In the early years, SimeRock offered punk and finnish rock as well Finnish hip hop, for the visitors of this late-Summer festival of Lapland. During the same festival evening and night featured artists as diverse genres, which made this event everyone's place one to be.
In addition to Heavy rock and rock'n'roll, the second big sound of the early years was a hybrid of pop and Finnish rock, “Finnish Pop”. SimeRock has always followed the popularity genres from the radio channels and plans the festival through hottest charts in Finland to make festival really perfect experience for as many as possible.