https://vo.rs/tags/tuska/Recent content in Tuska on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/tuska/Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/tuska/<p>Finland has more metal bands per head of population than any country on earth, a statistic that has become a national in-joke and a genuine cultural fact. In a country of five and a half million people, heavy metal is not a subculture skulking at the edges; it is mainstream enough that a monster band won the Eurovision Song Contest for Finland and the president has been photographed at metal shows. Tuska is where that saturated national obsession gathers once a year, in the concrete yard of a decommissioned power plant in the middle of Helsinki, and its name is Finnish for pain.</p>