Posted on October 18th, 2019 under Other. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, concert photography, dimmu borgir, gefle metal festival, Nikon D500. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Galder!

@MetalMagicDK @Indisciple @tsunamiagency #ORM @COPENHELL #copenhell #copenhell2020

Copenhell dropped 15 names for next year’s festival today. Bands I’m excited to see include:
Vreid
ORM (pictured above)
Emperor
Judas Priest
Mercyful Fate
Destruction

Bands I’ll be skipping include:
Jinjer
Korn
Disturbed

The last time I saw Judas Priest was in 2009. That was K.K. Downing’s last show with Priest at Loud Park Japan. Sadly, with Glenn Tipton’s health issues, that leaves zero real Judas Priest guitarists in the band.

2020 Copenhell lineup

Posted on October 17th, 2019 under Denmark. Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.8G lens, concert photography, copenhell, judas priest, metal, metal magic festival, Nikon D750, ORM. Comments Off on Copenhell 2020 band announcement

#DemonHead @MetalMagicDK @svartrecords

Posted on October 14th, 2019 under Denmark. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, concert photography, demon head, metal, metal magic festival, Nikon D500. Comments Off on Metal Monday

@LiveAtTheArmory @COPENHELL #copenhell @SeasonofMist #heilung

Apparently Heilung is popular in the USA. Months prior to their first shows in the USA, and just a couple hours after going on sale, both the Portland and San Francisco shows sold out. Now the question is, what will Heilung do? Add more shows? Come back soon and play larger venues?

I’m hoping they add a show in my hometown (they have an open date, will be here anyway, and the venue is not yet booked) so I can see them for the third time this year. Actually, it will be next year, but whatever.

Posted on October 11th, 2019 under Denmark. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, concert photography, copenhell, Heilung, Nikon D500. Comments Off on Heilung sells out San Francisco and Portland within hours of tickets going on sale

I didn’t follow the music scene very closely in the 1990s. I went to few shows and didn’t like much of the new music I was hearing on the radio. Also, I was busy with a new career and family. However, I do remember that one night, while searching for something different in the 90s music world, I stumbled upon an internet radio station out of the UK that was playing Emperor. That may have been the first time I heard true, black metal. “I Am the Black Wizards” became one of the few black metal songs that I listened to regularly before becoming much more devoted to the genre in the past 10-15 years.

Finally seeing Emperor live this past summer at Brutal Assault was very special. There was one moment, a few hours before they hit the stage, where I was sitting on a leather couch, in the fortress where Brutal Assault is held, and the members of Destruction were conducting an interview 10 feet in front of me, Ihsahn was signing autographs 20 feet in the other direction, and Au-Dessus was playing the Octagon stage just 100 feet away. Also, the creator of the Emperor logo, Christophe Szpajdel, was giving tours of his art nearby. I thought I was dreaming.

Posted on October 10th, 2019 under Other. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, brutal assault festival, concert photography, emperor, metal, Nikon D500. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Ihsahn!