SHOW REPORT: Anathema, Alcest, & Mamiffer (Vancouver, British Columbia)

  Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre has been home to some great shows over the past few years, but I don’t know if it’s hosted any I’ve been excited over as when Anathema was announced to play there. A longtime favourite of mine, Anathema were a band I never thought I would see live. To have French […]

Inferno Festival 2013 (Oslo, Norway)

Photos by Eivind Nakken Another year, another Easter. Not content with following the Norwegian tradition of trekking to the mountains for arduous skiing trips and gorging ourselves on chocolate, we once again set the course for Oslo. For every year since 2001, thousands of metalheads have converged on the Norwegian capital from all over the […]

Inferno Festival 2009 (Oslo, Norway)

The typical Norwegian Easter-celebration consists of taking your family to a cabin in the woods or mountain, seemingly never-ending ski-trips, and hot chocolate under the winter sun. However, when all the traditionally minded families migrate to their secluded havens or fancy resorts, the streets of Oslo quickly fill with a wholly different breed. Every year […]

Wacken Open Air 2008 (Wacken, Germany)

Ever since last year, when I was finally able to pay a visit to the Mecca of metalheads, Wacken Open Air, I’d been looking forwards to revisiting the festival. The mixture of meeting people from all over the world and seeing great bands from the entire metal-spectrum for three whole days is something you can’t […]