decent.


corrupt looks up the definition of 'metal eliticist', doesn't find Die Apokalyptischen Reiter anywhere near that, shakes his head and goes back to his programming...
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08.12.2009 - 23:52
Marcel Hubregtse
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Written by corrupt on 08.12.2009 at 23:33


corrupt looks up the definition of 'metal eliticist', doesn't find Die Apokalyptischen Reiter anywhere near that, shakes his head and goes back to his programming...



I know I can be a bleeding elitist most of the times, btu not always I also listen to, and like, The Village People, Bee Gees, old Kiss (even their Dynasty disco era) AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, hell Accept until Metal Heart etc etc.
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09.12.2009 - 00:09
Valentin B
Iconoclast
Lol i just realized sometimes i'm trying to force myself into liking some of the bands on a festival bill, especially for Wacken, i guess it's partly because it was my very first festival experience and it's gonna be pretty difficult to top in terms of enjoyment and great crazy memories playing in your head like a photo slide-show with Running Wild's "The Brotherhood" playing in the background

anyway, bring'em on!! i just hope on the 24th it's not gonna be some totally overrated band like the new Accept incarnation or Cradle of Filth or whatever(not that i don't like Accept, just that they aren't the same without Udo)
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09.12.2009 - 01:16
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Next band appears to be Orden Ogan. Wow, they've run out of big names quickly...

edit: although from what I'm just now listening to on their myspace player, those guys are a very good old-school power metal band. I might check that out.
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09.12.2009 - 01:41
Marcel Hubregtse
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Written by corrupt on 09.12.2009 at 01:16

Next band appears to be Orden Ogan.


Never even heard of them.

Did they win some sort of Wacken band contest?
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10.12.2009 - 10:20
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Hm. The answer to the next question seems to be Endstille, but they were there this year. I doubt that the fact they finally have a new singer justifies inviting them again just one year later.
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11.12.2009 - 01:52
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Next Band: W.A.S.P.
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11.12.2009 - 18:19
Promonex
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Written by corrupt on 08.12.2009 at 11:10

Written by Valentin B on 08.12.2009 at 11:03

Written by corrupt on 08.12.2009 at 02:07

This christmas calendar of theirs seems to have a few serious bugs. Looks almost as if they fed the daily content manually into the page at some time between 4 and 8am. Every other night if I think of it, I check it out and it never once worked before I got out of bed.

Seriously lame.

well i can see why they'd do that since someone could easily hack into their database, that or maybe they aren't already done booking bands lol

ATM it's not working for the 8th, gonna try a bit later.

I don't know what a bad-ass hacker you are or what information about their security you have but the last time I actually hacked a remote database is quite some time ago and it took me weeks. And I don't think the knowledge of a festival's booked bands is worth the hussle. And the only quick way there could possibly be is through injection or xss since they have these forms there but even then you don't know if that data ends up in the same database (which is unlikely) or is processed othewise. Plus, there are way easier means of protecting agains fraud like that. You would think that the hour work put in a sanitizing filter is a small price compared to manually work on the server once a day.

Maybe they're just lazy programmers and didn't do a lot of testing

They have the Xmas calendar since a few years now, only normally it was just a quiz and this time they've decided to combine it with band confirmations just like Summer Breeze does (which has confirmed Hail of Bullets, Origin, Insomnium, Long Distance Calling and The Devil's Blood in the meanwhile by the way). The Xmas calendar never worked right after midnight because they are lazy fucks and normally you didn't mind as it only used to be a bloody quiz anyway. I still don't mind as Wacken isn't really about the bands for me anymore.
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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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11.12.2009 - 20:47
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Written by Promonex on 11.12.2009 at 18:19

They have the Xmas calendar since a few years now, only normally it was just a quiz and this time they've decided to combine it with band confirmations just like Summer Breeze does (which has confirmed Hail of Bullets, Origin, Insomnium, Long Distance Calling and The Devil's Blood in the meanwhile by the way). The Xmas calendar never worked right after midnight because they are lazy fucks and normally you didn't mind as it only used to be a bloody quiz anyway. I still don't mind as Wacken isn't really about the bands for me anymore.


No, it's about complaining about it. For all of us apparently.
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12.12.2009 - 14:08
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Next band: Grave Digger (once more)
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12.12.2009 - 14:12
Valentin B
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Written by corrupt on 12.12.2009 at 14:08

Next band: Grave Digger (once more)

LOL you're making it too easy

i wanna win some of the stuff on there
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12.12.2009 - 14:19
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Written by Valentin B on 12.12.2009 at 14:12

Written by corrupt on 12.12.2009 at 14:08

Next band: Grave Digger (once more)

LOL you're making it too easy

i wanna win some of the stuff on there

Oh yeah, right. I forgot there's also a game running. But I doubt that it's worth waiting for the official announcement. All the questions I was unable to answer at once so far could be answered by doing one query on metalstorm. It really doesn't get much easier than that.
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