Jorge Patacas, editor-in-chief and writer of RISE!, has recently collaborated with the Inferno Festival Magazine 2024 doing interviews with bands that are going to play at the festival such as the melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES, the Norwegian black metal outfit NORDJEVEL and the supergroup VLTIMAS. The other interviews were conducted by Gunnar Sauermann (Metal Hammer), Roy Kristensen (Imhotep / Scream Magazine) and Aleksandra Stasiak. If you are in Oslo, you can find the magazine in places like Rock In, Kniven, Vaterland, Brewgata, Aye Aye Club, Revolver, Katakomben,…
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Concert Reviews: IN FLAMES at Oslo Spektrum (Oslo, Norway)
IN FLAMES at Oslo Spektrum (Oslo, Norway) Special guests: AT THE GATES – IMMINENCE – ORBIT CULTURE December 11, 2022 by Jorge Patacas Just a few days before Christmas, In Flames visited Norway as part of their two-month European tour to promote the upcoming album “Foregone” to be released in February 2023, and the venue selected for the show was Oslo Spektrum with a capacity for 9700 attendees. The legendary and also melodic death metal pioneers, At the Gates, were also part of this tour as well as two…
Read MoreInterview: FREDRIK NORDSTRÖM
by Jorge Patacas One of the key persons of the early Melodic Death Metal scene from Gothenburg, Sweden was the producer Fredrik Nordström. He has worked with bands like In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, responsible for what is known today as the “Gothenburg Sound”, and has also produced albums for Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir, Hammerfall, Soilwork, The Haunted and many others at his Studio Fredman which he runs since 1990. Besides being a legendary producer, he’s also a musician himself and has been playing guitar for the…
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