Wacken Open Air Announces First Bands For 2022
A couple of days ago Wacken Open Air released a sad announcement for festival lovers. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, Wacken Open Air is not going to take place this year. This is going to be 2nd back to back year of no Wacken Open Air. But after revealing some bad news, the Wacken Open Air crew also shared some good news for fans expecting to be at the festival. They’ve confirmed the 2022 Wacken Open Air a couple of days ago. Now after a few days later official announcements, there is some more news about Wacken Open Air 2022. This time, they’ve announced some bands that will be on stage for Wacken Air 2022. Co-founder of the organization, Thoman Jensen talked about that announcement and said these words:
“Another year without Wacken Open Air. It’s sad, but we won’t let it get us down. We are already looking forward to 2022, so it is great to be able to announce some highlights on the lineup today! Of course this isn’t all — we still have some great surprises in store for our fans!”
Germany will be missing their heavy metal festival for 2nd year in a row. After the sad news, organizers announced that tickets can be rebooked for next year. This isn’t the only happy announcement about next year’s Wacken Open Air. 18 bands that will be on stage for 2022 are now announced by organizers. Heavy metal fans from Germany and everyone that will go to the festival can be very happy right now because some huge names will be joining Wacken Open Air. Without going any further into Wacken Open Air, here are the bands joining Wacken Open Air 2022 that we know so far:
Judas Priest, Limp Bizkit, and more
- Judas Priest
- Limp Bizkit
- In Extremo (25th-anniversary show)
- Rose Tattoo
- Lacuna Coil
- GWAR
- Death Angel
- Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons
- Thundermother
- All Hail the Yeti
- Auðn
- Wolves In The Throne Room
- Crypta
These bands will be at the main event but there is also an event called Wacken Wednesday. This is something like a pre-show for the actual event and will contain these bands below:
- Avantasia
- Gloryhammer
- Brothers of Metal
- Varang Nord
By just looking at these currently announced bands we can easily say that Wacken 2022 will be amazing for heavy metal fans from all around the world but especially for Germans since this is an annual German event. Wacken Open Air 2022 is set to start on August 4 and go until August 6, 2022, in Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Hopefully, they don’t get any more bad luck and fans can enjoy that festival.
