WACKEN OPEN AIR 2019
Following the world’s longest beer pipeline to the world’s biggest metal festival, on our arrival at Wacken’s Holy Land for this 30th event, ’s Chuck Billy is announcing that it’s time to bang our heads. Necks will be under severe stress until Sunday morning, and we will be exhorted to raise our hands and make some noise about 200 times a day, but there is an atmosphere here that makes a metalhead feel at home. Next up, hair rotates, fists are clenched and choruses are belted out when Swedes invade the Bullhead maintain a gritty, blue-collar demeanour, connecting on a visceral street level, while bring an epic sweep, Johnny Hedlund’s Viking rabble-rousing raising the bar for audience engagement. The literal fire of black metal stalwarts raises the Satanic heat, their show more memorable than their songs.
