hell bent for metal

They don’t waste any time, do they?

The first bands announced for Wacken 2010 are the mighty Immor­tal, and seri­ous but out-there medieval met­allers Corvus Corax.

I’m pretty impressed that announce­ments are being made already. Per­haps the organ­is­ers learnt their les­son from 2009, when they got ham­mered on their own forums and else­where for not releas­ing any infor­ma­tion about the line up for such a long time – mean­ing the infor­ma­tion when it did come couldn’t pos­si­bly live up to the hype and antic­i­pa­tion that sur­rounded it. Last year’s first band (Machine Head) wasn’t announced until mid Sep­tem­ber, before tick­ets even went on sale.

What­ever the rea­son, I’m excited as hell (don’t for­get, any pic­ture can be improved by adding Immor­tal to it) and will be eagerly await­ing fur­ther announce­ments, as always!