AVENGED SEVENFOLD wurden für das WACKEN OPEN AIR 2008 bestätigt. Alle bisher bestätigten Bands:

CHILDREN OF BODOM, KREATOR, IRON MAIDEN, SONATA ARCTICA, AVANTASIA, CARCASS, SALTATIO MORTIS, AT THE GATES, HATEBREED, THE BONES, KRYPTERIA, EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS, CREMATORY, LORD BELIAL, DREAM OF AN OPIUM EATER, AXXIS, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, OBITUARY, SABATON, PRIMORDIAL, POWERWOLF, AUTUMN, GOREROTTED, GORGOROTH, NIGHTWISH, ENEMY OF THE SUN, WARBRINGER, CORVUS CORAX, LORDI, AXEL RUDI PELL, NIFELHEIM, DESTRUCTOR, EVOCATION, GIRUGÄMESH, BEFORE THE DAWN, HEADHUNTER, VAN CANTO, ENSIFERUM, GRAVE, PSYCHOPUNCH, WATAIN, EXODUS, OPETH, SOILWORK, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, CYNIC, MERCENARY, MACHINE MEN, STURM UND DRANG, LEAVES´ EYES, UNEARTH, JOB FOR A COWBOY, TORTURE SQUAD, NEGURA BUNGET, ALESTORM, NASHVILLE PUSSY, THE HAUNTED, MASSACRE, KAMELOT, AIRBOURNE und AVENGED SEVENFOLD.