In the middle of June I was writing about the new summer festival in Kuopio, called Rock in the City, which was mostly orientated on Finnish rock and heavy rock/metal.

1. Sparta 2. Last Dying Breath 3. Blood of Bannockburn 4. Diary of an Unknown Soldier 5. The Lost Battalion 6. Rorke’s Drift 7. The Last Stand 8. Hill 3234

1. Night Witches 2. No Bullets Fly 3. Smoking Snakes 4. Inmate 4859 5. To Hell and Back 6. The Ballad of Bull 7. Resist and Bite 8. Soldier of

1. Dominium maris Baltici 2. The Lion from the North 3. Gott Mit Uns 4. A Lifetime of War 5. 1648 6. The Carolean’s Prayer 7. Carolus Rex 8. Killing

1. Coat of Arms 2. Midway 3. Uprising 4. Screaming Eagles 5. The Final Solution 6. Aces in Exile 7. Saboteurs 8. Wehrmacht 9. White Death 10. Metal Ripper Coat

1. Sun Tzu Says 2. Ghost Division 3. The Art of War 4. 40:1 5. Unbreakable 6. The Nature of Warfare 7. Cliffs of Gallipoli 8. Talvisota 9. Panzerkampf 10.

1. Hellrider 2. Thundergods 3. Metalizer 4. Shadows 5. Burn Your Crosses 6. 7734 7. Endless Nights 8. Hail to the King 9. Thunderstorm 10. Speeder 11. Masters of the

1. Attero Dominatus 2. Nuclear Attack 3. Rise Of Evil 4. In The Name Of God 5. We Burn 6. Angels Calling 7. Back In Control 8. Light In The

1. Primo Victoria 2. Reign Of Terror 3. Panzer Battalion 4. Wolfpack 5. Counterstrike 6. Stalingrad 7. Into The Fire 8. Purple Heart 9. Metal Machine Primo Victoria (Latin, “Foremost, Victory”)

Swedish band Sabaton have been a major force in the power metal field since the mid-2000s, but had to battle through significant difficulties to get there, which may explain their