BERLIN (AP) — The Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival in northern Germany is opening on Wednesday with a reduced audience after persistent rain turned the grounds to mud and forced organizers to ...

The Wacken Open Air festival, also known as W:O:A, began in 1990 as a small festival with just 800 rock fans and a few local metal bands. The initial venue was a former gravel pit on the outskirts of ...

Northern Germany's Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival, in a rural area northwest of Hamburg, opened today. Rainy weather turned the festival's grounds muddy, and organizers were forced to tell fans ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — The Wacken Open Air heavy ...