WACKEN OPEN AIR 2009
Heavy Birthday and Congratulations Wacken! This year the WOA celebrated its 20th edition with its unique biography becoming the biggest Metal festival of the world!
In year one after presenting by Iron Maiden one of the biggest Metal bands of the world with an outstanding performance the organizers were able to offer another high class billing containing very popular names like Heaven & Hell (Black Sabbath in the Dio-line-up), the last show of Running Wild, Motörhead, Doro, In Flames, Amon Amarth, Saxon, Machine Head or one of the rare Gwar shows!
As we pointed out in 2008 the organization had become brilliant, and it still is! The festivalsite as its ways to the different stages offered much space for the masses, the clean restrooms were for free use and the variety for food and beverages was huge.
The weather played a wonderful role, the pig flu pandemic panic didn’t become reality and the spectators from all over the world celebrated the biggest Metal party of the world several TV stations reported about.
Furthermore the organization offered a Wackinger village with several viking as medieval shows and market, the Bullhead City Wrestling tent or a Jägermeister bar bringing you to the height of 50 metres above the festival offering you a great view on itself besides some drinks.
But of course we mainly concentrated on musical issues to report about. To the writer of these lines it had been the 13th WOA – participation, and still everything worked well.
At this year’s Wacken Open Air 83 bands appeared on the four regular stages (besides several shows on the Beer Garden Stage, the Medieval Stage and Bullhead – City Wrestling Tent as further performances on the W.E.T. Stage on wednesday) in the three days for about 75000 visitors (Sold out in march!).
Thursday
True Metal Stage
Heaven & Hell The legend Black Sabbath in its Dio-line-up showed how to perform an excellent show musically as visually. Three years ago when I had seen them at Bang Your Head they overwhelmed me as any other one in front of the stage by their charisma as by their undying classics like “The Mob Rules”, “Children Of The Sea”, “I”, “TV Crimes”, “Time Machine”, “Heaven And Hell” as the final “Neon Knights”. They also presented by “Bible Black” a song from the new album “The Devil You Know”. And again Ronnie James Dio impressed by his wonderful voice, guitar god Toni Iommi by his incomparable riffs as Geezer Butler and Vinnie Appice by their rhythmic groove. The great sound as the light show supported a concert of four genuises building a homogenous unity. What a fantastic headliner!
Black Stage
Skyline The festival got opened by the cover band of one organizer (Thomas Jensen) interpreting classics like “Fear Of The Dark” or “Whiskey In The Jar” as performing with some guests like with Doro the WOA-hymn “We Are The Metalheads” as with Onkel Tom another WOA – dedication “Auf Nach Wacken” and “Es Gibt Kein Bier Auf Hawaii” after a Happy Birthday – dedication sung with the fans.
Schandmaul The Folk Rock – sevenpiece from Bavaria showed its popularity by filling up the ground in front of their stage. They celebrated the medieval orientated music (“Kein Weg Zu Weit”, “Leb”, “Vogelfrei”) performed by different exotic instruments besides the regular instrumentation.
Der W Ex – Böhse Onkelz – mainman as – songwriter Stephan Weidner appeared with his new band after two shows with his old one at the same place. This time he acted as a fronter without his bass presenting the new debut – longplayer “Schneller Höher Weidner” like the opener “Der W Zwo Drei”, “Mein Bester Feind”, “Geschichtenhasser” and “Schatten” as the soccer-hymn-collaboration “Gewinnen Kann Jeder”. It turned out to a good performance which probably won a lot of old Onkelz supporters as new fans.
Running Wild The maybe most awaited show of the Wacken – weekend was the last appearance of the split pirate metalians from Hamburg. After some superfluous pre pirate show by some strange actors the time had finally come when the intro “Chamber Of Lies” and my favorite “Port Royal” started the final show, but the sound was too undefined and had much too less guitars. But it became better while continuing with “Bad To The Bone”, “Riding The Storm”, “Soulless”, “Prisoners Of Our Time”. The show included a few pyros as some columns of smoke while “Black Hand Inn”, but nothing special for such a historic show. Even a backdrop wasn’t hung up. After some ridiculous pirate clown intermission it was up to celebrate “Tortuga Bay”, “Purgatory” and “The Battle Of Waterloo” before the show got interrupted for another time by a drum solo. The final tracks “Raging Fire”, “Branded And Exiled”, “Prisoners Of Our Time” and of course the band anthem “Under Jolly Roger” took care about a good atmosphere. But honestly: This performance didn’t kill at all! The tracklist was great (in contrast to their latest WOA-performance) and mainman Rock ‘n’ Rolf’s voice good, but his bandmates seemed unmotivated and sounded untalented. This presentation wasn’t worth to close such a big musical chapter! They could have accomplished more, for Wacken as for their fans!
Party Stage
D:A:D Ten years after I had watched the Danish Hard Rock institution in Wacken I had the pleasure to start my personal running order with the crazy quartet assisting hits like “Bad Craziness”, “No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims”, “Riskin’ It All”, “Monster Philosophy”, “Reconstrucdead”, “Grow Or Pay”, “Beautiful Together” and “Sleeping My Day Away” with different gimmicks like their costumes, several cool designed basses and some visual special effects. Very entertaining!
J.B.O. The secret show became the Bavarian Comedy Metal band J.B.O. what was pretty easy to find out by their pink stage set while getting built up. They took care of a great atmosphere celebrated by numerous supporters.
The BossHoss The following sevenpiece showed musical the often mentioned variety the Wacken Open Air had reached over the years playing Country Rock. The crowd took its chance and partied.
Lacuna Coil Who decided to leave Running Wild after half of the show to prefer watching Italy’s finest did the right choice. The band around their two vocalists Andrea and Christina performed a professional ambitious show supported by a good sound as a nice light show! By “I’m Not Afraid”, “I Like It”, “I Won’t Tell You”, “Not Enough”, “Spellbound” and “Survive” as last title the Milan – fans introduced six songs from their new album “Shallow Life” which were jubilated as their classics like the opener “Fragile”, “Closer”, “Swamped”, “Heaven’s Lie” and “Our Truth” as the Depeche Mode – cover “Enjoy The Silence.
W.E.T. Stage
Drone The second WOA Metal Battle winner rocked the tent with their Machine Head – related sound. Fronter Mutz and his three comrades from North Germany introduced new “Juggernaut” – material (“Grow A Storm”, the title track) which caused as much action as the “Head-On Collision” – debut material (“Theopractical”, “Welcome To The Pit”). Cool appearance.
Bloodwork The young Deathcore – fivepiece from Paderborn showed a very professional performance. The band played tight without staying in communication with the crowd. Of course they set the focus on material of their new debut album “The Final End Principle” by “The Enemy Within”, “Insufficient” and their hymn “Silent Revolution”. Strong show by a talented band.
Friday
True Metal Stage
UFO Older generations had their pleasure with the British legend UFO who played by the opener “Saving Me” and “Hell Driver” two tracks from their new release “The Visitor” as of course Rock classics like “Too Hot To Handle”, “Rock Bottom” or “Lights Out”. But for another time I have to ask: What was it about not to play the biggest hit “Doctor Doctor”? It was hardly missed.
Gamma Ray The North German Melodic Metal – icon had become a steady guest over the latest years in Wacken. With obvious motivation the fourpiece enthused their fans with “New World Order”, “Rebellion In Dreamland”, the Helloween – classic “I Want Out” and the final “Somewhere Out In Space” to sing along with.
Nevermore The Seattle Prog Power Metal – machine started with “This Sacrament” and “The River Dragon Has Come”. Warrel Dane inspired the masses to step into the a capella intro of “Dead Heart In A Dead World” followed by “Enemies Of Reality”, the hymn “The Heart Collector” and “Narcosynthesis”. After the epic “This Godless Endeavor” one of the technically highest skilled bands in Metal business bid farewell by “Inside Four Walls”, “I, Voyager” and “Born”. As always Nevermore showed a fantastic performance!
Hammerfall From the first time I had seen the Gothenburg True Metal – fivepiece in Wacken 1997 the band had evolved a lot in its professionality marked by their stage set as by some light effects. Opening by “Blood Bound” and “Renegade” Joacim Cans, Oscar Dronjak & Co reached thousands of supporters celebrating besides material from the new “No Sacrifice, No Victory” – output (“Life Is Now”, “Any Means Necessary”) hymns like “Heeding The Call”, “Glory To The Brave” and the final “Hearts On Fire”.
Motörhead Business as usual could be the right conclusion about the appearance of the trio. The opener “Iron Fist”, the newer “Rock Out” or “Metropolis” rocked – no question – but Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Campbell who assumed some announcements and Mickey Dee performed their set a bit too routined. Anyway they were celebrated for “Going To Brazil” as for “Killed By Death” which got assisted by Skew Siskin’s Nina C. Alice finishing the regular set before they came back on stage to rock the encores “Ace Of Spades” and “Overkill”.
Doro Much more ambitious seemed the appearance of the Metal queen beginning with the Warlock – classics “Für Immer”, “I Rule The Ruins”, “Burning The Witches” and “True As Steel”. The fans were excited watching their fave appearing with the impressing stage set of her anniversary show in Düsseldorf last year. The anniversary hymn to this event “We Celebrate” she performed again with Sabina Classen on stage after which the Judas Priest – cover “Breaking The Law” and the Warlock – hymn “All We Are” marked the end of a convincing show.
Black Stage
Vreid A Norwegian Black Metal – band broaching the issue of war is no exotic contrast in the nowadays extreme music scene. But somehow this formation represents an alternative to the ordinary competition. So they filled the place playing a best of set considering by “Disciplined”, “Speak Goddamnit” and “Blücher” three new “Milorg” – tracks alternating them with well-known songs like the opener “Jarnbyrd”, “Svart”, “I Krig” and the final “Pitch Black”.
Endstille The Black Metal combo from Kiel represented in my opinion the opposite of their predecessors being one of the most over estimated bands in the scene. To my surprise they didn’t enter the stage with their fronter Iblis who had quit the band short time before. He got replaced by the Koldbrann – fronter Mannevond grunting “Dominanz”, “The One I Hate”, “Bastard” or “Operation Wintersturm” after which he switched the micro to some corpsepainted guest grunter who performed the last title “Frühlingserwachen”.
Walls Of Jericho An appearance of a clear Hardcore group like the female fronted Walls Of Jericho would have been pretty difficult five years ago. But the WOA let their spectators evolve. And so Candace Kucsulain had no matter to animate the crowd by “The American Dream” or “The New Ministry” to some pit action.
Airbourne The new Hardrock – sensation was supposed to play another smashing show as last year’s Wacken – thursday, but they disappointed. Of course they performed a solid Hardrock show by the opener “Stand Up For Rock ‘n’ Roll”, “Fat City”, “Girls In Black” or “Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast”, but it had no special vibe. It turned out to a worse AC/DC – copy although fronter as guitarist Joel O’Keeffe demonstrated again his climbing abilities.
Bullet For My Valentine Is a young band known by TV station airplay playing a modern sound able to rock Wacken? After the gig of the Welsh fourpiece the answer only can be: Yes! Starting with “Waking The Demon” Matt Tuck and his three comrades impressed by a tight show and a powerful sound. And of course hits like “Tears Don’t Fall” or “Hand Of Blood” are very well known in Wacken. Unknown was by “Pleasure And Pain” one song which will be released on the forthcoming album. So they finished with “Eye Of The Storm” and the hit “Scream, Aim, Fire” a much jubilated show.
In Flames When we talk about Metal bands who know how to stage an impressing show without covering the music we have definitely to mention In Flames. For another time it was awesome how many different effects happened. Besides that the musical performance convinced for another time totally beginning with the opener “Embody The Invisible” over newer classics as “Trigger” and “Cloud Connected”, older ones like “Only For The Weak” and “Embody The Invisible”. An absolute highlight of the show became the performance of “Dead End” with the original female album voice of Lisa Miskovsky. Besides that Niklas Engelin did a good job replacing Jesper Strömblad on the guitar. So the quintet finished an exciting show by “The Quiet Place”, “Take This Life” and “My Sweet Shadow” after which some special pyros started on the roof of the two big stages being that hot everybody in the first 100 rows was able to perceive. Just the sound could have been much louder.
Amon Amarth The same sound problem happened while the following appearance: It turned out much too silent. The Swedes came with their huge viking boat stage set. From the beginning “Twilight Of The Thunder God” the fivepiece acted enthusiastic like their numerous fans celebrating a best of set consisting of “Asator”, “Runes To My Memory”, “Victorious March”, “Pursuit Of Vikings”, “Cry Of The Black Birds” and “Death In Fire”.
Party Stage
Napalm Death The Grindcore legend from Birmingham got switched opening the friday instead of the saturday. So same place, different day. They would have probably deserved a later position in the billing. Anyway Barney Greenway, Shane Embury & Co took care of the first annihilation of the day.
Retrospect The exotic part of the noon was represented by four men from Thailand performing some Metalcore stuff. They knew how to create melodies, but their sound sounded improvable.
Tristania It was hard to imagine the leading Norwegian Gothic Metal band without their ex-singer Vibeke Stene, but the new Spanish front lady Mariangela Demurtas convinced absolutely by her voice as by her performance interpreting the opener “World Of Glass”, “Mercyside”, “Shadowman”, “Beyond The Veil”, “Angellore” and “Sirene” songs from all albums very well. The sevenpiece showed a dignified performance creating a convenient atmosphere resulting in much applause.
Dragonforce The British Melodic Metal quintet took care about enthusing the True / Power fraction enjoying individual musical abillities as by “Heroes Of Our Time”, “Reason To Live”, “Strike Of The Ninja” and “Through The Fire And Flames”. And of course they didn’t forget to pose as they’re known for their spectacular instrument acrobatics.
Coheed & Cambria While the masses had gone to watch Bullet For My Valentine the Prog Rock genuises from New York City played for about 5000 spectators. But those saw a first class gig. In an amazing performance the quartet rocked phenomenally resulting in the hit “The End Complete” with an included variation of Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper” and the final “Welcome Home”.
Epica The Dutch Gothic Metal band ruled the Party Stage era. Their bombastic but not too cheesy sound and the presence of singer Simone Simons inspired the audience to applaude songs like the opener “Indigo”, “The Obssesive Devotion”, “Cry For The Moon”, “Fools Of Damnation” and “Consign To Oblivion”.
ASP The following Gothic Rock formation seemed to be at the wrong festival. Their dark romantic tracks (“Krabat”, “Ich Will Brennen”) didn’t find that many fans, but the position to play against Amon Amarth meanwhile acting on the neighbored Black Stage was really hard.
W.E.T. Stage
Callejon After the bad-luck which had happened to the Zombies from Düsseldorf resulting in an accident of their drummer right before their With Full Force – appearance they took their chance to rock the W.E.T. Stage – tent in Wacken. Many fans supported tracks like “Und Wenn Der Schnee” or “Snake Mountain”. And when their sound got suddenly cut due to time reasons the whole tent continued singing the song! Impressive!
Whiplash Thrashback! The Thrash Metal quartet around bandleader Tony Portaro rocked the tent enormously by their riff attacks. So smashers like “Stage Dive” got celebrated a lot by a still astonishing number of fans celebrating one of the most awaited reunions.
Saturday
True Metal Stage
Rage The trio from Herne celebrated their 25th anniversary in front of a big audience. So after “Carved In Stone” and “Higher Than The Sky” they invited the jubilated Blind Guardian – vocalist Hansi Kürsch on stage to perform together “Set The World On Fire”, “All I Want” and “Invisible Horizons”. Also the rest of the set containing “From The Cradle To The Grave”, the classic “Prayers Of Steel” and the final “Soundchaser” took care of a good birthday party atmosphere in the noon.
Testament Ten thousands of headbangers celebrated their Bay Area Thrash Metal heroes who thrilled them by tons of classics like “The New Order”, “Over The Wall”, “Practise What You Preach”, “Into The Pit”, “Disciples Of The Watch” and “D.N.R. (Do Not Resuscitate)”. The whole band played tight, ít was cool to see the high skilled original guitarist Alex Skolnick playing again with his friends who performed by “More Than Meets The Eye” and the final title track two smashers from their new album “The Formation Of Damnation”.
Axel Rudi Pell The following artists acted on a much lower level. The Ritchie Blackmore – fan offered with his formation a Hardrock set. Fans applauded from the start marked by “Tear Down The Walls” till the set finishing medley consisting of “Fool Fool” and “Eternal Prisoner”. But why did Mike Terrana play a drum solo in a one hour lasting show?
Volbeat With the title track of their new release “Guitar Gangsters And Cadillac Blood” the Danish shooting stars started their set while prime time. Michael wearing some finer clothes including a tie and his band acted very motivated and the masses of fans celebrated Rock ‘n’ Rollers like “Radio Girl”, “Sad Man’s Tongue”, “Pool Of Booze, Booze, Booza”, The Human Instrument” and “The Garden’s Tale”. Besides the usual Dusty Springfield – tribute “I Only Want To Be With You” the fourpiece surprisingly covered Misfits by “Angelfuck” realising one huge party.
Saxon Beginning with the opener of their new release “Into The Labyrinth” (“Battalions Of Steel”) the NWOBHM – legend celebrated their 30th anniversary with a gigantic light and pyro show supporting the classics “Strong Arm Of The Law”, “Wheels Of Steel”, “Dogs Of War”, “Rock The Nations”, “Motorcycle Man”, “Solid Ball Of Rock”, “Crusader” and “Princess Of The Night”. Biff Byford’s voice sounded for another time clean and his comrades ruled the stage. So the band earned loud support when they came back on stage to play by “Live To Rock”, “747 (Strangers In The Night)”, “Stallions Of The Highway” and “Denim And Leather”.
Subway To Sally The Folk Rock / Metal – sevenpiece is one of the steady guests I had seen several times since my as their first Wacken – participation. “Knochenschiff”, “Veitstanz”, “Falscher Heiland”, “Sieben”, “Auf Kiel” as the encore covering “It’s After Dark” motivated the fans to the last dance. And when they invited with Peavy Wagner and Alex Smolski (Rage), Sabina Classen (Holy Moses) and by Holger Hübner one of the two organizers giving him a present the completion of the Wacken Open Air 2009 couldn’t have been better.
Black Stage
Einherjer The last release of the threepiece happened by 2003 long before the Pagan – boom. Anyway the viking veterans showed a good live comeback by the opener “Hammar Haus”, “Far Far North” and the final “Ironbound”.
Cathedral The Doom institution ruled for another time. Fronter Lee Dorian is still a cool entertainer and Doomsters like “Soul Sacrifice”, “Cosmic Funeral” and the final hit “Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)” rocked the festivalsite enormously.
Heaven Shall Burn Wow, I saw the Metalcore – fivepiece on their first WOA – appearance in 2003 in the W.E.T. Stage tent enthusing about 150 fans. This time they performed for ten thousands of metalheads which got saluted by shouter Marcus Bischoff doing a deep grunt. From that moment on the band held the masses in motion crowdsurfing, headbanging as moshpiting to smashers like “Endzeit”, “Behind A Wall Of Silence”, “Profane Believers”, “Voice Of The Voiceless”, “The Weapon They Fear”, “Murderers Of The Murderer” and the Edge Of Sanity – tribute “Black Tears”. While the set the fans created a circle pit around the sound tower. A real spectacle, musically as visually!
In Extremo Not that hard, but still sympathic became the following performance. The Folk Rock / Metal icon is one of the exotic sounding faves in the German Metal community. This circumstance was easy to distinguish by the numerous fans celebrating newer (“7 Köche”, “Frei Zu Sein”, “Sängerkrieg”, “En Este Noche”) as older (“Ai Vis Lo Lop”, “Mein Rasend Herz”, “Villeman Ogn Magnhild”) songs. The band communicated with its fans and showed itself down to earth.
Machine Head What now followed turned out to the best performance of this weekend. The band chose the killer “Imperium” to start the inferno which was supported by an amazing light show as by a killer sound. Newer “The Blackening” – compositions like “The Aesthetics Of Hate” (with pyros) and “Halo” as older smashers like “Ten Ton Hammer”, “Old”, “Bulldozer” or the final hymn “Davidian” inspired the masses of supporters to headbang, to crowdsurf and to mosh. Another great moment turned out when the Oakland – quartet performed instead of the usual live silencer “Descend The Shades Of Night” “The Burning Red” which thrilled all attendant spectators. Of course Robb Flynn tried again for several times to throw cans of beer to the fans what didn’t of course work along this distance. Band as fans were very happy. No wonder, this appearance definitely ruled big time!
Gwar It had been a long time I had watched an appearance of the art chaotics. For another time the aliens came down to earth to kill. And even Barack Obama (suited in a Superman costume) and Hillary Clinton stood on the deathlist and didn’t get any mercy. So the first rows were covered in all coloured variations of fake blood. If you care they played “Crack In The Egg”, “The Salaminizer”, the brand new “Let Us Slay” and “A Short History Of The End Of The World”, but I think you really don’t. So Oderus Urungus and his exterrestrial gang left with “Sick Of You”. We all hope not to wait that long for another time to see them again.
Party Stage
Suidakra First of all the fourpiece from Düsseldorf was supposed to replace the canceling Mäge De Oz. Then they switched this position with Napalm Death to appear a day later. Anyway they introduced with “Isle Of Sky”, “Conloach” and “Shattering Swords” new “Crógacht” – material and earned applause.
Onkel Tom Angelripper The party Metal king replaced Kampfar to celebrate with the crowd old German party as drinking classics like “Karamba, Karacho, Ein Whiskey”.
Borknagar The Black Metal icon is back, and not that many metalheads as the band would have deserved took notice about that fact. The problem: They played against Heaven Shall Burn, probably Borknagar had been three years too long away. The scene doesn’t wait for anybody. But who walked in front of the Party Stage saw a brilliant comeback started by “Oceans Rise” which killed as “Future Reminiscence”, “The Genuine Pulse”, “Colossus” and “The Black Token” did. The quintet around bandleader Oystein G. Brun and fronter Vintersorg didn’t play any new composition and got celebrated for their best of set. What a comeback!
Pain Peter Tägtgren’s second band started with “I’m Going In” and “Monkey Business” material from the current album “Cynic Paradise”. The band acted tight and had no problem to animate the crowd which became more and more active celebrating “Dancing With The Dead”, “Same Old Song”, “On And On”, “Same Old Song”, “Bitch” (dedicated to all women) and the final “Shut Your Mouth” before a little fire works started. In the end Peter Tägtgren thanked the crowd “for being here instead of there” and pointed out to the Black Stage where In Extremo appeared.
Enslaved The Viking Metal original showed the newer Pagan Poppers how to rule by real epics. “Fusion Of Sense And Earth”, “Ruun” and “As Fire Swept Clean The Earth” the rocking “Ground” and “Return To Yggdrasil” convinced everybody who preffered the Norwegians instead of the meanwhile appearing Machine Head. The great end of the show happened when Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto entered the stage to perform with fronter Grutle Kjellson the mighty “Isa”.
Korpiklaani As good like the original acted as weak followed the copy. The Humppa hype seemed to be pretty over. They played themselves from the opener “Vodka” to the final “Beer”, and it wasn’t only the sung alcohol percents becoming less.
W.E.T. Stage
The Fading This young fivepiece from Tel Aviv took their chance. Having some sound problems on the vocals in the beginning they convinced by their powerful Deathcore sound. Catchy guitar melodies like the opener “Age Of Phobia” calls its own convinced the crowd which had waved several Israel flags before the show from the beginning. The band mainly focussed material from the forthcoming album “In Sin We’ll Find Salvation” like “Failure”. Hope to see them soon again!
Trouble The collaboration of the Doom Metal legend with ex – Warrior Soul – voice Kory Clarke were one of the most interesting band constellations of the last years. And it worked, Kory suited in a white shirt missed his part once or announced the wrong song, but his vocal performance rocked. So he didn’t let miss original singer Eric Wagner too much. So “Assassin” and “Touch The Sky” rocked the tent. And by the way the band performed by “Hunters Of Doom” a track form the forthcoming album. We’re looking forward to it!
Conclusion:
Our 13th Wacken experience turned out to a great one without any number symbolic bad-luck! 🙂
As we mentioned in our introduction the WOA – organization worked again very well which isn’t a matter of course keeping the more than 70000 spectators in mind.
Old bands like Saxon as new bands like Heaven Shall Burn played highly jubilated shows in front of numerous excited fans. That showed the WOA is able to unite the subgenres.
The WOA was forced to do some changes in the running order because of cancelations, the hardest one to us was the one of Anthrax. The weather rocked itself!
Some prices for food and beverages stayed the same as the years before, some raised (e.g. 3,50 € for a 0,4 l beer or softdrink).
We enjoyed our Wacken – stay a lot and are looking forward to the 2010 – edition! See you in Wacken 2010 – rain or shine!
Special thanks go out to Britta Kock and the WOA-team!!!!!
At the Wacken Open Air rocked, drank and partied Tobi Wan Kenobi, Sebi Sebericks, Dumbo and Brit!!!!!