Karmøygeddon Metal Festival 2018 was held on 10.-12.05. in Kopervik, at the island of Karmøy on west coast of Norway. Over 30 bands took the stage in the 3 days to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this intimately small festival where seemed like everyone knew each other. Even though small, we did get plenty of artists needing no introduction. And plenty of space inside and outside to have drink, food or just chill.
The small Scandic stage was featuring Norwegian doom trio Purple Hill Witch with their Black Sabbath influenced melodies, Viking/folk metallers from Iceland Skálmöld, German extreme metal project The Ruins Of Beverast, Norwegian Death metal band Shaarimoth, the energetic Finnish six-piece Omnium Gatherum and plenty of others.
The main- Gassco stage on Friday was opened with style- a fiery performance, quite literally, from Norwegian hard rockers The Carburetors. Great band to watch and photograph- there was something exciting constantly happening on stage while the crowd was enjoying their fast forward hard rock. And a great closing on Saturday night too by the mighty German Thrash metallers Kreator. In between we did see Ukrainian metalcore band Jinjer, Greek black metallers Rotting Christ, Norwegian progressive five- piece Leprous and Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis amongst others.
Day 1
Scandic Stage
Mental Disaster
Stam1na
Purple Hill Witch
Skálmöld
Harikiri For The Sky
Manegram
In Vain
Omnium Gatherum
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Day2
Scandic Stage
Slegest
Alfahanne
Mors Principium Est
Vorbid
The Ruins Of Beverast
Sabbath In Black
Gassco Stage
The Carburetors
Nifelheim
Jinjer
Rotting Christ
Skid Row
Axel Rudi Pell
Enslaved
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Day3
Scandic Stage
Drakar
Allfader
Backstreet Girls
Wolf On Fire
Shaarimoth
Metal Militia
Gassco Stage
Cor Scorpii
Leprous
Evergrey
Solstafir
Primordial
Amorphis
Kreator
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