Wacken Open Air Heavy Metal Concert - Germany

- Harder, Faster, Louder -

An Italian death/black/thrash metal friend from London invited me to the W.O.A concert in Germany. (W.O.A is a Heavy Metal concert which started in 1990 with 800 people attending. This year 2006, 50 000 metalheads attended.) Death Metal is not really my cup of tea but I am always open to new experiences.

So I flew into London and we took his car into France, across Belgium, through Netherlands and into Germany.

The organization of this concert was almost flawless. I say almost because as usual at any event there is inadequate toilets for females, but this is where my complaint ends.

The food was of superb quality and there was a wide variety to choose from.

Excellent beer and again a wide variety of drinks.

Prices were excellent. Queues were almost non-existant.

Tons of ambulances and security. Brilliant camping grounds.

4 stages, 80 bands, beer gardens, markets, stalls, shows, etc,etc, etc

All of the above in walking distance of the town Wacken.

All sorts of metal-orientated-people. New, bands old bands, fast bands semi-slow metal bands. Death metal, Dark metal, Speed metal and Thrash. Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, True metal and what ever other Metal.

My congratulations to the W.O.A. team for their organizational skills and therefore causing me to experience my best, biggest, loudest and most enjoyable concert ever.

Please look it the 'Art &Film Shoot'' section on the main page for photo's

for more info visit: www.wacken.com