Following from a 2024 sold-out festival, with over 150,000 visitors from 80 countries, Tons Of Rock is thrilled to reveal Green Day as the first headliner and to announce further acts for its 2025 edition, including: Jinjer, Electric Callboy, Kim Dracula and more. To complete the announcement, the festival pre-sales go live today and tickets will be available for purchase here.
Located in the city center of Norway’s capitol Oslo, Tons of Rock is the largest rock festival in the country and it is becoming one of the biggest annual meeting point for all rock and metal fans in Europe. And now, legendary punk rock band Green Day are announced as main stage headliner on 26th June, with the performance being their exclusive Norwegian show.
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Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 Announcement
The Hellsinki Metal Festival, which sold out on its second day in August, is also expanding into a winter event. Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 roars on December 14 at Helsinki’s Kaapelitehdas, and the performers of the first indoor festival will be Dark Funeral, one of the best in Swedish black metal, Belphegor, Austria’s gift to lovers of blackened death metal, and domestic experts in the field Kyy and Omnivortex.
Kaapelitehdas was not chosen as the venue for the event by chance – metal has been celebrated in the same place during the years of the Finnish Metal Expo fair, and Hellsinki Metal Festival promoter Toni Törrönen also remembers those events fondly.
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FIRST COPENHELL 2025 BANDS ANNOUNCED
The 14th edition of COPENHELL will take place in familiar surroundings at Refshaleøen in central Copenhagen next summer. DREAM THEATER, IN FLAMES, LORNA SHORE, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, SODOM, SYLOSIS, MYRKUR, MNEMIC and 18 additional bands have already signed up for the festival.
The dust from the four wild and crazy days in the middle of June has settled long ago, but the entire COPENHELL team is still swelling with pride months after the festival – not least festival director Jeppe Nissen:
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Desertfest London announces first wave of bands for 2025
Desertfest London have announced the first wave of bands for their 13th edition, which will take place across multiple venues in Camden on Friday 16th – Sunday 28th May 2025. Weekend tickets are available HERE.
Swiss avant-garde metallers Zeal & Ardor are confirmed to headline the Roundhouse on Saturday night. Led by Manuel Gagneux, the group will undoubtedly deliver a masterclass in genre-pushing riffery following the release of their highly acclaimed fourth album Grief in August.
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SWALLOW THE SUN featuring BALLET FINLAND to perform “Plague of Butterflies”
In a groundbreaking event, Finnish Metal icons SWALLOW THE SUN featuring the Avant-Garde BALLET FINLAND are set to present their collaborative performance, “Plague of Butterflies”, during 70000TONS OF METAL in 2025. This unique performance will make its World Premiere outside of Finland in January 2025, on board The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, with two separate presentations of the work occurring whilst on board. Following each of the two performances of “Plague of Butterflies”, SWALLOW THE SUN will play two different regular sets as well.
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PHOTO REPORT: John Smith Rock Festival 2024
John Smith Rock Fest 2024
18-20.7.2024
DAY 1:
Dyecrest, Moonspell, Shade Empire, Testament, Visions of Atlantis, Behemoth and Cemetery Skyline
DAY 2:
Verikalpa, Ereb Altor, Tarot, Unleash The Archers, Insomnium, Draconian and Amorphis
DAY 3:
Bloodbound, Kalmah, Suburban Tribe, Harakiri for the Sky, Mokoma, The Hellacopters, Ne Obliviscaris and Stam1na
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