MISS LI’s “Live Now Die Then” notes one of her greatest successes in her career and can already be counted as one of the songs that will mark 2020. On Friday 31st July she will visit Östersund and Storsjöyran festival and she will be joined by MOONICA MAC and ELLEN KRAUSS who both make their…

THE ARK is back. Twenty years after the debut and 10 years after the announcement that they decided to quit, it is now clear that one of the greatest Swedish bands of the 21st century will re-emerge for a tour this summer. A tour that obviously takes the band to Östersund and Storsjöyran! Storsjöyran has…

With 48 million albums sold and great success with songs like Black Widow, Kream (feat. Tyga) and Billboard single Fancy, IGGY AZALEA is one of hip hop’s big names. On Friday 31st July, she will visit Storsjöyran. With her Atlanta-inspired rap and his controversial persona, IGGY AZALEA has secured a place as one of hip…

THE STROKES are finally back in Sweden, one of the best rock bands, one of the biggest rock bands. Most likely the only pop stars, and undoubtedly the only fashion icons, that came out of the millennial rock boom. Elegantly wasted, as Rolling Stone put it in a story, and right on time. To have…

Blood. Candlelight. Red roses. Black velvet. The very essence of goth! MISTER MISERY, this relatively new Stockholm-based quartet is the next band out on the Sabaton Open Air line up for the summer of 2020. This is what we will be served, combined with ripping guitars and where the inspiration is coming from the self-experienced…

Three rappers and a pop duo make the decade’s first artist release from Storsjöyran Festival. We say hello to the happy 20s with DREE LOW, GAMMAL, SNÖVIT and ARIF (NO) This weekend, DREE LOW took home the grand slam at the P3 Gold gala and was praised as both Hiphop of the Year and Artist…

STRYPER, TURBONEGRO, MICHAEL MONROE, ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM and WORMWOOD are now confirmed for this year’s Sweden Rock Festival. One of the most legendary names in 80’s hair metal, STRYPER, is being added to the Sweden Rock Festival poster! The band rose to stardom with the albums “Soldiers under command”, “The yellow and black attack” (both from 1985)…

SIRENIA are a Norwegian gothic metal band from Stavanger, who were founded in 2001 by Morten Veland from Tristania, with a clear intention to take everything to the next level. A task he managed very well with! To date, SIRENIA has released a total of 9 albums, one EP and a number of singles. They…

She’s mastered the art of turning sad feelings into uplifting anthems, of turning pain into glory. She’s right there between pop and underground, accessible yet credible, the radiant disco pop queen, the dancing laser beam, light but strong. Her electric live show is something everyone should experience, and Way Out West is incredibly proud to…

The next band joining the Sabaton Open Air 2020 line up comes from the very far East, the kingdom of the sun, and ancient times (1980’ies…)! Japanese band LOUDNESS have been entertaining the masses with their mix of various metal styles during all these years so you can almost count on hearing a range of…

Does your life lack some magic, enchantments or dragons? In that case festival organisers might be able to help you. At least if you make your way to Sabaton Open Air in August when the knights of TWILIGHT FORCE enter the stage as the last band to perform on Wednesday 5th August 2020! In terms…

Let’s end the year with a bang. BURNA BOY is confirmed for Way Out West, Saturday August 15th – the same day as SLOWTHAI, KHALID and KOFFEE. African Giant. That’s the title of BURNA BOY’S much acclaimed latest album, but he’s also justifiably used the words to describe himself – he’s a superstar, not in…

Time to present a band that brings a little more darkness to Falun in August 2020. Since the beginning back in 1989, TIAMAT from Stockholm has changed genres from symphonic black metal via death to more gothic rock/metal. Regardless of genre, these gentlemen guarantee quality to the backbone when it comes to portraying the darker…

American hip hop star LIL TECCA is confirmed for Bayside Festival 2020 in Helsingborg 10th – 11th July. No one can have missed the mega hit “Ransom” with LIL TECCA who has close to half a billion streams on Spotify. The New York rapper’s debut album “We Love You Tecca” has a total of nearly…

You didn’t think organisers would come empty-handed for the Christmas celebration? Four more Christmas presents for Åre Sessions 2020 – iconic THE HELLACOPTERS, NADIA ROSE, JONATHAN JOHANSSON and SABINA DDUMBA are all ready for the fourth edition! Just a few weeks ago, the combined ski and music festival Åre Sessions went out with the news…

Let’s say hi to a superstar. He’s up there with Post Malone, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Drake, Billie Eilish and a few others as the most streamed artists in the world. Last time KHALID played Sweden, he did so at a sold-out Hovet (capacity 8 000+) in Stockholm. This summer, he’ll be a major draw at Way Out…

More gifts! SLOWTHAI, BOY PABLO and THE BLACK MADONNA join the Way Out West 2020 line-up! He’s funny and merciless, self-revealing and uninhibited. He takes a swipe at the ultra-rich, the queen and racists. His lyrics portraying the Brexit-era Britain are among the sharpest you’ll find right now. Growing up in Northampton, SLOWTHAI was a hyper-energetic kid…

Trying to place AMARANTHE in just one of all metal genres that now exist, is as difficult as finding the famous needle in the haystack. Depending on who you ask or where you read, they play everything between death metal, dance metal, metal core and modern pop music with an aggressive tone including electronic influences……

Another 21 of the 90 acts that will be performing at the Sweden Rock Festival this summer are now confirmed: IN FLAMES, SOCIAL DISTORTION, WITHIN TEMPTATION, SAGA, KVELERTAK, TROUBLE, WALTER TROUT, HAKEN, ORANGE GOBLIN, VICTORY, MÅNEGARM, PRAYING MANTIS, SATAN TAKES A HOLIDAY, THE COFFINSHAKERS, NARNIA, ART NATION, MAGIC PIE, HORISONT, OVERDRIVE, SIENA ROOT and VA…

Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan and Dizzy Reed – the reunited GUNS N’ ROSES are coming to Sweden Rock Festival this summer! The show will be their only in Scandinavia on this tour, and one of only three festival appearances in Europe. GUNS N’ ROSES have remained one of the biggest rock bands in the…

NORLIE & KKV are ready for Bayside Festival 2020 in Helsingborg on the 10th – 11th July! Since their debut in 2011, their songs have been streamed over 300 million times and the duo have been on some of the country’s biggest stages. Sonny Fahlberg (Norlie) and Kim Vadenhag (KKV) together constitute one of the…

Queen ZARA LARSSON plays one of two exclusive Sweden gigs at Brännbollsyran 2020. ZARA LARSSON needs no further introduction – She is at the top of her career and delivers global hits as frequently as she wins coveted awards. With over 5 billion streams, she is one of Sweden’s largest music exports. This spring she…

Like almost all groundbreaking artists, MICHAEL KIWANUKA makes politics personal and the personal political. In his songs, as in the world at large, it all connects. If you take away one thing, the other thing turns insignificant.  At the same time, he seems more and more at ease with being just himself. Even if this means he…

The second annual Lollapalooza Stockholm has revealed its 2020 lineup which features POST MALONE, ELLIE GOULDING, ZARA LARSSON PERFORMING ON FRIDAY, PEARL JAM, THE KILLERS, AND ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS taking the stage on Saturday, while KENDRICK LAMAR, CAMILA CABELLO, and KACEY MUSGRAVES will close out the festival on Sunday. The lineup features…

PEARL JAM have announced their much-anticipated world tour. And organisers are extremely happy to confirm that Lollapalooza Stockholm 2020 will be the only concert for PEARL JAM in Sweden and the first in six years! PEARL JAM will close Tower Stage the second day of the festival, Saturday June 27th. PEARL JAM is one of the biggest rock bands of all time and from…

Why settle for less? Why put your music in one box and stick to only to one genre – as there are plenty of genres that creates fantastic music? Well, UNLEASH THE ARCHERS thinks outside that box! With their music you will hear aggressive metal as well as power dito. Vocals span from guttural screams…

LIL PUMP has been successful in recent years at festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza and Smash and collaborations with Kanye West and Lil Uzi Vert and others. LIL PUMP has billions of streams on Spotify with hits such as “I Love It” (feat. Kanye West), “Gucci Gang” and “Esskeetit”. Billie Eilish was ranked # 1). LIL…

Sweden Rock festival organisers kick off their 2020 band announcements with 31 of a planned 90 bands that will play next summers festival and the first band out of the hat are non other than VOLBEAT, one of the biggest rock bands in the world. Next week, they are playing to over 30 000 fans at…

“Skinny Cat with Whiplash has Nightmares” This might have been an introduction of the five members in DEATHSTARS in case you had a lousy sense of humour – However, that does not apply to us! BUT – DEATHSTARS will be visiting Sabaton Open Air in Falun in August 2020 AND with a new album! Right…

A one-man powerhouse. If you want to experience a unique combination of energy and heart-warming intimacy, a THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH show is the place to be. His music never stands still or feels stunned, regardless his choice of instrument. With just a piano, guitar or banjo Kristian Matsson can make anyone in the…

In 2017, 2018 and 2019 was a party – 2020 back for Åre Sessions fourth edition! Homegrown favorite MIRIAM BRYANT, internationally acclaimed band DUNGEN, hyped BAD GYAL (ESP) and house DJ FOLAMOR (FR) will be the first artists to be released for next year’s festival. New for this year is also that Åre Sessions, which…

In case you visited Sabaton Open Air back in 2017, you might have seen this quintet on stage before. Their gig back then was highly appreciated – so much in fact – that they landed a record deal although it was only their second appearance together! Since then, they have been travelling the roads in…

The first Bayside Festival in 2019 became a success and contained everything. Over 18,000 visitors over two days (9500 on Saturday July 13 and 8500 on Friday July 12), brilliant conditions and world-class artist performances. Visitors tried on the wake board, beach volley and bathed with flamingos during the festival’s Day Party. At Art Valley,…

A fresh breeze in the metal swamp at Sabaton Open Air – this is what German band VAN CANTO stands for. If you have seen them before, perhaps at Sabaton Open Air, which they have visited twice before, you know what is going on. This is a metal band with just one instrument (drums), the…

One of the most remarkable and gratifying success stories the past decade. Last fall he played at a packed Ericsson Globe in Stockholm and this summer drew a massive crowd at Mölleplatsen in Malmö, and this is why it only makes sense that when BON IVER in August returns to Way Out West, he does…

The metallic element Tungsten has the highest melting point of all metals and has an extremely high density. Translated into musical terms, you can easily say that TUNGSTEN, who visit Sabaton Open Air in the summer of 2020, is a metal band where it surely boils on stage and that they are a heavily tight…

It will indeed be quite interesting to see what songs EQUILIBRIUM will perform when they return to Sabaton Open Air 2020. The usual folk-pagan-viking-metal is history nowadays, since the dawn of the bands sixth and latest album ”Renegades”. The new sound is no more about legends or fairytales, instead more dark and apocalyptic. Even the…

One of Africas greatest metalbands – the Tunisian quintet MYRATH – will play one exclusive show in Sweden 2020: at Sabaton Open Air in August! Join them in Falun to move your hips and headbang to the oriental metal rhythms of their fifth masterpiece, ”Shehili”. This album has a very unique sound and has become…

One of Sweden’s internationally most successful rock bands is ready for Storsjöyran. MANDO DIAO, who has just played concerts in China and Russia, is now adding Östersund to their European summer tour. Unlike many other Swedish artists with international ambitions, MANDO DIAO has established themselves abroad – for real. The group has released seven albums…

Badder than the most. The undisputed queen of neo-soul. One of those voices you’ll never forget. Also actor, activist, icon. ERYKAH BADU is many things, most of all she’s hard to ignore and always interesting – musically, philosophically or in a stylistic sense. ERYKAH BADU played at the very first Way Out West festival in…

PRIMAL SCREAM with charismatic singer Bobby Gillespie at the head is ready for Storsjöyran in Östersund. The iconic Scottish rock group’s concert in Östersund will be the only one in Sweden this summer. The group is currently performing the album MAXIMUM ROCK “N” ROLL, which collects the biggest songs from the band’s long career. For…

Hot off the back of her critically acclaimed 4th album, ‘When I Get Home’, multimedia visionary SOLANGE will be taking her progressive, hyper-modern brand of r’n’b to Way Out West’s main stage, for a set that promises to be spellbinding. The artist completes the festival’s already vastly impressive lineup, which once again features a 50/50…

One of Sweden’s largest music exports, FIRST AID KIT is ready for Storsjöyran festival this summer for an exclusive visit at home in Sweden. The sisters Söderberg from Svedmyra have taken the world by storm with their heavenly vocal song and growing collection of beloved songs. FIRST AID KIT is today one of Sweden’s biggest…

Smash is here and this time with two days at Stockholm Stadium along with the giants A$AP Rocky, Migos and Kodak Black and Swedish hiphop’s new poster name Z.E. We can already promise the best music festival in 2019. Previously, announced that world artists A$AP Rocky, Migos, Kodak Black, Z.E, Gunna, Sawetiee and J.I.D will…

After five long years, RIVAL SONS, the rock sensation from Long Beach, California, is finally back at Storsjöyran festival. Right now, the group is up to date with its sixth album ‘Feral Roots’, which ranked high up on the Swedish album list. Together with the generation comrades in Greta Van Fleet, RIVAL SONS has been…

Festival organisers are proud to welcome the very forefathers of doom metal – CANDLEMASS – back to Sabaton Open Air. With the whole genre taking its name from their 1986 debut album, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, this Stockholm band wrote the rulebook that many have followed since. In an amazing new development, the band has reunited…

Set the alarm – Put a red mark on the 2nd & 3rd July in the calendar. Smash presents two days at Stockholm Stadium together with hip hop giants A$AP ROCKY, MIGOS and KODAK BLACK, Swedish hiphop’s newest name Z.E and breakthrough artists such as GUNNA and SAWEETIE. Festival organisers can already promise the best…

The first days of summer are spent in Gothenburg, an the city’s new music festival Gården. On the stage are, among others, TAME IMPALA, THE STREETS, Sweden’s emerging R&B star KALI UCHIS and Gothenburg’s finest – SARAH KLANG. In addition, the iconic Gothenburg Heroes BAD CASH QUARTET are reunited to play their first concert in…

With the addition of BEHEMOTH, LOK, HANK VON HELL, LILLASYSTER, LUCIFER, ROCK PÅ SVENSKA: EN HYLLNING TILL STRÄNGEN, DIZZY MIZZ LIZZY, PETE WAY BAND, THE BONES, DARKANE, OZ, BROTHERS OF METAL, BURNING WITCHES and DUST BOWL JOKIES, the 2019 Sweden Rock Festival line-up is now complete! And if you want to see what goes on…

July 5-6, 2019, it is time for the festival’s fifth edition. Last summer’s festival became the largest so far. 14,000 visitors were attracted to Sundsvall and got the ground under the park to rock when artists such as Icona Pop and Hov1 were crowded with world stars Alesso and Alan Walker on stage. ZARA LARSSON…