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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But what was it actually like at the festival? Having spent the last week in a field in Germany, I've cleaned off (some of) the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 heavy metal festival in northern Germany is opening on Wednesday with a reduced audience after persistent rain turned the grounds to mud and forced organizers to order a halt to ...

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 ...

The 32nd edition of the legendary heavy metal music festival kicks off this week, but heavy rains pose a challenge. Due to the continuous rain currently falling over large parts of Germany, the ...

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 ...