Coma Divine is a side-project of the L'Ame Immortelle front woman Sonja Kraushofer. That entered just like her band members the stage in some kind of skimpy dress outfit and directly started with songs of their debut album "Dead End Circle".
After Hanging Doll had left the stage it was continued British. With the band Nemhain more rocky sounds entered the venue and could cause first movements of the crowd.
After a quite cold night (it had really been cold) I went over to the Oktoberhallen to warm up a little bit. There the British gothic metal band Hanging Doll should fire us up. Up to now they only released one EP and an album but the second is currently at work. So they only played stuff of the 2008 released CD "Reason & Madness".
At 22:00 the Finnish band Battlelore entered as mainact of the evening the stage. I did not know the seven musicians around front woman Kaisa Jouhki and Tomi Mykkänen beforehand. Never mind, really! The band recalled their 12 years lasting band history with meanwhile five studio albums.
After trudging through the traffic jams around Brussels and finally put up my tent in the dark it was unfortunately already too late for Bare Infinity. But finally I was on time for Xandria at the Oktoberhallen.
After the tour originally planned for the beginning of the year had to be delayed due to Sharon den Adels pregnancy you could now look forward to the Within Temptation so called "First Challenge" on this years Huntenpop festival at Ulft (to be precise it was already the second gig as they played two days earlier on Sziget festival at Budapest). The show should additionally be something very special.
Was there a deluge already during Children Of Bodom so the last tones were not yet faded away when the sky opened for the second time but this time more persistant than during the first time and so there was nothing more for me to do than to watch the first three songs fo Subway To Sally from the roofed gangway to the press area.
As next to the last act there were the Finnish metaller of Children Of Bodom. This gig should be something special for all senses (unfortunately). During Avantasia there were only sporadic some drips and during Motörhead it rained enduring but only very slightly. What happened now during Children Of Bodom I am really feeling sorry for all the metalheads standing in front of the stage and also for the guys themselves on it.
Shortly after 23:00 it was the time: heavy metal old hand Lemmy Kilmister entered together wiht his band Motörhead the True Metal Stage. Without much hesitating they directly went for it. Meanwhile he is 66 years old but how did a great Austrian singer one's sing: to that point in life it is just really beginning.
After so much sentimental moments I now absolutely needed an eye-opener. Therfore the Canadian trio Danko Jones was just the right thing. In front of the Party Stage it was already quite well crowded. Although they belong not 100% to Wacken considering the music style (they play classic rock'n roll) they perfectly fit and provided a terrific show.