Rockfest 2018

Monday, June 18th 2018. I am back home and back to normal life. Time to have a look back to four days of pure metal in Finland. An almost neverending festival….

The Rock Fest started on Wednesday with five bands, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus (gallery here), Kilpi, Stone Sour (gallery here), Bullet For My Valentine and Ozzy Osbourne (gallery here) as headliner.

Our day 1 review can be found here.

Day 1 audience reactions can we listened below:

The bad weather didn’t ruined the festival, a real metalhead couldn’t be stopped!

After a short night we got back for day 2. Day 2 showed up with Twilight Force, Shiraz Lane (Gallery here), Von Hertzen Brothers, Beast in Black (gallery here), CMX, Millencolin, Children of Bodom (gallery here), Happoradio, Sonata Arctica (gallery here), Judas Priest (gallery here), Lost Society (gallery here) and Klamydia.

Our day 2 review can be found here.

Day 2 audience reactions can we listened below:

We had an interview with Hannes and Miki of Shiraz Lane, which you can listen below:

Day 3 started after – again – a very short night.

The playlist for today: The Holy (gallery here), Adept (gallery here), Arion (gallery here), Mokoma (gallery here), Amorphis (gallery here), Reckless Love (gallery here), Phil Campbell & the Bastard Sons (gallery here), Megadeth, Maj Karma (gallery here), Turmion Kätilöt (gallery here), Marilyn Manson, Hollywood Undead and S-Tool (gallery here).

Our day 3 review can be found here.

The nights wouldn’t get longer, so we started day 4 even more tired than the others. The weather was getting better throughout the day!

Todays bands: Huora, Stam1na (gallery here), Pää Kii (gallery here), Brother Firetribe (gallery here), Amaranthe (gallery here), CKY (gallery here), Kotiteollisuus (gallery here), Opeth (gallery here), Blind Channel, Avatar (gallery here), Avenged Sevenfold (gallery here), Skindred and Normandie.

Other stuff around the festival: Huge gallery here.

Our day 4 review can be found here.

At least I only can say: Thank you and see you next year! Stay metal \m/