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“It’s always been Metal Overdrive”: Wacken founder Thomas Jensen celebrates 35 years of heavy music’s biggest festival
With the PA still echoing on a 35th anniversary edition for the ages, we sit down with Wacken Open Air founder Thomas Jensen to find out how the event grew from humble beginnings into an all-conquering behemoth, what his favourite memories were from a jam-packed 2026 edition, and why the future of metal’s ‘Holy Land’ is faster, harder, louder – and brighter – than ever before...
