Wacken Open Air Archives

Everything You Need To Know To Survive A Heavy Metal Festival!

August 5, 2016

The Wacken Open Air festival is currently in action in Germany where thousands of metal heads have gathered to take part in some hardcore reveling and headbanging with some of the biggest bands in the universe!...

The Wacken Open Air Festival Has Planned Ahead To Keep Its Attendees Safe

Sshiva Tejas M

July 28, 2016

FS News

The Wacken Open Air festival is going to attract over 80,000 metal-heads from all over. After the recent attacks in Ansbach, the festivals co-founder Thomas Jensen has taken measures to ensure the safety of eve...

The Most Brutal Mosh Pits At Music Festivals

Mohit Thakkar

January 12, 2016

FS Features, Music

The Sherp picks out festivals featuring the most metal mosh pits. \m/ Crazy headbanging, running and slamming into live sweaty bodies while swinging your limbs around; mosh pits are basically audience reactions...

Which International Festival Should You Splurge Your Hard-Earned Money On?

Anupama Khedkar

July 28, 2015

FS Features

Tomorrowland or Burning Man? Take this quiz and find out. Music festivals are undeniably memorable and potentially incomparable experiences. They're also quite an expensive affair, ergo, most of us have that...

This Is Why Wacken Open Air Is The Metalhead Mecca Of Music Festivals

Anupama Khedkar

July 23, 2015

FS Features

A weekend full of metal, beer and debauchery. There's not much to be said about metal that hasn't been said before. It's a genre that surfaced in the 80's with headbanging, black-wearing and air-guitar play...

Wacken Open Air Festival

Nikhil Kapoor

June 1, 2015

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DETAILS Where: Wacken, Germany Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a summer open-air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With...

16 European Festivals For Your Summer Vacay!

Dhriti Menon

March 20, 2015

FS Features

Did someone say, Eurotrip? Okay, let's break it down for you. Summer has arrived in all its insatiable glory, and while a few of us don't mind basking in it, the majority are looking to getaway to ...

Top 5 Festivals for Metal-Heads

Nikhil Kapoor

July 13, 2013

FS Features

The Sherp has put together a killer list of some of the best metal fests from around the world! Still craving high-quality heavy metal even after Bangalore Open Air? Well then, The Sherp has put together a lis...

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