Visions Of Atlantis announce new live album ‘Pirates Over Wacken’

February 2, 2023 James Weaver

VISIONS OF ATLANTIS have announced a new live album!

Titled Pirates Over Wacken, the upcoming album from the Austrian symphonic metal band is the follow-up to last year’s Pirates, and is scheduled to be released in March this year, via Napalm Records. The upcoming live album captures the band’s performance at last year’s Wacken Open Air.

Speaking about the upcoming live album, the band says, “there is something purely magical about Wacken. Maybe it is the collective belief that this is the Holy Ground of Heavy Metal. Maybe it simply is, the Holy Ground of Heavy Metal. Maybe this casts a specific energy around the stages and the fields of this special German town.
We didn’t miss to feel this magic, while shouting the name “Wacken” out loud on stage or while looking around and seeing thousands of people, at peace, loving being there and sharing this together.

It was very special to us again, as if it wasn’t our first time playing Wacken. We got overcome with emotion several times during the show. There was so much we wanted to say. We felt empowered as a artists and human beings. Wacken is one of these grounds where you feel you can change the world. Watching this crowd and talking to them on that very day felt like never before and we will remember it forever. Nothing lasts forever but memories do. Thank you Wacken for having made us a part of your legend.”

Alongside the announcement of the new live album, the band have released a new live music video from the upcoming album; Pirates Will Return.

Watch the official live music video for Pirates Will Return here: