Status: 06.07.2025 5:17 p.m.
Pianist Joja Wendt has been forged a steel wing for the Wacken Open Air. The heavy metal wing contains laser show and fog machine and the pianist even uses a flex. In the NDR Talk Show, he presents him as a world premiere together with Wacken founder Holger Hübner.
This wing was made of steel – especially for the Wacken Open Air. The so -called “beast” wears horns and tentacles. Blood seems to flow in the veins in red on the inside. The heavy metal wing looks like a lively organism. He is reminiscent of an alien in the style of the surrealist HR Giger. The instrument can be raised and then seems to want to start on huge dragon claws.
About a year ago the founder of the Wacken Open Air Holger Hübner asked the pianist whether he would not even appear in Wacken, says Wendt. “How do you imagine that? I as a concert pianist. In front of 80,000 long -haired tattooed. They eat me at me,” replied Wendt and then wanted to play. “But if I accept this challenge, I also have to come up with something special,” he explains. A special instrument, a heavy metal wing was needed “for the toughest stage in the world forged from steel,” emphasizes the pianist. Wendt made a drawing, he found a metal builder that built the instrument: a wing with pyrotechnics, fog machine, lighting effects and laser effects. And the iron “beast” endures a lot. Wendt can even hit the rhythm with a flex without being broken down into individual parts.
Authentic, honest and loud
There is a special area at the festival where Wendt will present the wing: the Mad Max Area, says the Festival founder Hübner. “We always have to be authentic, honest and loud and that fits,” he emphasizes. He is pleased that the construction of the festival is going well and that Guns n ‘Roses have promised. Joja Wendt mentions that the Wacken Open Air has now become its own brand. The pianist was even addressed to the festival on a trip in Japan. “It used to be ‘Wacken near Hamburg’ and today ‘Hamburg at Wacken’,” jokes Hübner.
