Last Friday night streets of Göteborg was loud by sounds of the weekend, and something other: retro metal in the air..! Too bad, that this night wasn’t longer… Dödaren, and another, a bit older metalgroup, Year of the Goat took the party-line this on 27th of October at the famous Sticky Fingers Pub. Unnecessary to…
First up were Pain, on a rare visit to the UK. Singer/guitarist Peter Tagtgren is probably the only person who’d attempt to play guitar while wearing a straightjacket (with the sleeves unfastened obviously). They’re an odd choice of support for Nightwish as they are so different musically, and quite a few Nightwish fans had expressed…
The habitants from the village Dobroslavtsi have been trained to endure noise from planes, cause it is a small airport, but on the 22th, 23th and 24th of June you can’t hear the planes – only the three massive stages and the singing crowd for the second edition of Elevation Festival Bulgaria. The first “warm…
A few hours before the concert. There are thousands of people in front of the hall. There are hundred of sings “Looking for tickets”, but none with “Selling”. People with t-shirts, bandanas, body paintings waiting without any patience for everything to start. The picture was beautiful. This is pretty much the expectation for a band…
Det är en i det närmsta full lokal som väntar Haparandas hjältar när de kliver på scenen vid midnatt. Och det är en blandad skara folk, allt från stekarfrisyrer till skogshuggarskägg och längst fram – ett gäng gotare. Vad de här lackbeklädda figurerna ser i Raubtiers musik vet jag inte, i vilket fall som helst…
Ett utsålt KB en rekordvarm höstlördag blev ännu hetare när Kanadensarna Danko Jones rev av sin in-your-face attitydfyllda rock. Som Mr. Jones själv uttryckte sig så var publiken packad som sardiner. Det var ett enda galet party där en crowdsurfare dyker upp redan under en av de första låtarna. Svettigare konsert är det länge sedan…
Overkill, Purified in blood, 3 inches of blood – Islington academy, London – 7th October 2012 Purified In Blood put in a very energetic set. Their music felt powerful, angry and aggressive, and Hallgeir Enoksen certainly looked the part. He did everything possible to get the crowd going including climbing over the barrier and singing…
It’s never easy choosing singles from an album, especially an album where the songs are both well-crafted and packed with lyrics that instantly throw up all kinds of visual ideas, some more bizarre than others. So, following on from ‘No Place Like Home’ and ‘No Friendly Neighbour’, singles one & two from the debut Primal…
Tonight is a night of Finnish metal. Folk metal band Ensiferum are headlining with Amoral and Profane Omen as support. First up came Profane Omen. When they came on it was still very early but the venue was already half full which promised a busy night. I hadnt heard anything by these guys before but…
”The best jazz concert I ever had in my life!” . That what I said to everybody after witnessing the coming back of CASIOPEA at last September. I have known this fusion jazz band from Japan since the time I was in junior high school. That meaning it was nearly more than 20 years ago!…
BEAST-ival BEST-ival! Welcomed back again by the Bestival guys, this was my 5th year of covering and attending the festival. As always one of my most looked forward to ventures of the year! Bestival was set up by Radio 1 DJ Rob da Bank and his partner Josie in 2004, making 2012 its 9th year,…
Bunker Festival, Parkteatret, Oslo 24-25 augusti 2012 För första gången anordnades Bunker Festival i Oslo och den gick av stapeln under två kvällar på Partkteatret i stadsdelen Grunerlokka. Parkteatret är en gammal biograf där fåtöljer och filmduk ersatts av scen, barer, merch och Dj-bås. Under helgen står Fenriz från Darkthrone där och spelar grym musik…