Posts Tagged ‘festivals in Sweden’

ROXETTE TO PLAY ONE SWEDISH SHOW IN 2012 AT PEACE & LOVE FESTIVAL! In 2012, Roxette will make one appearance in Sweden and it will be at Peace & Love. Since their comeback in 2009, Roxette fever has risen at a furious pace all over the world and Marie and Per are hotter than ever. [...]

WEST COAST RIOT ADDS FIVE MORE ACTS TO THE LINE UP!             Just two months away from Scandinavia big punk festival West Coast Riot in Gothenburg! Today organisers have announced five new additions -  The veterans Randy is back this summer for a long awaited gig. In addition, the Street Team, The Danish  [...]

PEACE AND LOVE ADDS ROSVO, A SWEDISH TIGER, GREENLEAF AND MORE! Peace & Love have added a further five acts to this year’s program.  This time it is about five acts in rock, punk and hardcore. Joining the line up today include hardcore band Rosvi with Peter Dolving from The Haunted, Göteborg punk band a [...]

GETAWAY ADDS HAWKEYES AND OZ TO HTIS YEAR’S LINE UP! From the UK, Leeds quartet Hawkeyes represents one of the major breakthroughs in 2012. With the band’s recently released album, Ideas, the acclaimed heavyweights such as Kerrang, Q Magazine and Metal Hammer, to name a few, and deservedly described as the future of the heavier [...]

METAL VETERANS CANDLEMASS AND OZ JOIN LINE UP! With only one month left to the festival, organisers continue to fill the line up with artists. Confirmed today are the Swedish doom metal kings of Candlemass who in the summer make their first Metaltown appearance in five years. In addition, the legendary Finnish band OZ are [...]

THRRE NEW POP ACTS CONFIRMED FOR PEACE AND LOVE FESITVAL L2012 Organisers have today confirmed 3 popular pop acts for this year’s festival line up!   Indie pop band The Shins from New Mexico in the U.S. will visit Sweden and Peace & Love during her extensive European tour. Sugarplum Fairy, who played at the festival [...]

BLACK METAL FOUNDERS VENOM JOIN GETAWAY LINE UP! Black metal’s founders Venom will appears at this year’s Getaway Rock Festival. With their album Black Metal from 1982, earning Venom their rightful place in hard rock history books, when those with a violent and dark rage forever altered and defined our perception of heavy metal. Over [...]

HAMMERFALL, DEATH DESTRUCTION AND MORE FOR METAL TOWN 2012! From being a gang in the mid 90′s, harrowed at various places in Gothenburg, has been HAMMERFALL Sweden’s biggest heavy metal band. As is now kicking the doors to arenas Scandinavium. The story began sometime in 1993 when Oscar Dronjac left the death metal gang Ceremonial [...]

PEACE AND LOVE ANNOUNCE ACOUSTIC ACTS TO THE LINE UP! Today festival organisers have released five new acts with a focus on the more acoustic music. If you like steel stringed guitars, this is the release for you. Whisk Open’s elite, including Johan Johansson and Dan Viktor come in with The Industry, praised Israel star [...]

METAL TOWN ADDS 20 BANDS TO THE NEMIS CAMPING STAGE Festival organisers have added ten bands per day who will play at the Metal Towns camping scene on Friday and Saturday. A total of 20 bands will perform at the NEMIS CAMPING STAGE, “We have selected bands from our musical activities and from across the [...]

SVENSKA BJÖRNSTAMMEN, REBECCA & FIONA AND URBAN CONE JOIN LINE UP! Three Swedish and much desired files are ready for Peace & Love. With less than two months away from publication of the Svenska Björnstammen, Rebecca & Fiona and Urban Cone. In addition, 300 extra tickets for the peace camp to be released on Monday [...]

PEACE AND LOVE RELEASES 6 NEW ACTS FOR THIS YEAR’S LINE UP! May month’s first band release contains six pop acts where two can already be considered veterans and four rookies are a promising and bright future ahead of them. Her sweet and unique voice has gone straight into the hearts of us. She turned [...]

VIKING METAL FROM VARG ADDED TO ROCKSTAD FALUN LINE UP! Viking metal band VARG was formed in 2005 and has so far released three full-length album, the first one: “Wolfszeit” had a major impact on the dedicated underground Pagan Metal crowd and gave the band a big boost. 2010 they released the album “Blutaar” on [...]

FIRST ACTS JOIN THE SVENSKA MUSIKKLUBBEN STAGE More DJs and clubs will be added to this stage that we present in cooperation with Svenska Musikklubben – Jacques Renault (US), Medlar (UK), Greymatter (UK), Moullinex (PT), Fare Soldi (IT), Studio Barnhus (S), Qulinez, (S) Sandra Mosh (S) For more HULTSFRED FESTIVAL 2012 information and line up [...]

SOULFLY AND ADEPT ADDED TO METAL TOWN LINE UP With two months left until this year’s festival, organisers have added two new names to the line up – The former Sepultura member Max Cavalera returns to Sweden with his band Soulfly, joined by Swedish metalcore band Adept! If you haven’t already purchased your tickets you [...]

FOUR MORE ARTISTS FOR SWEDEN’S PEACE & LOVE FESTIVAL 2012 In today’s release, we find four Swedish acts that in one way or another have left deep scars in the Swedish popular music history. With a current album and tour is Thåström, prog rock veterans Nationalteaterns Rockorkester, garage pioneers The Nomads and The Soundtrack of [...]

UPCOMING BANDS ANNOUNCED FOR ROCKKLASSIKER STAGE Sweden Rock organisers have revealed the eight new upcoming bands that will play on the Rockklassiker Stage on Thursday 7th June – check them out! Incarnit  (www.incarnit.com) Colossus (www.colossus.se) Frontback (www.frontback.se) Evasive (www.facebook.com/evasivesweden) Scarlet Drop (www.scarletdrop.com) Vulkan (www.vulkanband.com) Beyond All Recognition (www.facebook.com/beyondallrecognition) Mother Of God (www.facebook.com/MOGmusic) For more SWEDEN [...]

STREET DOGS & ANTI FLAG CONFIRMED FOR WEST COAST RIOT! Organisers have announced that announce that Street Dogs & Anti Flag are ready for this summer’s punk festival at Röda Sten(Red Stone) in Gothenburg. With Mike McColgan of Street Dogs head has become Boston’s pride. After returning from the Gulf War, he was eventually a [...]

GAVIN DEGRAW IS COMING TO SWEDEN’S PUTTE I PARKEN FESTIVAL! The immensely popular Gavin DeGraw has confirmed a Swedish exclusive show at the Putte i Parken festival this summer! Few people haven’t heard DeGraws monster hit “I Do not Want To Be,” single from his debut album, which became the theme song to the popular [...]

IN SOLITUDE, STEVE RODGERS AND GODA GRANNAR TO SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL 2012 British-influences 80s’ metal lives and thrives in Sweden. One of the hottest, if not the hottest, bands of this type is In Solitude. In their case, the term ”British-influenced” comes with a sidenote, since Danes Mercyful Fate have been at least as crucial [...]