As the first rays of sunlight slip through the clouds after a seemingly endless Finnish winter, it’s a good time to start making plans for the summer. Finland’s boldest metal festival, Tuska will provide the heaviest dosage of metal madness of the summer, for the nineteenth time. FROM LAKE BODOM …
Read More »Anthrax, Gojira and Mantar for Tuska Open Air Metal Festival 2016
Finland’s heaviest festival, Tuska is really upping the ante this year by adding some serious talent to its 2016 Artist roster. FROM THRASH TILL DEATH There can never be enough thrash metal in the line-up and the legendary Anthrax is here to up the ante. One of the Big Four, …
Read More »Avantasia to make Finnish debut at Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
AVANTASIA have been confirmed for Tuska Open Air Metal Festival 2016! The band’s first ever show in Finland will take place at Finland’s heaviest festival in Suvilahti, Helsinki during 1.-3.7.2016. Special priced Early Crow tickets are on sale until the end of the year. Avantasia is one of the most …
Read More »Tuska Open Air Festival, Helsinki – Day 3 – Sunday 28/06/2015
It’s Sunday lunchtime and the punters have crawled out of their beds from across the city of HELLsinki to once again descended on Suvilahti for the final day of this year’s instalment of Tuska Open Air Metal Festival. The carnage of the Saturday night after-parties is evident on the faces …
Read More »Tuska Open Air Festival, Helsinki – Day 1 – Friday 26/06/2015
Back in 2004, I had the pleasure of visiting Finland on vacation. On the night I arrived in the Helsinki hostel, I noticed a larger than normal number of heavy metal fans arriving back after a show. I asked one what gig they were at. The answer.. DIO at TUSKA. …
Read More »Tuska Open Air Festival, Helsinki – Day 2 – Saturday 27/06/2015
It’s an earlier kick-off today at the Tuska Open Air Festival and even though the heavens opened and spilled their disapproval over Helsinki a few hours before the gates opened, it has cleared up and another pleasant day in the concrete cauldron is assured. First up, death metal “open-door supergroup” …
Read More »The Tuska Ten – 10 bands you must see at Tuska Open Air 2015
Before PlanetMosh packs our bags for this year’s installment of Tuska Open Air, we put our heads together and assembled a list (because everyone loves lists) of the 10 bands you must see at the festival. Aptly called The Tuska Ten, read on to see our recommendations. Tuska Open Air …
Read More »ABBATH is immortal – live debut at Tuska Open Air – Line up complete
Tuska Open Air 2015, taking place at Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland during the weekend of June 26th – 28th has announced the final acts for this year’s festival. Immortal front man ABBATH and his new band will make their world premiere at Tuska on Saturday June 27th. Rifling off Immortal classics, ABBATH is a …
Read More »Tuska 2015 adds international cult acts to line up
Tuska Festival taking place in Suvilahti, Helsinki, has managed to book a crop of trailblazing cult acts that have been all over the media the past few days. Taking the stage at this year’s event at Suvilahti will be Mortus (MEX), Crepuscular (MEX), Eternal Dusk (UK), Grey (GER), Yvaeh (MY), Blast (SWE/FIN), …
Read More »Architects and 7 more acts added to Tuska 2015 line up
With the onset of spring and the prospect of a glorious Summer. Finland is readying itself for this year’s Summer festivals. Suomi’s number one metal event Tuska Open Air Festival, has announced more amazing acts to next its already lavish line up. UK metalcore heroes Architects have been confirmed for …
Read More »Sabaton Confirmed to headline Tuska Open Air 2015 and Day Splits announced
Swedish metal crusaders Sabaton have been confirmed as on of the headliners for this year’s instalment of the Tuska Open Air Festival. The day splits have also been announced and are as follows Friday 26.6.2015 SABATON, LAMB OF GOD, EXODUS, KROKODIL, BLUES PILLS, GHOST BRIGADE, ENFORCER, FORESEEN, DEATH TOLL 80K, …
Read More »Exodus, Loudness and 6 more added to Tuska Open Air 2015
Tuska Open Air have just announced 8 new bands including Exodus, Loudness and Krokodil for their line up for 2015. Tuska Open Air takes place 26th – 28th June in Helsinki, Finland. EXODUS, a cornerstone of Bay Area thrash metal, arrives to Tuska with the acclaimed ”Blood In, Blood Out” -album …
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