You're never too old to rock on. Two elderly men managed to slip away from their nursing home in Germany to attend the Wacken Open Air, the largest heavy metal festival in the world, over the weekend, ...

Following this year's successful reunion shows, US prog metal legends Savatage have announced a run of European headline dates and festival dates for 2026.

"Wacken - rain or shine." It's a good catchphrase, though there was definitely more of one than the other at this year's event as Wacken Open Air returned for its 34th edition, boasting a host of ...

The legendary Wacken heavy metal festival kicked off in northern Germany, but with a smaller audience. Weather chaos forced organizers to turn back fans. https://p.dw ...

Wacken Open Air is in the books for 2017, but not without one very memorable closing moment to the festival. Motorhead were constants at the German festival, and with the death of Lemmy Kilmister, ...

The Wacken Open Air festival, also known as W:O:A, began in 1990 as a small festival with just 800 rock fans and a few local metal bands. The initial venue was a former gravel pit on the outskirts of ...

Slipknot will headline the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany in 2020. The iconic group will have Maggots going wild when they play for the first time at the festival’s 30th anniversary next summer.

When Thomas Jensen co-founded Wacken Festival in 1990, the idea was simple. Book a few bands, get some beers in, and invite some mates to have the time of their lives. Thirty-five years later, the ...

Northern Germany's Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival, in a rural area northwest of Hamburg, opened today. Rainy weather turned the festival's grounds muddy, and organizers were forced to tell fans ...

Germany's Wacken Open Air festival has halted all admissions due to excessive rainfall and muddy festival grounds. Wacken Open Air was originally expected to have roughly 85,000 metal fans on site, ...

"Wacken 3D - Louder Than Hell" will shoot at the annual event in a tiny German town, which this year will feature Rammstein, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple and others. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

The 32nd edition of the legendary heavy metal music festival kicks off this week, but heavy rains pose a challenge. https://p.dw.com/p/4USrb The first Wacken Open Air ...