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O, ill-humored,
Fortuna!
Übersetzung: Hanna Häßlein
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| Day 1: still motivated. |
…unfortunately this was our personal Wacken-motto
2016. It already sweeten the preparation time when it turned out that a close
friend’s wedding along with a wedding video would take place in the
post-processing time. Additionally, a big interview got cancelled and a torn ligament made sure that I waded
through the muddy Wacken realm by myself 90% of the time.
With a slightly bad
feeling in the stomach we still started motivated towards the north, where the goddess of destiny stroke relentlessly time
and again. It started with the awful weather everyone had to deal with which
led to our car getting stuck which, in turn, led to a mom – and the
corresponding car seat - covered in mud.
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| Day 3: with Ivan Chertov. |
On Friday, after only five hours of sleep, further complications occurred
due to the combo rain and camera which led distorted settings. This was followed
by difficulties before an interview and a blurry picture after the interview –
which, unfortunately, was not noticed in time. The guilty party, which shall
remain anonymous (Mechthild Wirries),
paid with her tears of shame.
After another five hours of sleep, we picked ourselves up one last time –
mainly motivated by Borknagar – and were
greeted by a downpour which led to the termination of the concert and then more
bad tidings: our picture-wristband would have let us into most of the
photographer’s pits, even into the ones by the main stages – we had missed out
on this for the past three years of
Wacken and especially in 2016 it led to us only photographing Iron Maiden,
Equilibrium, Eluveitie, Tarja, Blind Guardian, Symphony
X as well as Therion as tiny
dots on the horizon. We also stood an hour before the start of the shows at all
the side stages in order to be in the first row and take good pictures. For
bands such as Ancient Bards or Orphaned Land that’s something one can
absolutely do but it does get very time consuming and annoying when repeated
too often. Thus, the saying “don’t trust
anybody” became bitter reality for us as my knowledge was based on a
statement from a security guard in 2014 and now corrected by another security
guard and really nice photographer. I should have made sure and asked at the
press tent….but I was trusting…
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Day 4: Don't forget, you are in Wacken!
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Our last lucky moment passed when the interview
with Oystein G. Brun was cancelled last minute due to higher forces so
we decided to get into the car and leave. This, unfortunately, led to us
missing a few other good bands and, for the first time, missing the parting
words of the event’s organizer.
Now that some time has passed, I can say “Shit happens” and we are optimistic for
next year! This, however, doesn’t mean that Wacken Open Air 2016 didn’t offer
some amazing moments, which will be shown here during the next days.
Fuck of Fortuna, long live Wacken!
"Wacken, wollt ihr, dass wir aufhören?!" schallte es am Morgen des 5. August 2016 laut durch den Regen. Es erklärt sich wohl von
selbst, dass so eine Frage nur bei einer gewissen Stimmung gestellt wird und
das dementsprechend eine Verneinung die legitime Antwort war, die Orden Ogan beim diesjährigen Wacken Open Air zu recht erhielten. 
Und zwar beim vorab angekündigten Metal Christmas im Forum Bielefeld am 20.12.2015. 
...war die Suggestivfrage von Sänger Siegfried Samer auf die das Publikum des Female Metal Event am 16.10.2015 mit obligatorischem Jubel reagierte. Nicht ohne Grund, denn der Auftritt, den die öfterreichische Band ablieferte, konnte sich durchaus sehen lassen.
Die hat eine bewegte Geschichte mit vielen Abgängen hinter sich, um die alte Besetzung am Ende um Schlagzeuger Thomas Caser 2013 neu zu versammeln. Frisch im Team lediglich die Frontbesetzung am Mikrofon: Clémentine Delauney und Siegfried Samer, die beide bereits durch andere Bands von sich Reden gemacht haben. Erstere unter anderem als Sängerin von Serenity, fast schon schicksalhaft, hatten doch Songs von beiden Bands es auf die Opera Metal Vol. 8 geschafft. Samer hingegen hatte durch sein Engagement bei Dragony noch keine Vorerfahrung mit Dual-Fronted-Metal. Das merkte man ihm zu keinem Zeitpunkt an, die beiden Protagonisten harmonierten durchwegs sehr gut miteinander und lieferten eine gekonnte Show. 
