The organizers of this year’s Wacken Open Air festival — which his taking place August 2-4 in Wacken, Germany — are streaming select performances and press conferences from the event live (and some pre-recorded) via the festival’s official web site www.wacken.com.
The webcast schedule for today (Friday, August 3) is as follows (all times are Central European Summer Time):
12:00-12:30 PHARAO – Showcase
12:30-12:55 Interview – ALL THAT REMAINS
12:55-13:40 NAPALM DEATH
13:40-14:00 Interview ANIMAL ALPHA
14:00-14:30 VOODOO GOD – Pre-listening
14:30-15:00 Interview ROSE TATTOO / Press Conference
15:00-16:00 SODOM Press Conference / Photo Call
16:00-16:45 Interview BLITZKRIEG / Cliprotation / Interview HATESPHERE
16:45-17:30 J.B.O. Pre-listening
17:30-18:30 FALCONER
18:30-19:00 Cliprotation
19:00-19:30 ROSE OF DEATH
19:30-20:00 BLITZKRIEG – Showcase
20:00-21:00 LACUNA COIL / Cliprotation
21:00-22:00 VOLBEAT (recording)
22:00-23:00 POSSESSED (recording)
23:00-24:00 Wacken from Day 1 / Cliprotation / Sturm und Drang – Showcase
00:00- 01:00 Interview NEAERA / Cliprotation / Podcast
01:00-02:00 Best of Live Friday / MENNEN Press Conference / Cliprotation / Podcast
02:00-03:00 SAMAEL
Photos from the first day (August 2) of this year’s Wacken Open Air festival can be viewed at http://gallery.wacken.com. Incided are galleries of SAXON, SODOM (25th anniversary show), OVERKILL, ROSE TATTOO, ALL THAT REMAINS, BLITZKRIEG, NARZISS and NEAERA, among others.