Tuska Open Air
Festival 2003
July 11-13, 2003 / Helsinki,
Finland
Text and pictures
by the
Finnish Metal-Rules.com team
The one and only annual Finnish pure metal festival, Tuska Open Air
Metal Festival has gained its place on the map of the summer festivals. It
is one of the most well-organized and professional festivals due to its
arrangement by professionals and its killer line-ups. This year's Tuska
festival, arranged in the central Kaisaniemi Park in the middle of
Helsinki like last year, has grown a little bit since the previous events
as the area has been expanded. Especially when the tickets were sold out
almost immediately in the advance sales, bringing approximately 25000
metalheads to the venue within three days to dig bands. The festival
basically covers bands from many of metal´s sub-genres from extreme Black
Metal via Gothic to a raging Death Metal via Industrial to Power Metal.
Something for everyone for sure…
The bill of the Tuska 2003 featured nearly every domestic frontline
metal band that all enjoyed their popularity at the Tuska festival
according to all the band shirts that I managed to see people wearing
amongst the big audience. A real massive rush of attendance of metalheads
was already testified on the first opening day when Type O Negative
delivered their unique and somewhat dismal set of songs for the festival
audience, concluding Friday successfully.
The Finnish Metal-Rules.com team, with its three more or less crazy
journalists, was of course at present there during the whole time and
managed to pick up several interesting and great bands during the 3 long
days of pure metal madness.
Keep on reading what kind of an event the Tuska festival truly was like
in the heart of the Finnish capital Helsinki (or preferably HELL-sinki as
we are about to talk metal in here… ;), besides all those drunken
Finnish Metal boys and girls that obviously had decided to party all night
long ´til they eventually passed out. I felt almost sorry for all of you
little poor bastards…
Day One - Friday,
July 11th
Day Two - Saturday,
July 12th
Day Three - Sunday, July 13th
Past TUSKA Reviews in Metal-Rules.com
2002 - 2001