The second day of Rockfest 2023, the Black Stage brought 3 very different takes on rock music with shows from Crashdiet, Nestor and Cleopatrick.

The second day brought quite a rockin’ out to the main stage with national heroes The 69 Eyes and Stratovarius and rock legends Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.

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The legendary W.A.S.P. hit the stage at a sold out Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki during their world tour celebrating 40 years of uncompromising heavy metal. The anticipation of the Helsinki crowd was through the roof already from opening act Crazy Lixx!

The Others’ horror punk hand in hand with the Helsinki vampires… The 69 Eyes haunted the Backstage Club in Munich with an absolutely great night for anything and anyone who prefer the shadows and a Gothic style!

Steel Panther is ‘On the Prowl’ again with their sixth album.

Lordi and his monsters visited Backstage Munich with the “Lordiversitour” and we had a whole lot of fun! With them came the German power metallers of Almanac and the popular Czech metallers Dimitry and we saw it was good!

Pictures of the second day of Knotfest Finland that topped everything of the day before on all levels with kings of metal Slipknot, joined by bands like Shiraz Lane, Tesseract, Stoned Statues, Cradle of Filth, Medeia, Bring Me The Horizon, and Moon Shot!

Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Malmsteen played a show at 013 Poppodium that seemed like more of a try-out than an actual part of the Parabellum tour, but nevertheless a schooling in neo-classical metal that only someone like him could give!

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