Wow, I came back from Wacken today, amazing! A fantastic experience
So many awesome shows, and people from al over the world. We did brought the wrong shoes though, the mud was extreme. We saw Saxon, Foreigner (they had a sick bass player, wow) and Whitesnake on the first day while waiting at the main stage for Iron Maiden. Pretty good shows, but Iron Maiden blew them out of the water.
Eluveiti was the biggest surprise at the second day, I couldn't really care for the grunts in some songs but great show anyways. Orphaned Land and Alcest were really good too, we couldn't see the whole set of Alcest unfortunately since there wasnt much time between their show and the one of the mighty Blind Guardian. The Bards Song and Valhalla were some of the most epic moments during the festival.
The first band we saw at the final day was Monuments, honestly one of the best shows I saw, the energy was just
Symphony X was a bit of a let down unfortunately, it felt a bit stale and not very special (I am not very familiar with their work though) especially since they played right after Monuments. Elven King, Gloryhammer and Twisted Sister were really fun too. The singer from Twisted Sister had a great sense of humor and Mike Portnoys drumming was of course top notch. I did feel he was a little out of place but it was great seeing him play live.
Pimping Elvenking, italian folk power metal band, eclectic and energetic live, go see them!
We did see them, They gave a great show indeed, the guitarist did made some mistakes but it was a lot of fun anyways
If you skip Steel Panther, I refuse to talk to you ever again.
This.
Well we did see about three quarters of the show (they overlapped with Gloryhammer and one of my friends is a huge fan of them) while eating something. Not my thing at all sorry