With the solar having set over the weekend on this yr’s bought out version of the annual ‘Wacken Open Air‘ pageant in Wacken, Germany, organizers have begun previewing what’s in retailer for 2026. Subsequent yr’s thirty fifth anniversary version of the steel and rock pageant will thus characteristic top-billed units from British area rockers Def Leppard, German energy steel outfit Powerwolf, pioneering Swedish melodic steel band In Flames and plenty of extra. The primary 35 bands to be revealed embody:
Def Leppard
Powerwolf
In Flames
Savatage
Runningwild (remaining present)
Emperor
Sepultura (remaining German present)
Lamb Of God
Airbourne
Europe
Blood Fireplace Dying: A Tribute To Quorthon & Bathory (Germany unique)
Triptykon (unique better of set with a number of world life premieres)
The Gathering (solely German present of 2026)
Nevermore
Orbit Tradition
thrown
Paleface Swiss
The HARDKISS
H-Blockx
Mantar
Any Given Day
Pig Destroyer
Faun
Thunder Mom
Future Palace
Einherjer
Kupfergold
Grand Magus
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Allt
Blood Command
Damaged By The Scream
Madness Alert (fifteenth anniversary set)
Luna Kills
Gutalax
Subsequent yr’s pageant can be held July twenty ninth to August 01st and pre-sales are scheduled to start right this moment, August 03rd through wacken.com.
