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Drone ✦2006 Champion

Germany flagGermany Thrash / Groove Metal
Hall of Fame · WMB 2006 Global Champion

Won the Holy Ground.

English

The winner of the W:O:A Metal Battle 2006 was the German metal band Drone.

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Their Wacken moment

How they took it.

Drone took the Wacken Metal Battle 2006 crown on the Louder Stage at Wacken Open Air — global champion of that edition, chosen from the winners of national finals around the world.

They join the line of bands the world heard first at the Wacken Metal Battle — from RECKLESS TIDE in 2004 through FORCE in 2026.

Stage
Louder Stage
Edition
WMB 2006
Genre brought
Thrash / Groove Metal
Country
Germany flag Germany
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