

This year is the 15th aniversary of the Wacken Open air festival. And this time the dates are August 5th to August 7th .As always the Wacken Open Air will feature incredible bands from all styles in metal.

Just to have a sample of what is going on you can check the bands that were featured in 2003:
Ancient Rites, Annihilator, Assassin, Bai Bang, Callenish Circle, Carpathian Forest, Circle II Circle, Dark Age, Dark Angel, Dark Funeral, Darkane, Dew-Scented, Diamond Head, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Dismember, Eidolon, Evidence One, Extreme Noise Terror, Freedom Call, Gamma Ray, Graveworm, Heavenshallburn, Human Fortress, In Flames, Kataklysm, Lordi, Lotto King Karl, Malevolent Creation, Masterplan, Metalium, Nile, Obscenity, Onkel Tom, Oratory, Primal Fear, Psychopunch, Rage, Raise Hell, Raunchy, Rotting Christ, Running Wild, Sentenced, Seventh One, Sinister, Sinner, Slayer, Soilwork, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Subway To Sally, Symphorce, Testament, The Almighty Punchdrunk, The Crown, Thyrfing, Twisted Sister, Twisted Tower Dire, V8 Wankers, Vader, Victims Of Madness, Victory
For 2004 the Wacken Open Air has amazing bands. Here you have a sample of them:
For more information regarding tickets, how to travel to Wacken, hotels and many more you can check
www.wacken.com
On the website you can find also interesting pictures from the 2003 festival and many more information regarding the Wacken Open Air.
Also, if you want to have a look back into Wacken open Air history you can check this website where you can find all the information about the different festivals:
http://www.igelmetal.de/woa_history/wacken_history.htm
We hope to get this year from Argentina to Wacken in order to do a special feature on the festival.
