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24/09/2026

⚔️Country Spotlight - 5th Place Winner⚔️

The Crescent's Call brought Austria’s symphonic folk metal sound to the Wacken Metal Battle stage, layering violin and cello against heavy riffs for a set that helped secure them 5th place.

Founded in Windischgarsten by Christina Fuxjäger, the band wowed the jury at Szene Wien to earn their spot on the global stage, and that same storytelling carried them straight into the top five.🇦🇹

📸 Rae Chatten

22/09/2026

⚔️This is what Wacken looks like from the crowd⚔️

Battle vests, horns up, and the Headbangers Stage roaring behind them. This is the energy that makes Wacken Wacken. We have missed you already🔥

📸 Dark Room Photo PR

21/09/2026

Straight into the camera 📸⚔️
One of those special moments, caught mid-performance at Wacken Metal Battle 2026, locking eyes with the lens and giving everything they had🔥

🇫🇷FRANCE — Ashed Winter Ashed Winter Bassist Grégory Barbéro
🇬🇷GREECE — I See Red I See Red Guitarist
🇺🇸USA — Gannondorf Gannondorf Keyboardist Graham Southern

📸 Jaqueline Vanek

17/09/2026

⚔️Country Spotlight - 5th Place Winner⚔️

Hungary’s Seers of Light six voices, one vision, and a wall of melodic progressive metal straight from Budapest. Commanding female vocals meet heavy riffs and dynamic instrumental passages that pull you into every song🇭🇺

Before Wacken, the band gave fans a taste of what was coming with a four-song live session, a preview of their upcoming album King of Dreamers. That same fire and atmosphere carried straight onto the W.E.T. stage, where their frontwoman’s stage presence and voice won over both the jury and the crowd.

📸 Romana Makówka

16/09/2026

⚔️Guitar Goddesses⚔️

Out of every band that took the Holy Ground this year, today we shed the spotlight on the two with fierce female guitarists onboard -two different countries, two different sounds, one shared statement: skill on the fretboard has no gender.

From Roanne’s tribal death-groove to Stockholm’s explosive metalcore, Lana and Hanna proved their riffs hit just as hard as anyone else on that stage.

🇫🇷 France - Ashed Winter Lana
🇸🇪 Sweden - Goodnight Greatness Hanna Meijer

📸 Romana Makówka

15/09/2026

⚔️The Pit Doesn’t Lie ⚔️

Shoulder to shoulder, sweat and one heartbeat pounding through hundreds of bodies. Boots hit the ground, heads are banging non-stop and for a while it’s just noise, motion and pure adrenaline. This is the Holy Ground doing what it does best.

This is Wacken. This is the power of the pit.

📸 Dark Room Photo PR

14/09/2026

Voices from the battlefield 🎤🔥
Three vocalists. Three very different voices. One stage. A few frames from the Wacken Metal Battle 2026, capturing the intensity, attitude and presence that only a frontman or frontwoman can bring.

🇨🇾 CYPRUS — Speak In Whispers Speak In Whispers Vocalist Andreas
🇯🇵 JAPAN — Given By The Flames GIVEN BY THE FLAMES Vocalist Willian
🇸🇰 SLOVAKIA — Gágor GÁGOR Vocalist Nicole “Nika”

📸 Jaqueline Vanek

11/09/2026

¡Aquí vamos de nuevo! Regresa la Wacken Metal Battle South America, esta vez abarcando dos regiones. Las inscripciones ya están abiertas en www.metal-battle.com para Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Perú y Bolivia. Puedes encontrar todos los detalles sobre las regiones en www.metalbattlesuramerica.com. Invitamos a sus bandas a participar en el circuito de metal más grande del planeta.

Por favor, lean atentamente la convocatoria. Disfruten de este video de FORCE, los ganadores globales provenientes de nuestra región. ¡Nos vemos en las eliminatorias!

10/09/2026

⚔️Country Spotlight - 4th Place Winner⚔️

Larnaca’s Speak In Whispers landed 4th place at the 2026 Metal Battle world final. Progressive groove metal with a technical, high-energy edge that’s been winning them fans since 2017.

This one’s a first: Cyprus made its Wacken Metal Battle debut this year, and Speak In Whispers took it straight to 4th place. 🇨🇾🔥

Formed in 2017, the band has already shared stages with the likes of Soen, Rage, and Freak Kitchen, and played Bloodstock Open Air in 2025. Now they can add “Wacken finalist” to that list.

📸 Rae Chatten

09/09/2026

⚔️Behind the Low Frequency⚔️

This week we’re putting the spotlight on some of the bassists of the Metal Battle 2026. These players are the backbone of every band on that stage. They lock in the groove, drive the breakdowns, and hold the whole sound together.

Respect to the players keeping it locked down on the Holy Ground.

🇮🇳INDIA - 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻 Akash Vyas
🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA - Human Nebula Francois Smith | Synthwave Producer
🇸🇻EL SALVADOR - Gidora Oficial Javier Valle

📸 Rae Chatten
Dark Room Photo PR

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