ICS Festival Service GmbH, who organize the metal festival, have announced that all 70,000 tickets have already been sold for next year\'s event.

Meanwhile Wacken Open Air\'s 2009 festival billing is shaping up nicely with bands such as:

• Amon Amarth
  
• Bullet For My Valentine
  
• Cathedral
  
• Epica
  
• Gwar
  
• In Flames
  
• Machine Head
  
• Tristania
  
• Volbeat
  
• Walls Of Jericho.

See the complete list here. More bands will be added soon.