We’ve only just returned from Wacken to find that the 31st edition of the festival has completely sold out!

What a fantastic time we had at the 30th birthday of the world’s biggest festival – but more on that later. We were absolutely stunned (not really) to find that the 2020 edition has already sold out. Given the cult nature of the festival, it is a pretty amazing feat.

The advance sale of the 75,000 tickets started straight after the festival at midnight on Monday, August 5th. They are now all gone with fans from 83 countries having purchased tickets.

“We are stoked that tickets for the Wacken Open Air 2020 have again sold out in a sensationally short period of time”, comments festival founder Thomas Jensen. “The great success of this year’s anniversary edition and our announcement of the first bands for next year have obviously convinced our fans that they can rely on us for which we are extremely thankful. Well, it also might be that the reason for this humbling vote of confidence is that metal god Rob Halford will celebrate 50 years of JUDAS PRIEST in Wacken.”

“It is our declared goal to create an even greater festival every new year,” adds festival founder Holger Hübner. “We can only thank our fans wholeheartedly for relying on our experience to put together another exciting band billing. Of course, metal music always comes first, but also the supporting program will again offer innovations. We will make every effort to live up to the advance praise of this quick sell-out.”

Wacken Open Air has already announced the following bands for the coming 31st edition of the festival in 2020: JUDAS PRIEST, AMON AMARTH, MERCYFUL FATE, AT THE GATES, VENOM, HYPOCRISY, SODOM, DEATH ANGEL, SICK OF IT ALL, BEAST IN BLACK, NERVOSA, CEMICAN.

Judas Priest will be celebrating their 50th anniversary at the show.

If you didn’t get your tickets, guess it will be another livestreaming year again!