OSLO, NORWAY – 31. MARCH - 03. APRIL 2010 MAYHEM A RETROSPECTIVE OF GIANTS A VIEW FROM BERGEN TAAKE NACHTMYSTIUM THE TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE REVELATORY, TRANSFORMATIVE MAGICK JARBOE TEN YEARS OF INFERNO – THE PEOPLE TELL THEIR STORIES OSLO SURVIVOR GUIDE – CINEMATIC INFERNO – CONFERENCE – EXPO – AND MORE WWW.ROSKILDE-FESTIVAL.DK NÅ PÅ DVD OG BLU-RAY! Photo: Andrew Parker Inferno 2010 (from left): Carolin, Jan Martin, Hilde, Anders, Runa, Torje and Melanie (not present: Lars) HAIL ALL – WELCOME TO THE INFERNO METAL FESTIVALS TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY! n annual gathering of metal, the black and extreme, the blasphemous Aand gory – music straight from hell! Worshippers from all over the world congregate for the fest of the the black metal easter in the North. YOU are hereby summoned! ron fisted, the Inferno Fest has ruled the first decade of the new Millenn- INFERNO MAGAZINE 2010 Iium. It has been a trail of hellfire. Sagas have been written and legacies Editor: Runa Lunde Strindin carved in willing flesh with new bands and new musical territory continously Writers: Gunnar Sauermann, Jonathan Seltzer, Hilde Hammer, conquered ! Bjørnar Hagen, Trond Skog, Anders Odden, Torje Norén. Photos: Andrew Parker, Alex Sjaastad, Charlotte Christiansen, Trond Skog, ail to all the bands, the crew and the volunteers, venues and clubs! Lena Carlsen. HHail to the dedicated media, labels and managements, our partners and IMX and IMC photos: Viktor Jæger collaborators! Inferno logos and illustrations, magazine layout: Hail to the Inferno audience with their dark force and energy. Asgeir Mickelson at MultiMono (www.multimo.no) With you all onboard we set our sails for the next Inferno! Advertising: Melanie Arends and Hilde Hammer at turbine agency (www.turbine.no) Join this years fest and the forthcoming gatherings in the Distribution: turbine agency + Scream Magazine years to come. We raise our horns and share the Infernal (www.screammagazine.com) + Platekompaniet (www.platekompaniet.no) Print: Stens Trykkeri AS darkness with you! Publisher: Inferno Metal Festival AS (www.infernofestival.net) www.metalhammer.co.uk www.hammer-mag.de www.clarionroyalchristiania.no www.musik erorg.no www.onyourstage.no www.radiotango.no www.platekompaniet.no www.scream.no INFERNO – full info on this in the upcoming Inferno Film @ Cinemateket you will NOT be able to get into any Festival Guide booklet (where you March 30th – April 4th of the clubs! There will not be any METAL will find ALL updates and practical Tickets to film screenings NOK 45,- ticket sales at the clubs – ONLY at FESTIVAL info regarding Inferno). Bring your available at Cinemateket. Clarion Hotel Royal Christiania. Oslo, Norway ID to avoid disappointment. This is for your convenience, to March 31st – April 3rd Tickets available at Billettservice/ IMPORTANT: avoid massive queues and chaos at Rockefeller/John Dee www.billettservice.no All festival passes/ tickets* are to the clubs so you can get in to see Rock In – Revolver – Garage Phone: + 47 815 33 133 and be changed into festival wristbands the bands you want. Blå – Victoria www.infernofestival.net at the accreditation office at Clarion Hotel Royal Christiania. Opening Inferno Festival Bag: Inferno Metal Conference (IMC) incl. hours 15:00 (15PM) to 24:00 (24 PM) You will get your bag at Clarion Hotel TICKETS: VIP party NOK 850,-/100€ Wednesday and Thursday. Royal Christiania together with your 4-day festival pass (including Black Metal Sightseeing NOK 250,- wristband. club night) NOK 1200,- Vikingship Museum concert NOK 300,- CLUB TICKETS One day-tickets thur-fri-sat NOK 485,- Tickets available at Billettservice/ You can pick up your wristband at One day-tickets club night NOK 200,- www.billettservice.no the accreditation office at Clarion Age limit 18 years. Some partici- Phone: + 47 815 33 133 and Hotel Royal Christiania at Wednes- pating clubs have a 20 year age limit www.infernofestival.net day from 15:00. Without wristband WWW.INFERNOFESTIVAL.NET 5 MARCH 31. WEDNESDAY – CLUB NIGHT JOHN DEE bum by Final Fantasy, is a panoramic and orchestral work; a song cycle of Contemporary Fiction, and Owen Mongo Ninja Pallett’s finest work to date. Heartland’s narrative Ravenous, shitfaced and pissed off Mongo Ninja concerns a young, ultra-violent farmer named Lewis makes you want to get fucking drunk. Bringing and is set in the imaginary landscape of Spectrum. This together the dirtiest elements of thrash metal, will be a true gem of a concert, don’t miss it! Final Fantasy punk and severe intoxication these guys have all played in other vile Norwegian acts. But right GARAGE clearly shows why we in South of Heaven wanted now it’s about sexual frustration, self loathing, to book Tribulation – raise your hand if you like old violence, fat kids, alcohol abuse and patricide. Serenity Trace school death metal! Simple as that, no fucking about. Serenity Trace is a band that have shocked, amazed and annoyed people in the music under- Faustcoven Kvelertak ground. They are hated equally as much as they Faustcoven first unleashed their mix of old school Meaning stranglehold, that’s exactly what you get are loved. Either way, they are hardly left doom and black metal in 2002, and have since from this lot. No air besides discordant screaming unnoticed and keep blending high tech music spread horror and groove throughout the under- escapes your lungs. Kvelertak plays an unhealthy and samples with an untraditional form of metal. ground. The music pays tribute to bands like blend of punk rock and black metal. Or in their All of this has only made them stronger! Their live Black Sabbath, Pentagram and Hellhammer, own words; necro’n roll. shows are known for being full of energy and and got the band a deal with underground label sometimes including video screens and TV-sets. Barbarian Wrath. Shining With equal doses of extreme metal, mind-bending Torture Division Open Casket Terror jazz and bloody-mindedness, Shining has created Formed in 2007 Torture Division is a relative Open Casket Terror hail from the Eastern parts of their own musical universe. This universe is newcomer in the unhallowed ranks of Swedish Norway, and play death metal in the vein of bands probably ahead of it’s time. The feeling is coldly death metal bands. Make no mistake though; like Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Gorguts and sci-fi and the tunes unconventional. Their upcoming these guys are veterans of too many bands to other like-minded acts. The band started up in album is graced with a pentagram and baptized mention ranging back to the genesis of brutality. 2005, and consists of members from bands such ‘Black Jazz’. Although it is hard to hear Venom Easily managing to keep their death metal groovy as Stillhet, Tidfall and The Allseeing I. influences here, Shining could easily be sus- without cutting back on speed Torture Division is pected of doing for experimental music what raw violence waiting to happen. BLÅ Venom did for metal. Gravdal Vomitory VICTORIA The Norwegian black metal band Gravdal was formed Sweden has been an unassailable fortress of by Phobos (guitar) and Taakesjel (drums) in the spring death metal since the late eighties with legions Jarboe 2005, later being joined by a few other misanthropes of bands practicing the brutal arts. Vomitory has There is simply no adequate way of describing the to complete the line-up. The lyrical theme is based on been there since the start and has held a steady Art of Jarboe. What this demoness of an oracle proclaiming the tragedy of weak willed humans and course of brutality through the vagaries of trends manages to coax forth from instruments and shepherding them towards the edge of total despair. and fads without flinching even once. For the a voice that goes from ‘0 to 666 in under two Gravdal performs orthodox black metal. Ugly, simple unacquainted; this means one classic death seconds’ has to be experienced to be believed. and highly evocative. metal riff after another delivered with laser- If you think you know what darkness is you will guided precision. awake screaming when you hear Jarboe. REVOLVER Scribe Void ov Voices Monolithic ‘Normal people don’t like hardcore and that’s the Void ov Voices is the sign under which Mayhem Hard as hell and brutal as fuck, nothing has been way we like it’. This article of faith was the one and Tormentor singer Attila Csihar uses his spared to create the monstrously powerful entity common thread that ran through all five musicians remarkable vocal talents to manifest the sounds Monolithic. Consisting of a drummer and a guitarist, that make up Scribe. Drawing inspirations from of the opaque beyond. On our side of the veil this structures and strictures have been well and truly the bands like Sick of it All, Hatebreed and the soundscape is somewhat reminiscent of Aghast kicked out the door to record their ‘Black Science’ new revolutionary artists like The Dillinger Escape and similar dark ambient acts but with Csihar’s album. This juggernaut resides at the intersection Plan, the band takes pride in being the torchbearer voices and droning chants in the center. Still, if between extreme metal and pure noise. of hardcore in their home country of India. you think this sums up the ritual soundtrack that is Void ov Voices you are gravely mistaken. ROCK IN Spearhead A blistering blend of black and death metal with Final Fantasy CLUB SOUTH OF HEAVEN sophisticated lyrical themes based on the meta - Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) is composer and violinist physics and philosophy of war. Spearhead’s last from Toronto. He worked with David Bowie, Pet Shop Tribulation album, ‘Decrowning the Irenarch’ has been highly Boys, Arctic Monkeys and Blockparty and did the music Tribulation was formed in 2004 to play death metal acclaimed by reviewers all around.