Karmøygeddon and Blastfest: Norway's Small Metal Gatherings

Thu, 08 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Norway’s reputation in metal is built on the extreme, the frozen and the notorious, but the country’s festival culture is mostly a story of small, stubborn, community-scale gatherings run by people who love the music more than they love money. Two of them make an instructive pair: Karmøygeddon, a survivor that has run for two decades on a small island off the west coast, and Blastfest, a Bergen festival that arrived with real ambition, made a genuine mark, and then collapsed in three years. One is a lesson in staying small on purpose. The other is a cautionary tale about the gap between ambition and arithmetic.

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Karmøygeddon and Blastfest: Norway's Small Metal Gatherings