WELCOME TO SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL, June 3-6 2020

The Tunisian band Myrath played an amazing show on the tent stage this afternoon. Not only does their melodic, middle-eastern metal sound highly original - they also put on a great show with fire jugglers, a dancer and an illusionist. After Behemoth unfortunately had to cancel their show tonight, Myrath have now agreed to stand in for them on extremely short notice and play their second Sweden Rock show of the day.   We are of course aware that Myrath is a smaller band and play a completely different kind of music than Behemoth, but their show earlier today was truly spectacular and we really recommend everyone who didn´t see them to give them a chance.

Extremely sad news: several members of Behemoth have been stranded on Frankfurt airport due to flight problems. Because of this, the band will not be able to play their show tonight.   The band sent the following message to their fans at Sweden Rock: "Legions of Sweden Rock - due to an error made by our airline, we have been forced to cancel tonight's show. This was an extremely important show for us; we tried to rectify the situation for the parts of our touring party affected but were met with further delays meaning we are unable to make it to the festival site in time. We will make it up to our Swedish Legions and appreciate your understanding and support!" With this short notice it will unfortunately not be possible to find a replacement of the same size and musical style as Behemoth, but we are nevertheless working on finding a solution to have a show on the Rock Stage after the Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow concert. More info to follow.

Today during Saturday afternoon, 9 people that have eaten chicken baguettes from Rosenlund's Camping area have fallen ill with food poisoning.   Rosenlund's Camping is located about 1 kilometer south of the festival area, and the vendor has been shut down.   If you have eaten chicken/chicken baguette and start to develop serious symptoms of food poisoning, we advise you to visit the red cross tent located at "plattan" (the asphalt area in front of entrance 2). If you have less serious symptoms, we recommend water and rest.

Unfortunately, Annihilator has had to cancel their show at this year's festival. The band has a new deadline for their coming album and need to focus on the recording. Annihilator will instead be playing at Sweden Rock Festival 2020.   Their replacement will be the Swedish death metal legends Unleashed, and this will be the first time in 10 years they play at Sweden Rock. Unleashed will be taking over Annihilators slot; Sweden Stage, 19.15-20.30 on Saturday the 8th of June.    UNLEASHED (SE) Unleashed is one of "the big four" in Stockholmian death metal (alongside Entombed, Dismember and Grave), and remain one of the most popular and respected bands of the genre. Largely thanks to their uncompromising consistensy. Listen to their debut "Where no life dwells" (1991) and their thirteenth and most recent album "The hunt for White Christ" (2018), and you'll hear the same genuine, Viking-themed death metal.

The Pilgrim Bar is our first organic bar, located in the new food area The Smoke Pit.     Here we will serve organic beer on tap, the unfiltered Falcon Pilgrim eco beer, the all new organic cider Somersby Cloudy Pear and organic wine. Of course we also have several non-alcoholic options.   The beer and the cider are - like most of the drinks all over the festival - produced at Carlsberg Sweden's brewery in Falkenberg or at the water production center in Ramlösa.   In 2017, Carlsberg was the first large brewery in Sweden to start producing carbon-dioxide neutrally, with 100 % "green" electricity and biogas.   For the first time we are also using a glas made by bioplastic from corn starch. The glasses look like ordinary plastic glasses, but they are fully bio based. From an environmental standpoint, the manufacturing process of making these are considerably better - an important step in our sustainability plan.

Sweden Rock 2019 is rapidly approaching. Our ambition is, of course, to offer this year's visitors a really nice festival experience, with focus on good music, high service and security.   Most things on the festival area will be the same as always, but below you can read about a selection of new additions and upgrades:   - We are increasing capacity and improving the access to toilets. In addition to the large lavatory villages from last year, we are adding two more. One between Rock and Festival Stage, and one by the Sweden-Stage area.   - We are increasing the festival surface by adding a new food area (read the piece of news about The Smoke Pit from a few days ago!), and also increasing the size of the VIP-area.   - The fresh water function in the partner-activity area returns, and we are also adding another fresh-water tap next to the disability ramp. The water posts by the toilets from last year will of course remain as well.    - 2019 will be the first year when you can pay with

Focusing on great food, BBQ, an organic bar and lots of sweet spots to hang out with your friends - THE SMOKE PIT is a tasty new addition to this year's festival.   The new 1000m2 area sits just south of Rockklassiker stage.   THE SMOKE PIT is an area made to be comfier and calmer, and since we have understood that you would like more sitting areas, we have added plenty!   The food varies from high quality BBQ, awesome burgers and award-winning street food, to game (?), fresh pasta and food from all over the world. We are also focusing on high quality and organic ingredients. There will be plenty of tasty vegetarian and vegan options as well.   Inside, we have of course placed a bar to quench your thirst, that will serve organic products only (more information to be announced soon).   So, rally your friends, choose what you would each like to eat and then gather in the middle over a pitcher! What do you say, sounds pretty great right?    

Rock Fossils is a unique travelling exhibition, focusing on bizarre and long-gone organisms, all named after well-known rock stars!   This exhibition will offer a view of life-equal sculptures of fossils, most of them named after artists who have performed at Sweden Rock; Lemmy Kilmister, King Diamond, The Tolis brothers, Alissa White-Gluz and Eluveitie, to name a few.   If you find the exhibition intriguing, you can learn even more by listening to one of the originators, scientist Dr. Mats E. Eriksson when he gives a lecture. Keep a look out in our running order - the lectures will be posted there later on.  

With the running order announced weeks ago, we have still managed to cram one final band in for this summer. Many of our guests have wondered if there will be a Rockklassiker Allstars show this year and the answer is yes! This years edition of Rockklassiker Allstars includes Nina Söderquist (Rhapsody In Rock), Robban Bäck (Mustasch/ex-Sabaton), Jona Tee (H.E.A.T.), Sam Söderlindh (Art Nation) and the brothers Bosse and Kebbe Lindmark , known from Swedish cult band Dalton , among other things. Among this years guest stars is one of the radio station Rockklassiker's own rock stars, Nicke Borg , who will bring his Backyard Babies colleague Johan Blomqvist with him onstage. The show will also include Rob Marcello (Danger Danger) and an appearance by none other than Blaze Bayley (ex-Iron Maiden) . On top of all this, there is a chance that even more guests will appear, since anything can happen when Rockklassiker are involved. Catch them on Rockklassiker stage, Friday the 7th between 1-2 pm

  Last chance to attend all 4 days, and to see Def Leppard, Slayer, Tenacious D and more!   As you may know, the standard version of the 4-day tickets for this year's festival sold out in less than 40 minutes. The 3-day tickets, Wednesday tickets and Friday tickets have also been sold out for quite some time now. Today we would like to make you aware that the 4-day VIP tickets are about to sell out as well, as there are only a few of these left. The same goes for 1-day tickets for Thursday June 6th.   According to our calculations, these categories will sell out by the end of the week, so if you want to attend all four festival days - this is the time to act!   Get your tickets here!