July 12 - Wacken Open Air

The show was about Wacken Open Air 2026

01.VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Monsters
02.LACUNA COIL: Blood, tears, dust
03.THE TROOPS OF DOOM: Chapels of the unholy
04.THERAPY?: Teethgrinder
05.EUROPE: Sign of the times
06.BLOOD RED THRONE: Arterial lust
07.SAVATAGE: Jesus saves
08.ANAAL NATHRAKH: Forward!
09.TURBONEGRO: All my friends are dead
10.DEF LEPPARD: Rocket
11.VREID: The skies turn black
12.PARADISE LOST: The last time
13.PIG DESTROYER: Trojan whore
14.SAXON: Princess of the night
15.HATEBREED: Looking down the barrel of today
16.JUDAS PRIEST: All guns blazing
17.EMPEROR: Wrath of the tyrant
18.RUNNING WILD: Under Jolly Roger
19.SEPULTURA: Troops of doom
20.BLOOD COMMAND: Forever soldiers of Esther
21.ARCH ENEMY: To the last breath
22.CASTLE RAT: Fresh fur
23.EINHERJER: Bloodborn
24.SABATON: Templars
25.ALESTORM: Zombies ate my pirate ship

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 24 - Wacken Open Air revisited

Knuts top 5 from Wacken Open Air 2025

01.SAVATAGE: Edge of thorns
02.RUSS BALLARD: Resurrection
03.LORD OF THE LOST: Ghosts
04.MOTÖRHEAD: (We are) the road crew
05.SABATON: Lightning at the gates
06.THIN LIZZY: Thunder and lightning
07.THE GASÖLINES: Let’s go
08.THE WHO: My generation
09.YEAR OF THE GOAT: Alucarda
10.GIANT: A night to remember
11.VICK LECAR: Witches brew
12.HONEYMOON SUITE: Lookin’ out for number one
13.TANKARD: Centerfold
Wacken..
14.05.HELLBUTCHER: The sword of wrath
15.04.MACABRE: Vampire of Düsseldorf
16.03.MINISTRY: Rio Grande blood
17.02.FORBIDDEN: Out of body (out of mind)
18.01.GRAVE DIGGER: Excalibur
Open Air revisited
19.PARADISE LOST: Tyrants serenade
20.THYRFING: Angestens högborg

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 20 - Wacken Open Air

The show was about Wacken Open Air 2025

01.SKYLINE: This is W.O.A.
02.WARBRINGER: Hunter-seeker
03.TORTURE SQUAD: Horror and torture
04.TARJA: I walk alone
05.BEYOND THE BLACK: Heart of the hurricane
06.IN THE WOODS…: The crimson crown
07.PENTAGRAM CHILE: La fiura
08.PRONG: Unconditional
09.NIGHTMARE: Saviours of the damned
10.GRAVE DIGGER: Bark to hell
11.SVARTTJERN: Prince of disgust
12.GUNS N’ ROSES: Live and let die
13.1349: I am abomination
14.SETYØURSAILS: Bad blood
15.FORBIDDEN: Step by step
16.PAPA ROACH: Braindead
17.SCHANDMAUL: In der hand
18.DIMMU BORGIR: Stormblåst
19.TROLLFEST: Dance like a pink flamingo
20.WARKINGS: Hangman’s night
21.W.A.S.P.: I wanna be somebody
22.OBITUARY: Find the arise
23.EXHORDER: Legions of death
24.FIT FOR AN KING: No tomorrow

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 25 - Wacken Open Air revisited

Knut Ivar’s top 5 of Wacken Open Air 2024

01.SAXON: 747 (strangers in the night)
02.GREENLEAF: Avalanche
03.AVATARIUM: Long black waves
04.LAUREN HARRIS: Steal your fire
05.KOSMODOME: Fatigue
06.W.A.S.P.: Love machine
07.BLACK TOOTH: Iron clad
08.YOB: Original face
Wacken…
09.BLUES PILLS: Birthday
10.WATAIN: Malfeitor
11.MESSIAH: Choir of horrors
12.VREID: Pitch black
13.BLIND GUARDIAN: Violent shadows
..Open Air revisited.
14.IOTUNN: Laihem’s golden pits
15.INSOMNIUM: While we sleep
16.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Shining
17.THEFALLS: Patterns emerge (II)
18.IN VAIN: To the gallows
19.DWAAL: All masters, all servants

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 14 - Wacken Open Air

All the show was about Wacken Open Air 2024

01.THE DARKNESS: I believe in a thing called love
02.EVILE: The unknown
03.ARMORED SAINT: Mad house
04.RAGE: Days of December
05.MESSIAH: Christus hypercubus
06.KK’S PRIEST: One more shot at glory
07.INCANTATION: Fury’s manifesto
08.ACCEPT: The reckoning
09.SCORPIONS: Rock you like a hurricane
10.TRELLDOM: Til minne
11.BLUES PILLS: High class woman
12.EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY: Orgies of the inseminated
13.LIV KRISTINE: Love decay
14.EINHERJER: Odin owns ye all
15.BLIND GUARDIAN: Bright eyes
16.VREID: Pitch black
17.TANKARD: Rectifier
18.EMIL BULLS: The devil made me do it
19.BOKASSA: The ending starts today
20.TESTAMENT: Low
21.BEHEMOTH: Blow your trumpets Gabriel
22.MISTER MISERY: Hand of death
23.MAYHEM: Buried by time and dust

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 2 - Wacken Open Air

The show was about Wacken Open Air 2023

01.HOLY MOSES: Def con II
02.DORO: Raise your fist in the air
03.KOLDBRANN: Totalt sjelelig bankerott
04.WHOREDOM RIFE: Cursing the storm to come
05.HAMMERFALL: Hammer of dawn
06.KREATOR: People of the lie
07.CARPATHIAN FOREST: Black shining leather
08.HELLOWEEN: Future world
09.ABBATH: Fenrir hunts
10.AMARANTHE: Drop dead cynical
11.THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY: The kids are alt-right
12.TWILIGHT FORCE: Twilight force
13.MEGADETH: Symphony of destruction
14.DEICIDE: Repent to die
15.IRON MAIDEN: Can I play with madness
16.LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Contamination
17.MASTERPLAN: Enlighten me
18.JINJER: Disclosure
19.ALESTORM: Pirate metal drinking crew
20.POSSESSED: Death metal
21.EVERGREY: Call out the dark
22.VOIVOD: Kiling technology
23.DROPKICK MURPHYS: Rose tattoo

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 4 - Wacken Revisited

Part of the show was a about our personal top 5 Wacken Open Air 2022

01.VENOM: Black metal
02.OCEANS: Home
03.MÄRVEL: Slasher with a broken heart
04.FEUERSCHWANZ: I see fire
05.HAMMER KING: Pariah is my name
06.THERION: Lemuria

Wacken Revisited:
Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
07. 05.SASHA PAETH’S MASTERS OF CEREMONY: Die just a little
08. 04.EINHERJER: The blood and the iron
09. 03.GRAVE DIGGER: Rebellion (the clans are marching)
10. 02.OVERKILL: Wrecking crew
11. 01.ARCH ENEMY: The Watcher
Oddgeir Gitlestad:
12. 05.SLIPKNOT: Before I forget
13. 04.FREEDOM CALL: Freedom call
14. 03.JUDAS PRIEST: Freewheel burning
15. 02.EINHERJER: West coast groove
16. 01.OVERKILL: Welcome to the garden state

17.MORTIIS: The grudge
18.OCTOHAWK: Eyes glowing red
19.GOLGATA: Marvatten
20.BLODTØRST: Nail gun
21.EREB ALTOR: Midsommarblot
22.OBSIDIAN THRONE: Snowblind

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad

July 17 - Wacken Open Air

This show was about Wacken Open Air Festival

01.AVANTASIA: Lost in space
02.CADAVER: Mr. Tumor’s misery
03.CORVUS CORAX: Sverker
04.MORK: Svartmalt
05.GRAVE DIGGER: Excalibur
06.OVERKILL: Elimination
07.KAMPFAR: Fandens trall
08.JUDAS PRIEST: Lightning strike
09.GWAR: El presidente
10.BELPHEGOR: The devil’s son
11.BOKASSA: So long idiots!
12.LACUNA COIL: Nothing stands in our way
13.CATTLE DECAPITATION: One day closer to the end of the world
14.STRATOVARIUS: Hunting high and low
15.HYPOCRISY: Roswell 47
16.EINHERJER: Dragons of the north
17.THE HALO EFFECT: The needless end
18.GLUECIFER: Easy living
19.TARJA: I walk alone
20.SPIDERGAWD: Is this love..?
21.ARCH ENEMY: Handshake with hell
22.DEATH ANGEL: Caster of shame
23.LORDI: Would you love a monsterman?

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 30 - Wacken Open Air

The show was about Wacken Open Air 2019.

01.ROSE TATTOO: Rock ‘n’ roll outlaw
02.NORDJEVEL: Amen whores
03.HAMMERFALL Any means necessary
03.VLTIMAS: Total destroy
04.GRAVE: Into the grave
05.SABATON: Fields of Verdun
06.SIBIIR: Bekmörke
07.HELLHAMMER: Revelations of doom
08.QUEENSRYCHE: I am I
09.CRADLE OF FILTH: Nymphetamine fix
10.ANTHRAX: Madouse
11.DEMONS & WIZARDS: Blood on my hands
12.SLAYER: Mandatory suicide
13.THE CROWN: Deathexplosion
14.D.A.D.: Bad craziness
15.LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Slaves of the southern cross
16.KVELERTAK: Berserkr
17.BATTLE BEAST: The golden horde
18.OF MICE & MEN: How to survive
19.PRIMORDIAL: No grave deep enough
20.AVATAR: King’s harvest
21.RAGE: From the cradle to the grave
22.FROG LEAP: Killing in the name

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 9 - Wacken Revisited

Personal top 3 Wacken Open Air 2018.

01.VOIVOD: Ravenous medicine
02.PRIMAL FEAR: New rise
03.QUEEN: Bohemian rhapsody
04.ZEROMANCER: Ammonite
05.MAGICK TOUCH: Wildfire
06.AUDREY HORNE: Audrevolution

Oddgeir: 
07.03JUDAS PRIEST: Firepower
08.02.HELLOWEEN: How many tears
09.01.HATEBREED: I will be heard
Jeana Grzendek:
10.03.NIGHT DEMON: Screams in the night
11.02.DOOL: Golden Serpents
12.01.JUDAS PRIEST: Living after midnight
Knut:
13.03.BELPHEGOR: Hell’s ambassador
14.02.NIGHTWISH: Wish I had an angel
15.01.HELLOWEEN: Dr.Stein
Vega:
16.03.ALESTORM: The sunk’n norwegian
17.02.BEHEMOTH: Blow your trumpets Gabriel
18.01.DESTRUCTION: Nailed to the cross

19.HUMBLE PIE: I can’t stand the rain
20.ÅRABROT: And the whore is this city
21.STYGGMYR: Hellebard
22.MAYAN: The rhythm of freedom
23.MAMMÜTH: Fortuneteller

Vega Tanas
Raymond Smith
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 8 - Wacken Open Air

All of the show was about Wacken Open Air 2018.

01.DORO: We are the metalheads
02.DOKKEN: Tooth and nail
03.BEHEMOTH: Ov fire and the void
04.DANZIG: Mother
05.WATAIN: Sacred damnation
06.JUDAS PRIEST: Lightning strike
07.SARKE: The drunken priest
08.AMARANTHE: Drop dead cynical
09.AMORPHIS: The bee
10.EPICA: If inside these walls was a house
11.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Needled 24/7
12.DESTRUCTION: Nailed to the cross
13.TROLLFEST: Professor Otto
14.CLAWFINGER: Nigger
15.NIGHTWISH: Nemo
16.RUNNING WILD: Conquistadores
17.IN FLAMES: Only for the weak
18.RIOT V: Messiah
19.ARCH ENEMY: First day in hell
20.ENSLAVED: Isa
20.HELLOWEEN: Lost in America
21.DIMMU BORGIR: Council of wolves and snakes
22.ONDT BLOD: Storma

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
 

August 27 - Top 3 Wacken

Personal top 3 from Wacken Open Air 2017

01.RUNNING WILD: Port royal
02.CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Sin
03.TESTAMENT: Do or die
04.W.A.S.P.: I am one
05.DEEP PURPLE: Stormbringer

Personal top 3
Oddgeir Gitlestad
06. 03.ROSS THE BOSS: Blood of my enemies
07. 02.POSSESSED: The exorcist
08. 01.GRAVE DIGGER: Morgane le Fay
Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
09. 03.GRAVE DIGGER: Heavy metal breakdown
10. 02.WARRANT (DE): Nuns have no fun
11. 01.KREATOR: Pleasure to kill
Vega Barkley:
12. 03.AMON AMARTH: A dream that cannot be
13. 02.KREATOR: Satan is real
14. 01.EMPEROR: Thus spake the nightspirit

15.METALLICA: Jump in the fire
16.VIVA: Don't hold back the tears
17.THE HAUNTED: Eye of the storm
18.THYRUZ: Dødsriket
19.MECALIMB: Unspoken words
20.CUTTHROAT: Coffin sweet coffin
21.WYRUZ: Carved in stone
22.BLOOD RED THRONE: Primitive killing machine
23.NAPALM DEATH: Cursed to crawl

Vega Barkley
Raymond Smith
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 2 - Wacken Open Air

All of the show was about Wacken Open Air 2017.

01.VORBID: Closed casket
02.ANNIHILATOR: Set the world on fire
03.ROSS THE BOSS: Blood of my enemies
04.ACCEPT: The rise of chaos
05.BRUJERIA: Viva presidente trump
06.VOLBEAT: Lola Montez
07.MAYHEM: Buried by time and dust
08.NILE: Sacrifice unto Sebek
09.MEMORIAM: Surrounded by death
10.GRAVE DIGGER: Healed by metal
11.MORBID ANGEL: He who sleeps
12.PARADISE LOST: Faith devides us - death units us
13.EMPEROR: Thus spake the nightspirit
14.CANDLEMASS: Mirror mirror
15.TURBONEGRO: You give me worms
16.POSSESSED: Seven churches
17.RAGE: Blackened karma
18.ALICE COOPER: Lost in America
19.SOILWORK: The ride majestic
20.AVANTASIA: Mystery of a blood red rose
21.TANKARD: Syrian nightmare
22.KREATOR: People of the lie
23.PRIMAL FEAR: Metal is forever

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 4 - Top Wacken

Oddgeir & Knuts top 5 Wacken Open Air 2016

01.SONATA ARCTICA: Fullmoon
02.ALTER BRIDGE: Show me a leader
03.WILDNITE: Into your eyes
04.CHRIS HOLMES: Shitting bricks
05.TOXICROSE: Killing the romance
06.RATT: Round and round
07.SABATON: Sparta
08.SEVEN IMPALE: Heresy
09.RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: Californiacation
10.ALESTORM: Over the seas
11.STEP FORWARD: My love
Oddgeir Gitlestad:
12. 05:TWISTED SISTER: The fire still burns
12. 04:LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Death's head march
13. 03:METAL CHURCH: Killing your time
14. 02:TESTAMENT: The formation of damnation
15. 01:(HANSEN & FRIENDS) HELLOWEEN: Save us
Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
16. 05:(TRIPTYKON) CELTIC FROST: Circle of the tyrants
17. 04:UNISONIC: Star rider
18. 03:TWISTED SISTER: Destroyer
19. 02:TESTAMENT: The preacher
20. 01:(HANSEN & FRIENDS) HELLOWEEN: Future world

21.SHINING (N): Fisheye

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 3 - Wacken Open Air

All of the show was about Wacken Open Air 2016

01.SAXON: Princess of the night
02.VADER: Come and see my sacrifice
03.TSJUDER: Norge
04.IMMOLATION: Burn with Jesus
05.MARDUK: The blond beast
06.IRON MAIDEN: Wasted years
07.LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Death's head march
08.EQUILIBRIUM: Blut im auge
09.AXEL RUDI PELL: Rock the nation
10.TARJA: I walk alone
11.1349: Slaves
12.BLIND GUARDIAN: Mirror mirror
13.IHSAHN: My heart is of the north
14.UNISONIC: Unisonic
15.KAMPFAR: Svarte sjelers salme
16.BORKNAGAR: The genuine pulse
17.EINHERJER: Dragons of the north
18.TWISTED SISTER: Destroyer
19.AURA NOIR: Hades rise
20.PARKWAY DRIVE:Destroyer
21.ARCH ENEMY: As the pages burn
22.CRIPPER: Pure

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 9 - Top Wacken / Øya Festival

Wacken revisited. Symphoniums top 3 from Wacken 2015
The end of the show was about The Øya Festival.

01.BLIND GUARDIAN: Welcome to dying
02.THE OFFSPRING: Original prankster
03.TURBONEGER: Rock against ass
04.DUNDERBEIST: Gryta
05.SEIGMEN: Til verdens ende
Wacken..
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
06. 03.HELLOWEEN: A little time (Rock Meets Classic)
07. 02.SABATON: Panzerkampf
08. 01.SAVATAGE: Hall of the mountain king (Savatage/TSO)
Oddgeir Gitlestad
09. 03.JUDAS PRIEST: Turbo lover
10. 02.HELLOWEEN: I want out (Rock Meets Classic)
11. 01.SAVATAGE: Tonight he grins again (Savatage/TSO)
Vega Barkley:
12. 03.AT THE GATES: At war with reality
13. 02.JUDAS PRIEST: Beyond the realms of death
14. 01.SAVATAGE: Edge of thorns
Kristian «The Trooper» Sagen
15. 03.RAINBOW: Stargazer (Rock Meets Classic)
16. 02. CANNIBAL CORPSE: Hammer smashed face
17. 01.JUDAS PRIEST: Painkiller
..Revisited.
Øya...
18.AT THE GATES: Slaughter of the soul
19.ENSLAVED: Isa
20.IN FLAMES: In plain view
21.KRAKOW: Genesis
22.TAAKE: Gamle norig
..Festival.

Vega Barkley
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 5 - Wacken Open Air

The entire show was about Wacken Open Air 2015

01.EUROPE: Superstitious
02.U.D.O.: 24/7
03.NOCTIFERIA: Gaga people
04.TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA: This is who you are
05.SAVATAGE: Jesus saves
06.THE ANSWER: Gone too long
07.EPICA:Unchain utopia
08.ANGRA: Secret garden
09.SEPULTURA: Troops of doom
10.KVELERTAK: Trepan
11.AT THE GATES: Slaughter of the soul
12.STRATOVARIUS: Hunting high and low
13.ANAAL NATHRAK: Forging towards the sunset
14.ANNIHILATOR: Road to ruin
15.SAMAEL: Baphomet's throne
16.IN FLAMES: With eyes wide open
17.RUNNING WILD: Port Royal
18.KATAKLYSM: Taking the world by storm
19.KHOLD: Hundre år gammal
20.POWERWOLF: Blessed & possessed
21.SABATON: Gott mit uns
22.JUDAS PRIEST: Electric eye
23.OBITUARY: Out of blood
24.BLOOD RED THRONE: Souls of damnation
25.CRADLE OF FILTH: From the cradle to enslave

Vega Barkley
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 31 - Nightmare

Interview with Jo Amore & Matt Asselbergs from Nightmare, recorded at Wacken Open Air.

01.ZODIAC MINDWARP: Back seat education
02.PROJECT ARCADIA: Shelter me
03.MANOWAR: Hail and kill MMXIV
04.GENE SIMMONS: Asshole
05.OPETH: Cusp of eternity
06.HAWKWIND: Master of the universe
07.SONATA ARCTICA: Full moon
08.BIGELF: Control freak
09.LEVIATHAN: Census of stars
10.PAGAN'S MIND: Through Osiris' eyes
11.ION VEIN: Twist of fate
12.ANATHEMA: Anathema
13.KARMA TO BURN: Five
14.NIGHTMARE: Dawn of darkness
15.NIGHTMARE: Eternal winter
16.NIGHTMARE: Sunrise in hell
17.SEPTIC FLESH: Confessions of a serial killer
18.ORIGIN: Manifest desolate
19.OBLITERATION: Black death horizon
20.MYRKSKOG: Deathmachine

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Reporters:
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 17 - Top Wacken

Wacken revisited top 3

01.SAVATAGE: Jesus saves
02.TESLA: Rise and fall
03.SINNER: Danger zone
04.KISS: Modern day Delilah
05.MOTÖRHEAD: Eat the rich
Wacken revisited...
Egil Bjørn Evensen
06.SODOM: The saw is the law
07.KING DIAMOND: The family ghost
08.ACCEPT: Burning
Oddgeir Gitlestad
09.SLAYER: Disciple
10.SAXON: Heavy metal thunder
11.KREATOR: War curse
Vega Barkley
12.BEHEMOTH: Christians to the lions
13.KING DIAMOND: Welcome home
14.SLAYER: Mandatory suicide
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
15.HAMMERFALL: The dragon lies bleeding
16.EMPEROR: Inno a satana
17.KREATOR: Pleasure to kill
..Top 3.
18.TWILIGHTFALL: Spirit of ancestors
19.METALLICA: Ride the lightning
20.DIMENSION F3H: Babylon
21.THE CUMSHOTS: I still drink alone
22.MAYHEM: Psy war
23.THOU SHALT SUFFER: Painful void of time

Vega Barkley
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 6 - Wacken Open Air

This show was all about Wacken Open Air 2014

01.ICS VORTEX: Aces
02.MASTERPLAN: Keep your dream alive
03.HAMMERFALL: One more time
04.SAXON: Never surrender
05.STEEL PANTHER: 17 girls in a row
06.ACCEPT: Breaker
07.VREID: The blood eagle
08.NIGHTMARE: Wicked white demon
09.HELLYEAH: War in me
10.CARCASS: Unfit for human consumption
11.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Needled 24/7
12.KING DIAMOND: The 7th day of July 1777
13.SKID ROW: Youth gone wild
14.SLAYER: Disciple
15.W.A.S.P.: I wanna be somebody
16.ARCH ENEMY: Never forgive, never forget
17.BEHEMOTH: Furor divinus
18.EMPEROR: The majesty of the nightsky
19.MEGADETH: Public enemy no.1
20.KREATOR: Flag of hate
21.SODOM: Ausgebombt
22.AMON AMARTH: As Loke falls
23.AVANTASIA: The watchmakers' dream
24.PRONG: Rude awakening
25.VAN CANTO: Bed of nails
26.DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT: Juular

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen