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[23 September 2026]
>>> Interviews >>> REMEDY We had a chat with Roland "Rolli" Forsman of Remedy at Kurkkurock a while ago. We got some "inside information" about their touring plans and new look, and promised to release this interview when they had released the news... now they've done, and here's the interview. Or maybe transcript of a chat, it's a rather improvised one!
[20 September 2026]
>>> Interviews >>> THE DEVIL WEARS NADA We haven't done many interviews lately, maybe this is a new start... but THE DEVIL WEARS NADA is the band we had a chat with, and they are great!
[26 August 2026]
>>> Live On Stage >>> Frontiers Rock Festival 2026 Our flying reporters Satu and Kari have made a comeback, and this is their extensive report from Italy! Starship, Giant with Dann Huff, Stryper, Night Ranger, H.E.A.T., Nelson, Heavens Edge and many more, check it out! Day to Day FB photo galleries have been added to our Facebook Photo Albums!
[23 August 2026]
>>> Live On Stage >>> Lordi - The Arockalypse 20th Anniversary Show Lordi brought their "The Arockalypse 20th Anniversary Show" to Logomo's Terassikesä outdoor concert series, along with support act Rabbit Cult.
[20 August 2026]
>>> Live On Stage >>> KURKKUROCK 2026 Deep in the heart of South-West Finland, in the middle of cucumber fields, lies a town called Askainen. Kurkkurock took place there last weekend, with Remedy, The Top Guns and The Grammers on stage!
[17 August 2026]
>>> Live On Stage >>> MALMÖ MELODIC 2026 The story is now complete. We will keep the "countdown" here as a reminder when the previous episodes were released. [17 August 2026] Third day! Sunday's acts were Creye, Proud, Alicate, Michael Bormann's Jaded Hard, White Widdow, Wig Wam and the triumphant return of Finland's Finest, Brother Firetribe! [12 August 2026] Second day! The story has been expanded and now you can read about Constancia, Mother Mersy, Saffire, Fighter V, Boulevard, Alien and Hardline. [06 August 2026] The review of the first day is now done! Caught In Action, Emotional Fire, Sarayasign, Art Nation, Midnite City, Eclipse & Tyketto. The respective FB photo galleries have been added to our Facebook Photo Albums!
[17 July 2026]
YES! It's time to re-start the engines, as we're heading into the festival season. Unfortunately we haven't been able to participate in many events this summer, but MALMÖ MELODIC is one that we're not going to miss! So, stay tune for coverage on our social media channels (Facebook and IG), as well as full-blown festival raport later! And later this month, we're hoping to be able to visit Baltic Metal Storm, held here in Turku area for the first time ever.
Review of last year's festival here: MALMÖ MELODIC 2025
[31 March 2026]
>>> Live On Stage >>> PETRA Live In Turku Recently re-activated Christian Rock Legends PETRA brought their "Hope Tour" to Finland, and Turku was one of cities where they played. We were there, and have the photos and a story to prove it!
[1 February 2026]
>>> Live On Stage >>> ECLIPSE & ONE DESIRE Live In Turku One of Sweden's finest bands, Eclipse played three gigs in Finland and we saw them in Turku. Support act was One Desire, back in action after a couple of quiet years!
[22 November 2025]
>>> Live On Stage >>> BATTLE BEAST & DYNAZTY Live In Turku Finnish metal merchants BATTLE BEAST and Swedish DYNAZTY played at Logomo, Turku last week and we were there! Review is here and more photos can be found at our Facebook galleries.
[14 August 2025]
>>> Live On Stage >>> MALMÖ MELODIC 2025 AND FINALLY! The review has been written, research has been done, layout is ready, photos edited for it... computer didn't crash but the photo editing software did, only once though... but here it is, our review of the second Malmö Melodic festival.
[13 August 2025]
>>> Live On Stage >>> Photo albums of Malmö Melodic 2025 The actual review of the Malmö Melodic festival is still under construction (ETA this week), but we did post all the photo albums to our Facebook. One album for each band, and the list is here:
FRIDAY: State Of Salazar, Arctic Rain, Cruzh, Seventh Crystal, Bad Habit, FM SATURDAY: Animalyze, Arkado, Violet, Care Of Night, Degreed, Brother Firetribe, Treat SUNDAY: House Of Shakira, Pittman Cole, Daytona, Rian, Nitrate, Crazy Lixx, Kissin' Dynamite.
[19 July 2025]
>>> Live On Stage >>> VAUHTI KIIHTYY TURKU 2025 Vauhti Kiihtyy festival took place in Turku for the second time, and this time there was more rock than before, so obviously we had to be there! Turmion Kätilöt, Michael Monroe, Sonata Arctica, Popeda, Stratovarius, Happoradio and Portion Boys were on stage among others. Check out tons of additional photos at our Facebook page! [18 June 2025]
>>> Live On Stage >>> ROCKFEST 2025 If you follow our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram and Threads), you know that last week we were at ROCKFEST 2025 in Turku for three days. This week, we've spent much of our free time writing the review and processing the hundreds of photos. And now, here's the review! Featuring artists like Nestor, H.E.A.T., Judas Priest, Bullet For My Valentine, Muse and many others. [6 June 2025]
>>> Live On Stage >>> EUROPE Live in Europe Well, in Einhoven, The Netherlands to be exact... just couldn't resist the pun. Apparently the show was a good one! [19 May 2025]
>>> Live On Stage >>> BROTHER FIRETRIBE Live in Turku Well it's been a while since we reviewed a BROTHER FIRETRIBE gig... they were in town last weekend, so we were there, on duty, with a very serious Rock Police mindset. Or maybe not. Support act: Wolfram [2 May 2025]
>>> Live On Stage >>> Avantasia Live in Helsinki Tobias Sammet brought his ensemble to Helsinki and we were there to witness the sounds and the sights of Avantasia Live Spectacle! [21 November 2024]
>>> Live On Stage >>> Rhapsody Of Fire & Freedom Call live in Heerlen, The Netherlands Power Metal heroes rode into town, and our reporter was there to witness their triumphant show!
[23 October 2024]
>>> Live On Stage >>> Nestor & Cruzh live in Tampere, Finland The Swedes invaded Tampere! Nestor, supported by Cruzh, live at Olympia-kortteli, Tampere, Finland.
[22 October 2024]
>>> Live On Stage >>> Y & T in The Netherlands The legendary Y&T are celebrating their 50th Anniversary and still going strong. Martien Koolen saw them in Heerlen, The Netherlands.
[15 October 2024]
>>> Live On Stage >>> WITHIN TEMPTATION We saw Within Temptation last week, with Annisokay as support act. Alex Yarmak and Tarja Turunen made special appearances. Check out our (phone) photos and a mini-review.
[8 August 2024]
>>> Live On Stage >>> SMUGGLERROK 2024 A Ro(c)k Festival in the middle of a town? That's Smugglerrok, celebrating its' 10th Anniversary with Anssi Kela, Michael Monroe, Battle Beast and others. This concludes our run of three festivals this summer.
[17 July 2024]
>>> Live On Stage >>> KARJUROCK 2024 "The hardest rural festival in the world" is one of their slogans... we drove into the woods, and there, "out in the fields" it was, KARJUROCK. This year the main attractions for us were TARJA TURUNEN and MARKO HIETALA together again, the new incarnation of YÖ with JP Leppäluoto, MICHAEL MONROE, SKÄDÄM, RUST'N RAGE and KÄÄRIJÄ.
[17 July 2024]
>>> Live On Stage >>> VAUHTI KIIHTYY TURKU Vauhti Kiihtyy Festivals take place in four different cities here in Finland. We visited this summer's first one in Turku. Highlights included Popeda with their new singer Olli Herman, the ever-so-reliable Battle Beast, Portion Boys' party anthems and our old friend Janne Hurme.
[30 May 2024]
>>> Interviews >>> REMEDY interview I know, we haven't done many interviews lately, but once in a while a new band comes along and we just have to ask a few questions.... REMEDY has been a huge favourite here at RockUnited HQ, so we thought what the heck, let's put together an interview! Their main man Roland Forsman was kind enough to answer our questions, even the strange ones.
[10 August 2023]
>>> Live On Stage >>> SMUGGLERROK 2023 Smugglerrok 2023 took place in Lieto, a small town nearby RockUnited.Com Headquarters. Amaranthe, Beast In Black, Lost Society and more, check out our review.
[10 August 2023]
>>> Live On Stage >>> Battle Beast at Logomon Terassikesä 2023 Battle Beast live in Turku - mini-review and photos. There was a major festival RUISROCK in Turku at the same, but since there's very little rock there, we chose this event!
[25 June 2023] Oh how time flies. It occured to me that the domain ROCKUNITED.COM was reserved for us in 2003, which means that it's our 20th Anniversary year! We did start a few years earlier as AOR-Europe.Com as an union of few other sites, so the roots go deeper into the nineties. Happy Anniversary to us anyway!
[20 June 2023]
>>> Live On Stage >>> ROCKFEST 2023 The second part of our ROCKFEST 2023 review is now on line. The 69 Eyes, Crashdïet, Nestor, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and more.
[14 June 2023]
>>> Live On Stage >>> ROCKFEST 2023 We visited the biggest rock festival in Finland this summer, ROCKFEST. Here's the first part of our live review, starring LORDI, VV, PANTERA, BATTLE BEAST and others! Second part to be added soon, along with lots of photos to our Facebook page!
[14 March 2023]
>>> Live On Stage >>> GEOFF TATE in Turku 2023 Geoff Tate celebrating the 30th anniversary of Empire, a couple of years late thanks to Covid.... "Rage For Order" was also played in its' entirety. Support act: LEKSI.
[25 October 2022]
>>> Live On Stage >>> H.E.A.T. in London 2022 H.E.A.T. electrified London with Collateral and Mason Hill!
[25 August 2022]
>>> Live On Stage >>> TOTO + Reckless Love, H.E.A.T. & Brother Firetribe LIVE in Turku 2022 The legendary AOR band Toto played four gigs in Finland in August 2022. We saw the last one of them in Logomo, Turku. A review and a photo gallery in Facebook. We didn't get a photo pass for this gig, but at least we were in the frontrow with our phones.
>>> Live On Stage >>> QUEEN + Adam Lambert A band that needs no introdution - QUEEN. They brought their Rhapsody Tour to Finland, and with was a spectacular show. You can check out our photos, merely phone snaps from our seats but you'll get an idea of the size of the show anyway.
[23 June 2022]
>>> Live On Stage >>> KISS - The End Of The Road, Helsinki 2022 It's the end of the road! The last chance to see KISS in Finland! Of course we took it, and we loved it... LOUD! Ignore the naysayers, Kiss can still put on a hell of a show!
[04 January 2022]
>>> Live On Stage >>> ROCKIN' SCANDINAVIA 2021 Well, it was our goal to get this done by the end of the year, but life got in the way and there was a slight delay. Anyway, here it is, our first festival review since July 2019! Reckless Love, Dynazty, One Desire and Cruzh!
[24 December 2021] Merry Christmas! The somewhat overdue Rockin' Scandinavia review will hopefully be uploaded before the end of this year, it's been hectic at RU HQ and there hasn't been any time to devote to it lately. Anyway, we hope you have a nice Christmas and you get to spend quality time with your family and friends, and maybe listen to some quality rock music too! [9 December 2021]
>>> Live On Stage >>> BATTLE BEAST and ARION Live In Turku You'd have to scroll down all the way to 4 Dec 2019 to read our previous concert review, so it was about time that we got to cover a major gig! And yes, we liked it!
[16 November 2021] A couple of mini-reviews / photo sets from recent gigs:
[20 April 2021]
>>> SPECIAL FEATURES >>> THE TOP 100 SWEDISH HARD ROCK / METAL SONGS OF THE EIGHTIES This has been a labour of love, a big project... after spending hours of digging through his record collection and archives, our Swedish editor Urban put together this list of 100 essential Swedish hard rock / metal songs of the eighties. There are classic songs by classic bands on the list, but there are plenty of surprises and bands you might not have heard of. What's more, it's not only a list of songs, we got in touch with many of the artists, and they told us how these songs were born. As a "side order". you'll get a brief history of Swedish HR in the eighties - the triumphs, the losses... and a Kee-O-Meter?! We made Youtube and Spotify playlists to accompany this article. The Youtube one is complete with ALL the 100 songs, we could only find about 80% of these from Spotify.
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