Tuska Open Air Metal Festival

Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
Genre	Heavy metal, extreme metal
Dates	June, July
Location(s)	Kalasatama, Sörnäinen, Helsinki, Finland
Years active	1998–present
Founded by	Juhani Merimaa[1]
Website	Official website

Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, commonly shortened to Tuska (Finnish: pain, agony), is a Finnish heavy metal festival taking place annually in Helsinki. The first Tuska took place in 1998 and the festival has since grown larger every year. The location of the festival has been in Kaisaniemi park in the middle of the city from 2001. However, since 2011, Tuska has taken place at the Suvilahti event field in the Kalasatama neighbourhood of the Sörnäinen district. The festival dates have always been in either June or July.

In recent years the attendance has grown and the festival has drawn up to 63,000 people in 2023.^[2] In 2006, the festival was almost sold out and over a combined three-day total of 33,000 attendees arrived to watch 32 artists, including for example Anathema, Celtic Frost, Opeth, Sodom, Venom, and Finland's own Amorphis and Sonata Arctica.

In 2022 there were four stages named Tuska KVLT, Inferno, Tent Stage and Radio Rock Main Stage.

Artists by year^[3]

Headliners are shown in bold.

1998

Am I Blood, Babylon Whores, Barathrum, Gandalf, Gorgoroth, Impaled Nazarene, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus and others.

1999

Beseech, Blake, Charon, Dark Funeral, Dark Tranquillity, Death Angel, Dew-Scented, Diablo, Dio, Dismember, Drive, Ensiferum, Fear Factory, In Flames, Impaled Nazarene, Kilpi, Kotiteollisuus, Nasum, Nightwish, Machine Men, Mokoma, Sinergy, Soilwork, Sonata Arctica, Suburban Tribe, Swallow the Sun, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Turisas, Twilightning and others

2005

Audience (a combined three-day total): 33,000+ (sold out)

and others

2006

Audience (a combined three-day total): ca. 33,000

Arch Enemy, Burst, Celtic Frost, Deathstars, Diablo, Epica, Freedom Call, Gojira, Impaled Nazarene, Kalmah, Mendeed, Metsatöll, Mokoma, Nine, Norther, Opeth, Pain Confessor, Sodom, Sonata Arctica, Stam1na, Suburban Tribe, Swallow the Sun, Tarot, The Scourger, The Sisters Of Mercy, Timo Rautiainen, Venom, Verjnuarmu, Wintersun

2007

Audience (a combined three-day total): ca. 33,000

Sturm Und Drang, Thunderstone, Turisas, Vader, W.A.S.P.

and others

2008

Audience (a combined three-day total): 36,000 (sold out)

Amon Amarth, Before the Dawn, Behemoth, Carcass, Diablo, Dimmu Borgir, Dream Evil, Dying Fetus, Entombed, Fields of the Nephilim, Ghost Brigade, Kalmah, Killswitch Engage, Kiuas, Kreator, KYPCK, Mokoma, Morbid Angel, Nile, Primordial, Shade Empire, Slayer, Sonata Arctica, Sotajumala, Stam1na, The Scourger, The Sorrow, Tracedawn and Týr and others

2009

Audience (a combined three-day total): ca. 28,000

All That Remains, Amoral, Amorphis, The Black Dahlia Murder, Callisto, Dauntless, Deathchain, Eluveitie, Ensiferum, Evile, Firewind, Gama Bomb, Girugamesh, Gojira, Immortal, Jon Oliva's Pain, Legion of the Damned, Mucc, My Dying Bride, Neurosis, Parkway Drive, Pestilence, Profane Omen, Rotten Sound, Sabaton, Stam1na, Suicidal Tendencies, The Faceless, Volbeat and others

2010

Audience (a combined three-day total): 33,000+ (sold out)^[4]

Trigger The Bloodshed, Warmen, W.A.S.P., Crowbar

2011

Audience (a combined three-day total): 35,000+

Mygrain, Church of Misery, Misery Index, Lighthouse Project, Black Breath, Tarot, Bulldozer, Hell, Omnium Gatherum, Ghost, Medeia, Rotten Sound

and others

2012

Audience (a combined three-day total): 26 000+

Winterwolf

and others

2013

Audience (a combined three-day total): 25,000+

TesseracT, Von, Urfaust, We Butter the Bread with Butter, Deathchain, Black City, Abhorrence, Torture Killer, Dreamtale, Hateform, Santa Cruz

and others

2014

Audience (a combined three-day total): 24,000+[5]

Beastmilk, Amoral, Speedtrap, Cutdown, Altair, Arion

and others

2015

Audience (a combined three-day total): 25,000+[6]

Exodus, Amorphis, Stratovarius, Mokoma, Architects, Loudness, Bloodbath, Blues Pills, Ghost Brigade, Ne Obliviscaris, Einherjer, Warmen, The Sirens, Sotajumala, Krokodil, Bombus, Enforcer

and others

2016

Audience (a combined three-day total): 28,000+[7]

Beast In Black, Jess and the Ancient Ones

and others

2017

20th anniversary broke Tuska's all time visitor record until 2019, at 37,000 over three festival days.[8]

Vuur, Brujeria, Rotten Sound, Avatarium, Battle Beast, Brother Firetribe, Jimsonweed, Impaled Nazarene, Barathrum, Baptism, Oranssi Pazuzu, Trap Them, LIK, The Raven Age, Kohti Tuhoa, Ratface, Pekko Käppi & KHHL, Huora, Amendfoil, Demonztrator, Fear Of Domination, Mind Riot, Sleep of Monsters, Throes of Dawn, Paara, Alabama Kush

2018

Audience (a combined three-day total): 34,000+[8]

Stick To Your Guns, Charm The Fury, Mantar, Arion, Foreseen, Red Death, Feastem, Hard Action, Hexhammer, Galactic Empire, Gloomy Grim, Crimfall, Blind Channel, Baest, Temple Balls, Black Royal, Six Inch, Keoma, Tyrantti

2019

22nd Tuska Festival took place from 28 to 30 June 2019.

Record audience until 2022 (combined three days total): 43,000+.^[8]

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Sick of It All, Heilung, Battle Beast, Swallow the Sun, Marko Hietala, Anneke van Giersbergen, Loudness, Lost Society, Delain, Power Trip, Jinjer, Maj Karma, Rytmihäiriö, Arion, Leverage, Alien Weaponry, Medeia, Fear of Domination, Wheel, Dark Sarah, Warkings, Visions of Atlantis, Brymir, De Lirium's Order, Goatburner, Mustan Kuun Lapset, I Revolt, Kaiser, Pahan Ikoni, Palehorse, Sata Kaskelottia, Balance Breach, Wake Up Frankie, Hevisaurus, Sharon Rircharson, JP Ahonen, Mika Jussila, Valnoir, Ester Segarra and Scar.fi

.

2020

Tuska 2020 was cancelled on 23 April due to the Coronavirus epidemic after the Finnish government forbid events larger than 500 people until the end of July 2020.[9] Bands that were announced prior to the cancellation included Korn, Faith No More, Deftones, Gojira, Symphony X, Devin Townsend, Bodom after Midnight, Insomnium, Amon Amarth and Vltimas.

2021

Tuska 2021 was cancelled on 16 April due to the Coronavirus situation and its effects.^[10]

2022

23rd Tuska Festival took place from 1 to 3 July 2022.

Record audience until 2023 (combined three days total): 49,000+.^[8]

Enphin, Abstrakt, The Rivet, Shereign, Amoth, Astralion, Denominate, King Satan, Cryptic Hatred, The Mist from the Mountains, Rebellix, Edge of Haze, Atlas, Numento and Sacred Dimension

.

2023

24th Tuska Festival took place from 30 June to 2 July 2023.

Record audience (combined three days total): 63 000 (sold out).[2]

Ghost, Gojira, Ville Valo (VV), Arch Enemy, In Flames, The Hu, Electric Callboy, Motionless in White, Jinjer, Clutch, Lorna Shore, While She Sleeps, Marko Hietala, Avatar, Glenn Hughes, Haken, Delain, Urne, Turmion Kätilöt, Mokoma, Lost Society, Memoriam, Butcher Babies, Swallow the Sun, Diablo, Finntroll, Dance with the Dead, Xysma, Imperial Triumphant, Imminence, Blood Incantation, Orbit Culture, Vended, Brymir, A.A. Williams, Foreseen, Smackbound, Silver Bullet, Vermilia, Galvanizer, Solothus, ...And Oceans, Dreamtale, Dirt, Miseria Ultima, Sepulchral Curse, Bob Malmström, Ashen Tomb, Nakkeknaekker, Vansidian, Kouta, Kúru, Nervebreak, Angles Mortis, Slash the Smile and Irrational Cause.

2024

25th Tuska Festival takes place from 28 to 30 June 2024.

Pendulum, Bring Me the Horizon, Parkway Drive, Dimmu Borgir, Kerry King, Amorphis, Opeth, Bad Omens, Stam1na, Alestorm, Tarot, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Suburban Tribe, Turmion Kätilöt, Health, Zeal & Ardor, Annisokay, Lord of the Lost, Solence, Beyond the Black, VOLA, Eivør, Riverside, Bloodred Hourglass, Warmen, Bury Tomorrow, Ankor, Ghøstkid, Make Them Suffer, Elvenking, Infected Rain, Fixation, Brothers of Metal, Devourment, Kaunis Kuolematon, Rytmihäiriö, The Abbey, St. Aurora, Assemble the Chariots, I Am Your God, I Am The Night, Luna Kills, Sadistic Drive, Swansong, Krypta, Suotana, Prestige, Putro in Black, Malformed, Sick Urge, Dome Runner, Shereign and others.

See also

• Sauna Open Air Metal Festival

References

1. ^ "Tuska". www.tuska.fi.
2. ^ ^{a b} "News". Tuska.
3. ^ "History". Tuska. 11 February 2015.
4. ^ "Tuska". www.tuska.fi.
5. ^ "Tuska".
6. ^ "ANOTHER ONE FOR THE BOOKS". helsinkitimes.fi. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
7. ^ "Metal all night and party every day". helsinkitimes.fi. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
8. ^ ^{a b c d} "History". tuska-festival.fi.
9. ^ "Tuska 2020 Will be Cancelled Due to Corona Virus Safety Measures". 23 April 2020.
10. ^ "Tuska 2021 Cancelled Due to COVID-19". 16 April 2021.

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