Some months ago we got notified of a great package with two of the pioneers in their own way bands, Megadeth and Judas Priest. This has been something of a dream for old metal fans that wanted to experience once again their favourite bands, and also new ones that wanted to learn what the values…

Bands: Pixie Ninja, Ring Van Mőbius & Arabs in Aspic (Close to the Rain – Bergen Prog Festival – Saturday)Venue: GarageTown: BergenDate: 09.06.2018 While walking towards the legendary rock ‘n’ roll club that is Garage last night to attend the Close to the Rain festival, it occured to me just how goddamn lucky and privileged…

  Artists: Major Parkinson, Kabaret Makaber & Det Skandaløse Orkester (Close to the Rain Festival – Thursday)Venue: GarageTown: BergenDate: 07.06.2018 One can only love and cherish the fact that the lovely city that is Bergen now has its own proper prog rock festival spanning three days and loads of interesting and diverse bands that all…

  Turbonegro live@RockefellerBilde av Silje Storm Drabitius   Turboneger starta 1989, skikkelig kjent ble de ikke før på slutten av 90 tallet,da var de plutselig for kommers og store for mange gamle fans. Husker når de streite studentene, begynte å ta fra de gamle rockerne, rocken. Jokke, Raga og Turbo var plutselig allemannseie, noe så…

Watching the crushing musical ensemble Solstorm lay waste to a small intimate venue in their hometown was something that yours truly had been looking forward to for a long time and I might as well tell you right off the bat that the quintet neither disappointed nor let me down last night. Before Solstorm went…

  Haraball live@Energimølla, KongsbergBilde: Silje Storm Drabitius   Haraball og Golden Core på Energimølla i Kongsberg 28 April 2018 Jeg gledet meg skikkelig til å se Haraball på hjemmebane igjen, det var over to år siden sist.Tre av de fire konsertene jeg har sett med bandet , har vært på Energimølla på Kongsberg. Energimølla, en…

Whenever some large metal band draws the hordes towards the outskirts of Oslo and Telenor Arena there is a murmur in the crowd on busses, along the sidewalks and on the venue floor. «Will the sound suck again?» «Or is this one of those times when the band and its crew magically turns the venue…

Tsjuder live@Inferno Metal Festival 2018Photo by Stig Pallesen/StiPa Photography The last day I got to see far more bands than the previous day. Djevel delivered a pretty good show. I like their 90’s vibe a lot. I had read an news article, previous the festival, about how unreachable they are. Their frontman does not like…

IHSAHN live@Inferno Metal Festival 2018Photo by Stig Pallesen/StiPa Photography   On Saturday I skipped so many bands I don’t really know what’s wrong with me. I was mainly interested in Nordjevel, Ihsahn and Satyricon. I kinda saw Memoriam tho, I was there physically but I got bored, my mind was elsewhere and I kind of…

On April 15th, Crowbar performed at Hulen, in bergen and our new colleague Torbjørn attended the event and wrote some words about his experience. Unfortunatelly, we didn’t have a photographer present at the Bergen concert, but instead we had one in Oslo, hence the article uses the images taken in Oslo the evening before.  …

The day started with a pretty incediary show from Mephorash from Sweden. They did their best to create a pretty hellish atmosphere. Silver masked and using robes they set Rockefeller in flames. Sigils and all aside I think it is from the music that the real atmosphere comes, at least for me. It was also…

ODIUM live@Inferno Festivalphoto by Stig Pallesen/StiPa photography Inferno started off for me with the IMC conference – about which you can read here. Then for the first day,  I was of course early at the venue because I was really looking forward to see Odium. I really like the 90’s and especially many bands that…

The renowned Norwegian black metal artillery that is Taake staged a near-flawless homecoming show at the excellent venue that is USF Verftet last night in the glorious town of Bergen. It turned out to be one of those shows that left you with a load of different thoughts, feelings, and impressions to absorb and digest…

The musical pioneers that are Laibach gifted the cold and windswept city of Bergen with an absolutely brilliant performance at USF Verftet on a bleak Wednesday night and it turned out to be one of the best shows that yours truly has ever witnessed. With a visually stunning stage set revolving around last year’s “Also…

    Former Rainbow and Deep Purple vocalist Joe Lynn Turner always delivers a great show and the one at Madam Felle in Bergen the other night was no different. The rather small and intimate venue was packed and the first few rows of fans erupted into something akin to ecstasy when Turner and his…

Winter/spring concert season continues in Oslo with a Sunday at Vulkan Arena that is now hosting Moonspell and Cradle of Filth, both bands promoting their latest releases (Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness Of Decay for CoF and 1755 for Moonspell) and both being names big enough to headline the tour. A tour that started already in…

    The British sensation that is Steven Wilson paid the lovely city of Bergen a visit on a bone-chillingly cold Wednesday evening and performed a 2-hour set that can only be summarized and described as otherworldly and mesmerizing. The venue, USF Verftet, was the ideal location for Wilson’s somewhat elaborate and highly professional stage…

GOLDEN CORE live@Sentralen, Oslo 2017Photo by Andrea Chirulescu A cold Saturday evening in February in Oslo tends to be one of those days with plenty of concert choices and I personally picked the album release for the Norwegian act Sunswitch. The powertrio from Trondheim has been rather quiet since their self titled album in 2012…

Den stormfulle 6 desember 2017 var dagen da svenske Amaranthe kom tilbake på Folken. Denne gangen dro de med seg sine landsmenn fra Sparzanza. Begge band er kjent for å skrive meget «catchy» låter. Dette er gjenspeilet i det høye antall treff på Spotify, noe som begge band gjerne skryter av på sine Facebooksider. I…

Following a long and arduous day at work involving lousy coffee, crappy colleagues, and a long line of bad decisions, there was only one solution to the whole thing; to head on over to Garage in Bergen and check out a couple of Swedish bands and see what they had to offer. The ones in…

Gjennom sin snart 20 år lange karriere har Mustasch fra Gӧteborg klart å opparbeide seg et rykte som et band som er «ekte». De er som de er, de spiller det de vil, og bryr seg ikke om trender i musikken. I tillegg til dette er Mustasch kjent som et dyktig live band. På grunn…

  The hard-hitting Swedish rockers known as Mustasch laid siege to the city of Bergen on a dreary Wednesday night and drew a pretty decent-sized crowd who were there to have their asses kicked six ways to Sunday by the quartet. The band walked on stage and launched into the dynamic “Double Nature” and from…

German hard rockers Scorpions looks back at a history of over 50 years and now in 2017 they embarked on a Crazy World tour that started back in September and so far has covered USA and the Russian Federation. After 11 days break, tour started again in Oslo, Norway and it was actually a good…

A cold Norwegian November evening is the perfect setting for a sold out indoor concert where the happy and on-its-way to high intoxication level crowd makes sure you stay warm and intimate with those nearby. This is the reason why I spent a good deal of the first songs from The Pretty Reckless trying to…

Deep Purple@Oslo SpektrumPhoto by Aleksander Eilertsen   There’s always mixed feelings before attending a concert of a band whose musical career is older than you and who are out on their Long good bye tour as most of the members are close or have already passed the age of 70. They are a big part…

  Order live@Folken, Stavanger Photo by Irmina Lunnøy Photography Selv om Order ble dannet så sent som i 2013 har de rukket å oppnå mye popularitet. Det er ikke akkurat overraskende tatt i betraktning at medlemmene i bandet er prominente musikere fra det norske metal miljøet. Vokalisten Messiah og trommisen Manheim var tidligere i Mayhem,…