OSLO, NORWAY, 20.–23. APRIL 2011 IMMORTAL ALL SHALL RISE! ROOT TREATMENT NIDINGR NAPALM DEATH POWER FROM HELL DARK HOMECOMING AVA INFERI OSLO SURVIVOR GUIDE – CINEMATIC INFERNO – CONFERENCE – EXPO – AND MORE HAIL FAMILY AND FELLOW METAL HEADS – WELCOME TO INFERNO 2011 NFERNO is entering a new decade and the saga continues. We can’t wait Ito celebrate our annual black easter fest with you all in Oslo! Norway is a small and extreme country, no doubt, both in music and nature, not to forget the highly over priced beer and expensive living. We know a lot of you travel far to join us, so we will go to the mountains and beyond to make it worth your while. So in addition to a hell of a lot of bands, we also make sure that you’ll get anything your dark heart desires. At INFERNO you meet up with fellow metalheads for four days of head banging, party, black-metal sightseeing and expos, tattoo, horror films and art exhibitions – Whatever your cravings for dark and gory entertainment – chances are high that you’ll get them all satisfied in Oslo this easter. Photo: Trond Skog Photo: Trond But in the end it’s all about the music and as always the INFERNO line-up treats you to some of the best there is in almost every genre of the extreme metal scene: from thrash, black, death and grind to dark, doom or experimental folk metal! All in an intimate and unique atmosphere, especially at our main venue Rockefeller, which celebrates their 25th INFERNO MAGAZINE 2011 anniversary this year – Hail! Editor: Runa Lunde Strindin Old legends NAPALM DEATH, Writers: Gunnar Sauermann,Bjørnar Hagen, Anders Odden, Torje Norén, VOIVOD and FORBIDDEN join Hilde Hammer and James Hoare. forces with the wizards of Photos: Kenneth Solfjeld, Andrew Parker, Tarjei Krogh, Viktor Jæger, Trond Skog. metal mathematics MESHUGGAH, the sons of northern darkness Inferno logos and illustrations, magazine layout: IMMORTAL and 44 bands from near and far, to give you blasting Asgeir Mickelson (www.asgeirmickelson.com) extreme metal for four unholy days! Advertising: Melanie Arends, [email protected] turbine agency, T: +47 21 65 77 71, E: [email protected], www.turbine.no See you all at INFERNO – SKÅL! Distribution: turbine agency + Scream Magazine + Platekompaniet ^v^ Runa Lunde Strindin Publisher: Inferno Metal Festival AS (www.infernofestival.net) www.hammer-mag.de www.metalhammer.co.uk www.clarionroyalchristiania.no www.musikerorg.no www.rikskonsertene.no www.scream.no INFERNO will find ALL updates and practical Phone: + 47 815 33 133 and 15:00 (03 PM) to 24:00 (12 AM) info regarding all things Inferno). www.infernofestival.net Wednesday and Thursday. METAL Bring your ID to avoid disappointment. FESTIVAL Tickets available at Billettservice/ Inferno Film @ Cinemateket CLUB TICKETS Oslo, Norway www.billettservice.no April 19th – April 24th You can pick up your wristband at the April 20th – April 23th Phone: + 47 815 33 133 and Tickets to film screenings NOK 45,- accreditation office at Clarion Hotel Rockefeller/John Dee www.infernofestival.net available at Cinemateket. Royal Christiania at Wednesday from Rock In – Revolver – Garage 15:00. Without wristband you will NOT Blå – Victoria – Elm Street – Unholy Inferno Metal Conference (IMC) IMPORTANT - Ticket exchange be able to get into any of the clubs! Tickets incl. VIP party NOK 790,-/99€ and accreditation: There will not be any ticket sales at TICKETS: IMC ticket includes Seminar, work- All festival passes/ tickets* are to be the clubs – ONLY at Clarion Hotel Roy- 4-day festival pass (including club shops, Speedmeeting, Black Metal changed into festival wristbands at al Christiania. This is for your conve- night) NOK 1350,- Sightseeing, VIP party. SPECIAL Rockefeller everyday from Thursday, nience, to avoid massive queues and One day-tickets thur-fri-sat NOK 500,- PRICE FOR MUSICIANS 49EUR open from 17:00 (5 PM). Wedneday at chaos at the clubs so you can get in One day-tickets club night NOK 250,- the accreditation office at Clarion Ho- to see the bands you want. Age limit 18 years. Some participat- Black Metal Sightseeing Public tel Royal Christiania from 15:00 (3 PM). ing clubs have a 20 year age limit version 35 EUR (lim.ed. 70 tickets!) Inferno Festival Bag: – full info on this in the upcoming Tickets available at Billettservice/ The accreditation office at Clarion You will get your bag at Clarion Hotel Royal Festival Guide booklet (where you www.billettservice.no Hotel Royal Christiania is open from Christiania together with your wristband. WWW.INFERNOFESTIVAL.NET 5 Einherjer APRIL 20. WEDNESDAY – CLUB NIGHT ELM STREET exquisitely old school that they could easily have been half again as old as the band members Cease of Breeding themselves. A truly inhuman feat of musicianship! Cease of Breeding plays brutal death metal that is And sure enough, just last year a corpse was extremely tight and hard hitting. Their aptly titled found in Gjersjøen… debut album “Sounds of Disembowelment” also features small goodies inspired by the heyday of Einherjer death metal in the early nineties. Not to mention Hailing from Haugesund on the western coast Insense that they have a drummer that makes a multi of Norway, Einherjer has long been one of the barreled machinegun sound stuttering and out of driving forces of what has become known as Okultokrati sync in comparison. “Death to all and all to death”! viking metal. An Einherjer is a warrior that is Steeped in depravity and darkness Okultokrati honored in death by ascension to the hall of Odin, sounds dirty, really dirty. Drugs and a fucked-up Hideous Divinity there to join the All-father’s hosts. As is fitting dark spiritualism are common themes beneath the Many potent forces come together in this band; of demigods of legendary prowess majestic captivating black and white covers of their releases. ingenious songwriting where every riff and stroke Einherjer’s hymns are mighty soundscapes Anti-social punk with a large infusion of old school is death metal worship and a singer that growls pertaining to battles fought in the ancient black metal, Okultokrati is a really potent cocktail of with a fiber optic camera jammed down his throat past and battles yet to come. vices that should jolt the nerves of any maniac. as part of his day job. Hideous Divinity has a core of hoary blasphemous death metal (ala Morbid VICTORIA ROCK IN Angel and Deicide) in a framework of tight preci- sion brutality. If death metal is second nature to Dornenreich Alcest you, sustaining your every effort then Hideous Passionate folk with classical and medieval Alcest is a dream captured somewhere between Divinity are kindred malicious spirits. edges. Founded in 1996, Dornenreich’s trademarks depressive rock and ambient black metal. As such for the past eleven years have been uniquely it is a stranger in this physical world. A stranger Rikets Crust intense music, expressive German lyrics and a that yearns to escape to its native dimension Rikets Crust is a collection of bitter half-assed charismatic stage presence. Ranging from ‘Black which is said to be “a plane of existence bathed losers dousing the throes of a permanent midlife Metal’, ‘Gothic Rock’ and ‘Dark Pop’ to ‘Industrial’ in a pearly light, beyond all terrestrial beauties”. crisis with cheap alcohol and crustpunk some- and ‘Neofolk’, Dornenreich’has an unique ability Musically this translates to melancholy enshrined where in the bowels of Oslo. When not working to transcend the borders of genres. Their sixth in beauteous arrangements. their asses off in shitty minimum wage jobs that is. studio album “In Luft geritzt" ("Carved in air") was In a world that’s so full of shit it’s impossible to released in 2008. Dornenreich describe their Resonaut think straight Rikets Crust is an honest voice from album as "Intense - Mystic - Timeless" hinting that Resonaut is a trio from Trondheim who plays loud the gutter calling you to war against everything genreterms often fail to get across the feeling and doomy metal with a sure-footed natural that makes life stink in this fucking so-called that no word can follow. confidence. In other words, if you like bands such social democracy of ours. as Electric Wizard, Pentagram or Black Sabbath Altaar you’ll sway like a tipsy barmaid when these guys JOHN DEE Something gargantuan from beyond is scraping hit the stage. against the walls of existence. Communion with Insense this sphere in the nether void is achieved with am- The March of Echoes Having released three impressive albums IN- bient doom metal, the language being an ominous The March of Echoes is a trio playing noisy rock SENSE has established themselves with devoted drone. Were it not for the odd burst of black metal with more than a few metal references. The vocals fan base both in Norway and abroad, pouring out profanity a visit to the decompression chamber are essentially black metal and against the stripped- their original hybrid of technically brutal riffs and would be mandatory. The atmospheres in ALTAAR’s down themes they are perfect for creating melan- aggressive melodies. They have been called a sounds are so dense and gloomy that you will be choly atmospheres. There is something deeply un- combination of the “time signatures in the noise forced to your knees in abject devotion. nerving about a depressive-sounding band that has tech vein of the new Dillinger Escape Plan, with wowed to play in your bedroom if you ask them. In the subtlety of Neurosis coupled with the extreme REVOLVER the highly unlikely event that you should fall asleep controlled aggression of Slipknot”. The spring of with The March of Echoes at your bedside it is not 2011 will see the release of their fourth album and Summon the Crows pleasant dreams you will be having.