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Over 75,000 People Attend Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR; Video Report, Photo Gallery Available

August 4, 2008

According to Spiegel Online, over 75,000 people from all over the world convened in the small German town of Wacken last week for an annual ritual held in celebration of all things heavy metal.

The festival — known as Wacken Open Air — is now in its 19th year, after having been started in 1990 as a small gathering of local heavy metal bands.

In between events, concert-goers drank, played in the copious mud and socialized with the town's 1,800 year-round residents, who have generally come to enjoy the festival's annual arrival.

Read more from Spiegel Online.

Check out a photo gallery at this location.

A nine-minute video report (in German) on this year's Wacken Open Air festival from Deutsche Welle can be viewed below.

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