Wacken Open Air

Il Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) è un festival specializzato nel genere musicale heavy metal che viene organizzato ogni anno dal 1990 nel piccolo paesino di Wacken, al nord della Germania, a circa 70 km da Amburgo. L'evento attira ogni anno una folla numerosa di fan della musica metal (l'evento è comunque limitato a 75.000 spettatori) provenienti da ogni angolo di Europa e anche dal resto del mondo.

L'area festival del W:O:A nel 2007

(inglese)
«Faster Harder Louder»

(italiano)
«Più veloce. Più pesante. Più rumoroso.»

(Motto dell'evento)

Il Wacken Open Air si tiene normalmente la prima settimana di agosto e dura attualmente tre giorni. In realtà, vista la massiccia affluenza e il tipo di manifestazione, negli anni si è data la possibilità di occupare l'area con tende e mezzi di ogni tipo fino a tre giorni prima dell'inizio dei concerti. L'area del festival si compone di una zona adibita ai concerti, con quattro palchi di diverse dimensioni su cui si esibiscono oltre 70 gruppi, e di una zona adibita al campeggio.

Ogni anno dal 2002 si registra il tutto esaurito, e a partire dall'edizione del 2008 ogni anno viene infranto il record di sold out anticipato, fino ad arrivare all'edizione 2014, in cui è stato raggiunto il tutto esaurito addirittura 359 giorni prima dell'evento, a meno di due giorni dalla messa in vendita dei 75.000 biglietti. Per l'edizione 2023 il record di velocità del tutto esaurito è stato ulteriormente migliorato, con i 75.000 biglietti disponibili esauriti in sole cinque ore dalla messa in vendita, come annunciato dalla pagina Facebook ufficiale del festival.^[1]

Edizioni

1990

24 agosto - 25 agosto:

Gruppi
Venerdì	Sabato
Skyline	5th Avenue Ax'n Sex Motoslug Sacret Season Wizzard

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1991

21 agosto - 22 agosto:

Gruppi
Bon Scott (tribute band degli AC/DC) Gypsy Kyss Kilgore Life Artist	Ruby Red Shanghai'd Guts Skyline

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1992

22 agosto - 23 agosto:

Gruppi
5th Avenue Asmodis Ax'n Sex Bad Sister Bai Bang Blind Guardian De La Cruz Doc Eisenhauer Dr. Hörp Eddie E. Highlander Ides of March Incubator	Jolly Hangman Mama's Boys Morbid Mind Motoslug Pagan Spell Paradise Play'n'Bleed Saitensprünge Saxon Störspatzen of Des STS 8 Mission The Waltons Vivian

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1993

20 agosto - 22 agosto:

Main Stage
Venerdì	Sabato	Domenica
Piracee Railway Gorefest Skew Siskin Riverdogs Doro Bon Scott (tribute band degli AC/DC)	Heavenward Restless Blondes Saintcatee Warpath Plan B Jingo de Lunch Trespass Holocaust Fates Warning Highlander	Abi Wallenstein Toy RAX Bad Sister Châlice Vivian Ax'n Sex

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Fast Lover Blue Velvet Bai Bang Samael Gary Hughes Sahara Ballroom Bones Stoney Rudolph	Torment Grinning Sinner Häwi Mädels Jack's Hammer Noisy Act of Protest Michael Dickes (acoustic) Riverdogs (acoustic) Buddy Lackey Sahara 5th Avenue

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1994

19 agosto - 20 agosto:

Main Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Suiciety Pagandom Skyclad The Tea Party	Saintcatee Chemical Breath Decision D U.K. Subs Gamma Ray Rausch Paul Di'Anno's Killers

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Moray Many Acts of Maniacs Deceased Stoney Rudolph & The Happy McCardies Hannes Bauer & Orchestra The Waltons Tears for Beers	Roan Riff Raff Easy Livin' (Uriah Heep feat. Markus Grosskopf) Torment Ace Öf Spades Ken Tamplin Prollhead Atrocity Dixie Gunworks

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1995

19 agosto - 20 agosto:

Gruppi
5th Avenue Amentia Angra Bad Sister Châlice Creep D:A:D Dark At Down Das Auge Gottes Depressive Age Dixie Gunworks	Ghosts of Dawn Graue Zellen Hate Squad Laberinto More About Dogs Morgoth Paragon Phantoms of Future Pothead Power of Expression Pretty Maids	Prime Rape Revelation Schweisser Solitude Aeturnus Temple of the Absurd Tiamat Trauma Trieb Vanden Plas Vocation

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1996

9 agosto - 10 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Venerdì		Sabato
Grind Machine Big Nothing Desert Storm Bad Sister Dice Grave Digger Pyogenesis	Gorefest The Gathering The Exploited Crematory Kreator Tom Angelripper Asylum	Gorn Ricochet Whils Sieges Even Dritte Wahl Temple of the Absurd Manos Secret Discovery Vicki Vomit	Atrocity Randalica Schweisser Oomph! Kingdom Come Dimple Minds Böhse Onkelz Tom Angelripper Ramones Mania

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1997

8 agosto - 9 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Venerdì		Sabato
Aion Undish Lake of Tears Dissection Virgin Steele Dimmu Borgir Saviour Machine	Sodom Theatre of Tragedy Samael Therion Rage & Lingua Mortis Orchestra Love Gun	Scanner Hassmütz Zed Yago Raven Tank Sinner U.D.O. Iron Savior Overkill	Birth Control HammerFall Waltari Grave Digger Amorphis Motörhead Rock Bitch Subway to Sally Tom Angelripper

W.E.T. Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Don Bosco Steiger Paunch Sceptic Acceptance Mummlox In Flames Dismember Late September Dogs	Entrust Gainsay Headcase Fox Force Five The Automanic Totenmond Torment Umbra et Imago Grinning Sinner Soilent Green

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1998

7 agosto - 8 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Venerdì		Sabato
Metal Worx Angel Dust Unrest[2] Fair Warning Arch Enemy Iron Savior Sweet Savage Stratovarius	Blitzkrieg Cradle of Filth Anvil Doro Warrior J.B.O. Goddess of Desire Haggard	Sweet Noise Lacuna Coil Hollow Rough Silk Stahlhammer Holy Mother Primordial Sentenced Sacred Steel Bonfire Pegazus Gamma Ray	Voivod (cancellato) Virgin Steele Primal Fear Iced Earth Exciter Blind Guardian Riot Savatage Atrocity Tom Angelripper In Extremo

W.E.T./Black Stages
Venerdì		Sabato
Third Teeth Incubator Telltalehard Custard God Dethroned Soulburn Stigmata IV Dew-Scented Darkseed	Krabathor Manos Children of Bodom Am I Blood Benediction Tankard Crematory Skyclad Temple of the Absurd	Murder One Lost Resistance Night in Gales Silent Scream Borknagar Postmortem Old Man's Child Crack Up Raise Hell Disbelief Sadist	Heavenwood Agathodaimon Skyclad Hades Almighty Dritte Wahl Gorgoroth Vader Covenant Hypocrisy Grober Spass

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1999

6 agosto - 7 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Death SS Fates Warning Spock's Beard	Edguy Witchery Leatherwolf Blind Passengers Dokken Crematory U.D.O. Destruction HammerFall Mayhem Rage Mercyful Fate Saxon In Extremo Tygers of Pan Tang	Dr. Death Marshall Law Amon Amarth Wardog Tristania Metalium In Flames The Bullheadz The Gathering Primal Fear Subway to Sally Axel Rudi Pell Six Feet Under Pretty Maids Cannibal Corpse Metal Church Atrocity Dee Snider Dimmu Borgir Therion & Orchestra Onkel Tom

History Stage	Party Stage
Venerdì		Sabato
In Aeternum Graveworm House of Spirits Eisregen Sinister Temple of the Absurd Pariah Freedom Call Warhammer Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Enslaved The Waltons Vicki Vomit	Powergod Totenmond Richthofen Roland Grapow & Band Sinner Girlschool Napalm Death Eläkeläiset Reverend Jürgen & Igor	The Crown Memory Garden Threshold Dark Tranquillity Marduk Angra Axxis Jaguar Nevermore Warrant Umbra et Imago

W.E.T. Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Tankwort Skyclad	Paragon Bewitched The Sygnet Brainstorm Mystic Circle Killers Immortal God Dethroned Jag Panzer	Mindfeed Paradox Lefay Labyrinth Steel Prophet Agent Steel Destiny's End Razor Torment Solitude Aeturnus Whiplash

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2000

4 agosto - 5 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Krokus Molly Hatchet The Company of Snakes	Vader Samson Dark Funeral Royal Hunt Umbra et Imago Angel Witch Marduk Rhapsody of Fire Immortal Stratovarius Overkill Iced Earth Hypocrisy Gamma Ray Six Feet Under	Dark Age Freedom Call Immolation Labyrinth Ancient Blaze Sentenced Lizzy Borden Entombed Nightwish Morbid Angel Doro Rose Tattoo Thin Lizzy hanno dato forfait, al loro posto Dee Snider Venom Zakk Wylde Chantal Chevalier Onkel Tom

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Dark at Dawn Gaskin 31 October Desperados Pink Cream 69 Artillery Liege Lord	SHARD Late Nite Romeo Agathodaimon Pain Solstice Demon Spiritual Beggars Heir Apparent Raise Hell Engine

W.E.T. Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Deranged Savage Lock Up Grim Reaper Praying Mantis Black Sweden Breaker	Mob Rules Nightmare Steel Attack Squealer Vanishing Point Hades Jacobs Dream Skew Siskin Knorkator Twisted Tower Dire

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2001

3 agosto - 4 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Knight Errant Finntroll Crematory W.A.S.P.	Deceased Stigma IV Carnal Forge Lacuna Coil Holy Moses Napalm Death Exciter Primal Fear Paul DiAnno Nevermore Overkill Therion (con coro) Helloween Saxon Dimmu Borgir	Warhammer Cryptopsy Brainstorm Dark Tranquillity Metalium Culprit Annihilator Rage Subway to Sally Grave Digger In Flames Nightwish HammerFall Motörhead Sodom

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Nostradameus Nightfall Soilwork Blackshine Cage Kamelot Nasum Exhumed Sonata Arctica Mortician Desaster The Haunted Exumer Rawhead Rexx	Trail of Tears Deströyer 666 Vintersorg Krisiun Soul Doctor Tad Morose Artch Tankard Jag Panzer Naglfar Opeth Death SS Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Mägo de Oz

W.E.T. Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Bionix Crystal Shark 16 Hell Ventiler Smoke Blow Sacraphyx Circle of Grief Wizard (cancellato) Behemoth Silent Force	Kju The Traceelords Chinchilla The Centre of Gravity Paragon Lost Horizon Arch Enemy Night in Gales

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2002

1º agosto - 3 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Messiah Kiss Kotipelto Blaze Doro Rose Tattoo	Stormwarrior Vomitory Domine Necrophobic Iron Savior Debris Inc. Angra Dying Fetus Pretty Maids Borknagar Savatage Destruction Bruce Dickinson Children of Bodom J.B.O. In Extremo Warlord	Stormwitch Criminal Wizard Amon Amarth Vicious Rumors Macabre Nuclear Assault Immortal Exodus Hypocrisy Edguy Cannibal Corpse Blind Guardian Kreator U.D.O. Onkel Tom

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Avalanch Dornenreich Wolf Rebellion Metalucifer Nocturnal Rites Lock Up Dimple Minds Megaherz Dragonlord Pungent Stench Torfrock My Dying Bride Candlemass Red Aim	Rottweiler Evergrey Mezarkabul Thunderstone Angel Dust Shakra Falconer Vanden Plas Sinergy Sabbat Heathen Unleashed Blitzkrieg Green Carnation Haggard

W.E.T. Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Antagonist Justice Withering Surface Fleshcrawl Alabama Thunderpussy Heavenly Mob Rules Eisregen Primordial	Victims of Madness Centre of Gravity Kalmah Hollenthon Vision Divine Dream Evil Suidakra Mörk Gryning Nightmare

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2003

31 luglio - 2 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Circle II Circle Annihilator Victory Saxon (Surprise show) Running Wild	Dew-Scented Extreme Noise Terror The Crown Diamond Head Dismember Freedom Call Sentenced Primal Fear Testament Gamma Ray In Flames Twisted Sister Subway to Sally	Sinister Thyrfing Malevolent Creation Metalium Carpathian Forest Masterplan Soilwork Rage Dark Funeral Stratovarius Nile Slayer Vader Onkel Tom

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
The Quill Seventh One Dark Age Lotto King Karl Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Assassin Lordi	Raunchy Twisted Tower Dire Evidence One Eidolon Kataklysm Sinner Sonata Arctica

W.E.T. Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Obscenity V8 Wankers Psychopunch Oratory Raise Hell Symphorce Rotting Christ	Human Fortress Graveworm Callenish Circle Cryptic Wintermoon Bai Bang Ancient Rites Heaven Shall Burn Darkane Breed 77

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2004

5 agosto - 7 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Zodiac Mindwarp Motörhead Böhse Onkelz	Orphanage Paragon Cathedral Weinhold Arch Enemy Brainstorm Mayhem Grave Digger Feinstein / The Rods Dio Destruction Doro & Warlock Amon Amarth	Bal-Sagoth Death Angel Unleashed Anthrax Cannibal Corpse Nevermore Hypocrisy Helloween Children of Bodom Saxon Satyricon & Nocturno Culto J.B.O.

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Mnemic Raunchy Dionysus Satan Kotipelto Eläkeläiset Quireboys	Mystic Prophecy Ektomorf After Forever Thunderstone Knorkator Schandmaul

W.E.T. Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Methedras Vanguard Artefact Engine of Pain Gutbucket Astral Doors Hobbs Angel of Death Misery Index Sufferage	Dr. Rock Everfest Thora Voodoma Supersoma Reckless Tide Gun Barrel Disbelief Griffin

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2005

4 agosto - 6 agosto:

Gli Apocalyptica al W:O:A 2005

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Tristania Candlemass Oomph! Nightwish	Naglfar Morgana Lefay Illdisposed Sonata Arctica Bloodbath Metal Church Obituary Edguy Within Temptation Machine Head Apocalyptica Corvus Corax Samael	Zyklon DragonForce Suffocation Overkill Dissection Axel Rudi Pell Marduk HammerFall Kreator Accept Sentenced Stratovarius (surprise act) Onkel Tom

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Mercenary Marky Ramone Ensiferum Hanoi Rocks (canceled) Eisregen Gorefest Turisas	Mob Rules Count Raven Holy Moses Finntroll Equilibrium Torfrock emKay (Surprise act)

W.E.T. Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Doomfoxx Hatesphere	Victims of Madness Snake Eye Gorilla Monsoon Sinners Bleed Hatedrive Vanguard Saeko Suidakra Reckless Tide Mucc Cataract Metalium Potentia Animi Teräsbetoni Contradiction	Stigma Unleash the Fury Manifest Agonizer Tuatha de Danann Machine Men Hard Time Panic Cell Noise Forest Regicide Endhammer Primordial Endstille Goddess of Desire

Jim Beam Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Mambo Kurt	Doomfoxx Los Los	Doomfoxx

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2006

3 agosto - 5 agosto:

Peter Lindgren degli Opeth al W:O:A 2006

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Faster Inferno (feat. Tyson Schenker) Victory Michael Schenker Group Scorpions (with special guests)	Mystic Circle Wintersun Legion of the Damned Danko Jones Six Feet Under Nevermore Opeth In Extremo Carnivore Children of Bodom Celtic Frost Ministry Amon Amarth	Aborted Caliban Arch Enemy Fear Factory Morbid Angel Gamma Ray Soulfly Whitesnake Emperor Motörhead Finntroll Subway to Sally

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
End of Green Born from Pain Ektomorf Soilwork Korpiklaani D'espairsRay Primal Fear	Metal Church Bloodthorn Orphaned Land Atheist Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Rose Tattoo

W.E.T. Stage
Mercoledì	Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Mambo Kurt	Gutlock Malefactor Transilvanian Beat Club Mortal Sin C.O.R. Mambo Kurt	Monster Joe Würm Cadaveric Crematorium Kottak Nikki Puppet Gorilla Monsoon Fleshgore Vreid Krypteria Dezperadoz Hellfueled Metal Inquisitor Battlelore	Morbus Gravis Drone Infinight The Dogma Suidakra Tourettes WE Lake of Tears Krieger Obscenity Delirious Forever Slave

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2007

2 agosto - 4 agosto:

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Blitzkrieg Rose Tattoo Sodom (with guests) Saxon	Suidakra Amorphis Napalm Death Therion Possessed Grave Digger Turbonegro J.B.O. Lacuna Coil Blind Guardian Dimmu Borgir Iced Earth Die Apokalyptischen Reiter	Sonic Syndicate Sacred Reich Moonspell Stratovarius Dir En Grey Rage (with Lingua Mortis Orchestra) Destruction (with guests) Type O Negative Immortal In Flames Cannibal Corpse Subway to Sally

Party Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
The Sorrow Narziss Neaera Animal Alpha All That Remains Hatesphere Overkill	The Black Dahlia Murder Communic Volbeat Falconer Enslaved Schandmaul Samael	Disillusion Heaven Shall Burn Dimension Zero Norther Stormwarrior (featuring Kai Hansen) Haggard

W.E.T. Stage
Mercoledì	Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Mambo Kurt	Krossbreed Wargasm Roots of Death Gutbucket Týr Letzte Instanz Electric Eel Shock Maroon	Red Ink Corruption Ecliptica Crystal Blaze Torture Squad Mennen Drone Pharao Sabbat Chthonic Black Majesty The Answer Belphegor Sahg Fastway Kampfar	Sheephead Fracture Abstract Rapture Mythlorian Fair to Midland Secrets of the Moon The Vision Bleak Swallow the Sun Turisas Benedictum Moonsorrow Municipal Waste Unheilig 1349 Vital Remains

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2008

31 luglio - 2 agosto:

I due palchi principali del W.O.A. 2008

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Girlschool Lauren Harris Airbourne Avenged Sevenfold Iron Maiden Korn	Grave Mortal Sin Job for a Cowboy Unearth Ensiferum Kamelot Soilwork Sonata Arctica Opeth Children of Bodom Corvus Corax Avantasia Gaahl and King ov Hell (as Gorgoroth)	3 Inches of Blood Sweet Savage Holy Moses Exodus Hatebreed As I Lay Dying Carcass Killswitch Engage At the Gates Nightwish Kreator Lordi

Party Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Mustasch Nashville Pussy Sturm und Drang Leaves' Eyes	Primordial Cynic Headhunter Sabaton Massacre The Haunted Crematory	Machine Men Mercenary Obituary Krypteria Girugämesh Axxis

W.E.T. Stage
Mercoledì	Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Metakilla Sweet Savage Mambo Kurt	Concept Insomnia Negură Bunget Alestorm	The Fading The Rotted Destructor Autumn Stam1na Psychopunch Nifelheim Van Canto Saltatio Mortis Excrementory Grindfuckers	Ripsaw Evocation Before the Dawn Enemy of the Sun Powerwolf Warbringer Torture Squad Dream of an Opium Eater Watain Lord Belial The Bones

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2009

30 luglio - 1º agosto:

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Skyline Schandmaul Der W Running Wild Heaven & Hell	Vreid UFO Endstille Gamma Ray Walls of Jericho Nevermore Airbourne HammerFall Bullet for My Valentine Motörhead In Flames Doro Amon Amarth	Einherjer Rage Cathedral Testament Heaven Shall Burn Axel Rudi Pell In Extremo Volbeat Machine Head Saxon GWAR Subway to Sally

Party Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
D-A-D J.B.O. BossHoss Lacuna Coil	Napalm Death Retrospect - 10th Anniversary Tristania DragonForce Coheed and Cambria Epica ASP	Suidakra Onkel Tom Borknagar Pain Enslaved Korpiklaani

W.E.T. Stage
Mercoledì	Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Victims of Madness Bai Bang Bon Scott (tribute band degli AC/DC) Onkel Tom Mambo Kurt	X-Plod Furion 5th Avenue The Waltons Drone Bloodwork Grand Magus	Leave Scars Reason to Kill Ade Insidead Scarred Kielwater Irr Beneath Silence Means Death Callejón Bring Me the Horizon Whiplash Nervecell Insidious Disease Eths Sarke Pentagram (Chile)	None Cadaver Race A Fine Day to Exit Crysys T.A.N.K. Trinitys Blood Ferium Split Heaven The Fading Trouble U.K. Subs Engel Turisas Tracedawn Torment

Medieval Stage
Mercoledì	Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Fejd Ragnaröek	Reincarnatus Cumulo Nimbus	Swashbuckle Ingrimm	Adorned Brood Rabenschrey Feuerschwanz

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2010

5 agosto - 8 agosto:

Apollyon degli Immortal al W:O:A 2010

Double Main Stage
Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Skyline (with special guests) Alice Cooper Mötley Crüe Iron Maiden	Dew-Scented Amorphis Orphaned Land Ill Niño Die Apokalyptischen Reiter BossHoss Endstille Kamelot Arch Enemy Grave Digger Slayer Anvil Corvus Corax	Ektomorf Caliban Unleashed Overkill Lock Up W.A.S.P. Immortal Edguy Cannibal Corpse Soulfly Fear Factory U.D.O. Subway to Sally (covering "It's After Dark" by D-A-D)

Party Stage
Venerdì	Sabato
Suicidal Angels Job for a Cowboy Frei.Wild Voivod Tarja Turunen 1349 Atrocity	Smoke Blow Kampfar Delain Stratovarius Candlemass Tiamat

W.E.T. Stage
Mercoledì	Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Victims of Madness Void Creation† No Dawn† Snakebite† Raging Mob† Dymytry† By the Patient† Forever Storm† Battle Beast†‡ Frontal† Vice† Total Riot† Wistaria† Missing in Action† Penthagon† Soul Stealer† Mambo Kurt	Orcus O Dis† Seven Ends† Demolished† The Sixpounder† Prayers of Sanity† Altar† Vita Imana† Katana† Hathors† Cangaço† Black Out Beauty† Ghost Brigade MacBeth Crysys Gojira	Brutus Dead Means Nothing Skanners Astral Doors Hackneyed Mad Max The Other Eternal Legacy Evile Lizzy Borden Broilers Holy Grail Secrets of the Moon Ihsahn Imperium Dekadenz Raven	Nightmare The New Black Degradead Crucified Barbara End of Green Die Kassierer Metsatöll Varg Debauchery Sólstafir Lake of Tears Rotting Christ Despised Icon Killing Machine The Devil's Blood
† - finalisti del W:O:A Metal Battle 2010 ‡ - vincitori del W:O:A Metal Battle 2010

Wackinger Stage
Mercoledì	Giovedì	Venerdì	Sabato
Lord of the Lost Fiddler's Green Red Hot Chilli Pipers	Svartsot Torfrock Hanggai	Letzte Instanz Schelmish Equilibrium	The Keltics Tyr Orden Ogan

Red Bull Bus		Bullhead City Tent
Wednesday	Giovedì		Venerdì	Sabato
9mm	Apocalyptica (surprise show)	Spit Like This	The Circus of Horrors

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2011

4 agosto - 6 agosto:

Accuser Achren† Airbourne Alberlour's Apocalyptica As I Lay Dying Avantasia Battle Beast†† Blaas of Glory Blind Guardian Blowsight Bullet Children of Bodom Crashdïet Danko Jones Deadlock Dir en grey Eccentric Pendulum† Eläkeläiset Ensiferum Excrementory Grindfuckers Frei.Wild Hayseed Dixie Hämatom Heaven Shall Burn Helloween Hellsaw Horch Iced Earth Ignis Fatuu In Solitude	Judas Priest Kataklysm Khold Knorkator Kreator Kyuss Live! Kvelertak Lacrimas Profundere Maiden United Mayhem Moonsorrow Morbid Angel Morgoth Motörhead Negator Ozzy Osbourne Onkel Tom Onslaught Primal Fear The Prophecy 23 Rabenschrey Reliquiae Rhapsody of Fire Ri0gun Russkaja Saltatio Mortis Sepultura Severenth Shraphead Sirenia	Shining Skálmöld Ski King Skindred Slime Sodom Stier Stormzone Subway to Sally Suicidal Tendencies Suidakra Tauthr The Haunted The Prophecy 23 The Smack Ballz Tokyo Blade Torture Squad Triosphere Trivium Tsjuder Van Canto Venomin James Victims Of Madness Visions of Atlantis Volcano Vreid Warrant
† - finalisti del W:O:A Metal Battle 2011
†† - vincitori del W:O:A Metal Battle 2010

2012

Il Wacken Open Air 2012 si è tenuto da giovedì 2 agosto a sabato 4 agosto.

Agro Amaranthe Amon Amarth Athonite Aura Noir Axel Rudi Pell Broilers ChthoniC Circle II Circle Coroner Corpse Garden Cradle of Filth (cancellato) Crimes of Passion D-A-D Danko Jones (spoken word) Dark Funeral Darkest Hour Dead by April Decapitated Delain Devil's Note† Diablo Swing Orchestra Dimmu Borgir (con orchestra)	Djerv Dødheimsgard (cancellato) D.R.I. Edguy (surprise act) Electric Wizard (cancellato) Eisenherz Endstille Eschenbach Gamma Ray Gehenna Ghost Brigade Graveyard Hamferð†‡ HammerFall Henry Rollins In Extremo In Flames Insomnium Kamelot Kylesa Leningrad Cowboys Machine Head	Manimals Manticora Massacre MindthreaT Ministry Moonspell (esibizione acustica) Napalm Death Nasum Oomph! Opeth Overkill Paradise Lost Rain Shatter† RavenBlood† Red Fang Riotgod Sacred Reich Sanctuary Saor Patrol Saturnian† Saxon Schandmaul	Scorpions Sepultura feat. Les Tambours du Bronx Sick Of It All Six Feet Under Suffocated Suicide Silence Sylosis Testament The Black Dahlia Murder The BossHoss The Falling† U.D.O. Unearth Vogelfrey Volbeat Warbringer Warrior Soul Watain WBTBWB Winterfylleth Wölli & Die Band Des Jahres Yakṣa
† - finalisti del W:O:A Metal Battle 2012

2013

Il Wacken Open Air 2013 si è tenuto da giovedì 1º agosto a sabato 3 agosto.

Agnostic Front Alestorm Alice Cooper Alpha Tiger Amorphis Annihilator Anthrax As I Lay Dying ASP Benighted Black Messiah Bob Wayne Bull-Riff Stampede Bullet Candlemass Callejon Chrome Molly Coppelius Corvus Corax Crematory	Danzig Deep Purple DevilDriver Dew-Scented Dezperadoz Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Die Kassierer Doro Pesch Dr. Living Dead! Dunderbeist Eat the Gun Eisbrecher Eskimo Callboy Faun Fear Factory Fejd Feuerschwanz Finsterforst GOD: The Barbarian Horde† Grave Digger Haggard Hardcore Superstar Harpyie	Hate Squad Hellride Ihsahn Kamikaze Kings Kärbholz Kryptos Lamb of God Legion of the Damned Leprous Lingua Mortis Orchestra & Rage Meshuggah Motörhead Mustasch Nachtblut Naglfar Neaera Nightwish Null DB	Pampatut Powerwolf Pretty Maids Rabenschrey Ragnarok Rammstein Rebattered Rotten Souls Russkaja Sabaton Soilwork Sonata Arctica Stahlmann Subway to Sally Thunder Tristania Trivium Ugly Kid Joe Uli Jon Roth Versengold Vengha Whitechapel

2014

Il Wacken Open Air 2014 si è tenuto da giovedì 31 luglio a sabato 2 agosto.

Gruppi
A Pale Horse Named Death Amon Amarth Apocalyptica & Avanti Orchestra Arch Enemy Avantasia Behemoth Bring Me the Horizon Children of Bodom	Crematory Decapitated Devin Townsend Project Emperor Endstille Excrementory Grindfuckers For The Imperium HammerFall	Heaven Shall Burn J.B.O. King Diamond Knorkator Kreator Masterplan Onkel Tom Prong