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While the summer is about to be wrapping up, we can already look ahead towards the summer of 2025, especially after Tuska just announced the first 16 confirmed acts for next year’s edition with Electric Callboy, Powerwolf, Nothing More, Orbit Culture, Kim Dracula, Korpiklaani, Marko Hietala, Tarja, Charlotte Wessels, thrown, Eihwar, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Blood Command, Arion and Tyrantti and the first announced headliner with Lorna Shore!

What do you think? What bands are you still hoping for?

Tuska has confirmed 16 more names for the 2024 edition with Stratovarius, HEALTH, Lord Of The Lost, Eivør, Elvenking, Devourment, St. Aurora, Assemble the Chariots, I AM YOUR GOD, Swansong, Krypta, Sadistic Drive, Prestige, Putro In Black, SICK URGE and Dome Runner! Get your tickets now before the price increase in a couple of weeks!

What bands are you happy with this time? And what bands are you still hoping for?

Tuska unleashed the first batch of bands for the 2024 line-up and it seems they put their chips strongly on modern metal/metalcore with Bring Me The Horizon, Bloodred Hourglass, Bury Tomorrow, Make Them Suffer, Infected Rain and Fixation, proggy music with Opeth, Vola, Voyager and Riverside, and power metal with Alestorm, Angus McSix and Brothers Of Metal. And of course, festival regulars Amorphis and Stam1na belong to the party as well!

What do you think of the line-up already? Who do you hope to be added still?

One of Finland’s biggest metal events and organizers, is bringing a whole new experience to the live stream table with “Tuska Utopia”!

Tuska unleashed a bunch of names for 2020!

A headliner and 2 more bands are announced for Tuska 2019!

Norwegian royalty Dimmu Borgir will set Tuska 2019 stages aflame and family festival no more…

Another Summer festival completing their line-up: Tuska adds 2 more bands!

Another hand full of names for the Tuska 2018 line-up with quite the diversity in music genres!

Interviews

We sat down with Jessie and Eleni of Ankor after their show at this year’s Tuska Festival, the last stop of a crazy weekend that took them to 3 different countries in 3 days, and had a short chat about their busy summer, the way they like to release new music and how 2024 really seems to be a big year for the band.

Yesterday, they announced a major European tour for 2025 which will take them to most countries of the continent. You won’t want to miss out on that, tickets are available starting tomorrow!

We sat down with Onni and Kevin from Assemble the Chariots at Tuska 2024 to talk about their new album ‘Unyielding Night’ (set for release on July 19th via Seek and Strike), how this is the start of a whole universe they’re creating, with the sound they’ve always envisioned for the band from the beginning. And we came back from the talk with 2 things ingrained in our heads: listen to the album from start to finish, and make sure you make it to the release show at On The Rocks in Helsinki where they’ll play the album in its whole for what sounds like a unique experience…

We’ve been a long time fan of the Finnish comic book artist JP Ahonen. Mostly famous for his Belzebubs web series, he has other amazing works like ‘Sing No Evil’ (read our review of the graphic novel here). With his Belzebubs creation taking off even more with a recently released full-length album by the fictional […]

We talked with John Baizley about his music, new guitarist and dealing with constant pain in the rock ‘n’ roll life.

We had a chat with Brujo himself of the Mexican group of gangsters Brujeria!

We talked with guitarist Tomi from Amorphis about a new album, touring a lot and some music to check out!

We had a long talk with guitarist Teemu about the new album, live set-up, crowdfunding campaign and some of his musical preferences.

We had a really cool and relaxed talk with Janne Wirman from Children of Bodom at the end of the European leg of their anniversary tour!

We had a talk in the sun about beer, hard rock, peace and love with Hannes and Ana from the band…

We sat down with the man-wolves? wolf-men? of MWAM to figure out what their mission is all about…

Photo Reports

In the beginning of last week, a sold out On The Rocks in Helsinki truly got warmed up for the upcoming Tuska Festival when the legendary Suburban Tribe played their first show in over 13 years! If you’re at Tuska today, they are a must-see… see you at the Radio City Stage by 19:15!

Pictures of the last day of Tuska 2022 with Sonata Arctica, Devin Townsend, Stratovarius, Kreator and Jinjer!

Pictures of the 2nd day of Tuska 2023 with Oranssi Pazuzu, Reckless Love, VLTIMAS, Stam1na, Blind Channel, Amorphis, Baroness and Mercyful Fate.

Pictures of the first day of Tuska 2023 with Eluveitie, Northern Kings, Lost Society, Perturbator, Beast In Black, Red Fang, Carcass and Heilung

For those who didn’t have enough yet with what happened at the main festival, Tuska had several afterparties every night in the center! Here are some pics!

Pictures of the amazing second day of Tuska 2019 with the last show of Slayer on Finnish shores as headliners!

The pictures of 3 days of metal and rock fun in the middle of Helsinki… Tuska 2018, you were awesome!

The pictures of a weekend of celebrations and discoveries at the 20th anniversary of Tuska Open Air!

Lists

Tomorrow it’s again that time of the year: Tuska weekend is upon us! If somehow you weren’t convinced yet that you need to go, here are 10 reasons we believe should be enough motivation to still get a ticket if any are available still! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, Tuska Expo expanding further and simply an amazing atmosphere! See you there!

The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!

Only a bit over a week until Tuska weekend is upon us! If you weren’t convinced yet you needed to go, here are 9 reasons we believe should be enough motivation! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, and the biggest Tuska Expo ever, this is one for the books!

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!

Helsinki’s renown metal festival Tuska is back and approaching fast! Let us tell you why you should be there with 7 reasons we’re pretty excited about the event…

Previews

Tuska 2023 promises to be quite the exciting edition again with a great line-up with something for everyone, the biggest ever “Tuska Expo” in its history and plenty of other stuff to discover! If you’re planning to go, we listed some info in a nice little preview…

Tuska is finally back again! The Helsinki center metal and rock festival is shaping up to be quite the epic and glorious return!

Tuska 2019 promises to be exciting with a very solid line-up and a couple of major changes!

Last year we got to celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the biggest metal festivals of THE metal country Finland. Metalheads all over the world see Wacken Open Air as the Mecca for metal, so they should try to at least once visit and experience that festival in their mortal life. But personally I […]

This year’s Tuska will be one to remember since they’re gearing up to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a bang! Go see what is happening…