Inferno Metal Festival

Inferno Metal Festival is an annual extreme metal festival that takes every during the Easter in Oslo, Norway. The festival was founded by Borknagar guitarist Jens F. Ryland in cooperation with Radar Booking in 2001 and take place at Rockefeller Music Hall.

Lineups

2016

The 2016 edition will take place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 23. April (club night), to 26. April.

2015

The 2015 edition took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 1. April (club night), to 4. April.

2014

The 2014 edition took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 16. April (club night), to 19. April.

2013

The 2013 edition took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 27. March (club night), to 30. March.

2012

The 2012 edition took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from 4. April (club night), to the 7. April.

2011

The 2011 edition took place at Rockefeller Music Hall from April 20 (club night), to April 23.

List of heavy metal festivals

This is an incomplete list of heavy metal festivals. Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United States and the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock, the first heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, and during the late 1960s and mid-1970s these band and others in their genre were featured at a number of historic rock festivals.Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence.

After the genre fused with other related genres such as punk rock in the late 1970s, bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden and Saxon followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as "metalheads" or "headbangers", and there were festivals worldwide, both touring and stationary, dedicated to heavy metal subgenres and heavy metal itself. During the 1980s, glam metal became a commercial force, while Underground scenes and extreme subgenres of metal such as death metal and black metal remained subcultural phenomena, though they have their own dedicated festivals as well. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre.