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Inferno Metal Festival
Inferno Metal Festival (usually referred to simply as Inferno or the Inferno Festival) is an annual extreme metal festival that takes place every year during Easter in Oslo, Norway. The festival was founded by Borknagar guitarist Jens F. Ryland in cooperation with Jan-Martin Jensen of Radar Booking in 2001.
Concerts are mainly held at Rockefeller Music Hall plus its basement venue John Dee. The early evening programme is scattered around smaller venues nearby: Kniven, Goldie, Vaterland, Dattera til Hagen, amongst others.
Like the Beyond The Gates festival in Bergen, the Inferno Festival offers a “fringe program” where concertgoers are provided with daytime activities. One example is Black Metal Bus Sightseeing, a guided tour with Anders Odden to locations of historical interest for metal fans, including the record store Helvete. 60 percent of Inferno's festival tickets are sold abroad, attracting audiences from over 50 countries. The fringe program has therefore received funding from the Research Council of Norway, which is also studying the ripple effects for the regions hosting the two festivals.
Parallel to the festival, the Inferno Music Conference (IMC) takes place, with hundreds of delegates including international festival bookers, agents, press, and PR companies. The conference was first held in 2006. In 2024, nearly 300 delegates from 36 countries participated in panel debates and Q&A sessions, making it the largest metal conference in the world.
The conference is organized in cooperation with partners such as Fritt Ord, the international news portal Metal Injection, Creo – the Union for Art and Culture, Music Norway, BandOrg, AKKS, RadiOrakel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Indie Recordings. Previous partners have included Innovation Norway and the US Embassy.
As part of IMC, a tattoo fair and an art exhibition are organized, including sales booths for the artists. The exhibition takes place at the festival hotel, while the tattoo fair is located at the main venue, Rockefeller.
The 2026 edition took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 2 to 5 April.
Deicide, Mayhem, Cult of Luna, Enslaved, Tormentor, The Kovenant, Kanonenfieber, Old Man’s Child, Incantation, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Samael, Primordial, Svarttjern, Mùr, Whoredom Rife, Auðn, 1914, Funeral, Darvaza, Mork, Carnivore A.D., Groza, Sadistic Intent, Firespawn, Hulder, Morax, Bizarrekult, Nite, Myr, Nihilvm, Hierophant, Perchta, Forsman, Sovereign, Angell, Abhorration.
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Inferno Metal Festival
Inferno Metal Festival (usually referred to simply as Inferno or the Inferno Festival) is an annual extreme metal festival that takes place every year during Easter in Oslo, Norway. The festival was founded by Borknagar guitarist Jens F. Ryland in cooperation with Jan-Martin Jensen of Radar Booking in 2001.
Concerts are mainly held at Rockefeller Music Hall plus its basement venue John Dee. The early evening programme is scattered around smaller venues nearby: Kniven, Goldie, Vaterland, Dattera til Hagen, amongst others.
Like the Beyond The Gates festival in Bergen, the Inferno Festival offers a “fringe program” where concertgoers are provided with daytime activities. One example is Black Metal Bus Sightseeing, a guided tour with Anders Odden to locations of historical interest for metal fans, including the record store Helvete. 60 percent of Inferno's festival tickets are sold abroad, attracting audiences from over 50 countries. The fringe program has therefore received funding from the Research Council of Norway, which is also studying the ripple effects for the regions hosting the two festivals.
Parallel to the festival, the Inferno Music Conference (IMC) takes place, with hundreds of delegates including international festival bookers, agents, press, and PR companies. The conference was first held in 2006. In 2024, nearly 300 delegates from 36 countries participated in panel debates and Q&A sessions, making it the largest metal conference in the world.
The conference is organized in cooperation with partners such as Fritt Ord, the international news portal Metal Injection, Creo – the Union for Art and Culture, Music Norway, BandOrg, AKKS, RadiOrakel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Indie Recordings. Previous partners have included Innovation Norway and the US Embassy.
As part of IMC, a tattoo fair and an art exhibition are organized, including sales booths for the artists. The exhibition takes place at the festival hotel, while the tattoo fair is located at the main venue, Rockefeller.
The 2026 edition took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 2 to 5 April.
Deicide, Mayhem, Cult of Luna, Enslaved, Tormentor, The Kovenant, Kanonenfieber, Old Man’s Child, Incantation, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Samael, Primordial, Svarttjern, Mùr, Whoredom Rife, Auðn, 1914, Funeral, Darvaza, Mork, Carnivore A.D., Groza, Sadistic Intent, Firespawn, Hulder, Morax, Bizarrekult, Nite, Myr, Nihilvm, Hierophant, Perchta, Forsman, Sovereign, Angell, Abhorration.