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After a two-year break: 75,000 fans are sweating at the start of the Wacken Festival

2022-08-04T15:37:07.835Z


Metal fans had to wait two years because of Corona: On Thursday, the Wacken Open Air will officially open with bands like "Judas Priest". The day before, thousands of visitors flocked to the local outdoor pool.


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Wacken Open Air 2022: The outdoor pool was inaugurated with a bullhead even before it opened

Photo: Frank Molter / dpa

After two summers without a heavy metal festival, the fans have invaded the village with 1800 inhabitants in Schleswig-Holstein.

Even before the official start of the Wacken Open Air (W:O:A, August 4th to 6th), metalheads' greetings, known as French forks, are omnipresent.

The fans are not impressed by the heat wave either.

With temperatures around 30 degrees, many are looking to cool off in the local outdoor pool.

"Yesterday we already had 2,500 guests," said the chairman of the local swimming pool association, Carsten Storm, according to the German Press Agency.

That is five times the amount in one day with great weather at the weekend.

On Thursday, the metalheads sometimes queued up in front of the outdoor pool.

At the official start of the Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) it will be loud for the first time on the two main stages.

On Thursday evening, metal fans can expect, among other things, the performance of the big names in the scene, Judas Priest (10:15 p.m.).

There was already a program on the smaller stages of the festival on Wednesday, including the Wacken Firefighters.

When the music procession of the Wacken Volunteer Fire Department entered the stage for its traditional festival performance shortly before eleven o'clock, they were greeted with chants of "Wacken, Wacken, fire brigade".

The area in front of the Wackinger Stage was well filled.

Officially, Wacken doesn't start until Thursday.

But the speakers on smaller stages are turned on the day before, and part of the site is then already accessible.

The two large main stages, in the middle of which a huge metal bull's skull hangs, will not be used until Thursday.

According to the organizers, the Open Air is sold out with 75,000 visitors.

With the so-called Metal Train alone, around 750 heavy metal fans arrived on Wednesday with their destination Wacken Open Air.

According to the federal police, the train was sold out.

Concerts by Slipknot, Powerwolf, Hämatom, In Extremo, Lordi, Slime, Venom and, for the first time, the Cologne band Höhner are planned until Saturday (until August 6th).

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Source: spiegel

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