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✦WMB 2023 Champion

Phantom Excaliver ✦2023 Champion

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Hall of Fame · WMB 2023 Global Champion

Won the Holy Ground.

English

The winner of the W:O:A Metal Battle 2023 was the band Phantom Excaliver from Japan.

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Their Wacken moment

How they took it.

Phantom Excaliver took the Wacken Metal Battle 2023 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 Expellow in 2025.

Stage
Louder Stage
Edition
WMB 2023
Country
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