Headbanging in a small village in Schleswig-Holstein
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For two years in a row, metal fans looked into the tube: Because of the corona pandemic, the world-famous “Wacken Open Air” could not take place in 2020 and 2021. This year, festival co-founder Thomas Jensen is counting on a return: “We’ve been planning the next edition of Wacken Open Air for months – based on the premise that we can implement the festival the way the fans know and love it.” , he told the German Press Agency.
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From August 4th to 6th, Judas Priest, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit, among others, are supposed to make the community of Wacken in the district of Steinburg grow into a metal metropolitan area with 75,000 people. Most recently, Schleswig-Holstein’s Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) was optimistic that events of this dimension can take place again – by March 20th almost all corona restrictions should be lifted.
That would have strengthened the festival organizers in their plans, says Jensen: “Of course – as in the years before the pandemic – we work closely with the authorities responsible for us, because we want to ensure the safety and health of everyone present at the festival as the highest good.”
