Guca is a sleepy village in Serbia, Wacken a sleepy village between Hamburg and the North Sea coast that needs no introduction. Heavy metal reigns supreme there. In Guca, hundreds of thousands of fans celebrate at the world's largest trumpet festival, losing themselves in the blazing blaze of music with dancing, rakija, and canned beer. Two musical worlds - that had never before come together. In the summer of 2015, bassist Manne Pokrandt stood in front of the large stage in the Guca stadium and couldn't believe his eyes and ears. "People were stage diving, pogoing, and headbanging in front of the stage like at a metal festival, but there were no rock guitars or drum sets on the stage," he recalls. "And the horns played completely differently than those in a big band - with such extreme power, as if the horn were supposed to bend straight when blown." The idea of combining the two worlds was in the air. Ten years later, on August 8, 2025, a dream came true. The idea evolved into the band "Guca Meets Wacken" and performed on the main stage of the Guca Festival. Fans would later say that this band revolutionized the legendary Guca Festival. At "Guca Meets Wacken," Balkan horns and metal guitars create a crashing, explosive mix: loud, wild, powerful: Balkan metal.

The band also brought along the recently released second single, "Here Comes The Horny Future," a love letter to the sleepy village of Guca, which swells once a year into an unparalleled festival. It was also the lyrics of the song that convinced the organizers to dare this experiment.

The band includes Germans, Greeks, North Macedonians, French and Argentinians, who bring their experiences from Serbian folk music, Metal Rock, Greek classical music, the Babelsberg Film Orchestra and various rock bands - from Keimzeit, Udo Lindenberg and Engerling to Mitch Ryder and Knorkator.