Guided tours: Beyond the Black metal classics and landmarks

Black metal landmarks and spectacular nature - enhance your Beyond the Gates Experience

For years fans have been flocking to Bergen to experience their favorite Norwegian artists in their home environment. Nature and local culture has always been a poignant source of inspiration for the bands emerging from the Bergen scene. This year Beyond the Gates will make a great effort to give all the traveling fans a unique insight into all aspects of the Norwegian Metal scene and the local culture in general. In that regard we’re putting together a series of events before and during the festival so that all of you can enhance and build on the Beyond the Gates Experience. These are the first two

Beyond the 90s black metal classics - a guided tour of Grieghallen w/Pytten

If you want to get an in-depth look on how some of the most renowned black metal classics from the 90s came together, look no further. Legendary producer Pytten has offered to take the Beyond the Gates audience on a guided tour of Grieghallen where seminal albums such as Enslaved’s «Vikingligr Veldi», the first two Emperor albums, «In the Nightside Eclipse» and «Andthems to the Welkin at Dusk», and Mayhem’s «De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas» were recorded. All of them key features in the «1994» event, set to take place in the main hall of Grieghallen on Friday 5th of August this year.

Add to those a wide array of other classics such as Immortal’s «Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism», «Battles in the North», Enslaved’s «Frost» and Gorgoroth’s «Pentagram». All of them instrumental in shaping what became the sound of the inimitable Norwegian Black Metal scene in the 90’s.

PS! We want to keep this a special and intimate experience, so there will only be a very limited number of tickets available for each group.

Dates:

Friday August 05 - 13.00 (SOLD OUT) and 15.00 (SOLD OUT)

Saturday August 05 - 13.00 and 15.00

Duration: Approx 60 minutes.

Black metal landmarks from the 90s w/Tore Bratseth

Metal legend and story teller bar none, Tore Bratseth (Old Funeral, The Batallion, Bömbers) will take you on trip to the outskirts of Bergen to show our visitors a serious of key locations in the Norwegian black metal lore. The trip includes stops at the Lysekloster ruins, where a series of legendary photo and video shoots has taken place. You will also be able to see the bunker where Euronymous was photographed for the “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas” promo cycle. Another stop on the trek is the location of the original Os Rock club where Mayhem rehearsed before the recording “DMDS” in Grieghallen, and also regular rehearsal place for Old Funeral and Amputation.

This trip will go by bus from the city center of Bergen.

Date: Wednesday August 03 - 12.00 CET (SOLD OUT) + Thursday August 04 - 12.00 CET

Duration: Approx 3 hours