Årets beste utgivelser 2022

Fjoråret bød på en ny rekord i Jernverkets lytterliste: Hele 329 utgivelser ble stemt frem. Det har aldri vært så mange kandidater på lista. Men hva er det med Djevel, egentlig?

Folk elsker åpenbart Djevel. Helt siden Jernverket begynte med lytteravstemningen i 2014, har Djevel vært representert med sine utgivelser. I 2018 klatret de til en åttendeplass. Året etter vant de, noe de også gjorde i 2021. “Naa skrider natten sort” fra 2022 føyer seg dermed inn i en pen merittliste, der samtlige av Djevels tre siste plater har blitt stemt frem som nummer én blant Jernverkets lyttere. Gratulasjoner sendes til både Djevel og Aftermath Records!

Jernverket har intervjuet flere av bandene som ble stemt frem. Trykk på lenkene i lista under for å komme direkte til den respektive episoden, eller abonner på Jernverket i podkastappen din.

Årets beste utgivelser 2022
1. Djevel – Naa skrider natten sort
2. Darkthrone – Astral Fortress
3. Deathhammer – Electric Warfare
4. Negative Plane – The Pact…
5. The Good The Bad And The Zugly – Research and Destroy
6. Ghost – Impera
7. Kampfar – Til klovers takt
8. Immolation – Acts of God
9. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller
10. Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain
11. Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
12. Luzifer – Iron Shackles
13. Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant
14. Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest
15. Hällas – Isle of Wisdom
16. Candlemass – Sweet Evil Sun
17. Megadeth – The Sick The Dying… and The Dead
18. Ritual Death – S/T
19. Kreator – Hate Über Alles
20. Abbath – Dread Reaver
21. Gaerea – Mirage
22. Under The Oak – Rattus Norwegius
23. Todesking – S/T
24. Satan – Earth Infernal
25. Rammstein – Zeit
26. Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood at the End of the Road
27. Witch Blade – Månsken
28. Misþyrming ‎- Með hamri
29. An Abstract Illusion – Woe
30. Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bell
31. Blodhemn – Sverger Hemn
32. Blodkarsk – Rotvelt
33. Destroyer 666 – Never Surrender
34. Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
35. Krisiun – Mortem Solis
36. The Hellacopters – Eyes Of Oblivion
37. Ulvhedner – Legd
38. White Ward – False Light
39. Armory – Mercurion
40. Dødskvad – Krønike II

Se fullstendig liste med alle skivene som fikk stemmer i alfabetisk rekkefølge nederst i innlegget.

100 Story Building Drowning in Cum – Elderly Juvenile Delinquents on Parade
Abduction – Black Blood
Abysmal Lord – Bestiary of Immortal Hunger
Acid Blade – Power Dive
Afsky – I stillhet
Amorphis – Halo
Animalize – Meat We’re Made Of
Aquilla – Mankind’s Odyssey
Arch Enemy – Deceivers
Ares Kingdom – In Darkness at Last
Arizmenda – Spiders Lust in the Dungeons Dust
Arkham Witch – Swords against Death
Artificial Brain – S/T
Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
Askeregn – Brennende åkres grøde
Astrosaur – Portals
Ateiggar – Tyrannemord
Author & Punisher – Krüller
Avatarium – Death, Where Is Your Sting
Bailltak – Blodhevn
Befouled – Denying Pulse
Behead – Choose Your Death
Behemoth – Opus Contra Naturam
Belphegor – The Devils
Bhleg – Fäghring
Black Capricorn – Cult of Blood
Black Fucking Cancer – Procreate Inverse
Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
Blind Guardian – The god Machine
Blind Illusion – Wrath of the Gods
Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses
Blutumhang – Moonchants to Eternus
Bolverk – Uaar
Bomber – Nocturnal Creatures
Bones – Sombre Opulence
Brood Of Hatred – The Golden Age
Brutus – Unison Life
Brymir – Voices in the sky
Brækkækkel – Hele Nidelva e Dahls
Cadaver – Coils Offerings of Rapture and Decay
Cauchemar – Rosa Mystica
Cauldron Born – Cold Steel for the Necromancer
Circle of Ouroborus – Autuala
Circle of Ouroborus – Aavikon varjo
Cloud Rat – Threshold
Confess – Revenge At All Costs
Connect The Circle – Mother of Evil
Corpsessed – Succumb to Rot
Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
Cryptworm – Disgorged Chunks of Life
Cult Member – Infinite Death
Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse
Darkest Era – Wither on the Wine
Death Fucking Cunt – Decadent Perversity
Deathrite Inanis 定め – Deathrites, part 1
Deathsiege – Throne of Heresy
Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat
Def Leppard – Diamond Star Halos
Déhà – Averses
Desolate Shrine – Fires of the Dying World
Destruction – Diabolical
Detherous – Unrelenting Malevolence
Devenial Verdict – Ash Blind
Disgusting Perversion – Remember me
Disillusion – Ayam
Djevelkult – Drep alle guder
Doomocracy – Unorthodox
Drifter – Demo 2021
Drudkh – All Belong To The Night
Dynazty – The Final Advent
Einherjer – Norse and Dangerous
Elder – Innate Passage
Eliminator – Ancient Light
Emissary – Emissary EP
Eric Wagner – In The Lonely Light Of Mourning
Eruption – Tellurian Rupture
Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
Evil Invaders – Shattering Reflection
Ezkaton – To Those Who Fell
Faceless Burial – At The Foothills Of Deliration
Faüst – Tinnitus Inquisiton
Felvum – Fullmoon Mysticism
Fer de Lance – The Hyperborean
Fistula – S/T
Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What The Future Holds
Five Finger Deathpunch – Afterlife
Fjøsnisse – Fjord og Fjell
Fleshrot – Unburied Corpse
Foreseen – Untamed Force
Freedom of Fear – Carpathia
Friends of Hell – S/T
Funereality – Til Death
Gargantuan Blade – S/T
Gjendød – I utakt med verden
Glemsel – Forfader
Goatwhore – Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
Gronibard – Regarde les hommes sucer
GUDSFORLADT – Friendship, Love and War
H.E.A.T. – Force Majeure
Hath – All That Was Promised
Heltekvad – Morgeneødens helvedesherre
High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
Hissing – Hypervirulence Architecture
Hoaxed – Two Shadows
Ibaraki – Rashomon
Imperial Circus Dead Decadence – Mogari … (殯 …)
Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy
Impugner – Advent of the Wretched
In Aphelion – Moribund
In Mourning – Live in Valley Sound Studio
In The Woods – Diversum
In Twilights Embrace – Lifeblood
Infinity Land – Honest Comedy LP
Inhuman Condition – Fearsick
Iron Kingdom – The Blood of Creation
Istårn – Eschatology
John Norum – Gone to stay
Jordfäst – Av Stoft
Jorn – Over The Horizon Radar
Kampvogn – Den Store Krig
Kaoteon – Neither God Nor Master
Kardang – We Ain’t Dead Yet
Khold – Svartsyn
Kontact – First Contact
Konvent – Call Down the Sun
Kosmik Boogie Tribe – Early Arvo Ashtar Galactic Command Transmission
Kosmik Tomb – Origins of the Horror
Kryptograf – The Eldrorado Spell
Kvaen – The Great Below
L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation – W.A.R. in the Digital Realm
Last of Lucy – Moksha
Last Retch – Sadism And Severed Heads
Latham – Leviatanske vers
Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know
Lifvsleda – Sepulkral Dedikation
Long Knife – Curb Stomp Earth
Lorna Shore – Pain Remains
Machine Head – Of Kingdom And Crown
Magnum – The Monster Roars
Majestic Mass – Destroys Minds and Rapes Souls
Mantric Momentum – Trial By Fire
Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark
Merihem – Incendiary Darkness
Meshuggah – Immutable
Messa – Close
Metalian – Beyond the Wall
Michael Romeo – War Of The Worlds Pt. 2
Midnight – Let There Be Witchery
Mike Campbell – External Combustion
Monasterium – Cold Are the Graves
Moonlight Sorcery – Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity
Morbific – Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm
Morbikon – Ov Mournful Twilight
Morbo – Possessed with Amorous Intent
Mork – Den svevende festning
Morrigan – Anwynn
Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain
Maakeskit – Filthy Flying Feathery Fucks!
Månegarm – Yngligaäätens Ode
Nasty Reputation – After All It’s Rock’n’Roll
Nekrogoblikon – The Fundamental Slimes and Humours
Nightmare – Live Hard, Die Hard
Nite – Voices Of The Kronian Moon
No/Más – Consume / Deny / Repent
Nordjevel – Gnavhòl
Nubivagant – The Wheel and the Universe
Obsidious – Iconic
Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash
Odium Humani Generis – Zarzewie
One Mind Ministry – Gates Of Time
Origin – Chaosmos
Orkan – Urskog
Outerwear – The Outerwear Limits
Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9
Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition – Chapter III: The Astral Drain
Parish – S/T
Peace Decay – Death is Only…
Persefone – Metanoia
Pharmacist – Flourishing Extremities on Unspoiled Mental Ground
Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity
Pia Isa – Distorted Chants
Pike vs. The Automaton – S/T
Planet On A Chain – Deprogram
Play Grounded – The Death of Death
Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation
Prehistoric War Cult – Under the Sign of the Red Moon
Psycroptic – Divine Council
Pure Wrath – Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
Queensrÿche – Digital Noise Alliance
Ranger – Ylös raunioista/Risen From The Ruins
Rapid – Blackstar Oppression Regime
Rat Lord – This Is Not a Record
Reaping Flesh – S/T
Redshark – Digital Race
Revocation – Netherheaven
Riot City – Electric Elite
Ritual Necromancy/Fossilization – Split
Saffire – Taming The Hurricane
Sahg – Born Demon
Sakis Tolis – Among the Fires of Hell
Saor – Origins
Satanic Warmaster – Aamongandr
Savage Necromancy – Feathers fall to the flames
Schizophrenia – Recollections of the Insane
Scitalis – Doomed before time
Scorpions – Rock Believer
Sedimentum – Suppuration Morphogénésiaque
Sentient Horror – Rites Of Gore
Septicflesh – Moderen Primitives
Seremonia – Neonlusifer
Shadow of Intent – Elegy
Shape Of Despair – Return to the Void
Shinedown – Planet Zero
Sigh – Shiki
Skambankt – Ti
Skid Row – The Gang’s All Here
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators – 4
Slægt – Goddess
Soen – Atlantis
Soilwork – Övergivenheten
Sonja – Nylon Nights
Sordid Blade – Every Battle Has Its Glory
Spastic Amoebas – Hellscape of Stars
Spell – Tragic Magic
Sphinx – Deathstroke
Spirit Adrift – 20 Centuries Gone
Spirits Of Fire – Embrace The Unknown
Spiritus Mortis – The Great Seal
Stabbing – Extirpated Mortal Process
Stangarigel – Na severe srdca
Static Abyss – Labyrinth of Veins
Steak – Acute Mania
Steel Inferno – Evil Reign
Stormruler – Sacred Rites & Black Magick
Stormtroopers of Love – Go Go Graveyard!
Strange Horizon – Beyond the Strange Horizon
Stratovarius – Survive
Strigoi – Viscera
Strychnos – A Mother’s Curse
Stryper – The Final Battle
Stygian Ruin – Stygia I: Slumrende i hjertets mørke
Sylvaine – Nova
Syndexioi – Sol Begravd
Tempelheks – Renegade
Temple of Void – Summoning the Slayer
Teratoma – Purulent Manifestations
The Chasm – The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow
The Chats – Get Fucked
The Cruel Intentions- Venomous Anonymous
The Halo Effect – Days of the lost
The Spirit – Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
Theriomorph – Diabolical Bloodswords
Threshold – Dividing Lines
Thy Listless Heart – Pilgrims on the Path of No Return
Tons – Hashension
Tony Martin – Thorns
Tornet – Domedagar
Tower – Shock to the System
Traitor – Exiled To The Surface
Triac – Pure Joy – Numb Grief-stricken Animals
Trial – Feed the Fire
Ultha – All That Has Never Been True
Ultra Silvam – The Sanctity of Death
Undeath – It’s Time… To Rise From the Grave
Vacuous – Dreams Of Dysphoria
Veilburner – VLBRNR
Venator – Echoes From The Gutter
Venom Inc. – There’s Only Black
Venom Prison – Erebros
Verberis – Adumbration of the Veiled Logos
Vio-Lence – Let the World Burn
Vitam Aeternam – Revelations of the Mother Harlot
Vorbid – A Swan by the Edge of Mandala
Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion
Wadge – Grindcore Penitentiary
Wayward Dawn – All-Consuming Void
Wilderun – Epigone
Wolf – Shadowland
Wolfsbane – Genius
Worm – Blue Nothing
Wormgod – Free Brizzy EP
Wormrot – Hiss
Wyatt E. – Al Beluti Daru
Xentrix – Seven Words
Zeal and Ardor – S/T
Zlaegnbachtze – The Return Of The Pulksluker

Årets beste utgivelser 2021

2021 var et kjedelig år for oss alle på mange måter, men på platefronten sto det ikke tilbake for året før. Hele 310 utgivelser fikk plass på Jernverkets lytterliste.

Denne gangen var det få stemmer som skilte de tre øverste plassene, men førstepremien ble til slutt kapret av Djevel og deres “Tanker som rir natten”, utgitt på Aftermath Records. Ciekals & co må ha truffet en nerve hos publikum, for de stakk også av med topplasseringen i 2019. Gratulerer!

Jernverket har intervjuet flere av bandene som ble stemt frem. Trykk på lenkene i lista under for å komme direkte til den respektive episoden, eller abonner på Jernverket i podkastappen din.

Årets beste utgivelser 2021
1. Djevel – Tanker som rir natten
2. Nekromantheon – Visions of Trismegistos
3. Dold Vorde Ens Navn – Mørkere
4. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
5. Darkthrone – Eternal Hails…
6. Whoredom Rife – Winds of Wrath
7. Funeral Mist – Deiform
8. Diskord – Degenerations
9. Grave Miasma – Abyss of Wrathful Deities
10. Vreid – Wild North West
11. Mastodon – Hushed and Grim
12. Gojira – Fortitude
13. Spectral Wound – A Diabolic Thirst
14. Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning
15. At the Gates – The Nightmare Of Being
16. Blood Red Throne – Imperial Congregation
17. Beyond Man- S/T
18. Stormkeep – Tales Of Othertime
19. Misotheist – For the Glory of Your Redeemer
20. Seth – Le morsure du Christ
21. Wardruna – Kvitravn
22. Lucifer – IV
23. Order -The Gospel
24. Spidergawd – VI
25. Worm – Foreverglade
26. 1914 – Where Fear And Weapons Meet
27. Exodus – Persona non grata
28. Këkht Aräkh – Pale Swordsman
29. Goat the Head – Strictly Physical
30. Eclipse – Wired
31. Helheim – WoduridaR
32. Hex A.D. – Funeral Tango for Gods and Men
33. Portal – Avow/Hagbulbia
34. Styx – Crash of The Crown
35. Tusmørke – Nordisk krim
36. Vanvidd – Under ei morken rot
37. Deception – The Mire
38. Architects – For That Wish To Exist
39. Archgoat – Worship the Eternal Darkness
40. Arvas – VI

Se fullstendig liste med alle skivene som fikk stemmer i alfabetisk rekkefølge nederst i innlegget.

Abigorum – Vergessende stille
Aborted – ManiaCult
Abscession – Rot of Ages
Accept – Too Mean to Die
Alastor – Onwards and Downwards
Albert Bouchard – Bombs Over Germany
Alda – A Distant Fire
Alice Cooper – Detroit Stories
All Are To Return – All Are to Return II
Altarage – Succumb
Amenra – De Doorn
Amigo The Devil – Born Against
Anal Stabwound – Abstractions Bathes in Sunlight
Angelus Apatrida – S/T
Antediluvian – Divine Punishment
Aquilius – Bellum I
Archspire- Bleed the Future
As Everything Unfolds – Within each lies the other
Asphyx – Necroceros
Atvm – Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless
Autokarma – De siste dagers heldige
Avertia – Når nordavinden kaster kniver
Avmakt – Demo 2021
BAEST – Necro Sapiens
Be’lakor – Coherence
Between The Buried And Me – Colors II
Bewitcher – Cursed Be Thy Kingdom
Bizarrekult – Vi overlevde
Blood Sport – Hot Blood and Cold Steel EP
Bokassa – Molotov Rocktail
Brian May – Back to the Light
Børge Olsen – Music in the Dark
Cadaveric Fumes – Echoing Chambers of Soul
Cambion – Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium
Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
Carcass – Torn Arteries
Caverne – La fin de tous les chants
Celestial Sanctuary – Soul Diminished
Cenotaph – Precognition to Eradicate
Cheap Trick – In Another World
Circle of Ouroborus – Kiromantia
Clandestine Blaze – Secrets of Laceration
Clouds – Despartire
Concrete Winds – Nerve Butcherer
Converge & Chelsea Wolfe – Blood Moon: 1
Count Raven – The Sixth Storm
Cradle of Filth – Existence is Futile
Crazy Lixx – Street Lethal
Creeping Death – The Edge of Existence EP
Crown – The End of All Things
Crust – Stoic
Cryptosis – Bionic Swarm
Crypts of Despair – All Light Swallowed
Cult of Luna – The Raging River
Dalit – Moksha
Dauþuz – Cold
Déhà – A Luminous Constant
Dennis DeYoung – 26 East Volume 2
Der Weg einer Freiheit – Noktvrn
Desaster – Churches Without Saints
Dickless Tracy – Grave New World
Doedsvangr – Serpents Ov Old
Draken – S/T
Drawn And Quartered – Congregation Pestillence
Dream Theater – A View From the Top of the World
Dream Unending – Tide Turns Eternal
Dunderbeist – Uro
Dvne – Etemen Ænka
Earthshine – Bridge to Infinity
Eburnea – Turris Eburnea EP
Einherjer – North Star
Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine of Hell
Empyrium – Über den Sternen
Endezzma – The Archer, Fjord and The Thunder
Ene – Lang kald natt
Enforced – Kill Grid
Enslaved – Caravans to the Outer Worlds
Epica – Omega
Erra – Erra
Esoctrilihum – Dy’th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath
Ethereal Shroud – Trisagion
ETID -Radical
Evergrey – Escape Of The Phoenix
Every Time I Die – Radical
Evil – Posessed by Evil
Feculent – The Grotesque Arena
Fjøsnisse – Vord
Flotsam and Jetsam – Blood in the Water
Fluisteraars – Gegrepen door de geest der zielsontluiking
Forhist – Forhist
Fossilization ‎– He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten
Frozen Soul – Crypt of Ice
Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparations
Funeral – Praesentalis In Aeturnum
Furze – Black Psych Tormentor
Galvanizer – Prying Sight of Imperception Everlasting Spew
Gatecreeper – An Unexpected Reality
Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon
Genocide Pact – S/T
Goat Torment- Forked Tongues
Goats of Doom – Shiva
Gost – Rites Of Love And Reverence
Graveripper – Radiated Remains EP
Gravesend – Methods of Human Disposal
Gravety – Bow Down
Green Lung – Black Harvest
Gåte – Nord
Hate – Rugia
Hath – Kenosis
Hawkwind – Somnia
Heathen Deity – True English Black Metal
Heavy Sentence – Bang to Rights
HellLight – Until The Silence Embraces
Helloween – S/T
Herzel – Le Dernier Rempart
Higgs Boson – The Anthill Chronicles
Hinsides – Under Betlehems brinnande stjärna
Hogstul – Ominous Fragmenta Tuptdalr
Hooded Menace – The Tritonus Bell
Hulder- Godslastering – Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry
Hunter’s Moon – S/T
Husqwarnah – Front: Toward Enemy
Hypocrisy – Worship
Haalbuaer – Mortal Ones Scream in Horror
Ildfar – Som vinden farer
Impure – Antidote (samleplate)
Jordsjø – Pastoralia
Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
Kal-El – Dark Majesty
Kanonenfieber – Menschenmühle
Kaos Manifest – The Illusion of Freedom EP
KK’s Priest – Sermons of the Sinner
Knife – S/T
Knocked Loose – A Tear in the Fabric of Life
Krallice – Demonic Wealth
Kaasin – Fire Up
Lamp of Murmuur – Submission And Slavery
Leprous – Aphelion
Liktjern – I ruiner
Lingua Ignota – Sinner Get Ready
Livløs – And Then There Were None
LLNN – Unmaker
Lorna Shore – …And I Return to Nothingness EP
Lucifers Fall – III – From the Deep
Lvcifyre – The Broken Seal
Malignant Altar – Realms of Exquisite Morbidity
Manbyrne – Heilsweg: O udręce ciała i tułaczce duszy
Manimal – Armageddon
Mare Cognitum – Solar Paroxysm
Massacre – Resurgence
Me and That Man – New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 2
Memoriam – To The End
Molde Volhal – Into the Cave of Ordeals
Monolord – Your Time to Shine
Monster Magnet – A Better Dystopia
Mortiferum – Preserved In Torment
Motorpsycho – Kingdom Of Oblivion
Muertissima – Inquisition
Mystic Storm – Из хаоса древних времен / From the Ancient Chaos
Mystras – Empires Vanquished and Dismantled
Nattverd – Vandring
Neal Morse Band – Innocence & Danger
Necromantia – To The Depths We Descend
Needlepoint – Walking up that Valley
Nifrost – Orkja
Nightfall – At Night We Prey
Ninkharsag – the dread march of solemn gods
Nunslaughter – Red is the Color of Ripping Death
Obsolete – Animate // Isolate
Ofermod – Mysterium Iniquitatis
Oldskull – Nether Hollow of No Return
Organic – Where Graves Abound
Oriflamme – L’égide ardente
Outré-Tombe – Abysse Mortifere
Panopticon – …and again to the light
Pantheist – Closed To God
Paranoid – ???
Pestilence – Exitivm
Phrenelith – Chimaera
Poison Leather – Trapped In The Abyss Of Chauvet
Qrixkuor – Poison Palinopsia…
Razorbats – Mainline Rock’n’Roll
Redwing – Turning Down the Offer
Replicant – Malignant Reality
Reveal – Doppleherz
Reverorum ib Malacht – Svag i döden
Rhine – Ausland
Ride for Revenge – Feed the Infamy
Rise Against – Nowhere Generation
Rivers of Nihil – The Work
Rope Sect – Proskynesis EP
Ruins of Beverast – The Thule Grimoirs
Scalar Process – Coagulative Matter
Scarlxrd – DeadRising
Seven Spires – Gods of Debauchery
Shape of Despair – Return To The Void
She Said Destroy – Succession
Shevils – Miracle of the Sun
Sielunvihollinen – Teloituskäsky
Sijjin – Sumerian Promises
Silver Talon – Decadence and Decay
Sisyphus – Leiþa
Skáphe – Skáphe²
Sleep Token – This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Smith/Kotzen – S/T
Sněť – Mokvání v Okovech
Soen – Imperial
Spiritbox – Eternal Blue
Stian Carstensen – Musical Sanatorium
Stress Angel – Bursting Church
Sulphurous – The Black Mouth Of Sepulchre
Sundrowned – Become Ethereal
Superlynx – Electric Temple
Svart Hav – Funeral Fields
Svartsyn – Requiem
Tardigrada – Vom Bruch …
Temple of Dread – Hades Unleashed
Tempters Sacrament – Temptation Steel Scourge
Terra Odium – Ne Plus Ultra
Thanatomass – Black Vitriol & Iron Fire
The Bronx – VI
The Crown – Royal Destroyer
The Damn Truth – Now Or Nowhere
The Pretty Reckless – Death by Rock and Roll
Therion – Leviathan
Thy Catafalque – Vadak
Tomahawk – Tonic Immobility
Tower 7 -…Peace On Earth?
Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe
Tribulation – Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
Trivium – In the court of the dragon
Turnstile – Glow On
Turris – Turris Eburnea EP
Tyrann – Djävulens musik
Taake – Avvik
Udo – Game Over
Ulvehyrde – Englemakersken
Ulvik – Cascades
Unanimated – Victory In Blood
Ungfell – Es grauet
Universally Estranged – Reared up in Spectral Predation
Unto Others – Strength
Vestindien – Null
Vetter – Av sublim natur
Vola – Witness
Volbeat – servant of the mind
Vomit Ritual – Callous Pulverised
Vredensdal – Silence Is Eternal
Vulture – Dealin’ death
Vulture Lord – Desecration Rite
Vvilderness – As Above, So Below
Warmoon Lord – Battlespells
Warzaw – Black Magic Satellite
Warzaw – Werewolves on Wheels
Wharflurch – Psychedelic Realms ov Hell
Wheel – Preserved In Time
While She Sleeps – Sleeps Society
White Void – Anti
Whitechapel – Kin
Wig Wam – Never Say Die
Witherfall – Curse Of Autumn
Wode – Burn in many Mirrors
Wolf King – The Path Of Wrath
Wolves in the Throne Room – Primordial Arcana
Wormwood – Arkivet
Wraith – Undo the Chains
Yngwie Malmsteen – Parabellum
Yoth Iria – As The Flame Withers
Ænigmatum – Deconsecrate
Årabrot – Norwegian Gothic

Spørsmål og svar

Aller først: Takk for overveldende respons! Da jeg skrev at Jernverket legges ned i dagens form, hadde jeg virkelig ikke forventet så mange forståelsesfulle og gode tilbakemeldinger. Jeg fikk nesten dårlig samvittighet da jeg så alle de positive kommentarene, men avgjørelsen er tatt. Jernverket går inn i en ny æra.

I kjølvannet av offentliggjøringen dukket det opp en del spørsmål. Dem skal jeg besvare etter beste evne under.

Blir episodene liggende?
Ja! Episodene vil fortsatt finnes i alle podkastapper samt her på hjemmesiden.

Håper ikke vi har hørt det siste fra deg?
Det har dere nok ikke. Jeg kommer til å lage liveshow og spesialepisoder i blant. Liveshowene legges ut som podkastepisoder under Jernverket-navnet i etterkant. Jeg kommer også til å snurre plater, kanskje skrive litt og lage flere tresnitt. Og hvis noen har artige tilbud er det bare å ta kontakt. Følg med her på hjemmesiden, Facebook og Instagram, så får du med deg hva som skjer i Jernverket-leiren fremover.

Skulle du ikke prøvd deg på Youtube i stedet? På engelsk?
Nei. Det er mye arbeid med lyd, men video krever enda flere timer bak datamaskinen. Hvis noen hadde tilbudt meg en betalt fulltidsjobb som “metalvideostjerne” hadde jeg sikkert sagt ja, men jeg orker ikke å begynne på null igjen. Jeg er dessuten svært glad i det norske språket. Underholdningstilbudet på engelsk er mer enn stort nok. På norsk er det nesten ingenting. Jeg vil dyrke norske dialekter og bade i norsk ordhistorie!

Når slippes siste ordinære episode?
Jernverket publiserer en episode hver fredag til og med 2. juli 2021. En kan glede seg til intervjuer med Morbus Chron, Ranger, Repulsion, Påskeaften 1996/Linn Halvorsrød, Natur og Svartalv/Destroyer før sommerferien setter inn.

PS: Heavymetal.no har gjort et intervju med meg der flere spørsmål om “slutten” blir besvart. 

Vi høres – og ikke nøl med å spørre hvis det er noe du lurer på.

Takk for nå

Kjære lytter.

Jernverket, slik du kjenner det, legges ned. Siste ordinære episode slippes 2. juli 2021. Frem til da kan du glede deg til følgende slagerparade:

14. maiVreid
21. maiJunipher Greene
28. maiMorbus Chron
4. juniRanger
11. juniRepulsion
18. juniLinn Halvorsrød/Påskeaften 1996
25. juniNatur
2. juliSvartalv/Destroyer

Jeg har tenkt på dette lenge. Allerede i 2018, da Jernverket gikk fra radioprogram til podkast, vurderte jeg å slutte. Men jeg klarte ikke. Både fordi jeg hadde holdt på så lenge, og dermed så på det som en del av min identitet, men også av frykt for å bli glemt.

Jeg har vært rockejournalist siden jeg var nitten år. De første årene kombinerte jeg studentliv og heavy metal, og da jeg senere begynte i full jobb, fortsatte jeg på samme måte. Så lenge det var gøy, var det heller ikke noe problem. Men etter hvert som merkevaren vokste, økte også arbeidsmengden. Det kom til et punkt da jeg sto på nesten døgnet rundt. Til slutt ble det for mye, og i 2018 tok jeg en kort pause. Det tok likevel ikke lang tid før jeg var i gang igjen. Følelsen av å bli sett på som irrelevant var skremmende. Liket måtte holdes varmt, må vite.

Siden den gang har jeg sluppet minst én ny podkastepisode hver uke. Med unntak av en kort periode i mammapermisjon har jeg fortsatt å arbeide doble skift. Men nå gir det meg ingenting lenger. Gnisten er borte og veden er våt. Det er ikke riktig å drive videre av plikt.

Det er derimot ikke helt slutt. Jeg synes fortsatt det er artig å lage liveshow med gjester på scenen og publikum i salen. Det å spille plater på klubber og festivaler er moro. Og hvis noen spør meg om å være “metal-ekspert” eller skribent i en eller annen sammenheng, er jeg ikke vond å be. Men å levere hver eneste uke – det går ikke.

Det er mye jeg har hatt lyst til å gjøre, men aldri fått tid til fordi jeg stadig er opptatt med Jernverket. Jeg vil bruke kreativiteten min – og ikke minst gjenfinne den jeg er – uten higet etter evig liv.

Takk for følget så langt. Du er hjertelig velkommen til å bli med på veien videre.

Helle

Årets beste utgivelser 2020

Det kom åpenbart mye bra i fjor. Hele 315 utgivelser fikk plass på Jernverkets lytterliste. Men førsteplassen var likevel soleklar: Gratulerer, Enslaved og Nuclear Blast!

Jernverket har intervjuet flere av bandene som ble stemt frem. Trykk på lenkene i topplista under for å komme direkte til den respektive episoden, eller abonner på Jernverket i podkastappen din.

Årets beste utgivelser 2020
1 Enslaved – Utgard
2 Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
3 Afsky – Ofte jeg drømmer mig død
4 Paradise Lost – Obsidian
5 The Good The Bad and The Zugly – Algorithm & Blues
6 Isengard – Vårjevndøgn
7 Black Curse – Endless Wound
8 Akhlys – Melinoë
9 Sodom – Genesis XIX
10 Green Carnation – Leaves of Yesteryear
11 Wytch Hazel – III:Pentecost
12 Spirit Possession – S/T
13 Taake / Whoredom Rife – Pakt SPLIT
14 Ulver – Flowers of Evil
15 Evoke – Seeds of Death
16 Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
17 Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
18 Undergang – Aldrig i livet
19 Under The Oak – Ripped by the Roots
20 Auðn – Vökudraumsins fangi
21 Necrophobic – Dawn of the Damned
22 Necrot – Mortal
23 Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and be Still
24 Wobbler – Dwellers of the Deep
25 Maggot Heart – Mercy Machine
26 Hällas – Conundrum
27 Hex A.D. – Astro Tongue in The Electric Garden
28 The Dogs – Crossmaker
29 Testament – Titans of Creation
30 Henrik Palm – Poverty Metal
31 Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
32 Okkultokrati – La ilden lyse
33 Purple-X – S/T
34 Töxik Death – Sepulchral Demons
35 Sjodogg – Vanskapning
36 Hymn – Breach Us
37 Communic – Hiding from the World
38 Havukruunu – Uinuos syömein sota
39 Dwaal – Gospel Of The Vile
40 HJELVIK – Welcome to Hel

Se fullstendig liste med alle skivene som fikk stemmer i alfabetisk rekkefølge nederst i innlegget.

… And oceans – Cosmic World Mother
Abramelin – Never Enough Snuff
AC/DC – Power Up
Acherontas – Psychic Death – The Shattering Of Perceptions
Achilleus – The Sins of Youth 1982-1984
ADX – Bestial
Afsky – Ofte jeg drømmer mig død
Akhlys – Melinoë
Akolyth – S/T
Amaranthe – Manifest
Ambush – Infidel
Angerot – The Divine Apostate
Ante Inferno – Fane
Antzaat — For You Men Who Gaze into the Sun
Anaal Natrakh – Endarkenment
Aonian Sorrow – A Life Without
Arabs in Aspic – Madness & Magic
Armagedda – Svindeldjup ättestup
Árstiðir Lífsins — Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir
Atavist – III: Absolution
Atramentus – Stygian
Audn – Vökudraumsins fangi
Avatar – Hunter Gatherer
Aversio Humanitatis – Behold the Silent Dwellers
Ayreon – Transitus
Barren womb – Lizard Lounge
Bastard Priest – Vengeance… of the Damned EP
Beherit – Bardo Exist
Benediction – Scriptures
Bersærk – Sol
Bismarck – Oneiromancer
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Black Magick SS – Rainbow Nights
Black Sword Thunder Attack – March Of The Damned
Blasfeme – Iniquity in Salvation
Bleed from within – Fracture
Blood Star – The Fear
Blot – Howl from the North
Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
Bonfire – Fistful of Fire
Bring Me The Horizon – Post Human: Survival Horror
Burial – Satanic Upheaval
Bütcher – 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Bythos – The Womb of Zero
Baalberith – Beyond the Grave
Cadaver – Edder & Bile
Caligulas Horse – Rise Radiant
Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevails
Caustic Wound – Death Posture
Cénotaphe — Monte Verità
Circle of Ouroborus – Viimeinen juoksu
Cirith Ungol – Forever Black
Cloth – Axis Mundi
Clouds – Durere
Code Orange – Underneath
Coffin Curse – Where Sickness Thrives
Combos – Steelo
Communic – Hiding from the World
Conception – State of Deception
Connect The Circle – This Is Madness
Convocation – Ashes Coalesce
Cosmic Putrefaction – The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
Cult of Fire – Moksha/Nirvana
Cult of Lilith – Mara
Dark Forest – Oak, Ash & Thorn
Dark Fortress – Spectres of The Old World
Dark Tranquillity – Moment
Darkened – Kingdom of Decay
Deathcult/Taake – Jærtegn SPLIT
Deathwards – Rehearsal MMXIX
Deep Purple – Whoosh!
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
Déhà – A Fleur De Peau – I – There Is No Home
Devastator – Baptised in Blasphemy
DGM – Tragic Separation
Dima – Gymbro
Draconian – Under a Godless Veil
Drain – California Cursed
DWAAL – Gospel Of The Vile
Dødskvad – Krønike I
Elds Mark – Elds Mark
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers be Full
Enepsigos- Wrath of Wraths
Enevelde- S/T
Engulfed – Vengeance Of The Fallen
Enslaved – Utgard
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
Eternal Rot – Putridarium
Evoke – Seeds of Death
Exhumation – Eleventh Formulae
Exhumed – Eleventh Formulae
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Fanebærer — Den første ild
Feather And Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration
Féleth – Depravity
Fight the Fight – Deliverance
Fluids – Ignorance Exalted
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Freeways – True Bearings
From the Vastland – The Haft Khan
Funeral Leech – Death Meditation
Gernotshagen – Ode Naturae
Gjendød – Motstand EP
Glaciation – Ultime éclat
Glacier – The Passing of Time
GNIDA – R.A.K.
Gravesend – Preparations For Human Disposal
Green Carnation – Leaves of Yesteryear
H.E.A.T – II
Hate Forest – Hour of the Centaur
Hatebreed – Weight of the False Self.
Haunt – Flashback
Havukruunu – Uinuos syömein sota
Hellbillies – I eksil på Sundrehall
Hellripper – The Affair of the Poisons
Henrik Palm – Poverty Metal
Hex A.D – Astro Tongue in The Electric Garden
Hibernation – The Clockwork Butterfly EP
High Spirits – Hard to Stop
Hittman – Destroy All humans
Hjelvik – Welcome to Hel
Horde of Hel – Döden nalkas
Horisont – Sudden Death
Hum – Inlet
HYMN – Breach Us
Hällas – Conundrum
Häxanu – Snare of All Salvation
Haalbuaer – Purulent åpning til indre organer
IDLES – Ultra Mono
Ihshan – Telemark EP
Inquisition – Black Mass for a Mass Grave
Insidious Disease – After Death
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Invocation – Attunement To Death
Irist – Order of the Mind
Iron Maiden – Live in Mexico City
Ironsword – Servants of Steel!
Isengard – Vårjevndøgn
Jointhugger- I Am No One
Jordablod – The Cabinet of Numinous Song
Kataklysm – Unconquered
Katatonia – City Burials
Katla – Alt detta helvitis myrkur
Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – K.G.
Kirkebrann – Deus Inversus
Kite – Irradiance
Konvent – Puritan Masochism
Kosmik Boogie Tribe – Let’s Rock The Fuck Out!!! Vol. 1
Kryptograf – S/T
Kvaen – The Funeral Pyre
Kvelertak – Splid
Lamb of God – S/T
Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism
Lichway – Soul Torment
Lifvsleda — Det besegrade livet
Lik – Misanthropic Breed
Loathe – I Let It in and It Took Everything
Lone Wanderer – Into Sepulchre Halls
Lord Vigo – Danse De Noir
Lure – Morbid Funeral
Lykantropi – Tales to be Told
Maggot Heart – Mercy Machine
Magick Touch – Heads Have Got To Rock’n’Roll
Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos
Megaton Sword – Blood Hails Steel – Steel Hails Fire
Messiah – Fracmont
Metal Church – From The Vault
Meth Leppard – Woke
Miasmatic Necrosis – Apex Profane
Midnight – Rebirth by Blasphemy
Mindless Sinner – Poltergeist
Molasses – Through the Hollow
Morpholith – Null Dimensions
Motorpsycho – The All Is One
Mourners – Act 1: Tragedies
Mr Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny
My Dying Bride – Macabre Cabaret EP
My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion
Mäleficentt – Night Of Eternal Darkness
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Narzissus – Akt 1 og 2
Nattverd – Styggdom
Natur – Afternoon Nightmare
Nawaharjan – Lokabrenna
Necrophobic – Dawn of the Damned
Necrot – Mortal
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Night – High Tides – Distant Skies
Night Crowned – Impius viam
Nubivagant – Roaring Eye
Occult Burial – Burning Eerie Lore
Oceans of Slumber – Oceans of Slumber
Of Feather And Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration
Okkultokrati – La ilden lyse
Old Growth – Mossweaver
Old Mother Hell – Lord of Demise
Old Nick – Forest of Grief
Omegavortex – Black Abomination Spawn
Ominous Resurrection- Judgement
Ondskapt – Grimoire Ording Devus
Onslaught – Generation Antichrist
Opium Warlords – Nembutal
Oranssi pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Order of Orias – Ablaze
Ormskrik – Ormskrik
Our Oceans – While Time Disappears
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
Pain of Salvation – Panther
Panzerfaust — The Suns of Perdition – Chapter II: Render Unto Eden
Paradise Lost – Obsidian
Parish – God’s Right Hand EP
Paysage d’Hiver – Im Wald
Pendragon – Love Over Fear
Perdition Temple – Sacraments Of Descension
Perfect NME- Remains to be Seen
Persekutor – Permanent Winter
Pharmacist – Medical Renditions Of Grinding Decomposition
Pig Destroyer – The Octagonal Stairway
Proselytism – Blood of the Deceivers
Psychonaut – Unfold the Mangod
Psychotic Waltz – The God-Shaped Void
Psykdom – Psykdom
Purification – Dwell in the House of the Lord Forever
Purification – Perfect Doctrine
Purple-X – S/T
Putrescent Seepage – Dead and Demented
Pyre – Chained To Ossuaries
Quasarborn – A Pill Hard to Swallow
Raven Throne – Viartannie
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber – Ascension
Ring Van Möbius – The 3rd Majesty
Rope Sect – The Great Flood
Rotting Kingdom – A Deeper Shade of Sorrow
Ruins of Beverast / Almyrkvi SPLIT
Sanctifying Ritual – S/T
Scour – Black
Second Sun – Aurium
Septage – Septic Decandence
Sépulcre – Ascent Through Morbid Transcendence
Sepultura – Quadra
Siege Column – Darkside Legions
Sinira — The Everlorn
Sinister Downfall – A Dark Shining Light
Sjodogg – Vanskapning
Skáphe — Skáphe³
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment Of Chaos
Skelethal – Unveiling The Threshold
Skrymir – Predominate
Slomosa – S/T
Sodom – Genesis XIX
Solicitor – Spectral Devastation
Solitary Sabred – By Fire & Brimstone
Solstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Sorcerer – Lamenting of the Innocent
Sovereign – Neurotic
Spell – Opulent Decay
Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity
Spirit Possession – S/T
Stormkeep – Galdrum
Sunken – Livslede
Svartkonst – Black Waves
Svarttjern – Shame is just a Word
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Temple Nightside – Pillars Of Damnation
Temple of Void – The World that Was
Terror Machine – Ingen retrett
Testament – Titans of Creation
The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous
The Committee – Utopian Deception
The Dogs – Crossmaker
The Good the Bad and the Zugly – Algorithm & Blues
The Midnight – The Chainsmoker
The Ocean Collective – Phanerozoic II
The Phonochromes – Static Electric Music
The Spirit Cabinet — Bloodlines
The True Werewolf – Devil Crisis
The Wizar’d – Subterranean Exile
Theotoxin — Fragment: Erhabenheit
Thy Catafalque – Naiv
Tottal Tømming – Tankeskrekk
Towards Darkness – Tetrad
Traveler – Termination Shock
Tulus – Old Old Death
Tøronto – Under Siege EP
Töxik Death – Sepulchral Demons
Taake / Whoredom Rife – Pakt SPLIT
Taakeferd – Mitt septer for et tusenårs rike
Uada – Djinn
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and be Still
Ulthar – Providence
Ulver – Flowers of evil
Undeath – Lesions Of A Different Kind
Under the Oak – Ripped by the Roots
Undergang – Aldrig I Livet
Underground Fire – Ashes of life
Ungt Blod #3
Urfaust – Teufelsgeist
UTO – Ripped up by the roots
Vacuous – Katabasis
Vader – Solitude in Madness
Vampire – Rex
Vandrer – Vandrer 2
Varde – Fedraminne
Vassafor III – To The Death
Vega – Grit Your Teeth
Venomous Skeleton – Drowning In Circles
Vitam Aeternam – The Self-Aware Freqency
Voidceremony – Entropic Reflections Continuum: Unravel
Vonlaus — Röð slæmra ákvarðana
Votum – Duhkha
Vredehammer – Viperous
Vredensdal – The Tyrant Shade
Wagner Ödegård – Om kosmos och de tolv järtekn
Wanderer – Awakening Force
Warbringer – Weapons of Tomorrow
Warfect – Spectre Of Devastation
Warp Chamber – Implements of Excruciation
Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence
Welkin — Recollections of Conquest and Honour
Werendia – S/T
White Dog – White Dog
Winterfylleth – The Reckoning Dawn
Witch Taint – Sons of Midwestern Darkness
Witchtower – Witches Domain
Wobbler – Dwellers of the Deep
Worm – Gloomlord
Worship – An Excuse To Wear A Knife
Wudewuse – Northern Gothic
Wytch Hazel – III:Pentecost
Ymir — Ymir
Yxan – Satanic Fortification Overbalance
Zifir – Demoniac Ethics

Årets beste utgivelser 2019

Jernverket-lytterne har talt: Dette er fjorårets 40 beste plateutgivelser.

Jepp, med hele 286 forslag totalt kan vi like gjerne kjøre topp 40! Det kom mye bra i fjor, men førsteplassen var soleklar: Djevels  “Ormer til armer, maane til hode”, utgitt på Aftermath Music. Gratulerer!

Jernverket har intervjuet flere av bandene som ble stemt frem. Trykk på lenkene i topplista under for å komme direkte til den respektive episoden, eller abonner på Jernverket i podkastappen din.

Se fullstendig liste nederst i innlegget.

Årets beste utgivelser 2019
1. Djevel – Ormer til armer, maane til hode
2. Blood Incantation​ – Hidden History of the Human Race
3. Mgła​ – Age of Excuse
4. Funereal Presence​ – Achatius
5. Darkthrone​ – Old Star
6. Mayhem​ – Daemon
7. Kampfar​ – Ofidians manifest
8. Backstreet Girls​ – Normal is Dangerous
9. Nocturnal Breed ​ – We Only Came for the Violence
10. Gaahls WYRD​ – GastiR – Ghosts Invited
11. Misþyrming​ – Algleymi
12. Mork​ – Det svarte juv
13. 1349​ – The Infernal Pathway
14. Rammstein​ – Untitled
15. Inculter​ – Fatal Visions
16. Borknagar​ – True North
17. Tool​ – Fear Inoculum
18. Cattle Decapitation​ – Death Atlas
19. Teitanblood​ – The Baneful Choir
20. Flukt – Darkness Devour
21. Golden Core​ – Fimbultýr
22. Chevalier​ – Destiny Calls
23. Opeth​ – In Cauda Venenum
24. Sarke – Gastwerso
25. Dold Vorde Ens Navn​ – Gjengangere i hjertets mørke
26. Vltimas​ – Something Wicked Marches In
27. Hovmod – Doedsformasjon
28. Arvas​ – Equanimity
29. Cult of Luna​ – A Dawn to Fear
30. Slipknot​ – We Are Not Your Kind
31. Concrete Winds​ – Primitive Force
32. Mystik​ – S/T
33. Eternity​ – To Become the Great Beast
34. Ragnarok​ – Non Debellicata
35. Stargazer​ – The Sky is the Limit
36. Traveler​ – S/T
37. Sâver​ – They Came With Sunlight
38. Possessed​ – Revelations of Oblivion
39. Crypt Sermon​ – The Ruins of Fading Light
40. Gatecreeper​ – Deserted

Foreldrepermisjon

Hei, folkens.

Fra og med i dag går jeg ut i permisjon. Noen har nok skjønt det allerede, men det er altså formering på gang. Det betyr at jeg ikke kan produsere podkast, henge på sosiale medier og svare på epost i tide og utide. Jeg har derimot vært føre var, så det kommer nye Jernverket-episoder hver fredag til og med 15. november. “Månedens utgivelse” med Katakomben er også planlagt ut desember, men det blir dessverre ingen julekalender i år. Jeg vet ikke hvor lenge jeg blir borte ennå, men jeg kommer sterkere tilbake i løpet av 2020.

I mellomtiden håper jeg du fortsetter å følge Jernverket i podkastappen din, på Facebook, Instagram og Twitter. Jeg lover å oppdatere dere i blant. Spre ordet og hør på heavy metal!

Vi høres plutselig.

Hilsen Helle.

Farewell Keep it True

I’ve had some wonderful times at Keep it True since my debut in 2011. An exclusive Griffin show, Satan and Witch Cross’s comebacks, Heavy Load finally playing live, stellar performances from Praying Mantis, Ashbury, Saracen, Cirith Ungol and this year’s Sabïre, Idle Hands and Vicious Rumors, just to mention a few. I’ve been traveling and staying with a group of 12–15 fellow Norwegians every year, and together we’ve made Keep it True a solid tradition. But now we’ve had enough. We are not coming back again.

Keep it True has never been a well-organized festival. The ticket sales system and the entrance line has been an absolute catastrophe every year. Changes made have only made it worse. We’ve spent hours and hours standing in line, sometimes losing the first (and second) band, other times still unable to get tickets.

Keep it True are not communicating with their audience when there are cancellations and rearrangements. At this year’s festival they showed no will to keep us posted about the Agent Steel situation. The audience waited for almost two hours and there were no excuses after the “show”. It’s not the first time John Cyriis has fucked up, but at least we got a good replacement the last time he did. The Candlemass gig was canceled last minute. Keep it True should have told us when they knew, not keeping us in the dark, letting rumors flow. The time schedule was changed on Saturday because of this, and Midnight’s spot was moved once, then back again. No information. Things like these have happened every year, mostly with headliners. Why are Keep it True even booking these unreliable time bombs again and again? They should’ve never gotten the chance!

Keep it True used to be a cheap festival. A few years ago the price of a ticket rose. Keep it True told us it was to keep the camping area free. Why should the ones staying outside the camp sponsor the ones staying in it? I’d be happy to pay a fee for camping if I were using the spot, but I’m not.

Keep it True decided to use rechargeable cards as the only valid payment option during the festival. It did not decrease the lines. It just added another one. Last year I waited two hours just to buy a card. And the paying process has not quickened compared to when we used cash.

Keep it True’s line-ups are getting less interesting each year. The posters are becoming repetitive. I love Cirith Ungol, but to have them headlining both days next year is a clear sign on lack of fantasy and guts. Keep it True’s focus in general is, weirdly enough, obscure American metal bands. Expensive to book and too often – too boring. Don’t tell us there aren’t enough good bands out there! As an example: Why does Keep it True ignore the Nordic metal scene? There are tons of bands fitting the Keep it True poster, but none of those are invited, though close, cheap, well-known and loved all over the world.

Keep it True are not welcoming to new bands within the hardrock, heavy, power and thrash metal scene. No wonder the audience’s age average is close to 60. I love that people older than 25 go to festivals, do not misunderstand me, but to keep the metal scene alive we need some fresh blood, or else we’ll all succumb to an eternal musical hell in just a few years.

Keep it True has never been good at taking criticism. Well-founded proposals and complaints about bookings, toilets, lines, ticket sales, prices, food and general communication with the festival audience are completely overlooked.

We have told you every year. You have not listened. Next year you can count 15 Norwegians less.

Helle Stenkløv
Hostess of Jernverket

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