50,000 before W:O:A 2009!

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Louder Faster Harder!

 

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Faster Louder Harder

 

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Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is the largest exclusively metal music festival in the world. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 60,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of over 72,000 attendees in 2007, it attracts metal music fans from around the world.

 

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The festival was first held in 1990 as a small event for local German bands. By 1998 the event had become the major festival on the European metal calendar and one of the most important in the world and included over 70 bands from all over Europe, North America and Australia. W:O:A is usually held at the beginning of August and lasts three days, during which the festival-goers camp on several large camping grounds surrounding the actual festival area. The 70 or more artists perform across four separate stages over the course of the event.

 

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Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and fast guitar solos. All Music Guide states that "of all rock & roll's myriad forms, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality.

 

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Heavy metal has long had a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers". Although early heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, they were often critically reviled at the time, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal followed in a similar vein, introducing a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed.

 

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In the mid-1980s, pop-infused glam metal became a major commercial force with groups like Mötley Crüe. Underground scenes produced an array of more extreme, aggressive styles: thrash metal broke into the mainstream with bands such as Metallica, while other styles like death metal and black metal remain subcultural phenomena. Since the mid-1990s, popular styles such as nu metal, which often incorporates elements of funk and hip hop; and metalcore, which blends extreme metal with hardcore punk, have further expanded the definition of the genre.

 

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Wikipedia is fun!

 

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Where is everyone?

 

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Tomorrow I'll buy another Before the Dawn CD.

 

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4:17am

 

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ho hum

 

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tortoise vomit

 

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guess what, i just found out that not only am i part english, french, and german, but i'm also part swedish and dutch

DAT MOET GEVIERD WORDEN!!!
(that must be celebrated!)

 

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pasta with salmon