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| 2012-04-06
NO – Oslo |
| Autopsy - Absu - Tsjuder - Agalloch - Merah Sólstafir - Dead Trooper - Velnias - Aeon Throne - Necronomicon *Argh* Friday got off the grid… cumbersome. Really short night, totally exhausted and tired but sleepless. No rest for the wicked… I gonna start my hunt for bands on time and have to face first that announced adversity. I got a photo pass, but not a photo PIT pass. Okay, at John Dee there is no photo pit at all, but at Rockefeller and it doesn’t make work easy without the pit. Unfortunately, as I was not the only one, I could not catch the one responsible for that and to had to do my job in other ways. Not really comfortable but I could manage… :: pics :: First up are Canadian death/black metallers :: NECRONOMICON :: who play live in Europe for the very first time, currently on tour supporting Absu. And they play with much delight and enthusiasm. Having a strong symphonic character on CD NECRONOMICON live focused on brutality, intensity and intransigence. Great stuff!
On the bid stage :: MERAH :: open the evening. Never heard of before but they totally captivated me. MERAH is the mysterious solo project of S. Grønbech (brother of Obsidian Claw ov Keep Of Kalessin, and also worked on the Reclaim EP). Live, he plays the bass, masked, as the singer was masked and hooded too, standing behind the drum kit. Later we got to learn that it was Mr. Thebon underneath. As I think it was their first live show ever and also marks the release of the debut album Anomalia (which wasn’t to find anywhere). No song snippets, no info either. Ah, I forgot… mysticism…
Meanwhile :: AEON THRONE :: equip themselves for the next battle. A trve Norwegian black/death metal attack on the John Dee stage. Generally speaking it’s the amount of Norwegian extreme bands that score here most. But I actually don’t really wonder… AEON THRONE is a rather young band that was founded in 2010 and just has released an EP entitled Dawn in 2011. I liked it.
Hot on heels the first highlight follows with :: AGALLOCH :: who play there very first show in Norway. Again they deliver one of these intense and wonderful shows, playing songs from the latest records. Sound is awesome. There is just the huge stage that kills a bit of the atmosphere. And I didn’t see any utensils this time. Incense for example, some nature stuff… etc. Well, maybe I could not see since every band was heavily wrapped into smoke that you hardly could see anything on stage. A no-view at no-lights, so to say… Though, great show!
:: VELNIAS :: (right now on tour with Agalloch) are still a quite unknown band from the States and play epic blackened Folk/Doom metal, with a certain WITTR vibe in it. Really great and I’d like to recommend!
Okay, now we get real trve Norwegian Black Metal. :: TSJUDER :: open the gates to hell wide and unleash the evil upon the crowd. TSUJDER are evil, and brutal, raw, old school, and hellish fast. Crowd is going wild and I forced to get me a safer place. On stairs, where I can perfectly watch the band playing. It is a hellride from start to end, a hellride I truly enjoy.
Fans keep it wild and lively downstairs, where the :: DEAD TROOPER :: kick asses. Thrash till death. It is packed, it is hot and it is humid at John Dee, but that’s exactly what we want and what creates such intense atmosphere. Sweating bodies, rotating heads, flying fists… Yesss!
As we all are in a special mood, we keep it extreme and :: ABSU :: fire us up. Scorched earth guaranteed. Too bad that there are only shadows to see in the waving smoke.
Before I vanish
in smoke too I run down to get me a place in the front row. It’s
:: SÓLSTAFIR
:: time! I love them. Love their music. And it’s
great to see that they already gained kind of a cult status. Everybody
wants to see them, is curious. The club is now really crowded.
No space left for anything. The big stage would have better on
one side, but as for the atmosphere they are right here. And the
show is unbelievably great and intensive. Only four tracks, again,
but the breathtaking Fjara from Svatir Sandar
album (next to two other ones) and Goddess Of The Ages
from Köld. How long did they play? Too short
anyway.
I stay till
the end and leave much groggy, dragging myself up the stairs for
the grand finale with :: AUTOPSY
:: It takes a twinkling of an eye and I’m wide
awake and brimming of energy again. What a fucking hell of a show.
My neck gets tortured. It’s an aural party, not a visual
one. Once again *grrr* Not even from the balcony you can see that
much. F*****ck! Well… audience does not care and freaks
out again. AUTOPSY play everything from brand new stuff
back to a song from the debut Severed Survival and
wrack everything. Totally blown away! I’m down the drain and resign from nightly adventures and parties. I just do the magazine related stuff and fall into the horizontal. By the way, did I mention that I love Norwegian and Swedish TV? They really broadcast awesome stuff at night, another episode of The Walking Dead and I got one episode of the latest True Blood season, yay :) Wanna have the same on German TV, please! |
| story & pics © Dajana |
