Live Review : Inferno Metal Festival @ Brewgata, Vaterland, Rockefeller, John Dee in Oslo, Norway on April 18th 2025

After a fantastic opening day, I couldn’t wait to get back into the music and day two began with a dilemma for me with two bands I was keen to see playing at the same time. Thankfully the venues were very close so I decided to try to catch both, starting at Brewgata with Italians Nel Buio and their distinctive blackwave. Brewgata is a great little venue that is essentially a bar with a small stage in one corner giving a great atmosphere. The trio played their soundtrack to armageddon in front of a screen projecting futuristic images, and the enthusiastic crowd were drawn into their world of sorrowful atmospheric black metal.

Fleshtivals©Andy Pountney24 April 2025Inferno Metal Festival, 1349, Septicflesh, Non Est Deus, Kylesa, Ponte Del Diavolo, Blood Incantation, Rosa Faenskap, Gaerea, Kirkebrann, Nel Buio, Oslo, 2025, AeternusComment

Live Review : Inferno Metal Festival @ Vaterland, Rockefeller, John Dee in Oslo, Norway on April 17th 2025

While Easter is a time for religious worship for many, or perhaps overindulgence in chocolate, for the extreme metal community it is the opportunity to make the annual pilgrimage to Oslo for the unrivalled Inferno Festival. Set over four days, the festival always delivers a line up of the best extreme metal has to offer with an enticing mix of big names rubbing shoulders with the best of the underground. Of course, black metal is central to this but in truth, all extreme metal genres are covered and this year was to be no exception.

Fleshtivals©Andy Pountney23 April 2025Inferno Metal Festival, Abbath, In The Woods, Batushka, Spectral Wound, Tiamat, Udad, Necrophobic, Syn, Dodheimsgard, Malum, YR nor, Oslo, Norway, Live, Andy PountneyComment