[media id=376 width=610 height=340]<\/strong><\/p>\n followed by hailstones hit the concert area in Finland.<\/h2>\n The storm which lasted for all but five minutes almost cost the lives of two rock lovers after the pair were critically ill in hospital but fortunately they have both been reported to be in better shape and are recovering.<\/p>\n Though the English heavy rock bands entire equipment were destroyed, they continued to play their legendary songs after borrowing equipment from fellow band \u201cSlayer\u201d.<\/p>\n Bruce Dickinson the Iron Maiden singer and the pilot of the bands now smashed up plane said on stage \u201cThe stage over there is completely f****d. M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce have gone home as their stuff is f****d and our stuff is f****d, but we don’t care. We’re not going home until you go home\u201d to the fans.<\/p>\n The huge black clouds speeding towards the concert area caused havoc in the area as one of the stages were so badly damaged that it is currently being held up by a crane after huge hailstones and lightnings which struck did irreparable damage.<\/p>\n The organizers of the concert said in a statement \u201cA severe thunderstorm hit (the) Sonisphere Festival in Pori, Finland.<\/p>\n \u201cStrong freak wind gusts damaged the stages and knocked down tents and fences.<\/p>\n \u201cApproximately 40 people were injured, two of them seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n Write your comments and thoughts below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iron Maiden Concert Storm : A freak storm in Finland wrecked havoc during Iron Maiden\u2019s concert which was part of the Sonisphere Festival, injuring 40 people and destroying the bands stage equipment and tour plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,45,118],"tags":[12075,12057,12074,12070,12061,12062,12063,12064,12065,12073,12066,12068,12067,12071,12072,1068,12069],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-entertainment","category-hot","tag-alice-cooper","tag-concert","tag-finland","tag-finland-iron-maiden-storm","tag-freak-storm","tag-iron-maiden","tag-iron-maiden-concert","tag-iron-maiden-festival","tag-iron-maiden-sonisphere-festival","tag-motley-crue","tag-sonisphere-festival","tag-sonisphere-festival-finland","tag-sonisphere-festival-storm","tag-stage","tag-vide","tag-video","tag-video-iron-maiden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The equipment of fellow rock artist, M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce\u2019s Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop also had their equipment totally destroyed after huge black clouds and high winds<\/p>\n
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