The Rasmus Are Playing Two Intimate Shows in Spain — Just for the Fans Who Can’t Make the Festival
There’s a story behind these two shows. The Rasmus are already in Spain this summer — they’ll be headlining Resurrection Fest in Viveiro on July 1, 2026. But plenty of Spanish fans can’t make it to Galicia, and the band knew it. In their own words: “After our announcement at the festival months ago, many Spanish fans reached out asking us to play in other cities too, since they would not be able to attend Resurrection Fest and it has been a long time since we last played there. We talked about it with the festival, and they agreed to waive their exclusivity so we could offer these small and intimate shows for you.” The result: two The Rasmus concerts in small venues — July 2 in Barcelona and July 4 in Madrid — organised as part of the Route Resurrection 2026 series.
The Rasmus have been one of Finland’s most enduring rock exports since forming in Helsinki in 1994. Their fifth studio album Dead Letters (2003) and its lead single In the Shadows brought them global recognition and made them one of the defining rock acts of the 2000s in Europe. The catalogue since has included Hide from the Sun (2005), Black Roses (2008), a Eurovision entry representing Finland in 2022 with the album Rise, and now Weirdo — their eleventh studio record, released September 12, 2025 on Better Noise Music and Playground Music. Produced by Desmond Child and Marti Frederiksen, Weirdo features collaborations with Niko Vilhelm of Blind Channel on Break These Chains and Lee Jennings of The Funeral Portrait on the title track. Ten songs that blend the band’s gothic rock and alternative metal instincts with the melodic sensibility that has kept them relevant across three decades. Kerrang! gave it 3/5; Metal Planet Music called it the work of a band “more than a guilty pleasure” in 2025.
The Barcelona show takes place on July 2, 2026 at La 2 de Apolo. Madrid follows on July 4, 2026 at Copérnico. Both are intimate venues — the kind of setting where the distance between the band and the crowd is measured in metres, not rows. Tickets are available at route.resurrectionfest.es from €35.20 for both dates. Tickets on sale now.
