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Finnish rock (Finnish: suomirock or suomirokki—also known as Finnsrock, Finnrock or Finrock) refers to rock music made in Finland. The initial rock and roll boom of the 1950s was preceded by a long tradition of popular culture.
Vuosina 2017, 2018 ja 2019 festivaali keräsi Ruissalon kansanpuistoon 105 000 ihmistä viikonlopun aikana, ja kaikki kolme päivää olivat jokaisena kolmena vuonna loppuunmyytyjä. Vuoden 2020 ja 2021 Ruisrockit peruttiin koronaviruspandemian vuoksi.
In 2017, 2018 and 2019, the festival gathered 105,000 people in the Ruissalo People's Park during the weekend, and all three days were sold out in each of the three years. The 2020 and 2021 Ruisrocki were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Rockfest on suomalainen rock- ja metallimusiikkiin keskittyvä festivaali. Ensimmäisen kerran Rockfest järjestettiin kesäkuussa 2017 Vantaalla, jonne kertyi 50 000 ihmisen yleisö. Vuonna 2018 festivaali laajentui kahdesta nelipäiväiseksi ja se järjestettiin Hyvinkään lentokentällä. Nelonen Media Live osti Rockfestin liiketoiminnan ...
- A Gaggle of Genres
- The Foundation of Suomirock
- Equality Is Pop
- Language and Music
- National Romanticism Today
- The Ethos of Kullervo
- Poetic Flow
- It’S All Ethno
- Large Orchestras
- Permanence
Symphonic music and traditional opera; rock music and schlagers in Finnish, known as iskelmä; traditional folk music. These were traditionally regarded as the quintessentially Finnish musical genres up until as recently as the 1980s and 1990s. By the 2000s, this venerable cluster of cultural identity had been penetrated by more recent arrivals: met...
The foundation of Finnish rock music, or ‘Suomirock’, was established in the 1980s by musicians and groups who are now household names: Eppu Normaali, J. Karjalainen, Tuomari Nurmio, Ismo Alanko and many more. On this foundation rests a multitude of subsequent layers, performers and styles whose common feature is a prominent role given to lyrics in...
Looking back, it seems incredible to remember that in the 1980s women were not considered of any significance in the Suomirock genre. There were just a couple of ‘girl bands’ on the fringes of the genre, Tavaramarkkinat and Ilona. At the same time, journalists writing about classical music made a big deal out of composer Kaija Saariahobeing a woman...
Only about five million people in the world speak Finnish. Our strange language does not belong to the Indo-European language family whose languages dominate the Anglo-American, European and Slavic music cultures. Beyond the borders of Finland, music with Finnish lyrics is mainly listened to by Finnish expatriates and long-established populations t...
Metal music has also entered the mainstream of Finnish popular music and is now ‘accepted’ in a way that would have been unthinkable a couple of decades ago. The most extreme metal music styles are marginal subcultures; the mainstream includes more melodic variants such as progressive metal, folk metal and power metal, although influenced by the fi...
Kullervo is an anti-hero in the Kalevala, a thoroughly abused and humiliated child who grows up with huge powers and a terrible thirst for vengeance. There was something of the ethos of Kullervo in the air when Finland, after repeated humiliations for decades, won its so far only victory in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. (For more on Kullervo...
Integrating international genres into a local music scene and merging them with folk tradition and other cultures and other branches of the arts is part of the complex mixing of identities and materials that goes into a multicultural society. Finnish rap music is a case in point. Finnish rap did not enter the mainstream of popular music until the 2...
In the 2000s in particular, Finnish music has undergone multiculturalisation at an exponential rate, as minorities have become more visible, immigrant cultures have acquired a greater foothold, international mobility has increased and cultural equality has advanced. All music is now ethnic music, and Finnish music speaks with multiple voices. Swedi...
Classical contemporary music has also become more pluralist. The dominant style today is expressive postmodernism, and orchestral works often probe existential issues (as for instance in the case of Kalevi Aho, Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Sebastian Fagerlund). Often the music purports to be about mysteries and dimensions beyond everyday ...
With the advent of the digital revolution, mobile media and networking, we can now listen to almost any music at all almost anywhere at all. The distinction between old and new music is less relevant now that all music from every time period can be found in the here-and-now of the Internet. As recently as in the 1980s, to find new music one had to ...
Battle Beast is a Finnish heavy / power metal band established in Helsinki in 2008 by Anton Kabanen, Juuso Soinio and Pyry Vikki. The initial line-up consisted of guitarists Soinio and Kabanen, and drummer Vikki, who were high school friends.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2018 in Finnish music.
