PHOTO GALLERY
// Festival photos (35)
Assemble the Chariots — opening our Day Two.
Numento — banners, beams and big choruses.
Iotunn — the progressive highlight of the day.
Sepulchral Curse — death metal indoors on Hellsinki-03.
Kalmah — swamp metal in the evening sun.
Wormwood — Scandinavian melancholy opens Day One.
Omnium Gatherum — Finnish melodic death metal on the main stage.
Carcass — precision brutality under a Helsinki sky.
Ikinä — a full-production set for the home crowd.
Bloodbath — the heaviest set of the evening.
Ensiferum bringing folk metal fury to the Tuska main stage.
Pain lighting up the main stage with industrial metal anthems.
Bloodred Hourglass tearing through the tent stage in front of a packed crowd.
Interview of Bloodred Hourglass coming out today from Tuska 2026.
Skindred turning Suvilahti into one massive ragga-metal party.
Day 2 kicked off with Balance Breach detonating the main stage under the Helsinki sun.
Day 2 — Official media tour briefing at the Tuska MEDIA point before heading backstage.
Day 2 — Side-stage with the media tour watching Hokka command a massive crowd at Suvilahti.
Swallow the Sun covered Tuska in a wall of sorrow and atmosphere.
Dogma brought ritual energy and a fierce crowd reaction to Day 2 at Tuska.
P.O.D. hit the Tuska main stage with a huge daytime crowd singing along.
Paleface Swiss bringing crushing Swiss hardcore to the Tuska main stage.
Rivers of Nihil delivering progressive death metal under Tuska's purple lights.
Soilwork closing Day 3 with melodic death metal mastery on the Tuska main stage.
Sara packing out the tent stage with a massive Day 3 crowd at Tuska.
Tarot returning to Tuska's main stage with classic Finnish heavy metal.
Media pass on — Day One begins.
Arriving to the area — the iconic Ruisrock arch.
View from Ruisrock — main stage, sand, crowd, sea.
Lost Society — full-scale thrash on the main stage.
Lost Society — full-scale red logo backdrop, full-scale thrash.
Ghettomasa on stage with Lost Society — an amazing collaboration that lit up the main stage.
Etta — full pop production on the main stage.
Nenerchy feat. Sammy (Lost Society) — Day One's cross-genre surprise.
Cledos — closing out Day One on the main stage.
// Artist photos (6)
Exclusive interview — Iotunn's drummer, backstage at Hellsinki 2026.
Backstage interview — Eluveitie.
Backstage interview — Kalmah.
Exclusive interview — Jukka Pelkonen (Omnium Gatherum), recorded after the show.
My Dogma interview is out now on the Metal Madness Weekly podcast.
Soilwork interview with singer Björn Strid — out now on all podcast platforms.
// Behind the scenes (20)
Max Padron — recording artist, session and touring guitarist, producer.- Exclusive interview — Iotunn's drummer, backstage at Hellsinki 2026.
- Backstage interview — Eluveitie.
- Backstage interview — Kalmah.
Magnadur — Blackened by the Cold EP artwork, out December 18, 2026
EP tracklist and credits — Metal Madness Studios, 2026
Media pass secured — ready to cover three days of metal at Suvilahti, Helsinki.- Day 2 — Official media tour briefing at the Tuska MEDIA point before heading backstage.
Hellgeist — official band logo.
The current Hellgeist lineup: Ale, Juma (Luca Serra), Elia Dutto and Peyo.
Wave Z — ‘Faith’ single cover.
The Wave Z lineup: Marco (vocals), Antonio (guitar), Bart (bass), Alfonso (drums).
AENYR — cinematic key visual.
AENYR — official sigil.
Magnadur — “Blistering Hate”
Tomi Perrakoski — “Frozen Thrones”
PROJECT: Beyond live
PROJECT: Beyond — DIY alternative pop-rock from Bergen, Norway.
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