Oslo on vo.rs

John Dee, Oslo: Rockefeller's Little Sister

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Rockefeller: Oslo Rock in an Old Bathhouse

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Turbonegro: Deathpunk, Denim, and Bad Taste as Art

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Inferno: Oslo's Easter Weekend in the Dark

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000

There is a specific joke in a black-metal festival landing on Easter, and everyone involved is entirely in on it. Easter is the Christian calendar’s most important weekend, the resurrection, the whole point of the thing. Inferno takes that holiday, in the country that produced the most church-hostile music scene in history, and fills Oslo’s biggest concert hall with several days of the darkest metal on earth. They call it Black Easter, and the timing is the joke and the statement at once.

Tons of Rock: How Oslo Learned to Throw a Proper Metal Party

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0000

For most of my festival life Oslo was the neighbour that didn’t have one. Norway had the money, the bands and one of the deepest metal scenes on the planet, and yet if you wanted to see a big loud outdoor bill you flew to Sweden Rock or drove to Copenhell. Then Tons of Rock arrived, and within a decade it had become the largest music festival in the whole country. That is a genuinely strange thing to have happened, and it is worth walking through how.