{"id":55,"date":"2007-08-07T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-09-22T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:25:36","slug":"030405-08-2007-wacken-open-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"03,04,05-08-2007 Wacken Open Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

03\/04\/05-08-2007, Wacken (Germany)
\nBy: Wouter van de Kamp<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is the biggest, largest and therefore also greatest (in my opinion) metalfestival of Europe and this was their 18th edition. Wacken is a small town in the northern part of Germany with only 1.750 inhabitants. For five days per year the population multiplies by 40 to have Wacken Open Air. I was talking to some locals before we could get in and they all said they really loved the festival. They liked the atmosphere and they were really friendly. Some of my friends went to Wacken before the campsite was opened. They were allowed to put op their tents in the backyard of the guy whom I was talking to. It might be that part of the interest of the locals in W:O:A has an economical basis. THere are many little stands with food and drinks in the town itself, put up by locals and next to that the two supermarkets. According to the official W:O:A website this year’s edition counted 60.000 visitors leading to 72.000 participants (including press, inhabitants, guests, etc). A huge number, but never did I have the idea that that was too much except perhaps for the huge queue on the highway and the direct road into town. Good organisation. No big problems. No queues for food or in front of the (always well cleaned) toilets.
\nI was travelling with a touring car with friends from my hometown Utrecht to Wacken
\nfestival in the northern part of Germany and the trip went actually quite succesful.
\nUp until we saw this big queue.
\nFortunately we entered it at the point where there was an exit so we took that
\none. We found a secondary road that also led to the festival but more people found
\nit. The queue was that harsh that people took out the chairs from their cars and
\njust opened a beer to enjoy the weather
\nwhich was pretty good. I and the organiser of the trip decided to walk the last
\n7 kilometres to at least collect the tickets. In the end the bus had found a short
\ncut and we could finally enter the festival. I was too tired to check out the
\nbands of the preparty. I went to the metalmarket with some friends and drank some
\nbeers to go to bed in time
\nto be sort of fit for the coming days.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 I didn’t have many bands I wanted to see, but first one is Neaera.German metalcore
\n\u00a0 and therefore quite popular amongst the crowd. I just
\n\u00a0 know their music pretty well and I like it, but I haven’t taken the
\n\u00a0 time to really analyse the band and besides that I didn’t pay much
\n\u00a0 attention to their show either because I just wanted to mosh. That was
\n\u00a0 a great idea of mine. It went quite loose in the pit for a band like
\n\u00a0 Neaera. After the show I was al bruised and had scratches on my arms
\n\u00a0 and all. Nice experience. That was the only band I really wanted to
\n\u00a0 check out. The rest of the day I spent drinking beer and having fun
\n\u00a0 with friends on the campsite, which I quite managed.<\/p>\n

And then it was Friday. I wanted to see just two bands. The bad thing
\n\u00a0 was that the first one was the opener of the day. And the other one was
\n\u00a0 to be the last band of the day, which left me over 14 hours to try to
\n\u00a0 enjoy myself.
\n\u00a0 THe Black Dahlia Murder is again a metalcore band. This time from
\n\u00a0 Detroit. I wasn’t fully awake yet, but the moshpit woke me up properly.
\n\u00a0 I actually was a bit disappointed by the show. Maybe it is that I don’t
\n\u00a0 like the big stages on a festival unless a band REALLY knows how to
\n\u00a0 play them. Or maybe metalcore bands are more impressive on small stages
\n\u00a0 in general. To me the show went by like any other band. Nothing really
\n\u00a0 worth mentioning.
\n\u00a0 I will save you the 14+ hour story and go directly to
\n\u00a0 the Samael performance.
\n\u00a0 I was really looking forward to this show. I have seen them live twice
\n\u00a0 already and both times I had a brilliant night. Also their 2007 release
\n\u00a0 Solar Soul was very promising to give a good show. And again… the
\n\u00a0 show couldn’t really convince me. Perhaps the size of the stage was
\n\u00a0 again my problem. The performance was great. The sound was good.
\n\u00a0 Brilliant lighting as well. I am not the person that is into songtitles
\n\u00a0 but they played their classics Shining Kingdom, Baphomet’s Throne and
\n\u00a0 The One’s Who Came Before. Of course they played Slavocracy from their
\n\u00a0 new album as well and the ended with Rain. Brilliant ending once again.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Although it was less than I expected I stil went back to the tents
\n\u00a0 with a satisfied feeling. And since I had been sober all day to see
\n\u00a0 Samael properly it was time for some good partying.
\n\u00a0 I found my tent when the sun had risen quite some time. And then it
\n\u00a0 went wrong. I was ill. I could only lie in my tent and feel enormously
\n\u00a0 fucked up. I couldn’t get myself to drink any water. Had to go to the
\n\u00a0 toilet but no “excrementory grindfuckers”\u00a0 to donate to the<\/p>\n

\u00a0 chemical toilet. I definately had to see Immortal and I grabbed myself
\n\u00a0 together with the smallest of ease… But I really had to. And that
\n\u00a0 paid out. I had a hard time walking there to get there but I managed. I
\n\u00a0 couldn’t go to close to the stage because the sound hurt my head. But
\n\u00a0 thanks to my illness I saw them twice, because each time I tried to
\n\u00a0 really focus the stage split up in two again before my eyes. They
\n\u00a0 played all my favorites.
\n\u00a0 From the top of my head they played Tyrants,
\n\u00a0 One by One, Damned in Black, My Dimension, Sons of the Northern
\n\u00a0 Darkness, The Sun No Longer Rises, Blashyrkh Mighty Ravendark,
\n\u00a0 Withstand the Fall of Time, At the Heart of Winter and Unholy Forces of
\n\u00a0 Evil. They played a brilliant show with even better lighting. They
\n\u00a0 played the slower songs like Tyrants even more downtempo than on the
\n\u00a0 album which gave a great atmosphere. Also there was a lot of pyrostuff
\n\u00a0 and fireworks on stage. And as always there was the firebreathing,
\n\u00a0 which from such a distance is not really impressive, but Immortal can’t
\n\u00a0 do without that!<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Next I wanted to see some Municipal Waste just because some of my >
\n\u00a0 friends were continually talking about that band. They started of
\n\u00a0 letting the crowd scream “Municipal Waste is gonna fuck you up” which
\n\u00a0 was what my friends were shouting all the time at the campsite as well.
\n\u00a0 So that wasn’t really new to me. I liked the band but I couldn’t keep
\n\u00a0 standing. My eyes closed themselves continually and I decided to go
\n\u00a0 back to my tent to go to sleep. It was a cold night, perhaps because of
\n\u00a0 that I couldn’t fall asleep. I didn’t start feeling better until
\n\u00a0 halfway our trip back home. I have never felt that good after a
\n\u00a0 festival. Full of energy. I wanted another week of Wacken. But I guess
\n\u00a0 I have to wait for another year. But I’m looking forward to it. W:O:A 2008 here
\n\u00a0 I come!<\/p>\n

Links:
\n<\/strong>
\nNeaera official
\nBlack Dahlia Murder official
\nSamael official<\/a>
\nImmortal official<\/a>
\nMunicipal official
\nWacken Open air<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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