Wacken 2007

Any European member of this board (Locky, Kmorg, Invader, ...) intends to go to this years Wacken? Great line up, with Possessed (hell yes!!), Blind Guardian, Sodom (best of material), Destruction (Best of material), Grave Digger, Saxon, Rage, Sacred Reich, Municipal Waste, and many many others!

If I had the money to fly to Germany from the UK, I would definitely be there. Unfortunately, I don't. My friend however does and won't stop rubbing it in :P

Blind Guardian and Iced Earth. Damn.

Till now confirmed:

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All That Remains
Amorphis
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
As I Lay Dying
Belphegor
Benedictum
The Black Dahlia Murder
Black Majesty
Blind Guardian
Bullet for my Valentine
Cannibal Corpse
Chthonic
Communic
Destruction
Dimmu Borgir
Dir en Grey
Disillusion
Enslaved
Falconer
Grave Digger
Haggard
Heaven Shall Burn
Iced Earth
Immortal
In Flames
J.B.O.
Kampfar
Lacuna Coil
Letzte Instanz
Lordi
Moonsorrow
Moonspell
Municipal Waste
Napalm Death
Narziss
Neaera
Norther
Possessed
Rage
Sacred Reich
Samael
Saxon
Schandmaul
Sodom
Sonic Syndicate
Stormwarrior
Stratovarius
Swallow The Sun
Therion
TYR
Unheilig
Vader
The Vision Bleak
Volbeat

Just one more day and we're off!! I hope to survive the entire week living next to Finnish Vodka fiends hehe

Here's my schedule, although I doubt that I'll see half of this:

THURSDAY:

17:00 – 17:45 BLITZKRIEG black stage
19:45 – 21:30 SODOM black stage
22:00 – 24:00 SAXON black stage
23:00 – 24:00 OVERKILL hellfest stage

FRIDAY:

12:00 – 12:45 AMORPHIS true stage
15:00 – 16:00 POSSESSED black stage
16:15 – 17:15 GRAVE DIGGER true stage
17:40 – 18:25 SABBAT wet stage
21:15 – 22:45 BLIND GUARDIAN true stage
00:30 – 01:45 ICED EARTH true stage

SATURDAY:

12:50 – 13:50 SACRED REICH true stage
17:15 – 18:15 RAGE true stage
18:45 – 20:00 DESTRUCTION black stage
20:15 – 21:30 TYPE O NEGATIVE true stage
21:45 – 23:00 STORMWARRIOR + KAI HANSEN party stage
22:35 – 23:20 MUNICIPAL WASTE wet stage
00:45 – 01:45 CANNIBAL CORPSE black stage

Have a great time Sovy, can't go myself, only back from a holiday, damn woman. Bring us a souvenir back ! ha ha.

That's some schedule you're trying to keep, hope it works, Cannibal Corpse is the only band there that doesn't interest me, but the rest are Killer.

Find me one of those Vulture cds - Or Holiday in Cambodia!!

Just came home, it was insanely great!!!!!! Short reviews:

THURSDAY:

17:00 – 17:45 BLITZKRIEG black stage

I missed them (too much people trying to get inside the festival area), but I saw them on friday in VIP / backstage area, they were pretty good, playing Electric Eye & Hell Bent for Leather and stuff.

19:45 – 21:30 SODOM black stage

Good show, with all the ex guitar players and drummers, but nothing extra good!

22:00 – 24:00 SAXON black stage

Well, I can't say that I saw them, cause I was fighting with some French girl in the straw them haha

23:00 – 24:00 OVERKILL hellfest stage

PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just great!!!!! If it wasn't for two new song from Immortalis and Necroshine, this would be the best show ever!! Not that these songs were bad, but just nothing in comparision with the rest: Rotten to the Core, Elimination, Thanx for Nothing, In Union We Stand, Wrecking Crew, Old School & F*** You (and probably 1 more, but I can't remember right now ...)

FRIDAY:

12:00 – 12:45 AMORPHIS true stage

Missed them.

15:00 – 16:00 POSSESSED black stage

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jeff was in the wheelchair, but banging all the time, the rest of the band was great as well, well played, and the vocals just like on the albums!!! The Exorcist, Pentagram, The Heretic, Tribulation, Holy Hell, Death Metal .... great in every single way!!

16:15 – 17:15 GRAVE DIGGER true stage

I watched them for first 2 songs, but they had such an awful sound that I went back to backstage (yup, I had the VIP ticket hehe ) - there was Blitz, drinking beer with everyone else, and drunk Schmier from Destruction, and Sabina from Holy Moses (wearing the same old denim jacket that she did 20 years ago + she looks better than 95% of 25-year old girls ), even Oscar from Hammerfall, dressed like Jamie Oliver and stuff..

17:40 – 18:25 SABBAT wet stage

Another awesome gig - maybe even better than in april. They didn't play The Best of Enemies and I for an Eye now, but they did The Church Bizarre!

21:15 – 22:45 BLIND GUARDIAN true stage

Solid, not bad, but I expected more ...

00:30 – 01:45 ICED EARTH true stage

Well, nothing special here either, maybe a little disappointment, Ripper was great, but I don't know. Big pros was Stormrider, which was sung by John!

SATURDAY:

12:50 – 13:50 SACRED REICH true stage

I didn't expect for Sacred Reich to be THAT good!!!!! They even did the Black Sabbath cover, Phil was totally happy (and totally fat and unrecognizable - as he said: "I'm old, I'm fat, I don't give a smurf poo!") Great set list as well, Death Squad, Ignorance, One Nation, Surf Nicaragua, Love Hate, The American Way, Crimes Against Humanity, Who's to Blame ... !

17:15 – 18:15 RAGE true stage

They played with that orchester thing, I watched 2-3 songs, but it wasn't anything special ...

18:45 – 20:00 DESTRUCTION black stage

Another great Destruction show, this time with all the ex-member (Excpet the 90s era). They did The Alliance of the Hellhoundz with Blitz, Peavy from Rage, Angelripper, and the guy from Communic!

20:15 – 21:30 TYPE O NEGATIVE true stage

I missed them.

21:45 – 23:00 STORMWARRIOR + KAI HANSEN party stage

I saw a couple of songs, but without Kai at that time - very good German power / heavy metal!!

22:35 – 23:20 MUNICIPAL WASTE wet stage

This was insane!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't how many crowd surfers went through their show, but the number of security guards changed from 3 to 15 during their show Also, watching 120kg guy stage diving through the 3m hole between stage and the audience - a very memorable thing!!!

00:45 – 01:45 CANNIBAL CORPSE black stage

I saw 2-3 songs, Cannibal Corpse as Cannibal Corpse.

I also saw Holy Moses press conference, and we forced them to play Too drunk to F***, which was great as well!!

Didn't find Laaz Rockit or Vulture, the only Overdrive disc I saw was Hammerhawk for like $30, but I didn't have moeny then ... I found the same guy as last year, and it was for the first time that I actually hold original version of Evil Invaders in my hands - for 69 EUR!! (that's almost $100). He also had Jersey Dogs CD for 35 EUR ?!?

Well, that's it, I'm going to sleep now

man sounds fun as hell, about how much money did you spend sovdat? (Tickets,food, and all)

Too much Mainly because of the ultra-high transport costs - we rent a van for 9 people, and 4 of them cancelled 2-3 days before leaving!! One of them even on the very last day, when we got to his house ... and he simply told that he doesn't have a passport

Last year:
Transport: 60 EUR (a car with 5 people in it)
Ticket: 65 EUR (because I bought it from someone who couldn't go, so I got it a little cheaper)
Metal market: cca 100 EUR
Food & drinks : cca 50 I guess?
so let's say 250 EUR - 300 EUR

This year:
transport: 180 EUR (a van with 5 people, which costed us 400 eur just for renting it for a week!!! + gas )
TICKET: 100 EUR
FOOD & Drinks: 50-100 EUR?
METAL MARKET: Don't even ask

I guess about 500 EUR all together? Too much anyway ...

Fantastic!! Good for you man, that's awesome!
For these bands alone I would have paid that price:

Amorphis
Black Majesty
Blind Guardian
Falconer
Grave Digger
Iced Earth
Lordi
Rage
Saxon
Stormwarrior
Stratovarius
Therion

What an incredible lineup!! The European Metal Scene is so much better and healthier than the US scene it's rediculous. We have plenty of great bands...but per-capita and per square mile (kilometer if you will) we don't hold a candle to Europe. I'm glad one of the board here could go...

i'm gonna take wild shot in the dark but, i'm going to assume that's like $800 US dollars. Plus a plane ticket and back, that's a lot of money.

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22:00 – 24:00 SAXON black stage



Well, I can't say that I saw them, cause I was fighting with some French girl in the straw them haha

I weep for your generation. Sex over Saxon? Bad choice.

scottmitchell: Lordi didn't play at this years Wacken, but they are confirmed for 2008 - together with Iron Maiden (their only open air show in Germany on their Golden Ages tour!), Kreator, Children of Bodom and some more.

KissinMaiden: it's about $650, but in fact you can survive for 150 EUR (cca $200) for ticket and food / drinks and then there are transport costs .... A friend went to Wacken in 1999 for 300 DEM (that's about $150) - 100 DEM for train, 100 for ticket and 100 for food

Saxon: And Overkill were playing at the same time as Saxon too! (Saxon - 22:00 - 00:00 / Overkill 23:00 - 00:00)

As I Lay Dying

Lordi

One of my goals in life is to go to Wacken.

I did my first Wacken around 1985. Madonna in Penthouse. 'Nuff said.

Hey, im from the States, and me and two of my best friends are blowing off a bunch of money to go to Wacken 08. I hope it turns out to be what everyone says about it.