Tons of Rock: How Oslo Learned to Throw a Proper Metal Party

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0000

For most of my festival life Oslo was the neighbour that didn’t have one. Norway had the money, the bands and one of the deepest metal scenes on the planet, and yet if you wanted to see a big loud outdoor bill you flew to Sweden Rock or drove to Copenhell. Then Tons of Rock arrived, and within a decade it had become the largest music festival in the whole country. That is a genuinely strange thing to have happened, and it is worth walking through how.

Tons of Rock on vo.rs

Tons of Rock: How Oslo Learned to Throw a Proper Metal Party