About Rock Hard Festival
The Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany has been a long established live music event since its launch in 2003 and it continues uninterrupted to this day.
Last year the time finally came to expand the concept to Greece, and we had a very successful first edition held at the Technopolis in Athens over 2 hot days in September of 2025.
We are now happy to announce that we will be staging the 2nd edition of the Greek Rock Hard festival in 2026, also to be held at the Technopolis in Athens over 2 days in September.
About Rock Hard
Rock Hard is one of the oldest and most significant heavy metal organizations in the world and one of the leading magazines in Europe since its inception in Germany in 1983. Its Greek edition first hit the newsstands in 2005, and since 2011 it has continued exclusively online at www.rockhard.gr.
In addition to Germany and Greece, Rock Hard is published as a magazine in France and Italy, boasting hundreds of thousands of readers every month and even more followers on social media. Over the years, Rock Hard has become synonymous with impartiality, objectivity, and independence, honoring the past while simultaneously emphasizing the present and future of heavy metal music. Its interviews, album reviews, and exclusive content serve as a reference point and spark discussions among fans of Heavy Music. Itβs no coincidence that many international media outlets republish its content, and it is worth noting that Rock Hard has the most references among international media on Wikipedia!