Det er endelig klart for Tons of Rock. Om kort tid fylles Oslo av titusenvis av musikkelskere fra hele landet og resten av verden. Verdensstjerner, legender og ikoner skal over fire dager fylle festivalens fem scener med store musikkopplevelser. I tillegg byr festivalen på talks, humor, arkadespill, mat, fotball og et helt nytt område som…
De tyske heavy metal-legendenene Accept er klare for Tons of Rock og erstatter W.A.S.P, som dessverre har måttet avlyse sin opptreden på grunn av familiære årsaker. Med en karriere som strekker seg tilbake til 1970-tallet regnes Accept som et av de mest innflytelsesrike bandene innen europeisk heavy metal. Gjennom flere tiår har de levert klassikere…
SCOTTISH ROCK N ROLLERS DETAIL DEBUT ALBUM AND NEW SINGLE Fast rising Scottish rock band KELOWNA will release their debut album, Superstar, everywhere on Friday 28th August. Ahead of this, the band have released their enticing new single and video, Insanity, out now. Watch the video here: listen to the band here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6j5I5HIICxu1PNQ2XV0yVy Formed in early…
Utsolgte Tons of Rock utvider festivalopplevelsen med helt nytt område. Velkommen til The Arcade Selv om Tons of Rock for lengst har meldt utsolgt, fortsetter festivalen med å utvide innhold og opplevelsen for de titusenvis av tilreisende som samles på Ekebergsletta neste uke.I år introduseres nemlig The Arcade. Et helt nytt aktivitetsområde som gir publikum…
Today the legendary metal pioneers in Einherjer release their long-awaited 10th studio album “Lifeblood”. The album is a reflection around belonging, heritage and roots – both as individuals and as a band. After over thirty years of making music, they look back toward what shaped them and the forces that have followed through all these…
After years of change, reflection, and rebuilding, South African rock outfit Man As Machine return with their first new music since before the pandemic. Their latest single, The Right Words, marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the band and is the first release featuring their revitalised lineup. Formed in Gauteng in 2009,…
Photo by Terhi Ylimäinen INSOMNIUM Release “Shadowlife” 1st Single and Video from Upcoming Album “For I have only two doors left in this house. One leading to soothing sleep. The other to death.” (Niilo Sevänen) “Shadowlife” marks the compelling first glimpse of Finnish melodic death metal visionaries INSOMNIUM’s forthcoming album that will be out in…
Kai Hansen is one of the defining figures in heavy metal. As co-founder of Helloween and founder of Gamma Ray, he shaped power metal into a global force and created a sound that continues to drive the genre today. Now, Hansen returns with “Born With A Hammer”, his first solo album since Kai Hansen &…
Photo: Soile Siirtola TAAKE REVEALS DETAILS OF NINTH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM AND NEW SINGLE Having balanced tradition and innovation for over three decades, Taake remains fiercely independent while continually pushing its own creative boundaries. That uncompromising vision finds new expression on the ninth full-length album, En Skog av Nidstang. Past years of increasing isolation, detached from contemporary…
Swedish post-metal outfit CULT OF LUNA have announced their tenth studio album InThe Shadow of Your Shadow, coming November 6 on their own label Red Crk Recordings. Today the band shares first single and title track “InThe Shadow of Your Shadow”, with a visualizer on YouTube here. “In the Shadow of Your Shadow is written through…
Norwegian punk rock band BLOMST release their new single “Ta det som det kommer (når det går)” Norwegian punk rock band BLOMST release their new single “Ta det som det kommer (når det går)”, ahead of their biggest headline show to date at Rockefeller in Oslo this autumn.The song explores living with anxiety, both confronting…
Step into the darkness, enter the HOUSE OF WORK. Belgian post-punk band PREKOWSKI announces their debut EP “HOUSE OF WORK”, set for release today, June 12, 2026. The five-piece delivers a raw and unpolished sound that feels lifted straight out of an underground punk or goth basement, while still showing their full live intensity and…
Når portene åpner på Ekebergsletta 24. juni, er alt duket for nok en gigantisk utgave av Norges største rock- og metalfestival. Tons of Rock 2026 samler over 60 band og artister gjennom fire intense festivaldager i Oslo, og årets program byr på en sjelden kombinasjon av legender, moderne stadionnavn og fremadstormende utfordrere. Festivalen har gjennom…
Progressive-metal trio Redshift release music video for single ‘The Clown’ taken from new album ‘Down The Wire’ Bath-based progressive-metal three-piece Redshift return with their long-awaited third studio album ‘Down The Wire’, released on May 29th 2026 via Pale Wizard Records. Formed in 2017, influenced by the likes of Dream Theater, Rush and Opeth, Redshift balances aggressive…
Totenlegion stands for Melodic Black Metal with soaring melodies, blast beats and melancholic influences. Their German lyrics describe the horrors, loss and tragedy of the First World War. The band from Zirndorf – Germany have been active since 2012. They released the new Album “Einschlag” at the end of May The album is self-made and…
Credit: Brian Raaby Copenhagen-based industrial rock artist Chopper releases his single New Body, dropping just short of a month before closing out Denmark’s most legendary festival, in the coveted final Saturday slot at Copenhell 2026. Fast becoming one of Denmark’s most unpredictable underground live acts, Chopper has been selected to shut down the festival’s Gehenna…
Norway’s classic/traditional melodic metalers GHOST AVENUE are releasing their fifth studio album «Full Throttle» in June 2026. This is the follow-up to the critical acclaimed «Even Angels Fail» from 2020. Yet again the band will release an album on their own indie label. It’s been 6 years since the last album, but now the time…
As WARNING prepares to release Rituals of Shame – their first new music in twenty years, vocalist/guitarist Patrick Walker is self-effacing about what led to this moment. Over the last two decades he continued to write and release music, satisfied that he had achieved what he set out to do with WARNING. In those intervening years, interest…
Foto Credits: Jake Owens A.A. WILLIAMS steps into a new “Solstice.” Out now via RPM, “Solstice” arrives as WILLIAMS’ most powerful and poetic work to date, an album shaped by extremes of light and darkness, weight and fragility, devastation and renewal. Thunderous highs, intimate lows and vivid emotional shifts unfold across a record that feels…
Ayreon reveals the video for the roof-raising ‘Isolation.’ Taken from the stunning live concert, 30th Anniversary – An Amazing Flight Through Time – A journey through three decades of Ayreon history.Stream/Order HERE Arjen Lucassen reveals, ‘Isolation’ the finale to the spectacular live concert An Amazing Flight Through Time – released via Music Theories Recordings / Artone…
