It’s the time! We announce which bands will perform at Gaukurinn in Reykjavik, Saturday 22. April, where they will compete for the honor of playing Wacken Open Air this summer and play in front of thousands of people. Special guests will be the awesome Une Misère and last year’s winner Múr.

Hey metalheads! Now we are ready for band applications for the year 2023 competition. Bands interested to participate in the competition should send us band demo (3 best songs of you will be more than enough), band picture in high resolution, band logo, band info and contact data.

We can allow only 5 bands to participate in the Wacken Metal Battle Latvia this year. An international judges will help us to choose bands that will be able to take part in the final, which will take place on 27 of May at the MP Club in Riga.

Send your applications to: estragons@inbox.lv (with “Metal Battle Latvia 2023” in message subj.).
Deadline for application sending is 17 of April, 2023.

Groove/Death Metal band from Cairo, Egypt Erasing Mankind are the winners of the Metal Battle – Egypt. They will be performing at Wacken Open Air this year. We can’t wait to have them.