Wacken 2006

[Number of the Breast]

As some of you may know, I'm going to Germany for a week tomorrow. I know, how will you cope for a week without me? The main reason I'm going is for the Wacken Open Air Metal Festival. I guess this is really a thread to brag and make people jealous, but let's disguise it as a discussion for such things.

http://www.wacken.com

I'm most looking forward to seeing Whitesnake, Motorhead, Bodom, Fear Factory, Gamma Ray and Opeth for the first times, and the Scorpions, MSG and Soulfly for the second times. Just a tad pissed off that the running order slightly changed and now Opeth and Soilwork are on at the same time. So anyway, thoughts.

Edited July 31, 2006 by Aaron Maiden

[Quom]

I'm currently thinking that my chest is quite itchy and that quitting fags wasn't the world's best idea.

[Summers]

Lucky bastard. Wacken is awesome.

[Bushmeister]

You are a bloody idiot What about Aborted? Arch Enemy? Atheist? Emperor? Fleshgore? Ministry? Morbid Angel? Vreid? You make me sad

Just a hint: get drunk and then go watch Korpiklaani. I GUARANTEE you will not be disappointed.

[Skummy]

A big group of my friends are going, they go every year. One year they met a group of German metalheads and hung out with them for the whole time...then bumped into them in town over here just under a month later. Mental.

Also, they once got invited back to a self-proclaimed Austrian wizard's house for sweets and samples of his son's artwork.

That's Wacken for you.

[Bushmeister]

Beats my whiskey-fueled festivals over here in Finland for sure Although I did bury someone up to their neck in sand. And passed out in a six-foot deep trench.

[Farmer Reil]

Maaan, Wacken is way better this year than last year Even without Edguy. Edguy owned far too much last year I see. Too much awesomeness for one festival... *sigh*. That's why Machine Head were on right after them, to suck the awesomeness back out. I digress...

I'd go, just for Gamma Ray. And Emperor. And Arch Enemy. And Caliban. And Finntroll. And Battlelore. And Amon Amarth. And Wintersun.

...I'll probably go next year...

*said that last year.*

Edited July 31, 2006 by TheReilDeal

[fourstarfizzle]

Six Feet Under will own Wacken, mainly because Chris Barnes is a god.

[Liam]

Six Feet Under will own Wacken, mainly because Chris Barnes is a god.

Six Feet Under can suck my balls >_>

But yeah, I was hyping Wacken earlier this year, would love to go myself.

And teehee at Reily for bastardizing Machine Head when he wanted to see Edguy...funny stuff

[Farmer Reil]

Edguy are way more fun than Machine Head will ever be

And hey, I own a Machine Head t-shirt from when I went to see them live and was really drunk. So there.

[Liam]

Edguy are way more fun than Machine Head will ever be

And hey, I own a Machine Head t-shirt from when I went to see them live and was really drunk. So there.

MetalReview's review of Edguy's album was as fun as Edguy got for me >_>

[Bushmeister]

I heard Edguy live at a festival I went to here. I didn't actually go watch because it's not really my deal, but their frontman sounded like a pretty cool guy. He said it was awesome that at a festival mainly featuring death metal they'd be accepted so well, and he also had the best line of the night on the mic:

"OK, now we're really going to set this place up. We're going to sing a REAL metal song! About slaying dragons!"

[Guest Pringle]

I was gonna go to Wacken this year but I didnt have enough money and I settled on Bloodstock Open Air instead

I will be at Wacken next year though