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Aug 12, 2007 15:56

Hello people, here are the photos I promised you a long time ago already. Despite the few hardships we had during the metal fest, it was a very good experience, not sure if I'll do it again but I had to do it once. Enough talking, photos now. I'll keep the photos under cut so that I don't bother my friends with a super long entry (there's a lot of photos)



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First photo of what would be a great trip, my friend with his horned hat and a Symphony X t-shirt (obviously)

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Massive traffic jam on our way to Wacken, when at 6km from Wacken, me and two friends decided to take the backpack and head oour way on foot to Wacken, leaving our two last friends in the car. We arrived just in time (6km in our hour) while our two friends slept in the car, in other words, the trip by car was 10 hours long for 77kms

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Build the tent in the dark, oh joy

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My first steps in the Wacken Open Air, only the places we could go (mostly everything beside the metal market and the concert ground) Already lots of people in here

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The BeerGarden, lots of people and most of them are drinking beer

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Following morning in Wacken, had a good night of sleep and I was ready to get a blast (in my ears but I didn't know that yet)

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Brutal bunny, I loved it ^^

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Kick-ass bottle of french alcohol, dunno if it was empty or not at the end of the fest

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Hmm, breast :p

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My first steps in the actual concert ground, two big stages, plus one on the far right that you don't see and one behind me, smaller one. Most of the ground has been covered in hay and wood shavings because, a few days earlier, it was increadibly muddy. They even tried to dry the ground with an hellicopter, they did an awesome job

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The bull's skull in the middle of the two main stages, symbol of Wacken

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Blitzkrieg, first band to play on Wacken and they did quite a good job I have to say, I loved what they did and I'll try to get a couple of cds.

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Blitzkrieg's singer

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The two guitar players during a solo

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Wide shot of the stage

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Lots of people here for the first concert

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A shot of the big screen between the two stages

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If you remember well on the photos with the two stages, there's a kind of platform between the two stages and that's where that guitar player was ^^

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Rose Tattoo getting ready to play, second concert of the day.

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Rose Tattoo's singer and the guitar player just behind

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Screen shot of the singer

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Guitar player, drummer and the bassist of Rose Tattoo

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Bassist for Rose Tattoo

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One of the guitar player for Rose Tattoo

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The other guitar player for Rose Tattoo

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Again, lots of people here

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A french play of word of a german word, basically, in french, it tells that whores cost 4 euros XD

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VIP tent, lots of benches and tables

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Biff Byford, Saxon's singer

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Biff Byford singing with Tobbias Sammet for 747 (Strangers in the night) it was grand

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Saxon's guitar player

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As you can see, when night comes, the bull's skull blows flames around :p it was beautiful to see at night

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Red Star Falling, on the best track of the last album

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A bit of Saxon's eagle on the stage, truth be told, I didn't have a very good place where I was

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Wacken's second day and already, some people are taking out weapons to fence their way in the crowd :p

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Isn't she pretty? XD

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Lilith is among us, RUN!!

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Something you see on VIP at Wacken Open Air, groupies (Not Safe For Work)

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Second day, even more people :p

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My, did I get lucky, a photo with Blitzkrieg's singer, I was all happy-like ^^

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Chris Boltendahl, Grave Digger's singer, I would have taken a photo with him if he wasn't in an interview but I managed to get a cd signed.

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Nice t-shirt with an...interesting saying :p

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A photo with Jens Johansson, Stratovarius' keyboard player.

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Grave Digger and Chris on stage

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One of Grave Digger's guitar player.

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Chris again

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Chris and one of the guitar player

Pfeeew, half of it done :p

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Once again,  you can see how much people were here for the concert.

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Grave digger and Chris posing.

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A screen shot, even more impressive to see how much people were standing and headbanging along with Grave Digger

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Mike Terrana, I caught him as he was walking out of the VIP area, he couldn't stay otherwise I would have tried to take a photo with him.

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Timo Kotipelto, he was busy, hence why I didn't take a photo with him but I have an autograph on my Stratovarius cd (he's the singer)

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Lacuna Coil's female singer, end of the afternoon

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Still Lacuna Coil's female singer

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I took a lot of photos of her, I know

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I think she was saluting the crowd.

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Now, it's the male singer

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Yes, it's her again, and a cameraman filming us.

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a few seconds after, the cameraman was looking elsewhere :p

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Lots of people here too

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One of the guitar player

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The two Lacuna Coil singers together on the same picture.

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One of the main band coming to Wacken, Blind Guardian, and here's the singer

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Blind Guardian's singer too, it's awesome how that man sings, he's got an impressive voice and an impressivingly low charisma too 0_o

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The screen behind was awesome too, you see nearly all the band here.

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One of the guitar player headbanging in the middle of a solo

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Another shot of the singer

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Wide shot of the stage with the screen

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The show was very impressive

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The singer alone, during the bard's song I think

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A nice shot of the stage and the screen again for Bling Guardian still.

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Stratovarius with Timo Kotipelto and Jens Johansson.

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Obviously, they were having lots of fun

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Screen shot of Timo Kotipelto

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Stage shot of Stratovarius

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Petri Lindroos, Norther's singer and Ensiferum's singer

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Pat O'Brien, one of Cannibal Corpse guitar player

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Me with Mike Terrana, finally managed to catch him at the end of an interview.

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Corpse Grinder, Cannibal Corpse's singer

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A zeppelin that was passing through

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Angel, one of the girl who's known to be at Wacken each year and always being dressed at the limit of decency.

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That man was making me laugh, with his flag, his kilt and his horn always filled up with beer. ^^

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Last concert for me, Stormwarrior, nice german heavy metal band.

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The three Stormwarrior's guitar players

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A bit blurry, I was far but it's still StormWarrior

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I was a bit closer this time, Storm Warrior on stage still

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beautiful lightings

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Fire on the stage!! No, I'm kidding but there was real burst of flames on the stage, impressive

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Very beautiful lightings on there as well

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Man, you see what I was talking about with bursts of flames...

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There are even fireworks on the stage ^^

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Still a bit blurred too but I loved the lightings with the smoke.

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So, the person you're seeing singing in the middle of the stage was a very special guest, Kai Hansen, ex Helloween singer and actual Gamma Ray singer, he made a very special "Walls Of Jericho" setlist mixed with Storm Warrior songs

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The smoke was coing from recent flames coming from the floor XD

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Beautiful lightings on this one as well.

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Storm Warrior, they were saluting I think

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Awesome, they sang "I want out" during that photo ^^

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That photo is awesome, with the two finger sign and the flames on the background, it looks like a devilish plot or something

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Kai Hansen, singing.

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even in train station, they use Windows and they have bugs on it :p

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ended up the trip with a nice cappucino at Starbucks ^^

The trip was rather chaotic I'd say, the plane took off with one hour delay and my friend (the one with the horned hat) got his sleeping bag lost in the flight, with the tent lost on the way to Wacken, it was starting to get too much L

Let's say that on my way to Etretat, the train stopped because there was some work on the way and it couldn't start back up...so something had come up from behind and push us up to the next station and then, I had to shift train twice in order to get home safely...2 hours late was the result L

I arrived home safely, with quite a bunch of cds and a lot of other things and since then, I'm resting at home :p

wacken

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