Vaasa’s heavy music offering will get more colorful next summer, when the new metal music-focused Kaaos Festival will take place on the 25th and 26th of July in the former Wasalandia area in Vaskiluoto. The event is also organized by WsArena Oy, responsible for the More Löylyä festival, in cooperation with Kaaoszine.
Arto Mäenpää, editor-in-chief of Kaaoszine, who acts as the festival’s promoter, says the following about the new festival:
“The idea for a new festival started when I approached WsArena regarding the 2025 cooperation with the More Löylyä festival. Festival promoter Ari Rintamäki suggested creating a new festival in collaboration, and since the idea of Kaaoszine’s own festival had been simmering in the back of his mind for a few years, it was quite easy to say yes to the proposal in the end. The program is becoming a whole that looks like Kaaoszine, so there is a very wide range of different tones of metal music available to the public.”
In the festival launch, half of the list of 16 bands have been announced: The Haunted, Fleshgod Apocalypse, In Mourning, Bloodred Hourglass, …And Oceans, Assemble The Chariots, Enemies Everywhere and Where’s My Bible.
“The bands on the smaller stage consist of well-established domestic metal music giants combined with newcomer bands, and on the main stage the main focus is on interesting and current foreign bands,” says Mäenpää.
Negotiations are currently underway with the festival’s international headliners, and there will also be a contest coming to the website later, through which you can win the opportunity to play on a smaller festival stage.
“Kaaos Festival is intended to be an annual event, so of course we hope that all long-time readers of the magazine and metal music lovers from all over Finland would pack their bags and come to the former Wasalandia area to check out the iron-hard bands. The Wasalandia area has been used in the More Löylyä festival and received nothing but praise from the public, so the framework for making the festival is very suitable for the area. See you all at the end of July in Vaskiluoto!”, says Mäenpää.
Kaaos Festival’s two-day super early bird tickets are now on sale at Ticketmaster and NetTicket. The festival’s other ticket types will go on sale in the spring of 2025.
The age limit for the festival is 18 years.
Kaaos Festival 2024 25-26 July 2025
Super early bird tickets are now on sale at Ticketmaster and NetTicket.
– 2 days €99.50 (limited edition)
– 2 days VIP €199 (limited lot). The VIP ticket includes:
* Own area with visibility to both stages
* Private toilet
* Own bar
* Tables and chairs for sitting
* Small bite
Artists released so far are:
The Haunted (SWE)
Fleshgod Apocalypse (ITA)
In Mourning (SWE)
Bloodred Hourglass
…And Oceans
Assemble The Chariots
Enemies Everywhere
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