Archive for September, 2008

Another band announced – yay for viking metal!

Monday, September 29th, 2008

A third band has been con­firmed for Wacken 2009 (the big event is in 10 months and one day as I write this) – and it’s Nor­we­gian Viking metal pio­neers Ein­her­jer. Thanks Blab­ber­mouth!

Viking metal is some­thing I’ve writ­ten about in the past. Although I love Amon Amarth a great deal, I don’t gen­er­ally get into viking metal as much as say, pirate metal. At least Ein­her­jer don’t sound folksy like Alestorm, although their Wikipedia page sug­gests that some of their albums are more folk while oth­ers are black metal.

At any rate, good to see the announce­ments continue!

tickets, get your tickets…

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

I try to read the Wacken forums every day to get any new snip­pets of infor­ma­tion… a recent post stated that the total tick­ets sold in the first four weeks was around 25,000! 10,000 of those sold in the first 24 hours of sales! That is an insane num­ber and given the shows capac­ity is 65,000, I am sure they will sell out very quickly. It’s not often you have a 20th birth­day after all… \m/

the witchfinder general

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

The sec­ond band announce­ment was made last week, and it is old school met­allers Cathe­dral. While I haven’t heard much of their stuff in the past, what I have heard, I like a lot. This is what I love about Wacken – see­ing bands you’ve heard of but not nec­es­sar­ily paid too much atten­tion to in the past. I’ve been lis­ten­ing to var­i­ous bits of Cathe­dral over the last week and I must say, I’m psy­ched to see them!

and machine head it is

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Machine Head

The first band con­firmed for Wacken 2009 is… Machine Head.

Good news, we all love this band. Dave and I have seen them at least twice before, and in fact we have tick­ets to see them next month again (with Slipknot).

The offi­cial Wacken web site says that bands will be announced reg­u­larly over the next few weeks. Sure. Their def­i­n­i­tion of “next week” has already been clocked at over three weeks. But we’ll still be check­ing obses­sively, oh yes, precious.

While we wait patiently for a band announcement…

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

 While we were at Wacken 2008 the daily new­pa­per that came out had an item about how the Wacken fran­chise was expand­ing, and that the first coun­try likely to get their own WOA-style fes­ti­val (on a much smaller scale, of course) would be Australia.We were obvi­ously pretty stoked by that bit of news, but it looks like the first non-Wacken Wacken is going to be in Brazil in May 2009. Bum­mer. Well, not for the Brazil­ians I guess.

We have tickets, I repeat, we have tickets

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

At least, we think we do. We got con­fir­ma­tion emails but our credit card has not yet been charged… I’m sure it will be though, in due time.

Ticket sales are announced on the site now, but they weren’t when we got them – we were tipped off by a very excited Stu and then found them on the Met­altix site. Dave had to use BabelFish to trans­late the page to dou­ble check that he was buy­ing the right thing.

Not a sin­gle band has been announced yet, but Wacken 2009 here we come!