Heavy Christmas from the promoter of the Wacken Open Air! Like every year they celebrated Christmas with their very own Advents calendar having new bands for the next festival behind every calendar door. The biggest band package was announced at Christmas Eve.
Today they were three metal highlights and another big surprise under the W:O:A® Christmas tree: first of all Alice Cooper will take the stage in Wacken with his oneof-king rock show. The next confirmation for 2017 was one of the ”Big Four“ of thrash metal: Megadeth will be back after their celebrated debut in 2014. Furthermore the X-Mas-package included speed metal in the form of Flotsam and Jetsam and the information about another band announcement on January 1st, 2017.
But the Wacken Advent calendar would not be the hardest metal Advent calendar, if it didn’t have new band confirmations throughout the whole December. Therefore a Wacken newcomer was announced on St. Nicholaus Day: Marilyn Manson will be at the biggest heavy metal festival for the first time next year and metalheads can look forward to hearing some songs of his new album. Another Wacken premiere will be celebrated by Status Quo. The British rock legend is one of the most successful rock bands ever with hits like “In The Army Now“ and “Rockin‘ All Over The World“ which they surely have in store for their show at the Wacken Open Air.
Another metal treat will be the show of Grave Digger which was published at the fourth advent: the German heavy metal kings will play the best of their conceptual medieval albums “Tunes of War“, “Knights of the Cross“ and “Excalibur“. The show will include a spectacular stage setting and prominent guests.