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.

“Seven cities, seven shows, seven bowels of wrath to be unleashed upon mankind!”

In a world where Darkthrone have turned towards crust punk and 1349 are attempting to be ambient, one is often left in a search for sanity. The classic black metal sound has been all but discarded, being overshadowed by the symphonic arrangements of Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth. However, some bands still have the goal of sending their listeners to hell, and Marduk has certainly maintained this set of ideals.