FESTIVAL PREVIEW: Inferno Metal Festival 2024

March 13, 2024 James Weaver

Norway’s legendary Inferno Metal Festival returns on March 28th-31st this year. This year’s lineup reveals a mixture of classic bands as well as some vital and exciting newcomers, such as DIMMU BORGIR, GORGOROTH, BORKNAGAR, DÖDSRIT, PHANTOM FIRE and many more.

Inferno Metal Festival is being held four days at Rockefeller Music Halls’ two stages Rockefeller and John Dee as well as many smaller clubs around Oslo. The festival takes place during Easter in Norway when not a lot of other stuff is happening in the capital.

INFERNO EXPERIENCE

Every year, hundreds of metal fans from all over the world attend the festival and explore Norway’s capital city Oslo. In previous years, the festival has hosted several experiences for metal fans to explore the city’s darkest, but also most beautiful places, as well as offer enthusiasts a glimpse of Norway’s natural beauty, which has inspired many Norwegian artists in the past and still does.

INFERNO AND EDVARD MUNCH

Oslo is the city where Edvard Munch grew up and started out as an artist. This is also the place where he spent the last decades of his life. Today, Oslo houses the largest part of Munch’s artistic production, including his best known masterpieces. Join our Munch tours during the festival and get to know one of the greatest artists of modern times!

BLACK METAL BUS TOUR

The Black Metal Bus sightseeing with Anders Odden is back! A trip through some of the places that marked the beginning of the legend that became Norwegian black metal. Conducted by Anders Odden [CADAVER, CELTIC FROST, ORDER]. Between 1991 and 1993 many of the most important events in this chapter in Norwegian music history took place in Oslo and we have put together a field trip to the sights that takes you back in time.

Anders Odden formed his first black metal band, SLAUGHT, in 1986 after attending a rehearsal with MAYHEM at the age of 14. He was one of the pioneers in the infancy of the Norwegian scene dealing with tape trading, organising of concerts and creating more and more extreme music on his own. He formed CADAVER in 1988 and released the first Norwegian death metal album on Earache Records in 1990. His band played shows with DARKTHRONE, MAYHEM, OLD FUNERAL and many more bands of what would become the Norwegian black metal scene in the beginning. This field trip has exclusive anecdotes and personal memories of the early life of the scene from someone who was there.

INFERNO ART EXHIBITION

The festival will also host the Inferno Art Exhibition, in collaboration with Clarion The Hub and Inferno Music Conference. Welcome officially welcoming art enthusiasts, the general public and lovers of everything dark, unique and mind bending! Featuring the following artists: Zbigniew M. Bielak, Costin Chioreanu, Kim Diaz Holm, Nick Morte, Hoho Zhou, Toto Lara, Martin Mentzoni, Jannicke Wiese-Hansen, Trine Grimm, Maria Viirros, Welt, Aleksandra M. Stasiak, Paal Audestad.

VOID OV VOICES & NOSFERATU

New this year is a unique silent film concert in which Attila Csihar’s VOID OV VOICES will create the music for the classic German horror film Nosferatu (1922). The silent film concert will take place at the cinema Vega Scene on Saturday, March 30th, at daytime during Inferno Metal Festival 2024.

GET YOUR SKI ON!

Did you know that one of Norway’s best ski resorts are just a short metro ride away from the Inferno festival hotel? For the 2024 edition of Inferno the festival has gotten some really nice discounted prices in the slopes for all ticket holders.

INFERNO OFFICIAL HOTEL: CLARION HOTEL THE HUB

The Inferno family: audience and artists, media and music industry will gather at the official festival hotel Clarion The Hub for happenings, partying and a good night sleep. The Inferno Music Conference will take place at the hotel in the daytime Thursday and Friday. For guests staying at the hotel, it will be Oslo’s best hotel breakfast until 11:00 (you don`t want to miss it) and free access to swimming pool and sauna.

The Hub boasts Oslo’s best location, right in the city centre, next to Oslo Central Station and the Airport Express Train – and only about a five minutes walk from the venues Rockefeller & John Dee, Salt, Kniven, Vaterland, Brewgata and Rock In. No expensive taxi rides! The special Inferno discount price is valid in the period March 24th to April 1st 2024. Extend your stay and experience Oslo!