In August 2019, Swedish power metal band HammerFall—at the peak of the Dominion Tour supporting the album Dominion (2019), marking a return to epic sound with orchestral touches and themes of honor and battle—performed at Wacken Open Air, one of the world's largest metal festivals launched in 1990 in the small village of Wacken, Germany, sharing the bill with Sabaton and Amon Amarth before a 75,000-strong crowd. The 90-minute performance, opened with the "Dominion" video projection and featuring an acoustic medley "HammerFolk" with a Game of Thrones theme cover, embodied the tour's climax, where Oscar Dronjak's guitar riffs merged with Joacim Cans' vocal power and Anders Johansson's drum energy to spark collective ecstasy under summer skies. This show highlighted HammerFall's veteran status, turning the festival stage into an arena of triumph.