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OSLO, NORWAY, 4.-7. APRIL 2012 ARCTURUS STARBOUND EARTHBOUND BORKNAGAR SÒLSTAFIR ICELANDIC LOW BACK FROM THE DEAD TSJUDER ONE TAIL, ONE HEAD TRONDHEIM’S METAL AMBASSADORS OSLO SURVIVOR GUIDE – INFERNO HOTEL HANG OUT – CONFERENCE – EXPO – AND MORE HAIL TO ALL YOU INFERNAL SOULS! – AND WELCOME TO OUR DARK AND UNHOLY EASTER fter months of planning and booking, counting the days to see you all in AOslo – we now enjoy the wonderful feeling of flying bats in our stom- achs and seeing the dark and unholy fest finally rising again! It’s the greatest thing – seeing all you beautiful infernal souls coming in from near and far, gathering in the hotel lobby, anticipations running high. Meeting up with old friends – making some new, sharing that first cold beer and put on your favorite band t-shirt, making sure you get to the venue in time to see them play. And then… then it hits you right in the gut; a massive wall of sound, riffs that makes you want to go to war, INFERNO MAGAZINE 2012 drums that make your heart run fast Editor: Runa Luna and vocals that make your hair rise Writers: Gunnar Sauermann,Bjørnar Hagen, Guro Juul Andersen, Alex – and all you want to do is scream and Gunia, Anders Odden, Vilde Lockert Odden, Tor Otto Mjelde, Hilde Hammer, bang your head, throw your hands in Torje Norén, Anne Gaelle Manceau and Lars Asbjørn Adskim. the air and surrender to the boiling Photos: Guro Torget, Kenneth Solfjeld, Tarjei Krogh, Roger Omnes and Haakon Hoseth. mosh-pit! Welcome to our annual Inferno logos and illustrations, magazine layout: Black Easter Celebration – it’s going to Asgeir Mickelson (www.asgeirmickelson.com) be four brutal, adrenalin kicking days Advertising: turbine agency, T: +47 21 65 77 71, E: [email protected], Photo: Guro Torget of Hell and I can’t wait! www.turbine.no Distribution: turbine agency + Scream Magazine Hail to you all! Publisher: Inferno Metal Festival AS (www.infernofestival.net) ^v^ Runa Luna Print: Flisa Trykkeri AS www.hammer-mag.de www.metalhammer.co.uk www.clarionroyalchristiania.no www.musikerorg.no www.rikskonsertene.no www.dagsavisen.no www.scream.no INFERNO www.billettservice.no and 24:00. Tickets for all days are be picked up at hotel Royal Christiania Phone: + 47 815 33 133 and available for purchase. between 12:00 and 22:00. Remember METAL www.infernofestival.net Ticket Exchange: Your ticket HAVE to be to bring your ID. After 22:00 you will FESTIVAL exchanged into a wristband before you NOT be able to get your accreditation Oslo, Norway Inferno Metal Conference (IMC) go to any club. You can exchange your anywhere on Thursday so make sure April 4th-7th Tickets incl. VIP party NOK 790,-/99€ ticket into wristbands at hotel Royal you pick up yours in time. Rockefeller/John Dee IMC ticket includes Seminar, work- Christiania between 12:00 and 24:00. Rock In – Revolver – Blå – Volt shops, Speedmeeting, Black Metal Accreditation: Your accreditation can Friday April 6th & Saturday April 7th: Garage – Victoria – Unholy Sightseeing, VIP party. SPECIAL be picked up at hotel Royal Christiania Tickets: Tickets can be bought at the 300 Acting Spaces Sørenga PRICE FOR MUSICIANS 49EUR between 12:00 and 24:00. Remember venue entrance after the doors open to bring your ID. at 17:00. TICKETS: Black Metal Sightseeing Public Ticket Exchange: Your tickets will be 4-day festival pass (including version 35 EUR (lim.ed. 70 tickets!) Thursday April 5th: exchanged into wristbands at the club night) NOK 1350,- Tickets available at Billettservice/ Tickets: Tickets for all days can be venue entrance from 17:00. One day-tickets Thur-Fri-Sat NOK 500,- www.billettservice.no bought at hotel Royal Christiania be- Accreditation: Your accreditation can One day-tickets club night NOK 250,- Phone: + 47 815 33 133 and tween 12:00 and 22:00. At the venue be picked up at the venue entrance Age limit 18 years. Some participat- www.infernofestival.net entrance you will only be able to buy from 17:00. ing clubs have a 20 year age limit tickets for Thursday from 17:00. – full info on this in the upcoming IMPORTANT Ticket Exchange: You can exchange Inferno Festival Bag: Festival Guide booklet (where you - Ticket exchange your ticket into wristbands at hotel You will get your bag at Clarion Hotel will find ALL updates and practical and accreditation: Royal Christiania between 12:00 and Royal Christiania together with your info regarding all things Inferno). Wednesday April 4th: 16:00 and at the venue after the doors wristband. Bring your ID to avoid disappointment. Tickets: Tickets can only be bought at open at 17:00. Tickets available at Billettservice/ hotel Royal Christiania between 12:00 Accreditation: Your accreditation can WWW.INFERNOFESTIVAL.NET 5 APRIL 4. WEDNESDAY – CLUB NIGHT Dunderbeist 300 ACTING SPACES @ SØRENGA KAIA 101 all instrumental and conjures forth an all-encom- passing gloom that leaves no one untouched. Attila Csihar´s Void ov Voices and Noiser Mount Eeirie For the Inferno Festival 2012 we are preparing a Mount Eerie is an Anacortes, Washington-based special night with a dark ambient and noise per- band fronted by Phil Elverum. He is the principal Kirkebrann formance by Attila Csihar, the front-man of May- but he has collaborated with many other musi- hem and Sunn O))) and a remix by the spectacular cians on his records. Mount Eerie knows no Earth new noise heroes NOISER from Oslo (Kristoffer boundaries and can sound like nearly anything Lislegaard, Alex Gunia)! An evil speciality for open from primitive distorted black metal to low-key, minded space-heads! acoustic guitar and clear profound vocals. Al- though otherworldly in many ways, the gist of JOHN DEE – INDIE Label night Mount Eeirie is really old nature herself. Dunderbeist Ô Paon Dunderbeist is finally upon their International de- Ô Paon’ is Geneviève Castrée, a talented musician of but, and with “Black Arts & Crooked Tails”, the several projects. In Ô Paon she weaves frustration- seven-headed gentleman is ready to make an driven mantras of repeating sounds. These apocalyp- everlasting impression on the hard rock/metal tic textures are haunted by her enchanting voice, world.Featuring members from Stonegard ( plus soothing listeners while they wait for the end to come. Cleaver several other renowned Norwegian rock/metal Sometimes yearning for the good old days is sim- bands), Dunderbeist has been building a solid rep- REVOLVER – Metal Hammer Norway Stage ply too much to bear. Since time travel to the utation in Norway as one of the strongest live acts eighties hasn’t yet been possible (and would be and an exciting and innovative band to bring the In November Metal Hammer Norway launched a overcrowded by metalheads the minute it is), metal sound to new levels and new generations. massive demo competition, where a band could there is only one thing you can do to make the win a slot at the Metal Hammer Norway stage at pain subside; take your cue from Bathory, Venom Nekromantheon Revolver. After listening through demo upon demo and all the other gods and start sodomizing lambs Nekromantheon started out in early 2005 with only the jury landed unanimously on Vithr. like your grandfather used to. Cleaver plays metal one goal in mind: To play fast, evil and dirty thrash for the extremist from the time before time when metal in the way of the old gods. Influenced by ViðR there wasn’t black, death etc. just metal. the classics of Slayer, Sadus, Kreator, Dark Angel ViðR is a Norwegian blackmetal band from Bergen and Sepultura, they unleashed their attack on with strong roots in heathen faith and practices, Magister Templi modern metal. Their first full length album, entitled with a message of a long lost time when nature Musically Magister Templi are somewhere be- "Divinity of Death" was released shortly. This in- was something one feared and respected. ViðR tween traditional metal, doom and occult rock. tense evocation of evil turned some heads indeed, have both boots firmly planted in the Norwegian Otherwise they are heavily steeped in esoteric and earned the band a spot at Maryland Death black metal tradition and is inspired by bands like fields like alchemy and ritual magick. Conveying Fest 2010 and Live Evil Festival in London the Darkthrone, Isengard and Mayhem. ViðR's debut the waves of the aether, this Oslo based band is same year. album is expected to be released in 2012. sure to cause a transformation in listening souls. Ribozyme Kirkebrann BLÅ For over a decade Ribozyme has been a connois- Conceived on a cold cellar floor in February 2008, seur’s choice and a frontrunner for the diversity Kirkebrann immediately planted their feet firmly on Manifest and integrity of Norwegian hard rock. Ribozyme’s the primordial glacier of northern black metal. In Through years of hard work and playing even solid approach to their work has been evident this unhallowed place nothing ever thaws and the harder metal across stages big and small, Trond- from day one: refined soundscapes where every only light or warmth comes from burnt edifices of heim’s Manifest has built themselves a solid repu- nuance is carefully painted out in wallwide tapes- Christianity. tation as a live act not to be missed. That is if you tries of sophisticated rock. are of the kind that enjoys a good scrap and dous- ROCK IN ing it in a flood of strong beverages afterwards. If VICTORIA so, then Manifest’s aggressively crushing groove Solstorm with fistfuls of dirt from death & roll territory Man- Earth From the weatherbitten west coast of Norway ifest will get your juices flowing.