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AIRBOURNE Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival - Mar. 26, 2008

Australian hard rockers AIRBOURNE have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

3 INCHES OF BLOOD
AIRBOURNE
ALESTORM
AS I LAY DYING
AT THE GATES
AUTUMN
AVANTASIA
AXEL RUDI PELL
AXXIS
BEFORE THE DAWN
CARCASS
CHILDREN OF BODOM
CORVUS CORAX
CREMATORY
CYNIC
DESTRUCTOR
DREAM OF AN OPIUM EATER
ENEMY OF THE SUN
ENSIFERUM
EVOCATION
EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS
EXODUS
GIRUGÄMESH
GOREROTTED
GORGOROTH
GRAVE
HATEBREED
HEADHUNTER
IRON MAIDEN
JOB FOR A COWBOY
KAMELOT
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
KREATOR
KRYPTERIA
LEAVES' EYES
LORD BELIAL
LORDI
MACHINE MEN
MASSACRE
MERCENARY
NASHVILLE PUSSY
NEGURA BUNGET
NIFELHEIM
NIGHTWISH
OBITUARY
OPETH
POWERWOLF
PRIMORDIAL
PSYCHOPUNCH
SABATON
SALTATIO MORTIS
SOILWORK
SONATA ARCTICA
STURM UND DRANG
THE BONES
THE HAUNTED
TORTURE SQUAD
UNEARTH
VAN CANTO
WARBRINGER
WATAIN

For more information, visit www.wacken.com.

Germany's Bunch TV conducted an interview with AIRBOURNE at a showcase in Cologne, Germany on February 14. Watch the chat below.

AIRBOURNE recently shot a video for the song "Runnin' Wild" with director Nathan Cox, who has previously worked with QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, MARILYN MANSON and LINKIN PARK, among others. The track is the title cut of the group's new album, which landed at No. 106 on The Billboard 200 chart in the U.S. after shifting 7,000 units in its first week of release.

(Thanks: ME Metalhour)

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	COMMENT \| posted by : blissy 3/26/2008 10:31:14 AM

	Please wacken, add a good band. please.

	COMMENT \| posted by : RiotAct666 3/26/2008 10:45:40 AM

	Should be a good fest.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Electric_Funeral 3/26/2008 10:56:59 AM

	blissy, what are you on about? no good bands on that line up? i can understand that you dont like : AS I LAY DYING HATEBREED JOB FOR A COWBOY KILLSWITCH ENGAGE LORDI but come on, there is a good line up there, if you dont like any of them then you really need to open your mind.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Lord of Noise 3/26/2008 12:40:35 PM

	AIRBOURNE LEAVES' EYES LORDI SONATA ARCTICA STURM UND DRANG VAN CANTO NIGHTWISH AUTUMN I would kill to see all and any of those!

	COMMENT \| posted by : jollygood 3/26/2008 1:12:48 PM

	Airbourne did rip off some songs from Rhino Bucket!

	COMMENT \| . posted by : vintage1986 3/26/2008 1:55:33 PM

	are there any festivals in the US that even come close to being this awesome? jw.

	COMMENT \| posted by : william_murderface 3/26/2008 2:57:55 PM

	TORTURE SQUAD!!!!!!!

	COMMENT \| posted by : wrestlnrulz 3/26/2008 5:07:44 PM

	i;m kinda torn when it comes to Airbourne... the music is cool but the lyrics are just terrible...

	COMMENT \| ah rhino bucket posted by : johnnyparks 3/26/2008 6:16:14 PM

	Get a grip people Airbourne are not a rip off.. they play PUB ROCK .... its a genre

	COMMENT \| posted by : I 4 N I 3/26/2008 6:34:20 PM

	Why don't ppl like airbourne?? THere bringing the old school sounds back to modern times. Why complain?? Just curious.

	COMMENT \| posted by : The Space Lord 3/27/2008 10:49:56 PM

	No way would Jet be able to hang at this festival other than from the neck up. Guess Airbourne are the real deal after all.

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