The Wave Gotik Treffen frenzy has already started, earlier than usual this year, as the 3-day gothic festival, the biggest in the world, will be carried out very early this year, from May 18th-May 21st 2018. Even though some bands have announced their participation in the festival, before the end of 2017, most of the bands have kept this information to themselves. So far, there are a few important highlights in the festival’s line up, the first of which is the live appearance of Siglo XX exclusively for the audience of WGT! We could not believe our own eyes when we saw the band being confirmed in this year’s line up.The band from Belgium celebrates 40years in the music industry and our hearts with an exclusive and special performance at WGT which will follow the re-release of their album ‘Answer’ (originally released in 1983) and of two 12″ EPs, ‘The Art of War’ (originally released in 1987) and ‘Dreams of Pleasure’ (originally released in 1983). Siglo XX have taken their name from an anarchist group during the Spanish Civil War and have been one of the most popular bands of the Belgian coldwave scene of the 80s. The band has been inactive since 1991 before the first WGT and has never played before in the festival before. Antonio (Palermo) and Klaas (Hoogerwaard) of Siglo XX have formed a new band called Honeymoon Cowboys in 2015, which has released two albums so far and in which Dirk (Chauvaux), Erik(Dries) of Siglo XX have also participated as guests. For many fans of this band, having the opportunity to see Siglo XX perform live is a dream come true (as is the opportunity to see Trisomie 21 perform live in this festival).