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ELIXIR to Metal Merchants Festival

Cheers, friends! It is with great pride we now announce English veterans ELIXIR for Metal Merchants Festival 2011. Celebrating the 25th anniversary for their classic 1986 album “The Son of Odin”, and celebrating visiting the land of the vikings, the album will be played in its entirety in Oslo on this occation. And if that’s [...]

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Three bands ready for 2011!

First of all, we’d like to thank everyone that attended this years festival, and hope you all enjoyed it just as much as we did. Once again, the response was overwhelming, and even though we’re still paying the last few bills, we feel that we owe the audience another edition filled with classic heavy metal [...]

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Changes in stage times

Due to bad weather conditions in Helsinki, Solitaire will not get to Oslo in time to open 19.15. Anihilated will therefore open tonight’s show, and hopefully Solitaire will be the second band on stage. The new stage times are: 19.15: Anihilated 20.20: Solitaire 21.25: Lamented Souls 22.40: The Lamp of Thoth 00.30: Tank

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Playing times

And now we also have set the stage times for each band: Friday, January 29th Solitaire 19.15–20.00 Anihilated 20.20–21.05 Lamented Souls 21.25–22.20 The Lamp of Thoth 22.40–00.00 Tank 00.30–02.00 Saturday, January 30th Torch 18.15–19.00 Necronomicon 19.30–20.15 Dark Quarterer 20.45–22.00 Slough Feg 22.30–00.00 Omen 00.30–02.00

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Day distribution

The bands are to play on the following days: Friday, January 29th Solitaire Anihilated Lamented Souls The Lamp of Thoth Tank Saturday, January 30th Torch Necronomicon Dark Quarterer Slough Feg Omen

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Announcing Dark Quarterer

So, You thought we couldn’t go further back or more underground? Think again! This band is older than all of the promoters of Metal Merchants Festival, and is truly one of the hidden treasures and godfathers of epic heavy metal. From Italy, we present the one and only DARK QUARTERER! The fact that no album [...]

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Torch to Metal Merchants Festival

Greetings, metalheads! We are truly proud to present one of the original Scandinavian heavy metal bands at Metal Merchants Festival 2010. Founded in 1979, and releasing classics such as “Torch” and “Electrikiss” throughout the 80’s, Dan Dark and company made sure that Swedish heavy metal wasn’t soon to be forgotten. After touring with the likes [...]

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8 bands ready

Greetings, fellow metalheads! It’s been a while since our last update, but now that the summer soon is over, and we’re on our way into the real metal season, it’s time to give you all an update on the METAL MERCHANTS FESTIVAL 2010 lineup. Alongside the bands already announced, which are OMEN (US), SLOUGH FEG [...]

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Get your t-shirts!

Get your exclusive t-shirts from the first ever Metal Merchants Festival now! We still have more festival t-shirts left from February, and have decided to put them up for sale through the excellent distro Unborn Productions. The shirts are available in black shirt with white/red graphics or white shirts with black/red graphics. They come in [...]

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Five bands announced and tickets for sale

Yessire! We’re happy to announce that ticket sales now are open, and with a capacity of 350 people, you shouldn’t wait too long before you get your festival pass at www.billettservice.no . The price is NOK 500. Why should you attend? Besides the great party, here’s five damned good reasons! OMEN (US) Kenny Powell and [...]

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  • Line-up 2011

    Friday January 28th
    Doors: 19.00
    PROCESSION 19.25
    IN SOLITUDE 20.10
    ELIXIR 21.05
    BLIZZARD 22.15
    BROCAS HELM 23.20

    Saturday January 29th
    Doors: 18.00
    CONVIXION 19.30
    GEHENNAH 20.15
    DEVIL 21.15
    JAGUAR 22.15
    NUCLEAR ASSAULT 23.20

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