Full photo galleries available here: Photos and text: Andrea Chirulescu It’s not often you get to attend a ‘revived’ festival, such as the Graveyard Gig in Notodden (Norway), a festival which was first held in 1990 in this town in Telemark county and now, 30+ years later, the concept has been revived by Mikael Siouzios,…

When you type the final word of an event’s summary/review, it feels like only then you somehow leave it behind you. And I still don’t want to do it and accept that Dark Bombastic Evening festival, 2026, has already ended. And it’s been at least 2 weeks now but given how beautiful each of the…

KINGS OF THRASH/UNDER THE OAK Anmeldt av Roger Hagerupsen BYSCENEN 19 August 2026 TRONDHEIM Bilder fra eventen: Om vi går helt tilbake til 1980, så var det noen unge gutter som kalte seg Iron Maiden som var support for noen langt mer meriterte karer som kalte seg Kiss, å ryktene sier at unggutta spilte flettene…

Photo galleries can be found here Photos by Jonathan Mazin and Andrea Chirulescu Text by Andrea Chirulescu Saturday was, yet again, a day when there are tons of events in Oslo, including the ever-colorful pride parade, and that led to some logistical challenges for the transport to the festival area. You’d get there, but need…

Photo galleries can be seen here Photos by Jonathan Mazin/Andrea Chirulescu text by Andrea Chirulescu Eivør – Vampire Stage As the festival has announced that they’d show a football game on a screen on the main stage and thus having the day’s headliner end their show before 9PM, the whole of Friday’s schedule was a…

Full photo galleries here Photos by Jonathan Mazin and Andrea Chirulescu Text by Andrea Chirulescu Audrey Horne – Scream Stage Audrey Horne opened the Thursday program with a polished hard rock set built around strong riffs and melodic structure and a lot of scene playfulness by guitarists Arve Ice Dale and Torkjell Rød, who elegantly…

Full photo galleries can be seen here Photos by Jonathan Mazin/Andrea Chirulescu Text by Andrea Chirulescu Tons of Rock started, once again, on a Wednesday in late June 2026 with a dense schedule across multiple stages all carefully setup at Ekeberg area in Oslo, where you’d usually see a lot of football fields for bigger…

Photo galleries by photographer Jonathan Mazin can be seen here First band of the day was The Big Rip, a young Norwegian stoner/doom act from Porsgrunn and their performance on the backyard stage of Revolver. As there were too many people gathered at the entrance to the yard, I couldn’t really swim through and see…

ROY KHAN Anmeldt av Roger Hagerupsen TAPPERIET 2/5 – 2026 TRONDHEIM Når selveste ROY KHAN gjør sin entre’ i byen er det oppmøteplikt for alle som er glad i både progrock og powermetal av den melodiske typen. Selv om det er minst 15 år siden KHAN var her med sitt gamle band KAMELOT (hvor han…

Desertfest Oslo 2026 — The Tundra Burns Again While this is only the second year I get to attend this festival, I am convinced there is something beautifully stubborn about Desertfest Oslo. While larger festivals continue chasing trends and algorithm-approved lineups, Desertfest remains entirely devoted to the riff. The slow and heavy one. The 2026…

PRIMAL FEAR    Anmeldt av Roger Hagerupsen BYSCENEN 20/3 – 2026 TRONDHEIM Jeg er normalt ikke den som tar på meg skinnjakka for å gå på en power metal konsert, men jeg gjør ett unntak når PRIMAL FEAR kommer til byen på sin “Domination” turne (naturlig nok oppkalt etter bandets siste plate Domination som kom…

Full photo gallery here: All photos by Jonathan Mazin Text: Andrea Chirulescu Since I first witnessed IGORRR live few years ago (memory doesn’t serve me right and cannot place it on where exactly have I seen then), I try to make sure to not miss this act live. As I tried to explain to a…

A dark February Tuesday evening in Oslo is not an easy day to fill up a venue, especially that most days of the first few months of this year have been filled with fantastic events in Oslo. Yet, the Swedes in Soen and the two support acts managed a very nice crowd at Rockefeller and…

POWERHOUSE Anmeldt av Roger Hagerupsen BYSCENEN 14/2 – 2026 TRONDHEIM Bak det litt merkelige navnet POWERHOUSE skulle det vise seg at det var hele fire band som skulle til pers denne iskalde februarkvelden. En fin og internasjonal bukett band fra England, Sverige og Færøyene/Danmark og Norge. Men for mange trøndere var det nok nettopp Norge…

WISHBONE ASH      Anmeldt av : Roger Hagerupsen JOHN DEE 30/1 – 2016 OSLO Med sitt andre besøk i Oslo på ca. nøyaktig to år må WISHBONE ASH være som norgesvenner å regne nå. Når det etterhvert er to forskjellige utgaver av bandet som er aktiv er det derfor viktig å si at dette…

Full photo gallery here: Text and photos by Andrea Chirulescu For my part, the last live event of 2025 happened to be SLOMOSA’s sold out show at Rockefeller on Thursday, December 18th. It was three days after landing from a long holiday so my jetlag tagged along and got to enjoy the shows too. The…

Full photo gallery: Photos: Jonathan Mazin Text: Andrea Chirulescu Few hours before the concert in Oslo, a work colleague asked what kind of concert I’m going to and I ‘uhmmmm’ed several times and realized I have no clue. I have seen Swans before and, despite the band members being the same, the outcome felt different…

DJEVEL Anmeldt av Roger Hagerupsen LANGHUSET -HAVET 08.11.2025 TRONDHEIM Følelsen når en gikk inn på LANGHUSET denne mørke lørdagskvelden  i November for å bevitne det som helt sikkert er DJEVEL sin siste konsert i Trondheim var mildt sagt surrealistisk. En (u)salig blanding av sortkledde folk klar for konsert kombinert med halvnakne folk klar for sauna.…

Photo gallries: Photos by Jonathan Mazin Text by Andrea Chirulescu Mid November in Oslo, there’s no better time of the year to attend a gig with a Swedish combo that delivers dark, melancholic metal – Katatonia and Evergrey. A bit annoying that it’s actually the first day when temperatures seem to drop so low so…

Full photo gallery here: https://eternal-terror.com/2025/10/30/hostsabbat-2025-day-2 Photos by Jonathan Mazin Text by Andrea Chirulescu Saturday started ‘early’ – namely 3PM – for those with enough energy to attend a bingo session. I got in time just to see some happy faces at the end of the event and went straight down to the crypt to finally…

Full photo gallery from Day 1 here: Photos by Jonathan Mazin Text Andrea Chirulescu Late autumn in Oslo has already become home to the wonderful HØSTSABBAT festival, a two days-three scenes small festival, with a big big heart and who tries to keep the underground spirit alive. For the festival goers, some of the performing…

BLAZE BAYLEY             Anmeldt av: Roger Hagerupsen FESTIVITETEN BAR & SCENE HAMAR 10/10 – 2025 Når en kan iaktta tegninger av bl.a Indiana Jones og The Dude (the big Lebowski) på veggene når en går inn i lokalet, samt det er gamle røde kinoseter en kan slappe av på før konsert,…

Full photo gallery: Text and Photos by Andrea Chirulescu Olso’s biggest indoor venue located in the city center is getting a facelift nowadays, so all of the big concerts (I believe) are now held at the old Telenor Arena, which is now called Unity Arena and located a tad away from the center and making…

GLENN HUGHES  BYSCENEN 28/9 -2025 TRONDHEIM Anmeldt av: Roger Hagerupsen Jeg har registrert at det blant mange har vært litt forvirring opp mot denne konserten om hva GLENN HUGHES skulle spille denne kvelden. Mannen selv er jo  på turne’ for tiden og gjør sitt “the chosen years” show med låter fra hele sin innholdsrike karriere’,…