One of Norway’s best festivals is being arranged for the twelfth, and last, time in Bergen on August 24-27, 2011. After twelve years as Oslo’s Inferno festival’s strongest rivals, they’ve decided to go out on a high note. The line-up is a truly amazing collection of blackened metal and devilish doom.

I’ve read 45 elsewhere, but count 49 bands on this list for the festival that runs 4/20 – 4/24 in Oslo!

Norway’s most prominent Metal festival has started rearing its ugly head and spewed forth the names of the first bands that will play at next year’s festival, April 20-23 in Oslo.

Quite a coup for ABSU, who open for IMMORTAL on six infernal dates for the All Shall Fall US Tour!

It is very rare that an album comes along with the entire package, even rarer when it is a band’s first output in over 7 years. However, that’s exactly what we’ve got with Immortal’s comeback album: All Shall Fall.

Pyramaze - “Immortal” [Locomotive] … this will likely be remembered as the album on which Matt Barlow returned behind the mic before officially rejoining Iced Earthafter a six year absence … the two bands are actually stylistically similar, except with this band you hear more European Power Metal, particularly with (sparing) use of keyboards … that being said, there are big hooks, sing-along choruses, the ballad (6), and in typical grand fashion, an instrumental intro and outro … FCC OK … Try *3*, 5, 7, 9 … 2008Aug12 01. Arise 02. Year of the Phoenix 03. Ghost Light 04. Touched by [...read more]