OCTOBER 18th, 2025
VOLBEAT

OCTOBER 20th 2025

DROPKICK MURPHYS

Beer will be flying today. This is crystal clear as I hear what is playing before the show. It is a hardcore punk Monday. Primitive three chord sloppy riffs recorded on Casio are blasting the venue so that we would be ready. 

Haywire, Boston hardcore punk, are setting the mood. It is 5150 amp right in front of me, which is puzzling. Ken Casey jumps onstage and announces the band demanding to give them a warm welcome. We do not need to be convinced, Haywire are LIT! It is the first time that I see the band sing along to someone else’s retro song used as an intro. Then the mainman jumps into the audience straight on the first song. Pushups, jumps, mosh and circle pit. 5150 sounds heavy af. It is quite typical hardcore punk and I cannot say that the music catches me, but the show is extremely engaging, I want them to be back. 10/10 interaction with the audience. Two guys in the front row know the lyrics, and get the mic from time to time. 

......READ MORE

OCTOBER 10 - 11thth 2025
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT
METAL FESTIVAL

Tiny band pleasures. In the past few years, I had written to the festival four times, but I surely am one of very many. Also, my non-local name does not help at all: it probably redirects to the garbage bin right away. Strangely enough, in October we received a short notice invitation to play in Kristiansand’s Southern Discomfort festival. Tiny band pleasures. 

Norway has this speciality - a relatively small festival in the cutest place ever, - a fantastic posh venue like a house of culture that seems like it was open yesterday - everything is so new there - or, like now, in a fancy hotel in the very downtown of the southern pearl of Norway. Like our local Hellbotn (Kolbotn, 20 min from the center of Oslo), it is a small festival for just under three hundred visitors, but everything is organized with such care and attention to detail, this is my favourite format. Not too many people, intimate, loads of places to catch up, chill, get great merch or hide. 

 
..... READ MORE