Corpse Hoarder Crowned Wacken Metal Battle USA Winner

It was a battle of the best from the Philadelphia and Boston areas for the first ever Wacken Metal Battle USA!

The competition was held to send one American band to play at this year’s Wacken Open Air in Germany as part of the festival’s international Metal Battle competition. The final four came down to Corpse Hoarder (Philadelphia), Goblet (Boston), Power Theory (Philadelphia) and Upheaval (Boston).

Bringing blasts of metal ranging from power, black, death, thrash and more, the first ever Wacken Metal Battle USA champion was crowned Corpse Hoarder, which brought an exciting, energetic set blending groove, death, and grind metal that the judges could not deny being presented to the Wacken stage.

The Wacken Metal Battle USA final was held in Philadelphia on May 20th at the Whiskey Tango. For those wanting to get in on the action next year, Wacken Metal Battle USA will be returning for 2018 - stay tuned for an announcement of participating cities and submissions info.