Two elderly men have escaped from a nursing home in Germany to rock out at a heavy metal music festival.

Huge crowds enjoy the Wacken Open Air heavy metal music festival.

Nursing home staff contacted police after the pair, whose ages have not been revealed, went missing.

They were found "disoriented and dazed" at 3am at Wacken Open Air, the world's biggest heavy metal festival.

"They obviously liked the metal festival," police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk.