One night. Four bands. The Wacken crew in the room.
Drinks and dinner on us — 100 places, invitation only.
Presented by Wacken Open Air & Reeperbahn Festival · In partnership with Cobra Agency, Contra, MPS Hanseatic and Wacken Metal Battle
Four bands. Dinner and drinks on us. And the crew who book, build and run the world's biggest metal festival, in the room all night — to meet, to talk shop, to make something happen.
Name-checked entry from Spielbudenplatz. Dinner is served from 18:30. Find the crew — they wear no lanyards.
Changeovers are 30 minutes. Reception and open bar 18:00–19:00. Programme ends 00:30, the venue clears at 01:00. The running order is with the Reeperbahn Festival advancing team for confirmation and is binding once fixed.
Repeat!
Budapest, 2022. Six-piece melodic progressive metal: atmospheric melody against heavy riffing, led by commanding female vocals. In 2025 they released a four-song live session previewing their upcoming eight-song album, King of Dreamers.
Neumünster, 2022. German-language rap over crossover riffs. Over 100 shows, winners of Emergenza Germany and the Baltic Band Battle, debut EP out since October 2025.
Berlin, 2023. Riff-driven modern metal with atmospheric edges. First show supporting Underoath, then Summer Breeze, Nexus and the Wacken Cruise. Debut album out since November 2025.
Gothic rock rooted in 90s goth and alternative rock. M'era Luna, Amphi Festival, Wave-Gotik-Treffen and Plage Noire, plus support for Lord Of The Lost.
All four acts confirmed. Credits are contractual: Wisborg — Annie Bertram; Seven Blood — Anthony Molina / Stefan Kraupner. Grell and Seers Of Light credits are outstanding and required before publication. Wisborg's logo exists in black only, so the cards stay photography-only.
The Wacken Open Air crew will be at Bahnhof Pauli for the whole night — booking, production, marketing, international, press. The people who actually build the festival, there to talk about how any of it works.
No meeting slots, no queue. Walk up and talk.
Ten confirmed attendees from WOA Festival GmbH. Names, roles and portraits to be supplied — grid is final.
Entrance on Spielbudenplatz. Doors 18:00, name-checked — bring photo ID.
300 m on foot. U3 St. Pauli is 500 m. Night buses run on the Reeperbahn all night.
There are no wheelchair sanitary facilities on site. Write to us if you need step-free routing, a reserved seat or a companion place.
Open bar 18:00–19:00, dinner from 18:30. Cloakroom and a printed run of show. No festival badge required.
A small room by Wacken standards. That is the point.
Questions, transfers, or a name change on the door — write to us up to 15.09.2026.
One hundred places, invitation only. Tell us who is coming and the door will know your name.
Bring photo ID. Name-checked entry from 18:00. Anything changes, write to salman.syed@ics-int.com.
Returned places go out from 10.09.2026 in the order they came in. Nothing to do until then — we only write if one opens.
No need to do it twice. If the confirmation never arrived, or a colleague should come instead, write to salman.syed@ics-int.com and we will sort it.
