INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL Oslo, Norway April 9. – 12. April, 2020 Rockefeller / John Dee / Kniven TICKETS: 4-day festival pass NOK 2500 (including ticket fee). One day tickets NOK 800 (including ticket fee). Inferno Music Conference NOK 666 (including ticket fee). Vreid gig at Nobel Peace Center NOK 150 (including ticket fee). Age limit: 18 years. Bring your ID to avoid disappointment. Tickets at tickets.infernofestival.net. Phone: +47 81 53 31 33
WELCOME TO OUR 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
INFERNO MAGAZINE 2020 Editor: Runar Pettersen Writers: Roy Kristensen, Gunnar Sauermann and Runar Pettersen Photos: Arash Taheri, Runar Pettersen, Geert Braekers, Ester Segarra, Bjørn Tore Moen, Daniel Walmsley, Eric Robertson, Naya Buch, Jonas Ingstad, Silje Brekke, Nina Red, Diana Blajan, Håkon Hoseth, Christian Misje, Håkon Grav, Jan Dahle, Eric Robertson and Mikio Ariga. Proofreading: Jan-Martin Jensen, Runar Pettersen, Lars Frode Hansen, Diana Blajan and Asgeir Mickelson. Design and layout: MultiMono, azgr@online.no Advertising, distribution and publishing: Inferno Metal Festival
ow time flies when you're having fun. That's how it feels when we now can celebrate twenty years of Inferno Metal Festival. But there is no reason to rest on the laurels. As usual we start working on the next edition even before the last one is finished. No rest for the wicked. A lot has changed since Inferno held its first edition in 2001, and the music business is very different from back then. Keeping up with what is happening is in some way challenging. At least if you are not open for changes. On metal festivals there are mostly the old bands that make the headliners. That goes for Inferno as well. Twenty years ago – when Inferno started – the headliners were not very old. At least not the Norwegian headliners we had back then on the first edition of the festival. Enslaved had only existed ten years, and Borknagar only six. It seems impossible now to have a band that was formed only six years ago to headline Inferno in 2020. For this year’s edition we have been digging back to the early 80s, to the originator of black metal, with legendary Venom and Tom G. Warrior's Triumph of Death that will perform classic Hellhammer songs – the so called first wave of black metal. Inferno is best known for the second wave of black metal, like Mayhem, Gorgoroth, Marduk and so on. People just love old school metal. But we are also all about discovering new artists and to give them a well-deserved spot at Inferno. Some of the newer bands we are bringing to the big stage is Uada that started only five years ago. The most important thing is to give our audience a solid, varied and unique program. But it doesn't really feel like a festival if there is not much more to a festival than only bands playing. So as usual, much more will be happening during Inferno 2020. And not to forget about all of you – our amazing audience that makes this so fun to organize. We promise you a lot of fun and an amazing time! Welcome to Inferno Metal Festival 2020!
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Cheers, Runar Pettersen
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