Author: Andrea Chirulescu

  BEYOND THE GATES 2021 – interview with Torgrim Øyre

  HELLOWEEN – Interview with Kai Hansen

 Interview with Robin Staps, main guitarist and founder of the German prog/post-rock/avantgarde metal act THE OCEAN

  Interview with John McEntee singer/guitarist and founder of INCANTATION

Interview with SEASON OF MIST’s Laetitia Abbenes

  Intervju med Jan Bjørnar Totsås – Totsåsrock Festival

  Interview with the Norwegian band TROLLFEST

  Interview with Kjetil Nordhus, vocalist of Green Carnation

SABATON live at Spektrum Scene, Oslo, Feb 2020 Photo by Anette Skutevik Cold Sunday evenings in Oslo are a good time to attend concerts, especially when it’s the last one of a rather big tour, namely "The Great Tour". The tour started mid January 2020 and consists of Sabaton as headliners, and Amaranthe and Apocalyptica…

  A chat with HEX A.D.’s vocalist, Rick Hagan, together with info on the newly released band’s single, "Astro Tongue"

 Interview with Seidemann,  bass player of the Norwegian black metal act 1349

After you witness the intense live performance of AIRBOURNE, there’s quite high chances you’ll wish to see them live again, whether you dig their music or not, since the Aussie blokes surely know how to handle a crowd. And a decent sized one, like a sold out Oslo based Rockefeller venue size. A venue that…

  Interview with French death metallers EMPYREAL VAULT

  Intervju med Mette Erdal fra HELLBOTN Festival

Sometime earlier this year (2019), if I remember correctly, a new Norwegian festival announced its debut: Impreium Festival, in the old fortress from Halden, Norway. A festival who offered a solid black metal lineup and whose obvious intention was to showcase some of the finest Scandinavian acts from the genre to a small but dedicated…

Copenhell 2019 has the slogan ‘Celebrating 10 years in Hell’ as the cozy Danish festival marks its 10th anniversary. For me it is the first time, and even if I remember salivating at previous lineups and always being unable to attend due the collision with other festivals, for this I basically booked the tickets when…

  Intervju med  Jan Bjørnar Totsås fra Totsås Rock Festival

Interview with Michael Romeo and Michael Lepond of Symphony X

  Interview with the cosmic pirate rockers SEID

  There was a decent choice of cool concerts in Oslo the past Thursday but retrospectively I am very glad I went for the Seid one, as this was one of the three shows where the band celebrates their 25 (or 6, depends how you count) of existence, and most important of cosmic-pirate-rock, a genre…

DEVIN TOWNSEND  – acoustic live at by:larm 2018Photo by Andrea Chirulescu   Among the great names brought to Norway by Radar Booking, Devin Townsend is one of those who instantly makes me purchase the ticket when the shows get announced. Especially when you find out it’s going to be an acoustic one, in a small…

   Interview with ADON FANION – Vocals/Guitar/Bass/Violin/Keys for Chost Ship Octavius

OBLITERATION live at Revolver, OsloPhoto by Andrea Chirulescu   As I somehow managed to miss each occasion when Obliteration has performed in Oslo for the past years now, November 23rd had to be the evening when I finally break that habit (and, as a side note, the evening when I finish a part in a…

  Interview with NITA STRAUSS, Los Angeles based guitar playes, performing with acts such as Alice Cooper, Femme fatale, We Start Wars or The Iron Maidens

  DAGSPLAN KLAR FOR INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL 2019

   Interview with drummer GAVIN HARRSION of Pinneapple Thief/King Crimson

With every edition that takes place, Dark Bombastic Evening festival in Alba Iulia, Romania, sets a new standard for what a music festival should be all about: pure joy. The joy of listening to loved music, the joy of discovering new fantastic acts, the joy of meeting old friends and making new ones and the…

Maddem Mortem – new video premiere

  STEELCHAOS Festival 2018 – November indoors edition in Helsinki, Finland

  Norwegian Experimental Post Metallers KRAKOW release new video

  Eternal Terror Live presents video premiere for WONDERboom

  Norwegian Alternative Metallers MADDER MORTEM have started a crowdfunging campaign for celebrating 20 years since the band’s first release, ‘Mercury’

  Classic Rock Greats, The Guess Who, Return With ‘The Future IS What It Used To Be’

  Track premiere for L.A. based act FUTURE USSES

  RAVEN THRONE — “Biaskoncy snieh Casu / Niazhasnaje”, Atmospheric Black Metal from Belarus

  Interview with the Norwegain prog act TUSMØRKE at 2018 edition of Tons of Rock Festival

  Video premiere for the Australian band LO! from the album "Vestigial", been released in October 2017 via Pelagic Records

 South Africa’s Dirty Moonshine, a Dirty Rock n Roll four piece band, is releasing their debut album on 27th of July

  The Norwegian thrashers Tantara are out with a new single and album title track

  First track premiere for the LA based prog/post rock act ANCESTORS

 South Africa’s Son of Hawk are releasing their self-titled debut album in August and we had achat with the guys in the band to find out more about them

  Khôrada (members of Agalloch, Giant Squid) will be releasing their debut album, Salt, on July 20th with Prophecy Productions.

NORWEGIAN BLACK METALLERS KVALVAAG RELEASE PROMO VIDEO OF TRACK FROM UPCOMING ALBUM

SLEEP live@Rockefeller, OsloPhoto by Silje Storm Drabitius May 22nd brought the the stoner/doom metal legends SLEEP to Oslo and to my pleasant surprise the event managed to fill the venue as it got rather difficult to find a good spot should you happen to extend the pre-concert beverage enjoyment. It was also the first time…

 Photo by Marius Martinsen Interview with the Norwegian Post Metallers Subnoir  

  Eternal Terror Live presents first track premiere from the forthcoming new CARNATION album, ‘Chapel of Abhorrence’ (out Aug 17th 2018) via Season Of Mist

  After four years of silence, the Arctic black-metallers Iskald finally return to the battlefield with more fierce and power than ever before! Iskald will release their fifth studio album titled "Innhøstinga" (Norwegian: ‘the Harvest’) on August 31!

  Greek melodic metal band U.N.S.I.N. have released a new video

  Mayflower Madame slipper ny EP – "Premonition" – den 18. mai 

  New video from Dirty Moonshine, a Dirty Rock n Roll four piece band from Johannesburg, South Africa