Image: Official Wacken 2025 Poster
Barely is the last Wacken over, and true to the motto "After the festival is before the festival," the first mega announcements for 2025 are already here. Get ready, because some of the most awesome bands are on board. Here's a little preview:
Joining the party are the metal olympians Gojira, the metalcore powerhouse August Burns Red, the medieval rockers Saltatio Mortis, the nu-metal legends Papa Roach, the symphonic metal masters Within Temptation, and the thrash icons Machine Head and many more.
Here's the full list of bands announced so far:
- Machine Head
- Saltatio Mortis
- Papa Roach
- Gojira
- Apocalyptica
- Saxon
- Within Temptation
- Dimmu Borgir
- Ministry
- Michael Schenker (My years with UFO)
- Peyton Parrish
- Beyond The Black
- Clawfinger
- Grave Digger (45th Anniversary Show)
- August Burns Red
- Obituary
- Wind Rose
- Brothers Of Metal
- Tarja & Marko Hietala
- Hanabie
- Decapitated
- Destruction
- Celeste
- Orange Goblin
- Angel Witch
- Dominum
- Exhorder
- Night Demon
- Mimi Barks
- Seven Spires
- Clowns
- Dool
- Crownshift
- Midnigh
