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✦WMB 2008 Champion

The Fading ✦2008 Champion

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Hall of Fame · WMB 2008 Global Champion

Won the Holy Ground.

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The winner of W:O:A Metal Battle 2008 was Israeli thrash metal and melodic death metal band The Fading.

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Their Wacken moment

How they took it.

The Fading took the Wacken Metal Battle 2008 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 2008
Country
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