Metal concerts don’t seem to be an often sight in one of the most conservative areas in Norway – the Southern ‘BibleBelt’ – hence a metal festival in Kristiansand is a big joy for the local metal fans. Or for those with the possibility to travel. Unfortunately, I could only travel on Saturday, due really…

On a somewhat sunny and warm Thursday evening in September three bands were scheduled to perform at the old and atmospheric venue in Bergen named Hulen, those three bands being Royal Rooster, Dordeduh and Vulture Industries. I was quite excited about the idea of watching Vulture Industries perform as I like a couple of their…

BEYOND THE GATES IIIDay 3 – When worlds collide  The gates are about to close, and the last night has come. Biggest band of the evening: Primordial. Without a doubt, the thought was to give the audience a day to calm down and let their heart beat slow back down to a level that’s possible…

I was quickly sold to the simplicity, elegance and grooviness of Devin’s ‘Casualties of Cool’ 2014 release. I basically just fell in love with Ché Aimee Dorval’s voice and all the beautifully blended instruments and noises, nothing too extreme in any direction, but just perfectly joined to create a cozy atmosphere and an album that…

BEYOND THE GATES III Day 2 – True power The second night of the mighty Beyond the Gates festival kicks off with heavy tunes from Israel, and ends up in Sweden. The biggest band of the evening is Nifelheim. Sonne Adam means "hater of man" in hebrew, and it is quite easy to see why…

BEYOND THE GATES IIIDay 2 – The daytime event Krakow is one of the up and comers from Norway nowadays, and as such, they were invited to play a daytime session for anyone that wanted to hear them in Garage. The band delivered a powerful performance, and as for the visuals they looked wery tight…

ULVER gjestet Trondheim for tredje gang siden de startet å spille live igjen for 5 års tid siden. De to forrige konsertene var reine Ulverkonserter, men denne gangen ble det annonsert at de ville spille låter fra coverplaten Childhood`s End samt inprovisere en god del. Ingen backdrop med fantastiske bilder og ingen Ulverlåter. Veldig nedstrippet…

BEYOND THE GATES III Day 1 – A dark void  The third edition of Beyond the Gates started off with some of the darkest bands lurking in the underground scene of the world. The biggest band of the evening were Inquisition from the U.S.(/Colombia). The dark cellar of Garage in Bergen fits perfectly for these…

Death Metal-kveId på Revolver: I etterkant av Beyond The Gates tek Sonne Adam turen til Oslo. Kvelden er betre annonsert enn fjorårets ‘hemmelege’ Betong-konsert. Men det ser ikkje ut til å ha hjulpe, for her er god plass på golvet. Miasmal bankar i veg eit overraskande hardt sett, overraskande av di eg hadde på førehand…

Når eg kjem meg til Kolbotn, til Hellbotn Metalfest’s andre dag, har Mion’s Hill allereie kome i gong. Musikken er av eit slag som både kan kallast Doom og Death Metal, kan på papiret forståast som meir sprikande greie. Men det er dette so langt i frå. Mion’s Hill er noko av det strengaste innan…

Kolbotn kallar! Ei (giftig) kjelde for ei rad med norske Metal-band; eg ser for meg slimete skjelett på botnen av ein innsjø og uforklårlege skuggar som røyver seg mellom trea; kva ventar ein når ein kjem fram? Bortføring og ofring til gløymde gudar. Når eg kjem fram til kulturhuset Kolben er det berre fryd og…

The sleazy and profane hard rocking fucks known as Steel Panther visited the beautiful city of Bergen on a cloudy and yet warm Monday evening, and I’ll be the first in line to tell you that I wasn’t really sure what to expect from their live appearance apart from the fact that I was hoping…

I over 30 år har Bad Religion spilt punk-konserter, til tross for en del forandringer i deres line-up, spiller de nå med tre av fire av originalmedlemmene. Dette er et av verdens mest hardtarbeidende band og i sin katalog har de mye musikk som har inspirert en hel generasjon av unge musikere. Denne kvelden var…

Bergensbandet Girl Army, som bl.a. består av medlemmer fra Blood Command og Social Suicide, fikk det ærefulle oppdraget med å varme opp oslopublikummet før Gallows’ konsert på Pokalen, og leverte et meget energisk sett foran et noe avventende publikum. Vokalist Sondre Haug var overalt, og fikk etter hvert med seg flere i en liten mosh…

The last day of Tuska greeted us with unwelcoming weather consisting of rain, wind and low temperature. Therefore the festival area was not as crowded as in the previous two days. Quite the opposite, it was close to empty until around the time when Orphaned Land came on stage. However, I refused to let the…

Upon arriving at the festival I was very happy to see so many people there. I believe it is safe to say that the second day of Tuska gathered more metalheads than the other two. Unlike Friday and Sunday, on Saturday the music was less extreme, focused mostly on industrial, metalcore, heavy, power, speed and…

The seventeenth edition of Tuska Open Air from Finland took place between the 27th and the 29th of June and gathered around 24 000 metalheads. Like in the last few years, the festival was held in the Suvilahti region of Helsinki. This area seems pretty fit for the event, being spacious enough for all the…

Iron Maiden inntar Koengen, og har fått med seg mektige kanoner fra Bergen, Stavanger og Linköping. Fire band, 18.000 mennesker, én magisk kveld. SAHG  Hard rock-bandet fra Bergen fikk æren av å åpne balletten. Bandet er stødig, og det er ingen tvil om at medlemmene også er dyktige hver for seg. Publikum virker noe interesserte,…

Saturday started again with some wind and sun, making you always think that you’re wearing the wrong clothes and then having you change your mind the second you add/remove some. Good ol’ Norwegian summer weather. But let’s not complain, it could have been way worse. Bergen’s hard rockers Audrey Horne opened the day for me…

Day two at Halden fortress started with the same great mood as the previous one ended, but this time the show was directed by Black Debbath, a Norwegian band performing heavy political rock with themes inspired from Norwegian political issues and debates. They sing about the problems in the right wing, or about how often…

It’s not every day that you are given the chance to attend the first edition of a rock festival, and since I already skipped a similar type of event this year in Bergen, I was very enthusiast to receive the news about photo accreditation at 2014 Tons of Rock festival, in Halden, Norway. The lineup…

Following Iron Maiden’s glorious and captivating performance at Koengen in Bergen on 28 June, another Iron Maiden-related event took place at Garage. Former Iron Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley was scheduled to perform some of the highlights and signature songs off the two albums that he was part of making, namely "The X Factor" (1995) and…

Divided Multitude Disse guttene er de som åpner hele showet på Byscenen. Med fete toner og heavye rytmer starter de hardt og vekker fort livet i hele salen. Det kan alltids være tøft å være de som er først ute og skal gjøre folk "varm i trøya", men det er god stemning blant publikum og…

Archictecs kom endelig tilbake i Norge og med seg hadde de Stray From the Path, Northlane og More Than Life. Dette er en konsert som mange gledet seg utrolig mye til, men ingen av de visste hva de kom til å få oppleve. Dette er rett og slett en av de beste konsertene jeg har…

After their appearance at Inferno 2012 under the stagename and show "TrollfesT & The Devils Dangleberries Inferno Balkan Madness", the crazy Trolls haven’t really spent much time playing live in their home country. Instead, they had travelled the world, or well, more specifically Europe and the Northern American continents and made sure to gain more…

Japanske Electric Eel Shock er endelig tilbake på europaturné, og kveldens konsert i Oslo er én av fire konserter på norsk jord i mai. På Revolver hadde de med seg The Crow Killers, som i løpet av sin tilmålte halvtime rakk å overbevise publikum med en blanding av coverlåter og egenkomponert materiale med bra trøkk…