Overview
- Both festivals celebrated milestone anniversaries with Rock am Ring drawing about 90,000 fans and Rock im Park hosting 88,500 attendees
- Persistent rain and gusty winds turned stages muddy but did little to dampen the overall festival mood
- Medical teams at Rock am Ring logged over 530 rescue deployments and treated around 3,000 fans, while at Rock im Park rescuers revived a spectator after a heart-circulation arrest during Slipknot’s set
- Surprise performances by Electric Callboy and Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys at Ring and Sportfreunde Stiller at Park prompted mixed reactions to the unconventional lineups
- Metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn cut their Rock am Ring set short after frontman Marcus Bischoff suffered a throat injury