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A review of the trip can be found in three parts: the first, the second and the third.
| MONDAY-TUESDAY 30-31.07.2012 | |
| Bang, hammer, saw, drill, inflate. And it's all coming down again in a few days... |
| Is this where Hell's Kettles might be found? |
| "Ja, Ellen, vould you like some of my cocktail vot I haf made in ze vatermelon?" |
| I think I'll pass... |
| On a second trip back from the car, here's more campsite madness... |
| ...there's even an unofficial working chip stall, or something like that, inside... |
| Who needs a caravan when you can have this? |
| Oh no... I can't get away from the internet, even here...! |
| The new entrance to the Head Office: recycled from last year's VIP area |
| Willi Schäl, 1920-2012: we will never forget! |
| WEDNESDAY 01.08.2012 | |
 | Breakfast time for Volker |
 | Julian's beer can sword |
 | "So how you live comes to you in Hell!" Yeah, right. Is there someone who looks after you? |
 | Manowar, Manowar, selling barbecues in Netto. When they're in town, vegetables explode! |
 | We thought this was a missed opportunity; surely it should have been a bouncy castle? |
 | More fun with Volker's head |
 | Ravenblood |
 | Gothic (1) |
 | Gothic (2) |
 | Gothic (3) |
 | Preparing for a show in the Wackinger Village... |
 | "DANGER CAN!" |
 | The internet strikes again... |
 | ...and now, Volker finds himself with his hands taped to whatever he happened to be drinking from that huge flagon. It wasn't water, and it wasn't beer... |
 | The all-new Bullhead City Circus |
 | "I must sell 130 newspapers for a Wacken ticket!" Good luck, mate... |
 | Gone Postal (1) |
 | Gone Postal (2) |
 | Gone Postal (3) |
 | Roll around in the mud, splat yourself on the walls, instant art, better than Tracy Emin. Where's our Turner Prize? |
 | Hamferđ (1) |
 | Hamferđ (2) |
 | Rain Shatter (1) |
 | Rain Shatter (2) |
 | Zygnema (1) |
 | Zygnema (2) |
 | I did not even dare to ask what was going on here... |
 | The Germans... burning things |
 | Disquiet (1) |
| Disquiet (1) |
 | Disquiet (2) |
 | Corpse Garden (1) |
| Corpse Garden (1) |
 | Corpse Garden (2) |
 | Corpse Garden (3) |
 | Corpse Garden (4) |
 | Warpath (1) |
 | Warpath (2) |
| THURSDAY 02.08.2012 | |
 | The campsite was getting hard to navigate... but this helped! |
 | 2012's beer mugs, arranged on the parcel shelf |
 | The annual gathering of the Conspiracy Nuts' Society... |
 | Epic Pavillon (sic) Of Doom, at the corner of campsite A |
 | The Swiss Metal-Bibel barbecue |
 | Faanefjell (1): woolly jumper on display |
 | Faanefjell (2) |
 | Faanefjell (3) |
 | Faanefjell (4) |
 | While it was far from the worst it would get, the cow in the beer garden needing wellies was not a good sign of things to come... |
 | Sweden's Camp Dragonsteed were camped at the bottom of the hill, right near a ditch and the chemical toilets. Guess what would happen to them... |
 | Winterstorm |
| Winterstorm |
 | Amaranthe (1) |
 | Amaranthe (2) |
 | Hammercult (1) |
 | Hammercult (2) |
 | Hammercult (3) |
 | Someone, somewhere, thought this was a good idea for a paint job... |
 | ...but Garfield's thumb is pointing the wrong way. |
 | Honestly, Volker, you bring it on yourself... |
 | Swedish Style! Camp Dragonsteed beat their meat! |
 | Taking the can dog for a walk...? |
 | Channel Zero (1) |
 | Channel Zero (2) |
 | Saxon (1): reminding us who's playing the drums |
 | Saxon (2) |
 | Saxon (3): a bit blurred, but I was a long way off |
 | Saxon (4) |
| FRIDAY 03.08.2012 | |
 | Sacred Reich (1) |
 | Sacred Reich (2) |
 | Sacred Reich (3) |
 | Sacred Reich (4) |
 | Sanctuary (1) |
 | Sanctuary (2) |
 | Sanctuary (3) |
 | Sanctuary (4) |
 | Sanctuary (5) |
 | Sanctuary (6) |
 | Our reasonable luck with the weather runs right out! |
 | ...but am I disappointed? No. |
 | The Spanish camp next to us weren't there to hold down their gazebo... |
 | ...neither were this lot! |
 | The Great Lake of Wacken, or at least, one of them... |
 | Graveyard (1) |
 | Graveyard (2) |
 | Graveyard (3) |
 | Another Great Lake of Wacken, this time inside the Party Stage area... |
| Another Great Lake of Wacken, this time inside the Party Stage area... |
 | Coroner (1) |
 | Coroner (2) |
 | Coroner's muddiest fans |
 | More mud madness |
 | Hey, let's sit down in the ankle-deep lake! |
 | This lake, in front of the Black Stage, was almost knee-deep in places. Too much for the woodchips and the straw... far too much! |
 | Dimmu Borgir (1) |
 | Dimmu Borgir (2) |
 | Dimmu Borgir (3) |
 | The eerie pattern cast over Bullhead City at night... |
 | Aura Noir (1) |
 | Aura Noir (2) |
 | Aura Noir (3) |
 | Aura Noir (4) |
 | Athonite (1) |
 | Athonite (2) |
 | Athonite (3) |
 | Athonite (4) |
 | Athonite (5) |
 | Ghost Brigade (1) |
 | Ghost Brigade (2) |
 | Ghost Brigade (3) |
 | The deserted Bullhead City stages, late at night, the ground destroyed from three days of muddy boots stomping all over it... and there's still another day to go! |
| SATURDAY 04.08.2012 | |
 | Agro (1) |
 | Agro (2) |
 | Agro (3) |
 | Agro (4) |
 | Henry Rollins (1) |
 | Henry Rollins (2) |
 | Paradise Lost (1) |
 | Paradise Lost (2) |
 | Paradise Lost (3) |
 | Mud Avenue: the new address of the Metal-Markt |
 | Testament (1) |
 | Testament (2) |
 | Testament (3) |
 | Testament (4) |
 | Testament (5) |
 | Testament (6): the "Free Randy" banner worked! |
 | By this time, it was almost possible to float away on the sea of mud... |
 | Ingrimm (1) |
 | Ingrimm (2) |
 | Ingrimm (3) |
 | Ingrimm (4) |
 | A memorial for the grass... |
 | Campsite P is now one tent lighter... |
 | Dio Disciples (1) |
 | Dio Disciples (2) |
 | Dio Disciples (3) |
 | Dio Disciples (4) |
 | Dio Disciples (5) |
 | Winterfylleth (1) |
 | Winterfylleth (2): Mark making more strange faces onstage again |
 | Winterfylleth (3) |
 | Winterfylleth (4) |
 | Winterfylleth (5) |
 | Winterfylleth (6) |
 | The aftermath: the grass grave gets some extra additions |