There are only 39 days until the beginning of Wacken Open Air, one of the largest festivals in the world. 85 000 visitors are expected for this year. The festival will be held in Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, from the 30th of July to the 2nd of August. The main headliners Guns N’ Roses, will perform for first time in Wacken, to celebrate the end of their “Because What You Want and What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things” Tour 2025. “We are proud to be able to create an absolute highlight with Guns N’ Roses. For us, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Simply sensational.”, said organizer Thomas Jensen for the official festival magazine “The Bullhead.”

W:O:A 2025 is under the sign of the aliens. The official merchandise offers many apparel items for ladies, men and children; different accessories; drinks and others. All the tickets are sold out. There is an official Ticket Market in the Wacken Ticketcenter, where you can sell and buy tickets at the original price after registration. There are tickets at the price of € 1,050.00 per person that include a 4-day pass for the Wacken Festival, 5 overnight stays in the premium hotel of your choice, a daily breakfast, and a daily shuttle bus from the hotel to the festival and back. For the people that will come to the festival from Berlin, there are offers for a stay in Tropical Islands, Europe’s largest tropical world, created in a former airship hangar near Berlin, and a ticket for Zoo Berlin + hotel. You can order tickets from the Wacken Official Travel Partners, and you can choose different packages or only transport to the festival site. You can order ticket from Wacken United, that supports the Wacken Foundation and can give you an exclusive experience with backstage tours, its own marketplace and a press tent, bars, and other benefits. There is a Festival Store, where you can buy merchandise items, you can order lockers for your important staff, and you can order group shirts. On the festival days will be the Green Wacken campaign for waste separations in the camping areas, for environmental protection, use of solar energy, and waste recycling.

Here is the list of bands so far: 3 Inches of Blood, 802, A Burning Rose, Metal Battle – Caribbean, Aesect, Metal Battle – Ireland, Alpha, Metal Battle – Uruguay, Amenra, Angel Witch, Annisokay, Apocalyptica, August Burns Red, Avralize, Bad Loverz, Baest, BAP, Benediction, Beyond The Black, Bon Scott, Boomtown Rats, BraZing Bull, Broken Fate, Brothers of Metal, Call Of Charon, Callejon, Celeste, Clawfinger, Clowns, Coppelius, Crownshift, Cypecore, Dark Funeral, Deadline, Metal Battle – Poland, Decapitated, Deine Cousine, Destruction, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Die Kassierer, Dimmu Borgir, Dirkschneider, Dogma, Dominum, Dool, Dope, Drowning Pool, Dymytry Paradox, Eihwar, Elnuevonce, Mb Argentinia, Enemy Inside, Eternal Power, MB China, Exhorder, “Slaughter in the Vatican” Show, Extermination Dismemberment, Extinct, Fear Factory, Fight The Fight, Fit For A King, Floor Jansen, Forbidden, From Fall To Spring, Gaddavir, Metal Battle – Iceland, Gehennah, Gojira, Graphic Nature, Grave Digger, 45th Anniversary Show, Graveyard, Guns N’ Roses, Guttural Disgorge, Halvar, Metal Battle – Sub-Saharan Africa, Hanabie, Harpyie, Heavysaurus, Hellbutcher, Hellmidian, Metal Battle – Mexico, Helmet, Helsott, HYLA, Metal Battle – Netherlands, In The Woods, Induction, Iotunn, Istapp, Just for Priest, Katatonia, Kilt, King Diamond, Krisiun, Special 90s Set, Kylesa, L.B. Steel, Lake Malice, Lakeview, Landmvrks, Letzte Instanz, Lita Ford, Livlos, Lost Society, Macabre, 40th Anniversary Show, Machine Head, Majestica, Mambo Kurt, Månegarm, Mark My Words, Metal Battle Balkan Regions, Master Boot Record, Mastodon, Michael Schenker, My years with UFO, Midnight, “Complete and Total Hell” Set, Mimi Barks, Ministry, Miracle of Sound, Moonsorrow, Morsrot, Metal Battle – Malta, My own Shiva, Metal Battle – Caucasia & West Asia, Mystopera, Nailbomb, Nasty, Neckbreakker, Necrosin, Metal Battle – Middle East, Nestor, Night Demon, “Curse of the Dammned” 10th Anniversary Show, Nightmare, Non Est Deus, Nyktophobia, Obituary, Orange Goblin 30th Anniversary Show, Ozzyfied, PANCHABHUTA, Metal Battle – Indian Sub-continent, Papa Roach, Party Cannon, Pentagram (Chile), Peyton Parrish, Primal Instinct, Metal Battle – Sweden, Prong, Radity, Metal Battle – Spain, Rauhbein, Refore, Metal Battle- Czech Republic, Sacrifire, Saint City Orchestra, Saltatio Mortis, 25th Anniversary Show, Samsas Traum, Saxon, Schandmaul, Seasons in Black, Setyoursails, Seven Sisters, Seven Spires, Shantallica, Skyline, Skynd, SLAYEnsemble, Smoke Blow, Soen, SoulboundStatic-X, Suidakra, Svarttjern, Tabernis, Tarja & Marko Hietela, The Butcher Sisters, The Hellacopters, The Narrator, The Rumjacks, Theophobos, Metal Battle – Central America, Timsen, Torment, Torsten Sträter, Torture Squad, Trollfest, Tyson, Ugly Kid Joe, UK Subs, Umbra Conscientia, V4A, Vermaledeyt, Vhill, Metal Battle South America (Northern Region), Victory, Voodoo Kiss, Vulvarine, W.A.S.P., Wacken Firefighters, Walls of Jericho, Warbringer, Warkings, Wednesday 13, Wind Rose, Within Temptation, Zeke.

You can find more information for everything here: http://www.wacken.com