Tuska festival set a new one-day attendance record on Friday June 26 with a sold-out opening day. 23,000 metal fans gathered in Suvilahti to enjoy the heaviest heat of the summer so far, led by Megadeth, who are on their farewell tour.
Tuska has also announced the first eight performers for summer 2027. Tuska, which will still be held in Suvilahti, will be held next year from July 2-4, 2027.
One of the headliners next summer will be American deathcore big name Lorna Shore. Founded in New Jersey in 2009, Lorna Shore has had a dizzying ride in recent years. The band’s fourth studio album, and vocalist Will Ramos’ first, “Pain Remains”, released in 2022, raised the band’s value to an unimaginable level. The tours that followed the album and finally the 2025 album “I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me” cemented Lorna Shore’s place not only as an absolute top name in extreme metal, but also as a metal machine appreciated by a wider audience.
The headliner for the second day will be the returning Finnish grim reaper squad Children Of Bodom, one of the world’s most respected metal bands. Cherishing the musical legacy of guitarist legend and founding member Alexi Laiho, who tragically passed away in 2020, Children Of Bodom hired Alex as guitarist-vocalist and good friend of the band Samy Elbanna, whose incredible guitar playing honors the memory of Alexi Laiho, who was also voted the best metal guitarist in the world. Tuska is pleased and honored to have Children Of Bodom on stage in the summer of 2027.
Other Tuska performers for next summer announced at this stage are the German Heaven Shall Burn, who combines extreme metal genres, the also German Kanonenfieber, who works on blackened death metal, the American Fox Lake, who mixes nu metal, hardcore and hip hop, the Portuguese Gaerea, who performs atmospheric and melodic black metal, the German modern metalcore group Avralize, and the American Sinizter, who relies on an unlikely combination of aggressive hip hop and extreme metal.
Confirmed Tuska 2027 performers:
Lorna Shore, Children Of Bodom
Heaven Shall Burn, Kanonenfieber
Fox Lake, Gaerea, Avralize, Sinizter
Artist performance dates to be announced later.
More performers to be announced later.
Tuska’s age limit is 18 years.
TUSKA 2.–4.7.2027
Helsinki, Suvilahti
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