Just in time for Valentine’s Day, WACKEN OPEN AIR is treating its fans to a lovely bunch of bands full of further highlights for this year’s edition of the festival.
First of all, none other than GENE SIMMONS is taking the stage, obviously not with KISS, but with his very own band. It consists of musicians who have played with SEBASTIAN BACH, VINCE NEIL and BILLY IDOL, among others. To further fuel the anticipation, SIMMONS reveals in an interview with THE BULLHEAD, W:O:A’s own magazine, the first digital issue of which will be published soon: “The set will be much heavier than what Kiss played, and I’ll be playing songs that have never been released before. Solo songs from me.”
Wacken Open Air is the largest heavy metal festival in the world. Starting with 800 visitors in 1990, nowdays 85,000 fans from all over the world travel to Wacken every year, turning the small village in Schleswig-Holstein into the center of the festival scene for several days. The organizing WOA Festival GmbH is connected to a broad network including band management, the Wacken Foundation, tour booking, music publishing, metal travel, merchandising distribution and ticketing. In cooperation with partners, this results in creative solutions and ideas that revolutionize the festival experience, enable technical innovations and produce extraordinary event concepts. Wacken Open Air 2024 will take place from July 31 to August 3, 2024.
