A gig during which you felt put back into the 80s: lots of leather and saw blades on the arms. That it was after W.A.S.P. entered the stage but that does not necessarily mean that it was bad, on the contrary.
Already two times I had seen Delain live and both times they were not really bad but on CD way better. Especially front woman Charlotte Wessels provided quite bad performances in the past but also the other band members remained quite pale on stage.
The American trash metaller of Overkill were the first act during which I went back into the quite heavily burning sun in front of the True Metal Stage and I did not get disappointed.
After it started quite well with Degradead I did not really know what I should expect of the four upcoming Swedish girls.
As the sun was already burning directly in the ealry morning and I still had a slight sunburn of the day before I decided to start the day at the tent with the WET Stage. There Degradead was my opener of the day.
To their 25th stage jubilee the band Atrocity had opened their chest with old treasures once more widely and also the eye was spoiled with a great show on stage.
It was already night-time and slowly it was getting really cold when Anvil entered the True Metal Stage.
Directly after the concert of Grave Digger I went over to the Black Stage where it was already quite crowded and the gig of Slayer was already hungered for. That started directly and came down to the nitty-gritty and no one could argue about too less pressure (that was by far the loudest concert which I have heared at Wacken.
As first jubilee of that day Grave Digger celebrated a very special show on True Metal Stage due to their 30 year stage jubilee. Already the opulent beginning of the show that was opened by a huge pipes&drums band gave a slight pretaste on that. As part of that gig the complete alubm "Tunes Of War" was played supported on the one hand by Van Canto that accompanied the whole concert as background choir.
Unfortunately Arch Enemy was playing parallel to Tarja on the Wacken Open Air. As I would be watching Arch Enemy later that year at Belgium on Metal Female Voices Fest VIII I preferred Tarja.