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While music and travel industries are suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic, and people around the globe have fewer opportunities to enjoy concerts and fulfil their wanderlust. Tuska Utopia  offers a new way of experiencing both.  The concept of Tuska Utopia is created and produced by the team behind Tuska Festival. Tuska Festival is the biggest metal festival in the Nordic region, and it takes audiences on a journey to some of the most exceptional landscapes in Finland.  Each hour-long episode includes a concert, an interview with the artist and a tour of the location in the spirit of a travel show. The first season comprises of three episodes. Industrial metal powerhouse  Turmion Kätilöt  who performed at the Suvilahti gasometer in Helsinki on November 13th (last Friday), power metal band  Battle Beast  at a secret stone castle on 20 November (tomorrow!!!), and cello metal sensations  Apocalyptica  at the church ruins in Pälkäne on...

As many of you might know our week-end was pretty packed up with heavy metal and 46 bands coming from all over the world.   The 22nd edition of Tuska festival broke the record of 2018 creating an all time record of 43.000 visitors over the 3 days of the festival.  On Saturday the festival was completely sold out with 15.000 people.  This year the festival was a bit different, and things were added to the weekend ; there has been various conferences in the Solmusali area, and there was also an “expo” area with vendors selling music, making tattoos, piercing and many more.  The other new aspect was Tiny Tuska, an event for children, that took place on Sunday afternoon. More than 500 little moshers turned up with their parents to pass the metal torch on to the next generation. Some of the bands who filled our weekend were, Amorphis , Opeth, Sam1na, Battle Beast, Anthrax, Lost Society, Jinjer, Behemoth, Delain, Heilung, The Hellacopters and ma...

After Rockfest our RQL Summer tour has continued with the 21st edition of the metal festival “Tuska Open air”. This year was out first time there, and we can for sure say that next year we will be there again. The festival takes place in Suvilahti, Helsinki, and there couldn’t be a better location for a metal festival. This year the festival drew a crowd of 34 000 visitors over the 3 festival days, so we can say that we weren’t the only ones thinking that the festival is amazing (LOL). Photo : Tuska - J esse Kämäräinen The first day of Tuska, was opened by the Danish death metal band Baest, performing on the Helsinki Stage . A band was enough to set the crowd on fire, and to start gettin everyone into  the “metal” spirit. The day has continued with the Gloomy Grim, Crowbar, Tribulation, Hard Action until getting to the Finnish Turmion Katilot hitting the Tuska people with their energy and amazing light games.  Photo : Tuska - J esse Kämäräinen The day...