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Wacken Metal Battle: The Five Winning Bands of 2015 | Music | DW | 02.08.2016 

Wacken Metal Battle: The Five Winning Bands of 2015 Wacken Open Air is the world’s biggest festival for heavy metal music fans. Up-and-coming acts from 30 countries go head to head in the Wacken’s Metal Battle competition. Here are 2015‘s winners.


Number 5: Savage Machine, Denmark

Number 4: Metaprism, Great Britain

Wacken – the world’s biggest metal festival and a place for only the best in the genre. But its Metal Battle is open to emerging bands too, and PopXport has the 2015 winners. In at number 4: UK’s Metaprism.

Number 3: Blaakyum, Lebanon

Wacken’s Metal Battle is one of the world’s top contests for emerging hard rock bands. This year Blaakyum from Lebanon were there. Back at home in Lebanon, heavy metal is seen as music for outsiders.

Number 2: Walkways, Israel

It’s not just established acts who play at the world’s biggest heavy metal festival in Wacken. The Metal Battle features up-and-coming acts from around the world. Walkways from Israel finished runners-up at the contest.

Number 1: Vesperia, Canada

The Wacken Open Air's Metal Battle pits around 30 international bands against each other. In 2015, Canadian death metal crew Vesperia emerged victorious.
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