BENEDICTION Confirmed For Norway's INFERNO Festival
November 30, 2009Long-running Birmingham, U.K.-based extreme metallers BENEDICTION have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Inferno festival, set to take place March 31 - April 3, 2010 in Oslo, Norway.
The festival billing is shaping up as follows:
BENEDICTION
FINNTROLL
JARBOE
MAYHEM
NACHTMYSTIUM
TAAKE
THE KOVENANT
More bands will be announced soon.
Few Norwegian music festivals can equal the international status that the Inferno festival now holds. The festival, voted as one of the 10 best in the world by the readers of Terrorizer magazine, continues to grow and is considered the Norwegian metal community's most important gathering.
For four days during Easter, people fly in from England, Sweden, Germany, Italy, the USA and even India to experience extreme metal in Norway's capital.
The festival was started in 2001 by BORKNAGAR guitarist Jens Ryland who wanted the Norwegian metal community to come together for a celebration of extreme music.
BENEDICTION's latest album, "Killing Music", was released in North America in September 2008 via Locomotive Records. The follow-up to 2001's "Organized Chaos" was produced by ANAAL NATHRAKH mastermind Mick Kenney and features several guest musicians, including Karl Willets (BOLT THROWER),Kelly Shaefer (ATHEIST),Billy Gould (ex-FAITH NO MORE),The Fog (FROST),Markus Staiger (Nuclear Blast Records owner) and Thorsten Zahn from Metal Hammer Germany. A limited-edition version of the album includes two bonus tracks and a DVD.
Video footage of BENEDICTION performing the song "The Grey Man" at the Hellfire II festival on November 7, 2009 at the NEC in Birmingham, England can be viewed below (courtesy of Dave Ingham a.k.a. YouTube user "triptykon").
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