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  The brand new W:O:A Festival App is now available for download. The official Wacken Open Air Festival App is the perfect companion for the festival as well as for the rest of the year! The free app is available for devices with the Apple operating system iOS and also Android. Here you can get all information about Wacken Open Air 2023 and a lot of additional features which will be steadily expanded until the fest begins: - The entire line-up from A-Z. - Save your favorites in the running order to create your personal time table. - All important and previously available information about the festival, camping and arrival (is constantly being expanded!) - An interactive festival map showing your exact position on the site (coming soon!) - Push notifications to keep you up to date throughout the festival! - Plus playlists, the latest news, wallpapers and much more! https://www.wacken.com/en/ https://www.facebook.com/WackenOpenAir.official

  Who is the next big hope for Heavy Metal? At the end of May the first half of the finalists of this year's Metal Battle were announced. Now the very last national preliminary round ended and we can reveal the last 15 participants! Here are the bands ready to fight for the victory on the Holy Ground in 30 days: Australia & New Zealand - Deprivation Austria - Metternich Belgium - Objector Bulgaria - Maltworm Canada - Strigampire Denmark - Swartzheim Ex Yugoslavia Rep - Mesmera Finland - Omnivortex France - Xaon Hungary - Tiansen Israe - Andrelamusia Italy - Diesanera Latvia - Sever Spain - Aneuma Ukraine - 0% Mercury Congratulations to all participating bands on making it into the finals. We are looking forward to welcome all of these talents to the holy ground soon! More about the Metal Battle: https://www.metal-battle.com/ https://www.facebook.com/MetalBattle.official/ https://www.instagram.com/metalbattle.official/

  Drawing influences from modern metal icons such as Alter Bridge, Gojira and Deftones, the uprising French melodic metal quintet DISCONNECTED new album is set to be released in April 2022. To keep us waiting, the band is releasing a new single : “King of the world”, on March 4, 2022. Pre-save link The new single comes out after the success of the previous two : ‘Unstoppable’, topping 1.5 millions streams, and ‘Life will always find its way’, both playlisted in 17 countries (Breaking Hard Metal on Apple Music, TOP OF THE CORE on Spotify …). “King of the world” was recorded at Studio Caverne (Paris-France), and at Jelly Cardarelli's studio in Darvault (France), mixed and mastered by Jelly Cardarelli and Symheris. DISCONNECTED played numerous shows in Europe, opened for Tremonti on his 2018 European tour (24 shows across 17 countries), for Judas Priest in January 2019 (Zenith of Paris), as well as Mass Hysteria in March and November of 2019. The band will be playing major festivals ...

After building a large online fan base with multiple viral videos, New Delhi based Indian Metal Band BLOODYWOOD decided to take to the road in the summer of 2019 with their RAJ AGAINST THE MACHINE, not only the band's first ever tour, but the first time they played live as a band. Bloodywood had no idea what to expect on their first ever tour but the response was far greater than they ever imagined selling out 12 shows on the 3 week tour, culminating in the band's set at WACKEN OPEN AIR . BLOODYWOOD further documented the tour through footage shot across a GoPro strapped to guitarist/flautist Karan Katiyar's chest, frenzied mobile phone footage shot by the audience and the band themselves, as well as world class footage shot at Wacken Open Air. The documentary tells the story of how the band formed and their surreal Raj against the Machine tour. After an action packed opening sequence that captures the essence of the film within the span of a minute and a half, you...