Wacken - Tens of thousands of heavy-metal fans from around the world are coming up in early August of Schleswig-Holstein in the small village Wacken and celebrating loudly. Since 1990, they built there annually on the harvested fields, a tent city to live for three days together musically and culturally in their own world.
On the 'Wacken Open Air 2007 "(WOA) of 2 to 4 August are expected to more than 50 000 visitors. The festival is already sold out for weeks. Non-experts on the scene, the spectacle may be known for the film "Full Metal Village", which deals with the village and the Wacken WOA uses and has won
numerous awards.
People who have grown up with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Who turn from the heavy metal often in horror: That was not music, but glorify violence crash of amateurs in the black-haired baggy look, with dull melodies and screeching vocals Satan worship and celebrate black masses, is a not infrequently prevailing opinion. It was these classic rock bands important for the formation of heavy metal, according to a study of Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, "Not the musical direction of these musicians, but their earlier image, move away from paternalism to social conventions and ยป.
Despite the sometimes very aggressively worded and subject to the WOA lyrics glorify violence, police said as the "most relaxed and peaceful. The forces had since the beginning of the spectacle, only intervene in quarrels and fights among drunks. Also Wacken villagers are convinced that after 16 years of festival experience of the serenity of "bellicose-sounding metal band." Arguments or fights lay solid on the WOA, well below the "normal" Zeltfest average, is their conclusion.
The musical roots of Heavy Metal are in the hard rock in the late 1960s. As an original founder of the metal are the musicians in the band Black Sabbath. They developed after 1969 with elements of blues, jazz and Classicism a riffbetonte kind of music. Your image based on occultism influenced the music style was not yet invented "heavy metal" authoritative.
While the hippies thought, with its flower-power movement in the "Power of Love," devoted themselves to the heavy-metal musicians over the dark side of human life. They experimented not only with new scaffolds and melodic sound collages, but also with the Game Speed: The so-called Power Metal is still true today as Heavy Metal in its original form.
A cruder version of "High Speed" game mode of thrash metal (to be thrash = thrash). Here, especially the singing was so estranged that to untrained ears than grunts and groans could be heard almost nothing about. In the 1980s, was the birth of glam metal. Their followers gave themselves with makeup and hair spray a special touch. In the 1990s, factionalism is further sub-styles from: Among other things, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Folk Metal, Gothic Metal, Industrial Metal, Melodic Metal, Nu Metal, Progressive Metal, Stoner Metal, Grindcore and Metalcore - usually with fluid transitions between .
Two additional categories could be assigned only through their texts: The White Metal and Black Metal. While the White Metal transported more Christian messages, were the texts in the black metal satanic hold. Today, few think a teenager in Satanism, though his hand in greeting to the horns sign up stretches: the thumb and little finger abducted, the rest of the hand clenched into a fist. Even pop singer Bill Kaulitz from the Teen band Tokio Hotel was apparent even in this "Satano" pose.
This year are in Wacken including: Napalm Death, Lacuna Coil, Dimmu Borgir, Amorphis and In Flames.
Wacken - Tens of thousands of heavy-metal fans from around the world are coming up in early August of Schleswig-Holstein in the small village Wacken and celebrating loudly. Since 1990, they built there annually on the harvested fields, a tent city to live for three days together musically and culturally in their own world.
On the 'Wacken Open Air 2007 "(WOA) of 2 to 4 August are expected to more than 50 000 visitors. The festival is already sold out for weeks. Non-experts on the scene, the spectacle may be known for the film "Full Metal Village", which deals with the village and the Wacken WOA uses and has won
People who have grown up with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Who turn from the heavy metal often in horror: That was not music, but glorify violence crash of amateurs in the black-haired baggy look, with dull melodies and screeching vocals Satan worship and celebrate black masses, is a not infrequently prevailing opinion. It was these classic rock bands important for the formation of heavy metal, according to a study of Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, "Not the musical direction of these musicians, but their earlier image, move away from paternalism to social conventions and ยป.
Despite the sometimes very aggressively worded and subject to the WOA lyrics glorify violence, police said as the "most relaxed and peaceful. The forces had since the beginning of the spectacle, only intervene in quarrels and fights among drunks. Also Wacken villagers are convinced that after 16 years of festival experience of the serenity of "bellicose-sounding metal band." Arguments or fights lay solid on the WOA, well below the "normal" Zeltfest average, is their conclusion.
The musical roots of Heavy Metal are in the hard rock in the late 1960s. As an original founder of the metal are the musicians in the band Black Sabbath. They developed after 1969 with elements of blues, jazz and Classicism a riffbetonte kind of music. Your image based on occultism influenced the music style was not yet invented "heavy metal" authoritative.
While the hippies thought, with its flower-power movement in the "Power of Love," devoted themselves to the heavy-metal musicians over the dark side of human life. They experimented not only with new scaffolds and melodic sound collages, but also with the Game Speed: The so-called Power Metal is still true today as Heavy Metal in its original form.
A cruder version of "High Speed" game mode of thrash metal (to be thrash = thrash). Here, especially the singing was so estranged that to untrained ears than grunts and groans could be heard almost nothing about. In the 1980s, was the birth of glam metal. Their followers gave themselves with makeup and hair spray a special touch. In the 1990s, factionalism is further sub-styles from: Among other things, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Folk Metal, Gothic Metal, Industrial Metal, Melodic Metal, Nu Metal, Progressive Metal, Stoner Metal, Grindcore and Metalcore - usually with fluid transitions between .
Two additional categories could be assigned only through their texts: The White Metal and Black Metal. While the White Metal transported more Christian messages, were the texts in the black metal satanic hold. Today, few think a teenager in Satanism, though his hand in greeting to the horns sign up stretches: the thumb and little finger abducted, the rest of the hand clenched into a fist. Even pop singer Bill Kaulitz from the Teen band Tokio Hotel was apparent even in this "Satano" pose.
This year are in Wacken including: Napalm Death, Lacuna Coil, Dimmu Borgir, Amorphis and In Flames.