Wacken organisers,









We, the true metal faithful and loyal supporters of Wacken Open Air, are simply appauled at the addition of metalcore bands to this years bill. The addition of Avenged Sevenfold is simply the straw that broke the camel's back.









It appears that Wacken is going the way of the commercial rock festival and booking trendy non-metal bands instead of relevant bands that the majority of Wacken festival folk have paid their hard earned dollars to see (bands like Overkill, Hammerfall, Amon Amarth, Vader, Slayer, Megadeth etc).









Please do not let Wacken disintegrate into a commercial festival, akin to the likes of Download Festival which consequently sees many English metalheads take the trip to Germany's north to see a TRUE METAL festival.









Wacken, long praised as the world's number one TRUE METAL festival, a mecca for heavy metal fans, is simply losing that tag and WE, the fans of true metal ask that you, the organisers, refrain from adding further metal-core bands and add some TRUE METAL bands. We don't need to tell you what constitutes a true metal band.









PS. Cancelling bands like Job For a Cowboy and Avenged Sevenfold wouldn't hurt!