HEADHUNTER Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

December 18, 2007

HEADHUNTER, the reunited German band featuring DESTRUCTION frontman Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, has been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

AS I LAY DYING
AT THE GATES
AUTUMN
AVANTASIA
AXEL RUDI PELL
AXXIS
BEFORE THE DAWN
CARCASS
CHILDREN OF BODOM
CORVUS CORAX
CREMATORY
DESTRUCTOR
DREAM OF AN OPIUM EATER
ENEMY OF THE SUN
EVOCATION
EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS
GIRUGÄMESH
GOREROTTED
GORGOROTH
HATEBREED
HEADHUNTER
IRON MAIDEN
KAMELOT
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
KREATOR
KRYPTERIA
LORD BELIAL
LORDI
NIFELHEIM
NIGHTWISH
OBITUARY
POWERWOLF
PRIMORDIAL
SABATON
SALTATIO MORTIS
SONATA ARCTICA
THE BONES
WARBRINGER

HEADHUNTER had its trio of albums originally issued during Schmier's years away from DESTRUCTION"Parody of Life" (1990),"A Bizarre Gardening Accident" (1992),and "Rebirth" (1994) — re-released on September 7 via AFM Records.

The original HEADHUNTER lineup — Schmier (vocals, bass),Uwe Hoffman (Schmuddel) (guitar, backing vocals) and Jörg Michael (STRATOVARIUS) — recently spent time in the recording studio laying down tracks for a new album, tentatively due in 2008.

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