Open Tuska Air Metal Festival

Open Tuska Air Metal Festival , or more simply Tuska is the greatest festival of metal in Scandinavia. It is organized since 1998 with Helsinki, in the park Kaisaniemi. With the wire of the year, it took more and more importance to reach an multitude of 33000 people in 2006. There are three scenes with Tuska: Helsinki , Sweats , and Radio City .

The word " tuska" mean in Finnois " douleur" or " agonie".

Programming

1998

Absurdus, Am I Blood, Babylon Whores, Barathrum, Corporal Punishment, Crimson Midwinter, Flesh, Gandalf, Gorgoroth, Hundred Years, Impaled Nazarene, Kyyria, Nemeh' S O.D., Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus.

1999

… And Oceans, 45 Dismantles Woman, Afterworld, Amorphis, Barathrum, Bury Me Deep, D-Ray, Dark Tranquility, Divine Decay, Gandalf, Itä-Saksa, Jimsonweed, Lullacry, Nightwish, Painflow, Purity, Sentenced, Soul Above, Tarot, The 69 Eyes, Throne off Chaos, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Twilight Opera, Two Witches.

2000

Babylon Whores, Children off Bodom, Diablo, Eternal Tears off Sorrow, Finntroll, Gamma Ray, Impaled Nazarene, Lullacry, Gods Metal, Nightwish, Bread, Reduce to Ash, Satyricon, Sinergy, Stone, Terveet Kädet, The Black League, The Crown, Timo Rautiainen & Niskalaukaus Trio, To/Die/For.

2001

45 Dismantles Woman, Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Daniel Lion Eye And The Rollers, Drive, Eläkeläiset, Finntroll, Gandalf, Headplate, Impaled Nazarene, In Flames, Katatonia, Kotiteollisuus, Rhapsody off Fire, Rotten Sound, Stratovarius, The 69 Eyes, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Transport League, United Underworld, Yearning.

2002

Ajattara, Blake, Bruce Dickinson, Diablo, Demigod, Ensiferum, Impaled Nazarene, Machine Head, Maj Karman Kauniit Kuvat, Marduk, Moonsorrow, Mustach, Nightwish, Sara, Sentenced, Sonata Arctica, Suburban Tribe, Sunride, The Crown, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Verenpisara.

2003

Amorphis, Arch Enemy, Barathrum, Behemoth, Children off Bodom, Divine Decay, Edguy, Finntroll, Horna, Immortal Drunk persons, Lordi, Lost Horizon, Lullacry, Mannhai, Mauron Maiden, Ministry, Mokoma, Moonsorrow, Norther, Reverend Bizarre, Rotten Sound, Sentenced, Soulfly, Stratovarius, Tarot, The 69 Eyes, The Haunted, Thunderstone, Thyrane, Timo Rautiainen & Niskalaukaus Trio, Standard O Negative.

2004

Beseech, Blake, Chaosbreed, Charon, Dark Funeral, Dark Tranquility, Death Angel, Dew-Scented, Diablo, Dio, Dismember, Drive, D.S.K, Ensiferum, Fear Factory, In Flames, Impaled Nazarene, Kilpi, Kotiteollisuus, Nasum, Nightwish, Men Machine, Mokoma, Sinergy, Soilwork, Sonata Arctica, Suburban Tribe, Swallow the Sun, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Trollheim' S Grott, Turisas, Twilightning.

2005

Accept, Ajattara, Amoral, Apocalyptica, CCallisto, Children off Bodom, Deathchain, Destruction, Dimmu Borgir, Evergrey, Finntroll, Gamma Ray, Hieronymus Bosch, Lake off Tears, Curse, Mnemic, Monster Magnet, Naglfar, Confessor Bread, Paska, Primal Fear, Rotten Sound, Scarve, Sentenced, Sinking, Skyclad, Stam1na, Teräsbetoni, Will, Thunderstone, Turmion Kätilöt, Viikate, Wintersun.

2006

Amorphis, Anathema, April, Arch Enemy, Burst, Celtic Frost, Deathstars, Diablo, Spiced, 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 off Mercy, Timo Rautiainen, Venom, Verjnuarmu, Wintersun.

2007

45 Dismantles Woman, Blind Guardian, Brother Firetribe, Children off Bodom, Of espairsRay, DragonForce, Emperor, Finntroll, Hatesphere, Immortal, Imperia, Insomnium, Isis, Katatonia, Legion off the Damned, Maj Karma, Mercenary, Misery Index, Moonsorrow, Naildown, Nicole, Pain, Profane Omen, Scent off Flesh, Sturm Und Drang, Thunderstone, Turisas, Vader, W.A.S.P., Stratovarius.

2008

Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Salamander, Entombed, Korpiklaani, Kiuas, Kreator, Mokoma, The Sorrow, Tyr, Stam1na.

External bonds

Official site (only in Finnish)

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