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Greetings once again, friends!



We're getting close to a full lineup, and we're pretty sure most of you are just as excited as we are over the new additions. No time for bull, here's the gravy!



CONVIXION (GRE)
Believed to be one of the hopes of the Hellenic underground, the thrash metallers of CONVIXION will be brought in to the cold north to shake loose the most impatient headbangers amongst you. With an EP and one album in the catalogue, CONVIXION have already received great reviews and jobs such as Up The Hammers Festival II for their curriculum vitae.

BLIZZARD (DE)
Most of you already know BLIZZARD, the old school maniac crew that brought partying back to music from hell. With a handful of releases throughout the last decade, filled to the edge with mad metal, hard partying and insane attitude, you better hold on to your beers and souls when PURE FILTH AND MAYHEM fills Metal Merchants Festival as Blizzard enters the stage!

BROCAS HELM (US)
You didn't see that one coming, did ya? Besides Manilla Road and Cirith Ungol, BROCAS HELM is widely considered as the finest thing ever to come from the American underground heavy metal stage. We're not gonna rant on about this, but really, people? BROCAS HELM!! Hands down!

So, tell your friends and buy your tickets, cause this is gonna be a blast!

The webpage is as always http://www.metalmerchantsfestival.com and the tickets can be bought at http://www.billettservice.no .

This is the lineup for january 28th and 29th so far:

JAGUAR
ASOMVEL
SOLSTICE
ELIXIR
CONVIXION
BLIZZARD
BROCAS HELM

Cheers from Sigurd, Ronny and Stian, ALL HERE TO ROCK!!!

God damn this looks great!! I wish I had enough money to go to this because the band that's really drawing me out to Europe will be Solstice, and I'll have enough only to see them at Up the Hammers!, but this is shaping to be one of the best looking line-ups I've seen!!

2 more bands:

NUCLEAR ASSAULT
WHYTE ASH

I've just been listening to Whyte Ash after someone recommended them to me at Hole In The Sky. I'm digging it. Here's the site if you want the downloads too www.whyteash.com

Greetings, friends!

One of the risks of booking early is that one can not see all circumstances, big or small. We unfortunately have two cancellations for 2011, and two replacements. As many of you already know, Asomvel's Jay Jay tragically died in a car crash a little time ago. We at Metal Merchants Festival will dedicate the 2011 festival to his memory. Rest in peace. Also, Whyte Ash has been forced to cancel their appearance.

As for replacements, we have a couple of exciting names for you to get to know. We hope you enjoy it!

TESTIMONY (Nor) - We guess there's no further info needed? It is? Haha, well, here it is; Testimony is one of Norways classic extreme metal bands that really never got out of the rehearsal room, except for some live performances, such as supporting Kreator back in the day. The little fame they might have accomplished, is unfortunately not much about the music (luckily some of us remembers the great music as well!) but maybe just as much around the fact that this is Rune Blasphemer Eriksen (Aura Noir, Mayhem) who plays guitar for TESTIMONY. We were quite pleased when they wanted to pick up their weapons again, and we're looking forward to seeing one of Norways best hidden gems in january!
http://www.myspace.com/testimonynorway



DEVIL (Nor)

By far the newest band ever seen on Metal Merchants Festival, but hopefully it sounds anything but new!

We will not blow our horns too much about DEVIL, because it's actually the band of Stian and Ronny, two of the MMF promoters. Imagine a dirty mix of Pentagram, Black Sabbath and NWOBHM, and you are in the neighbourhood. The demo is out in these days, and due to awesome feedback from you people out there, DEVIL is a force to be reckonned with in the future, with the debut album out in the spring of 2011. As mentioned, we will not brag too much, but we hope you will check us out, and join us for a helluva party in Oslo in january!
http://www.myspace.com/devilband

We are also working on a 10th band for the bill, but since we don't do compromises, we can't promise we'll find anything good enough (and affordable) on such a short notice.

This leaves us with the following and PRETTY brilliant lineup for now:

NUCLEAR ASSAULT
SOLSTICE
BROCAS HELM
JAGUAR
ELIXIR
BLIZZARD
CONVIXION
TESTIMONY
DEVIL

Tickets can as usual be bought at www.billettservice.no , and the venue is as last year John Dee in Oslo. The dates are january 28-29.

You can also visit us at:
http://www.metalmerchantsfestival.com

Devilish regards from those who entered obscurity,
Sigurd, Ronny and Stian

Good day, friends and enemies!

Unfortunately Testimony will have to cancel their MMF performance, but we hope to see them around some other place anyway.

Instead we have managed to book a quite awesome replacement, namely Kings of the Sidewalk, GEHENNAH! One of the first and most importan Scandinavian black/thrash combos, with a number of partyhits made in hell, such as Bitch With a Bullet Belt, Piss off I'm Drinking and Say Hello to Mr. Fist. GEHENNAH har basically called it quits, but they've decided to get back together to do special occations and selected shows, such as Metal Merchants Festival. It's time to raise your glass and yell!

Tickets are going at steady speed, and even though we seldom do this, it's now time to advise people to get their tickets for the festival at www.billettservice.no . The date and venue is still January 28th and 29th on John Dee, and the billing is as follows:

NUCLEAR ASSAULT http://www.myspace.com/theofficialnuclearassault
BROCAS HELM http://www.myspace.com/brocashelm25
SOLSTICE http://www.myspace.com/solsticeenglander
JAGUAR http://www.myspace.com/jaguaronline
ELIXIR http://www.myspace.com/officialelixir
GEHENNAH http://www.myspace.com/wearegehennah
BLIZZARD http://www.myspace.com/blizzardoffiziell
CONVIXION http://www.myspace.com/convixionband
DEVIL http://www.myspace.com/devilband
++ SPECIAL SURPRISE ACT SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED (This one is a treat for you doomsters out there)

Amongst other things we will have a nice merch stand and a DJ with cool projection of classic covers just as last time.

Hope to see you all there!

More details as usual at www.metalmerchantsfestival.com .

Cheers,
Saturdaynight Sigurd, Ronny Rebel and Hardrocker Stian.

Greetings to all!

As a special treat for us all, we've decided to invite PROCESSION from Chile to do a showcase for us on the first day of the festival. With their acclaimed album Destroyers of the Faith out recently, PROCESSION has taken the doom metal underground with storm.
http://www.myspace.com/processionburn

We are very pleased to welcome our friends in PROCESSION, and we've also been able to arrange the order of the bands during the weekend. One day passes will be out first week in January, so those who wants to be certain to get a festival pass at NOK 500, should act now. Tickets still at www.billettservice.no .


PLAYING ORDER 2011 (last bands first):

Friday january 28th

BROCAS HELM
SOLSTICE
ELIXIR
BLIZZARD
PROCESSION

Saturday january 29th

NUCLEAR ASSAULT
JAGUAR
DEVIL
GEHENNAH
CONVIXION

All in all, we're pretty safe this gonna KICK ASS, so we wish you all a great christmas, and are looking forward to seeing you all in january. More info as usual on www.metalmerchantsfestival.com .


Best regards,
Sigurd the Snowman, Ronny the Rednosed Reindeer and Santa Stian