Organizers of Wacken Open Air 2012 Announce Headlining Act!

Wacken Open Air takes place every year at the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and is easily one of the most crushing summer music festivals in the entire world. Ever since its inception in 1990, the festival has opened the doors to hundreds of high profile Heavy Music artists such as Slayer, Motörhead, Dio, Doro, Cradle Of Filth, Fear Factory, Dimmu Borgir, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Dark Funeral, Opeth, Machine Head, Morbid Angel, Type O Negative, Immortal, At The Gates, Killswitch Engage, Testament, GWAR and Overkill, just to mention a few.

In 2012, the organizers of the event are lining up yet another historical event. For three days, ranging from August 8th to August 4th, 80,000+ maniacs will indulge themselves into the Metallic sounds of bands like Amon Amarth, Cradle Of Filth, Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir, Napalm Death, Six Feet Under, Sick Of It All, and many more.

Today, it was announced that the Wacken Open Air 2012 will be headlined by Bay Area Metallers Machine Head! Additionally, the event will mark the last open air performance ever by German Heavy Metal band Scorpions.

Here are the bands that have been confirmed thus far for next years fest!

- Amon Amarth
- Axel Rudi Pell
- Coroner
- Cradle Of Filth
- Dark Funeral
- Dimmu Borgir
- Endstille
- Forbidden
- Gamma Ray
- Hammerfall
- Henry Rollins
- In Extremo
- Machine Head (Headliner)
- Ministry
- Moonspell
- Napalm Death
- Paradise Lost
- Scorpions (Last Open Air Show)
- Sick Of It All
- Six Feet Under
- U.D.O.
- Watain
- Winterfylleth



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