WELCOME TO SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL, June 6-9 2018

Today we are happy to announce that Backyard Babies, Battle Beast, Dark Tranquillity, Stratovarius, Dark Funeral, Lacuna Coil, Crashdïet, Misery Loves Co, Pestilence, The Raven Age and Rockklassiker Allstars are confirmed for Sweden Rock Festival 2018. In addition, Astral Doors will be leading this year's Swedish national day celebrations on Wednesday, June 6th. Hence, the last remaining acts for this year's Sweden Rock Festival have now been confirmed, making the full 83 act line-up complete. Regrettably, we also have to announce that Electric Mary have cancelled their show due to health concerns. We are now hard at work to complete this year's running order, which we hope to be able to post shortly!

One of the biggest names in progressive rock now exists in two versions. Yes featuring ARW, who are coming to Sweden Rock this summer, are centered around original vocalist Jon Anderson, guitarist Trevor Rabin who composed their super hit "Owner of a lonely heart", and the band's classic keyboard player Rick Wakeman. "The definitive lineup of the greatest band in the history of progressive rock", to quote the members themselves.   Also confirmed for this summer's festival are Graveyard, Pain, Steelheart, H.E.A.T., Girlschool, Inglorious, Avatarium, Sky High, Hackensack, Electric Mary and Crazy Lixx. We're now closing in on a full line-up, which this year means a total of 82 bands! Unfortunately, we need to inform you that both Shooter Jennings and Pop Evil have cancelled their gigs at Sweden Rock, which leaves another 10 acts to be announced after today.

The 1-day tickets for Saturday June 9th are now sold out as well. That means that all ticket categories for 2018 are sold out. 

COLDTEARS, FRONTBACK, GAIN ELEVEN, GUAPA, HEDDA HATAR, NALA, NEKROKRAFT and SPIRAL SKIES . Those are the names of the Swedish bands that landed the desirable spots on the NEMIS Stage this summer.   For the 13th year in a row, Sweden Rock Festival welcomes eight new, Swedish acts to the festival. Handpicked by the festival's partner Studiefrämjandet, these young, up-and-coming acts will get the chance to perform at the Nemis stage at Sweden's biggest rock festival. "There is an incredible amount of great bands applying for a shot a the Nemis stage each year", says Burt von Bolton at the national office of Studiefrämjandet. "That makes the selection process really difficult, but it is a lot of fun too. Those who think that rock is dead should direct their eyes and ears to the hard rock and metal genres, which are very much alive and kicking." Martin Forssman, vice president at Sweden Rock Festival: "With the Nemis stage we are giving the Swedish hard rock and metal scene a platform for c

We have now been informed that the problems with some of the bank's card payments have been identified and solved. We are aware that the move of the release may have been a hazzle - sorry about that. In an effort to simplify, we have scheduled the release to match many people's lunchtime tomorrow at 12:00 noon.

Another two acts have been confirmed for this summer's Sweden Rock Festival: The Darkness and Glenn Hughes performs classic Deep Purple. The Darkness got their somewhat sensational breakthrough with their debut album "Permission to land" and accompanying hit single "I believe in a thing called love". After the 90's, when the general public seemed to shun everything reminiscent of the previous decade like the plague, The Darkness got the world into classic, melodic party friendly hard rock again. Anyone who missed them due to their late set last time they visited Sweden Rock is getting a new chance this summer! Glenn Hughes became a household name as a member of Deep Purple in the mid 70's. For the first time ever, he will now be playing material exclusively from the three classic Purple albums he participated on: "Burn", "Stormbringer" and "Come taste the band". A given addition for the festival line-up, of course - not least since Glenn is still singing as amazingly as ever!

Due to a mistake, two different times have been communicated for the release of the 1-day tickets on Thursday. Therefore, we will use the latest time, and the 1-day tickets will go on sale January 25th at 10 AM.

Right now we're receiving many questions about when the 1-day tickets will go on sale. However, the date for this has not been set yet. As usual, we're planning to release the 1-day tickets when the line-up and schedule are close to finished - so that you can learn which bands play which days before buying your ticket.   As soon as we have a date for the ticket release, we will let you know here on the web site and on our facebook, so keep a lookout!  

MESHUGGAH, URIAH HEEP, BUCKCHERRY, BARONESS, COVEN, DESTRUCTION, FOCUS and TORCH are now confirmed for Sweden Rock Festival 2018. Hailing from Umeå, Sweden, Meshuggah, have been pushing the boundaries of what is technically possible within the realms of extreme metal since the early 90's. There intense light show is best enjoyed in darkness, the band will be closing the Friday night festivities, starting right after the Ozzy Osbourne concert. Also confirmed for next year's festival are one of the true giants of 70's hard rock, Uriah Heep, along with Californian rockers Buckcherry, SRF debutants Baroness, 60's occult rock pioneers Coven featuring singer Jinx Dawson, classic German thrash metal trio Destruction, Dutch prog icons Focus and one of the earliest Swedish heavy metal bands, Torch. Another 28 acts, out of a total of 80, are still to be announced.

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR, IN THIS MOMENT, SHOOTER JENNINGS, MADAM X and BRIAN DOWNEY's ALIVE AND DANGEROU S are all confirmed for Sweden Rock Festival 2018.   American Killswitch Engage rank among the biggest names in modern metal and are touring as direct support to Iron Maiden in Europe this summer. Naturally, this will also bring them to Sweden Rock! Swedish sleaze kings Hardcore Superstar are known as one of the nation's best live acts. This will come in handy when they get to close this year's opening day festivities on Wednesday June 6th! Also confirmed are contemporary rock/metal act In This Moment featuring charismatic vocalist Maria Brink, American country rocker Shooter Jennings , cult glam metal band Madam X who made a hugely successful comeback at SRF 2014, and Brian Downey's Alive And Dangerous which of course is the original Thin Lizzy drummer with his new band performing all the classic Lizzy songs!