With a full capacity of around 85,000 people and a festival site that stretches over 240 hectares, as well as links to nearby villages (including the one that the festival takes its name from), Wacken's proclamation to be the world's biggest heavy metal festival has an undeniable truth to it. Add in line-ups that cover rock and metal in all of its diverse glory, and you're looking at one of the finest weekends any metalhead could hope for, helpfully set up in a field in Germany each August.
With 2024's headliners including Scorpions, Korn and Amon Amarth, as well as a stacked line-up featuring everyone from Testament to Cradle Of Filth, Opeth to Accept, this year's edition was truly a bumper event for the books. But which bands ruled the fields? These are the 10 bands who utterly conquered the masses at Wacken 2024.
