jurnalo.com: "The cultural divide between villagers in north Germany and the heavy metal fans who descend on their quiet community could hardly be greater.
Prim cotton blouses, Wellington boots and double-breasted suits contrast with studded collars, tattoos and shoulder-length hair. The Wacken Open Air line-up of bands says it all: Cannibal Corpse, Grave Digger, Raise Hell, Death Angel, Sodom.
Wacken has become a place of pilgrimage for 40,000 heavy metal fans who gather in the Schleswig-Holstein village each year for an orgy of hand-banging and ear-splitting music." Read on