it took me fucking ages to get to Wacken last year, it was 1 hour to france, 4 hours to paris, 10/12 hours to hamburg, about an hour or so to get near wacken, then a 20 minute bus coach to the wacken fest. its a fucking bastard, the amount of trains ya have to get but if ya get drunk time soon flys by

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Bloodbath confirmed!

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HAMMERFALL and EQUILIBRIUM are the latest acts to be confirmed for the 2005 edition of Germany's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 4-6 in Wacken. A complete list of bands currently scheduled to appear at the festival is as follows:

ACCEPT
APOCALYPTICA
AXEL RUDI PELL
BLOODBATH
CORVUS CORAX
COUNT RAVEN
DISSECTION
EDGUY
ENDHAMMER
EISREGEN
ENDSTILLE
ENSIFERUM
EQUILIBRIUM
FINNTROLL
GOREFEST
HAMMERFALL
ILLDISPOSED
MACHINE MEN
MARDUK
MERCENARY
METAL CHURCH
NAGLFAR
NIGHTWISH
OBITUARY
OVERKILL
OOMPH!
POTENTIA ANIMI
SAMAEL
SONATA ARCTICA
SUFFOCATION
TORFROCK
TRISTANIA
TURISAS

new names

Hanoi
Candelmass
Sentenced
Zyklon
and....
....
KREATOR!

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i ve decided that i aint gonna go to wacken 05, i m gonna go to Graspop instead because the lineups shit hot, i ve never been to belgium and i m gonna visit holland aswell after the festival. I think this years wacken aint gonna be as good as last years

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agree, and last years line-up was shit compared to others


EDIT: im going anyway

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haha fair play. ure lucky cos u aint got as far to travel as me, how i wish i lived in germany

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Candlemass, Turisas, Ensiferum, Overkill, Kreator.. Count me in!!

Oh golly, I just found out about this and it just happens to be that I will be in Deutschland during this festival. Is Wacken a city? Where in the country is this festival? Prices?

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you see? when I'm not around nobody posts here

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Everyone probally seen this already but in case you havent: the time table.

http://www.wacken.com/uploads/media..._preview_01.pdf

With Turisas in the middle of the night! thats gonna be shit....

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hmm, the line-up really cant compare to other festivals this year. I think we'll go to With Full Force. It's cheaper, got a better line-up and it's closer to tsjechslovakia, were we'll head to afterwards for a week of cheap as metal and grindcore (extreme obscene)

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if anyone cares, it ruled again with:
great shows: Suffocation, Dissection, Kreator, Stratovarius, Sonata Artica and Metal Church
mediocre shows: Zyklon, Illdisposed and Overkill
disapointing shows: Obituary and Hammerfall
fucking a shows: GOREFEST and BLOODBATH

anyways, beer was the headliner for me this year, had plenty

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zyklon was mediocre? what songs did they play do you remember? what did diss and kreator play? highlights from those 3 performances?

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dont know any zyklon songs, but they seemed very interesting in the beginning -> but i got bored very quickly, maybe because i was tired, they played at 12 on saturday morning...

Dissection was glorious, mucho old songs like the somberlain and frozen, and some evil preaches from that satanist dude, hahaha "i see a lot of inverted crosses, they have a meaning, they mean that you stand for MY believes!"

Kreator was cool, but they played the last night, and i was sooooooooooooo tired from the 2 days of standing and drinking too much that i just went halfway through the set, but they kicked ass, don;t get me wrong

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Wacken was great, my faves were Bloodbath and Dissection too.
The rain and coldness killed it a bit for me tough

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I hear you. I was so smart take one whole sweater with me, cause wacken is always fucking hot! Well I've been very sick, and cold... but it was great.

Faves: Dissection, Turisas, Cataract

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i think on good terms man. projects come and go?! mikael has opeth