Zombies Ate My Girlfriend Win Metal Battle 2016

AI Metal Battle Winners
The Metal Battle at Wacken took place for the 13th time in 2016. In this decade the contest supported several bands at their starting point of their career, e.g. Drone, Torture Squad, Battle Beast and Hammercult.

Although many countries joined the Metal Battle which the metal world didn’t pay much attention to before; even as these countries have a great metal scene as well. That’s the reason why the Metal Battle grew and more than 40 countries joined the competition. Countries like Canada, Mexico, South Africa, the Middle East, Bulgaria, China, Japan (just to name a few) entered this worldwide network to figure out one band that represents their local scene at the international final round at the Wacken Open Air.

Traditionally the final takes place at the WET Stage and since 3 years also at the Headbanger’s Stage of the W:O:A. The bands do have the option to give hell to the audience of the biggest metal festival in the world and to show them what metal is about in their home country.

In the past the international jury (1 judge from each participating country) chose 1 winning band. Since the last year the jury will select a “top 5” and the bands will be rewarded with material and cash prizes.

Also the Metal Battle final at the W:O:A will be a forum for all participating bands where they can get in touch with producers, manager, booking agents and labels. So the Metal Battle gives a chance to all participating bands to establish contacts which can be useful for their musical future.

The 5 winning bands are:

1st place: Zombies ate my Zombies ate my Girlfriend from South Africa
2nd place: Profaner from Canada
3rd place: Audn from Iceland
4th place: Syndemic from Germany
5th place: Pain Is from Austria

To see what each band won, check out http://www.metal-battle.com/