US Edition85'000 Metal Fans Brave the Mud for Days – that Was the Wacken Weather
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This year's edition of the heavy metal festival Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein is history. Once again, the metalheads proved that bad weather is only a matter of attitude. Video: watsonThis year's edition of the heavy metal festival Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein is history. Once again, the metalheads proved that bad weather is only a matter of attitude. The metalheads knew what they were going to do: the weather forecast for the four-day metal fest…
Despite all the mud and mud, the Wacken Open Air 2025 was a colourful and wild spectacle.The biggest metal festival in Germany took place from July 30th to August 2nd, 2025 and, despite rain and mud, inspired tens of thousands of fans with bands such as Guns N的 Roses, Gojira, Saltatio Mortis, Apocalyptica, Within Temptation, Dimmu Borgir, Machine Head, Beyond The Black, Papa Roach, August Burns Red, Destruction and countless more.
Digital moshpit: During the four-day Wacken Open Air, 102 terabytes of data went through the Vodafone network – as much as at no other festival in 2025, the Telko Group reports. This corresponds to 20 % more than in the previous year and the data volume of about 140,000 music CDs. Metal fans probably also wanted to bring the data packages to the headbanging. zeit.de (Photo: IMAGO / Dirk Jacobs)
Not only was Wacken celebrated in the mud, but the mobile network was also lit up – according to Vodafone, stronger than at other festivals.
At the end of the festival it rains in ungodly crowds, only the hardest core remains until the end. Many become one with the "Holy Ground".
Wacken (dpa) – At this year's Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) Metal fans have streamed and posted plenty of smartphones in four days. With its traffic, Open Air has landed at the top of this year's festival season, the telecommunications company Vodafone announced. "No other event has made the Vodafone network glow like the famous Metal-Mecca in Schleswig-Holstein this year." According to Vodafone, their network transported 102 terabytes of data during …
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