• Organizers of Wacken Open Air and Telekom realized the world's first mixed reality festival
  • Approximately 11 million live-content-views worldwide
  • Internationally acclaimed metal bands performed live at virtual Wacken

From Rio to Wacken to Tokyo: Millions of metal fans and music enthusiasts celebrated the first edition of Wacken World Wide last weekend. The organizers of Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) and Telekom developed the world's first mixed-reality-festival. Metal icons such...

For the first time in 30 years, the legendary metal festival "Wacken Open Air" won't take place on the famous festival grounds. Instead, the biggest heavy metal festival in the world comes to your home as “Wacken:World:Wide 2020”! German Symphonic and Melodic Metal firestarters BEYOND THE BLACK will share a trailblazing digital stage with bands like Kreator, Heaven Shall Burn and many others to stream their show straight to fans'...

The countdown is on! The biggest Wacken ever starts on July 29th 2020. Wacken Open Air will jointly organize the biggest mixed reality metal show together with Telekom: Wacken World Wide. The long-term partner provides this unique event worldwide as livestream available for free. Every music and metal fan can experience the festival on the website and via app of MagentaMusik360, on channel #DABEI exclusively on MagentaTV, as well as...

The world’s biggest mixed reality metal show will happen next week! The event will take place in the originally scheduled W:O:A 2020 festival period from July 29 to August 1, 2020 and promises a completely new Wacken experience! A full digital approach creates show concepts exclusively designed for a virtual stage never seen before. With its innovative design and technical implementation this is set to be a world premiere in...

Wacken Open Air has recently announced the biggest Wacken ever together with long-term partner Telekom: Wacken World Wide, taking place in the originally scheduled festival period from July 29 to August 1, 2020 – available for free and worldwide! Next to already announced W:O:A classics such as Sabaton, Blind Guardian, Heaven Shall Burn, In Extremo, Kreator, Hämatom and Beyond The Black performing on innovative virtual stages, the digital streaming event...

Wacken Open Air has recently announced the biggest Wacken ever together with long-term partner Telekom: Wacken World Wide. The digital streaming event will host the biggest mixed reality metal show in the world and will bring a completely new Wacken experience to the fans‘ homes. Wacken World Wide will take place in the originally scheduled festival period from July 29 to August 1, 2020. The fully digital approach creates mixed...

Wacken Open Air 2020 with its 75,000 festival visitors from over 80 nations cannot take place as originally planned this summer. But no reason to be quiet!

Metalheads from all over the world travel annually to Wacken to celebrate Heavy Metal, but this year the organizers and long-term partner Telekom are bringing a completely new Wacken experience as revolutionary digital festival directly to the fans‘ homes: Wacken is coming...