Wacken Open Air 2024: First bands for the upcoming festival edition

The German festival Wacken Open Air, one of the largest and most important of the genre worldwide, has recently confirmed the first thirty-three bands of what will be its thirty-third edition of the annual contest just hours after having concluded its last edition. in the municipality that gives its name to the festival itself.

Of the thirty-three bands that will be part of its next edition, Scorpions stand out as the headliner, the band led by Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker that throughout its more than five decades on the road continues to enjoy good condition. in health after the release of their latest full-length to date, Rock Believer, released in 2022 under the Vertigo Berlin label. Some of the names that attract the most attention in its next edition are Pain, Watain, Blind Guardian, Exumer, Primordial, Red Fang, Blues Pills or Wolf, a wide variety of bands and genres to which the festival has accustomed its audience..

The new edition of Wacken Open Air, which will take place between July 31 and August 3 of 2024, completes the first confirmations with Mayhem, Bury Tomorrow, Amon Amarth, In Extremo, Beast In Black, Ankor, Sonata Arctica, Knorkator, Sick Of It All, The Black Dahlia Murder, Unleash The Archers, The Warning, Motionless In White, Future Palace, Xandria, Soil, Flotsam & Jetsam, John Coffey, Emil Bulls, Brutus, Ignea, Vio-Lence, Vreid and Asagraum.

Ticket sales will be enabled in four hours from the moment this entry is written through Wacken Open Air’s festival website (Metaltix).