The Wacken Open Air Festival is Germany’s number one Heavy Metal Festival and takes place in the Northern Town of Wacken, Schleswig Holstein, Germany on 2nd August 2012 to 4th August 2012. The festival has a knack of attracting the top stars in Heavy Metal This year Scorpions will be performing. It is the 23rd Wacken Festival get involved

The Wacken Line up so far is as follows, are your favourite bands playing.

Saxon, Sanctuary, Schandmaul, Testament, Leningrad Cowboys, Crimes of Passion, Kamelot, Sylosis, Manticora, Delain, Darkest Hour, Unearth, Wölli & Die Band des Jahres, Graveyard, Amaranthe, Eisenherz, and Sacred Reich. They will join the following across the four stages: Amon Amarth, Axel Rudi Pell, Broilers, CircleIICircle, Coroner, Cradle of Filth, D-A-D, Danko Jones SW, Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Dodheimsgard, Electric Wizard, Endstille, Forbidden, GammaRay, Ghost Brigade, HammerFall, Henry Rollins, In Extremo, In Flames, Machine Head, Ministry, Moonspell, Napalm Death, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Red Fang, Saturnian, Scorpions, Sick Of It All, Six Feet Under, Suicide Silence, The Black Dahlia Murder, U.D.O., Vogelfrey, Volbeat, Warbringer, Warrior Soul, Watain, Insomnium, Oomph!, Gehenna, Eschenbach, Riotgod, Decapitated, SAOR Patrol, and Winterfylleth.