Wacken Metal Battle USA is proud to announce its return in 2022 after two years of missed battles across America due to the Covid pandemic. For its last three years (2017-2019), Wacken Metal Battle ...

Heavy Hawaii was formed in 2009 by guitarist Matt Bahamas (née Barajas), who formerly played in Fantastic Magic with future Wavves frontman Nathan Williams (who played mandolin). Heavy Hawaii were ...

Are you part of a Canadian metal band and want to one day play Wacken Open Air? Your chance to make that dream a reality is here, as the annual Wacken Metal Battle has made its way to the Great White ...

Heavy metal band Trainwreck breezed through Wacken Metal Battle: Sub Continent's Dhaka stage on December 1 and are now set to compete in the tournament's next stage in Bangalore, India. Trainwreck ...

Wacken Open Air’s annual Metal Battle contest has been revived for 2022, with an Australian and New Zealand season set to kick off next month. READ MORE: Corey Taylor: “If I can wear a mask for a two ...

Suicide Silence and Born of Osiris. Credit: Crystal Huffman / ZUMA Press / Alamy Wacken Metal Battle Philippines has revealed the line-up for its grand final event in March, with Suicide Silence and ...

Following a three-year break, Wacken Metal Battle Canada is returning to action, giving unsigned heavy bands a shot to perform at one of the biggest heavy music festivals on the planet. The ...

San Antonio melodic thrash outfit Nahaya has made it through round two of a battle of the bands that will determine what up-and-coming U.S. act gets to play Wacken Open Air, arguably the world’s ...

We follow two of the finalists in the Metal Battle – now in its 13th year. Lynchpin is the first ever entry from Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean twin island nation best known for their steel drums.

Bhopal-based metal band Elemental India won the ‘G-Shock Wacken Metal Battle 2016’ at Bangalore Open Air (BOA) -- one of the country’s biggest metal music festival. The band won a cash prize of Rs 1 ...

The Wacken Open Air's Metal Battle pits around 30 international bands against each other. In 2015, Canadian death metal crew Vesperia emerged victorious. This battle of the bands has been part of ...