Blaas of Glory was also walking around on the festival's previous editions in 2011 and 2011:

The first 10,000 tickets for this year's edition were completely sold within 45 minutes. The other 65,000 tickets were sold in December, so WOA is sold out for the seventh time in a row.

Among the confirmed bands are Amon Amarth, Circle II Circle (feat. Chris Caffery, performing Savatage's 'The Wake Of Magellan'), Danko Jones (a spoken word special), Dimmu Borgir (orchestral performance), Forbidden, Hammerfall (special anniversary show), Henry Rollins (another spoken word special), Machine Head, Ministry (reunion show), Moonspell (an orchestral acoustic special), Sick Of It All, Volbeat and many others.