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19 new bands announced for Tons of Rock 2023

December 15th, 2022
19 new bands announced for Tons of Rock 2023
Tons of Rock announces 15 new bands and Day passes on sale Wednesday at 09!

KVELERTAK – ARCHITECTS – HALESTORM – SOULFLY - THE DOGS – NAPALM DEATH – BURY TOMORROW – CANDLEMASS - MCC – THE BRONX - VREID - ASKING ALEXANDRIA – FEVER 333 – AUDREY HORNE – STORM

- 15 really strong names including Kvelertak who will do their only concert in the summer of 2023 at Tons of Rock.
- The provisional day program is ready and day passes go on sale on Wednesday 14 December at 09.
- This year's Christmas present - secure yourself a festival pass for 2022 price for the rest of the year (limited number). There are now few VIP festival passes left.

Tons of Rock follows up the monster release with four new favourites

Norway's biggest festival served the audience a gift package with headliners Ghost and Pantera earlier this week, today they follow up with another wild Nordic artist release.

NIGHTWISH - WARDRUNA - HAMMERFALL - AURA NOIR

Directly from a packed Oslo Spektrum just before the country closed again in autumn 2021, we find Finnish Nightwish, who make a long-awaited Tons of Rock debut. "We could hardly have had a much better reopening of Oslo Spektrum," said Blezt about the concert in Spektrum.

Wardruna, on the other hand, have become one of Norway's biggest music exports, and their popularity has exploded after they also contributed the soundtrack to the hit series Vikings. In the summer, they top the bill at several festivals around the USA and Europe, and bring a unique and exclusive show when we meet the band again at Ekebergsletta.

We will stay in the Nordics for the next band as well, and then we will go to Sweden and their power metal heroes in HammerFall. After they were actually supposed to play in 2020 and 2021, and did not appear on the poster last year, it is an extra great pleasure to welcome them in 2023!

A band that doesn't have to travel as far to get to Ekebergsletta is Aura Noir. They last played at Tons of Rock back in 2015 and have since given us the fabulous album Aura Noire. This will be deliciously pitch dark!

GHOST – PANTERA – NIGHTWISH
GOJIRA – BEHEMOTH – WARDRUNA – CLUTCH – TNT – POWERWOLF – MAYHEM – HAMMERFALL - STAGE DOLLS – HONNINGBARNA – THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY- AVATAR – SPIRITBOX – VOIVOD – AURA NOIR – BRENN.

Current day programme.

Thursday 22.06
NIGHTWISH
BEHEMOTH - CLUTCH - POWERWOLF
ASKING ALEXANDRIA – AVATAR – FEVER 333
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY - HALESTORM
MAYHEM – SOULFLY – STORM – VOIVOD

Friday 23.06
GHOST - PANTERA
ARCHITECTS - GOJIRA - TNT
AUDREY HORNE – BRENN. – THE BRONX
NAPALM DEATH - SPIRITBOX – VREID – WITCH CLUB SATAN

Saturday 24.06
KVELERTAK
WARDRUNA
AURA NOIR – BURY TOMORROW – CANDLEMASS – THE DOGS
HAMMERFALL – HONNINGBARNA – MCC – STAGE DOLLS

Many more artists to come!


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