Cult of Luna – Det er aldri lett når man spiller en stil som er vanskelig å komme "into it", å åpne for mastodonder som kjører nokså annerledes, som I dag Behemoth og Immortal. Feil publikum. Cult of Luna slett ikke hersket over Verftet I kveld, det var heller ikke poenget. Men de kan være…
Gerilja – Undertegnede fikk ikke tak I platen til Oslogjengen før konserten og var da veldig nysgjerrig for bandet og buzzen som omgir det. Og guttene overaskelset på Garage den fredagen. Tenk Van Halen og Dark Throne som snabber på Østmarka, kledd I joggebukse, mens Public Enemy har konsert. Alle sangene er dessverre ikke like…
Snittalderen var ganske høy på den første dagen av Bergenfest i år og det var Mark Knopfler som avsluttet dagen under regnbyger. Som de fleste er undertegnede på plass mest på grunn at fyren har vært i Dire Straits enn for å se en solokonsert av artisten. Det er da uten overraskelse at mange blir…
Til tross for at Inside var like tomt denne lørdagen, som forrige gang i 2007, var det med stor glede at jeg kunne se Québeckarene igjen. Etter showcasen på Apollon, går da veien til Inside og det er etter en nydelig burger at festen begynner. Osingene Bone Shakers åpner med en straight in the face…
Nothing better than a metal evening to put to the test the new USF Verftet, rebuilt and optimized for "amplified music" Truckfighters from Sweden, despite being the oldest band in activity tonight had to open for a sparse crowd. Seemed that the early birds came mostly for the Swedes and that the others rather fancied…
It’s party time in a sold out Garage for the release gig of Audrey Horne‘s last baby, Youngblood. Heavily focusing on its last work, the band opens the show with Redemption Blues that hit like Bergensbanen minutt for minutt played rather quicker and reveals a team in better shape than ever today on its home…
It’s time to taste some Norwegian metal live in France with the ugliest band in the world a.k.a Aura Noir and Kolbotn thrashers Nekromantheon, the latter hitting a stage in Paris for the first time. French band The Great Old Ones opens the party with a post-back metal that has not much to do here…
When I first came to Norway, I had to live with the fact that Norwegians have no idea of the richness of the French metal scene. Besides some fans of Blut Aus Nord and the old guy I met at some Hole in the Sky digging Magma, well, my co-citizens are not good to make…
(…this article is in English…) It’s in a quiet Garage that Kraków opens the last day of this Beyond the Gates festival, in front of a mostly local crowd already familiar with the band. The setlist presents the last album of the band, Diin. Being the UFO of this festival, they have been unfortunately snobbed…
(…this article is in English…) Exciting day, especially because Deathhammer is on the line-up and because of the planned Possessed tribute by Nekromantheon! Revivalist Deathhammer opens the ball with nails, greasy hair, teenage mustaches and a Sortilège T-Shirt. Any metalhead, even the non thrash-fans, not fancying Phantom Knights and Forever Ripping Fast has a serious…
(…this article is in English…) Beyond the Gates is a new festival in Bergen. Not thought and wanted as an ersatz to Hole in The Sky, the festival focuses on underground bands and has not biggie, no headliner. As a result, it’s a festival to discover bands and finally see a few others in an…
DAY 2 Family Day Datatock, after more than 800 concerts and an international career, are still playing on their own turf and shaked Rock’n’Lol two times this year: One concert for the kids and another one as headliner later that night. When the little girls mostly enjoyed themselves on a stripped down Samsaya, who played…
Rock’n’Lol started as a garden party in Søfteland, a place everybody goes through to catch the ferry but that nobody visits unless they want to re-play the Immortal video in the Lysekloster ruins. Five years later they’re voted best festival in Bergen, have a 4000 visitors attendance on the course of two days, a gratis…
Bergenfest is an eclectic festival organized since 1994 and taking place mostly at Bergenhus Festning. The party started under a nice weather and ended up under the rain, with less than half of the tickets sold. On an European scale this is a small festival, the type of festival any European city over 50 000…
Bergenfest is an eclectic festival organized since 1994 and taking place mostly at Bergenhus Festning. The party started under a nice weather and ended up under the rain, with less than half of the tickets sold. On an European scale this is a small festival, the type of festival any European city over 50 000…
Bergenfest is an eclectic festival organized since 1994 and taking place mostly at Bergenhus Festning. The party started under a nice weather and ended up under the rain, with less than half of the tickets sold. On an European scale this is a small festival, the type of festival any European city over 50 000…
International Death Metal bands are not a common sight in Norway, and when they come, it’s mostly for a quick pit stop at Hole in the Sky or Inferno. Over the last years we got Autopsy, Obituary, Decapitated, the list is short. Still waiting for more brutal death bands like Krisiun or Vital Remains, real…
