Sonisphere Festivals Europe
The idea for Sonisphere was first conceived when Stuart Galbraith, was working for now business rivals & organisers of Download Festival, Live Nation. The plan was to hold a series of events that would 'translate into other territories'. The event did not begin to materialise however, until Galbraith left Live Nation for events company Kilamanjaro Live. Galbraith gained the support of influential metal band Metallica who will help curate the festival in coming years, Galbraiths' plans for future festivals are to expand the number of festivals making the event global rather than local to Europe.
Tuska Open Air Metal Festival Finland
Tuska Metal festival was conceived in the winter of the year 1998 by Tony Taleva, a real rock entrepreneur who´s been living and breathing heavy metal for the past 20 years. And what about Tuska, the festival which year by year has become more and more a reference to the metalheads from all over the world? Well, it´s doing great and nowadays, for those who dream about being part of this kind of party, we can say that it´s almost even with Wacken Open Air (regarding quality), the biggest metal festival of the world, placed in Germany. And as they like to say, Tuska´s history is made of blood, sweat and lots of vodka - and maybe it justifies its name, since the meaning of the Finnish word is PAIN
It’s really ironic that with all the reruns of this year, an icon like Ozzy have never played this festival before. So it was about time he did. With him he brought his new guitar player, Gus G, the replacement for Zakk Wylde.
It was only two years since Judas Priest last headlined this festival, third time all in all. Last time wasn’t bad, but it didn’t rock my world either. And I love the Priest so I want and need them to when I see them live!
This is a review I never thought I’d write. I was never a Joan Jett fan and I more or less went to her gig because I thought I’d just catch a few songs and then leave!
Ever since I got Rob Zombie’s debut ”Hellbilly DeLuxe” in the late 90’s I have wanted to see him live. That CD knocked me off my rockers and I’ve been a fan since.
I have seen Alice Cooper on several occasions, but I must say that this concert was one of the best ones I have seen. His backing band are always really tight and this was no exception to the rule.
I was never a big Hammerfall fan. I am still not. In fact when they broke through I thought they were ridiculous and sounded like a poor man’s Iron Maiden or something like that. But what I didn’t realise is that they probably are...
I have seen Opeth on several occasions now and they never fail me. Normally their kind of music, progressive death metal mixed with Pink Floydish melodies, keeping both melodic growl with clean singing!
This was one concert I was looking forward to most at the whole festival. First, I missed them at Sweden Rock earlier this year due to other commitments (beer and Jaeger…).
As far as I know, this was the first time Buckcherry had played in Sweden in their some 15 years long career. And what could be better than a hard dose of Buckcherry’s mix of sleaze and classic rock!
Mr Big are a musicians band. Not like all those prog metal bands such as Dream Theater and stuff, but a band that features extremely talented musicians!
As usual when Thin Lizzy’s name comes up, conservatives start to scream themselves blue about how sacrilegious this is
Let me first say that I love Queensrÿche, at least the records from their debut to 1992’s Promised Land. But I even like a lot of their later records
This year Gods of Metal was different from the previous editions. Just having a look at the line up it seemed to have done a 30-year back in time jump!
On the 17th of June, 40 thousand Bon Jovi fans were pleased by an over two-hour-gig that brought in big style a great amount of the best the band has produced along these 25 years.
Imagine the hottest day of the year in the hottest place ever, on the ground where once a year shining vehicles with the most powerful engines of the world spin around.
Having never seen Evergrey live before, despite owning lots of their records and liking the band very much, this was a gig I was really looking forward to
When Papa Roach had their breakthrough, we wrote early 2000 and nu metal was the big thing. Together with Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, the Roaches were the biggest hype of that era
Hardcore Superstar are playing everywhere right now and I really dunno what to write that hasn’t already been written.
Sonisphere came back even bigger and better for its third year in the UK with capacity being rasied to 60,000 people and an amazing line-up including The Big Four, Slipknot, Mastodon, In Flames, Limp Bizkit to name but a few!
Four times harder, four times stronger, four bands: Ladies and Gentleman The Big4!
The Big 4 metal bands rolled into Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg on the 3rd July
Expectations were big for the Swedish Melodic Death Metal band led by Mrs. Attitude
I was really curious to check the Swedish band,