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Aura Noir release their new single “Abbadon” today! The single premiers exclusively at Brooklynvegan.com. Check it out! Aura Noir release their new album “Out to Die” the 23rd of March in Europe and the 27th of March in North America. Tour Dates Aura Noir sets out to tour Europe in May and July... Read more

Indie Recordings are happy to welcome young metallers Overthrow to the Indie Recordings family. Overthrow is a hard-hitting metal band from Stavanger, Norway, drawing inspiration from every corner of heavy music. Aging from 19-21, the band has since its inception in 2008 already made waves in the Norwegian underground... Read more

Dunderbeist er brennaktuelle med sitt nye album, "Black Arts & Crooked Tails", som har høstet strålende kritikker i både Norge og det store utland, og rir virkelig på en god bølge om dagen. Dette skurkesirkuset er et knallhardt og fengende liveshow som med sin nye plate står foran sitt definitive gjennombrudd... Read more

Dunderbeist release new single “Through the Peephole” today, the 14th of February! In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, Dunderbeist would like to show you some love and let you download the new single for free! Get the single here! Check out these great reviews of Dunderbeist’s new album “Black Arts and Crooked Tails”: 10/10 Metal Hammer Norway 4/5 Terrorizer 8/10 Metal Sound 8/10 Heavymetal... Read more

LABELNIGHT PÅ JOHN DEE 04.04 Første festivaldag er det Indie Recordings Labelnight på John Dee! Bandene Ribozyme, Dunderbeist og Nekromantheon står på plakaten. Alle kommer med ferske låter å legge til set-listene fra hver sin nye utgivelse i vinter... Read more

Check out the Enslaved competition for the show at Atak in Enschede, Netherlands at Lords of Metal! Unfortunately it’s only in Dutch. Read more

1349 goes west in April and performs at Hulen in Bergen on the 27th of April and at Folken in Stavanger on the 28th. We had a splendid evening last time we visited Hulen; there was a fiery connection between the band and the audience, and the natural ambience inside the cavern fits 1349 perfectly... Read more

El Caco is the cover story in Metal Hammer Norway in the February edition! Read about their new album, record company and a bizarre interview in Rena, a small town in Norway. Check it out here: Metal Hammer Norway El Caco released their new album ”Hatred, Love and Diagrams” today in Norway (January 31st in North America)... Read more

On January 27th (Europe) and January 31st (North America) El Caco is releasing their new album "Hatred, Love & Diagrams". The band’s music is a culmination of three very talented individuals, each with a very eclectic taste in music... Read more

For over a decade Ribozyme has been a connoisseur’s choice and a frontrunner for the diversity and integrity of Norwegian hard rock. Ribozyme’s solid approach to their work has been evident from day one: refined soundscapes where every nuance is carefully painted out in wallwide tapestries of sophisticated rock – in colors ranging from distilled, furious red to resigned, bitter blue – but always on a background of resolute and concentrated black... Read more

On February 10th (Europe) and February 14th (North America) Dunderbeist release "Black Art & Crooked Tails". Dunderbeist finally makes their international debut! An exciting and innovative band to bring the metal sound to new levels and new generations... Read more

The release feast for God Seed - "Live at Wacken" will be held at DOM in Helsinki, Finland tomorrow january 20th. Live on stage: THE INIQUITY DESCENT & GRAVEBORNESpecial personal appearance by King ov Hell and Teloch. Check out the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/330554696970521/ On January 27th (Europe) and January 31st (North America) God Seed will release their live album and DVD "Live at Wacken"... Read more

A continuous effort to evolve and congeal true identity has led Ribozyme to be compared to numerous giants of their genre; from Tool to Filter, from Nine Inch Nails to Sigur Rôs, although the distance to the above has never been greater. Ribozyme is truly a nation of its own, as evident by their fifth album: Presenting the Problem... Read more

March 2012 sees the release of the fifth Aura Noir album, “Out to Die”, their first album with INDIE recordings, with Blasphemer permanently back in the fold and several tours in Europe, North- and South America under their belt since 2008’s ‘Hades Rise’... Read more

At the Norwegian Grammys (Spellemannprisen) this Saturday, Shining won the award for "Innovator of the Year" and will get a marketing campaign on Spotify worth 200 000 NOK. The prize is being given out by Spotify, in collaboration with Spellemann. It is awarded to an artist that has embraced the new media in their career, and is using this in a creative and interesting way... Read more

On February 10th (Europe) and February 14th (North America) Dunderbeist release "Black Art & Crooked Tails". Dunderbeist finally makes their international debut! An exciting and innovative band to bring the metal sound to new levels and new generations. “Black Arts & Crooked Tails” consists of 10 hard and heavy cut-the-crap tracks that show off as their own brand of Norwegian Metal with a bucket of rock in it! Today they release the first single, "Fear & Loathing", from their forthcoming record... Read more

On January 27th (Europe) and January 31st (North America) God Seed will release their live album and DVD "Live at Wacken". The show is spectacular and provocative, and includes sheep heads on stakes, "crucified" nude models, satanic symbols, and eighty gallons of sheep's blood... Read more

“Two years after, by popular demand. Why it didn’t happen earlier, we can’t understand.” With this mysterious phrase, the Norwegian jazz metal band Shining announced the release of the music video for their most popular song in their 11 years long history... Read more

On January 27th El Caco is releasing their new album "Hatred, Love & Diagrams" in Europe and North America. El Caco is an institution on the Norwegian music scene. A well kept secret for those outside Norway, a hidden treasure that we mostly kept to ourselves for more than 10 years... Read more

On January 13th (Europe) and Janaury 17th (North America), Nekromantheon will release their already critical acclaimed record Rise, Vulcan Spectre. This powerful trio has regressed even further back to the glorious days of real metal, breaking the chains to all that is plastic... Read more

“Two years after, by popular demand. Why it didn’t happen earlier, we don’t understand.” With this mysterious phrase, the Norwegian jazz metal band Shining unveils a release date for the upcoming music video for their most popular track “Fisheye”, released almost exactly on this day two years ago with their now classic and genre defining album “Blackjazz”... Read more

A continuous effort to evolve and congeal true identity has led Ribozyme to be compared to numerous giants of their genre; from Tool to Filter, from Nine Inch Nails to Sigur Rôs, although the distance to the above has never been greater. Ribozyme is truly a nation of its own, as evident by their fifth album: Presenting the Problem... Read more

Happy new year from Indie Recordings to you. Four of our forthcoming releases has a special bundle available that include the release and a band t-shirt. God Seed (release date: January 27th): Buy here: EMP (Germany, Austria, Switzerland... Read more

The festival is very proud to start its Label Focus Program (every year we will focus on 1 great label) with INDIE RECORDINGS. Thanks to this collaboration, INDIE RECORDINGS & INFERNO Metal Festival Switzerland will present 3 great Norwegian bands on Saturday 10 March: SHININGNEKROMANTHEONDJERV About Indie RecordingsIndie Recordings is a Norwegian record label focusing on hard rock and metal that started out in 2005... Read more

Dunderbeist is releasing their new album, “Black Arts & Crooked Tails”, the 10th of February in Europe and the 14th of February in North America. “Black Arts & Crooked Tails” consists of 10 hard and heavy cut-the-crap tracks and it shows the whole spectra in what this band manage to pull off and show off as their own brand of Norwegian Metal with a bucket of rock in it... Read more

We are very proud to announce we have four nominees for the Norwegian Grammy`s this year. Three out of five bands in the METAL category are Indie Recordings acts: Vreid – V. (Indie Recordings)This progressive masterpiece shows yet another layer of Vreid, and is their definitive breakthrough... Read more

Indie Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Dunderbeist for the release of their new album out on Febuary 3rd in Norway, February 10th in Europe and February 14th in North America. Dunderbeist is finally upon their International debut. The seven-headed gentleman is ready to make an everlasting impression on the hard rock/metal world... Read more

"Made out of honey and hate on Halloween 2011. Alc. Vol. 6,66%. Brewed by Brewmeister Thomas Shellraiser. Enjoy irresponsibly!" The special Kvelerbier will be sold on their Vienne show on December 3rd! It's limited to 30 bottles only. There will also be a limited amount of fantastic tour posters and a special Vienna tour poster available too... Read more

In February and March 2012 Enslaved will tour Europe again. Tour dates: 23.02.12 Underground, Cologne. (DE) Tickets 24.02.12 Bibelot, Dordrecht. (NL) 25.02.12 Biebob, Vosselaar. (BE) 26.02.12 Atak, Enschede. (NL) 28.02.12 SO36, Berlin... Read more

EUROPE JANUARY 27TH/ NORTH AMERICA JANUARY 31ST We all thought we'd heard the last from GOD SEED, luckily we were wrong, and January 27th (EU) and 31st (US) sees the release of their infamous live show from Wacken 2008 where they headlined the main stage in front of 75,000 Screaming fans... Read more

Is there something you would like to ask the legendary Viking metal band Einherjer? If that's the case you can win a signed album! All you have to do is send your question to info@indierecordings.no. We choose the three best questions and send the winners Einherjer's latest release "Norrøn" signed by the band... Read more

On Monday you can stream the live album from Shining, Live Blackjazz on Terrorizer Since Norway's jazz-metal outfit, Shining, shocked the music world with their genre-defining and now classic "Blackjazz" in January 2010, people have been asking themselves if it's humanly possible at all to reproduce the sheer ferocity and aggressiveness on a stage, while still retaining the machinelike precision displayed in their punishing studio tracks... Read more
Kvelertak will be on french national tv "Arte" for their musical program "Tracks". They will film the Paris show on November 29th. Stream the apperance afterwards on: http://www.arte.tv/fr Make sure to check out Kvelertak on the remaining dates of their European tour. Tour dates: 25.11.11 UK Manchester Roadhouse 26... Read more

El Caco is realeasing a new record 27th of January in Europe and 31st January in North America. Today they give a sneak peak to the release, check out the track list and the cover for Hatred, Love & Diagrams. Track list: 1. After I'm Gone 2. Hatred 3. Autopsy 4. Equivalence 5. Go Forward 6... Read more

Nekromantheon is releasing their new album Rise, Vulcan Spectre 13th of January in Europe and January 17th in North America. This is the band second full length album, but it is the first album released trough Indie Recordings who they signed with earlier this fall. Now, this powerful trio has regressed even further back to the glorious days of real metal, breaking the chains to all that is plastic... Read more

The first Fire Walk With Me tour is not even done before Metal Hammer Norway and Amber Booking has gather yet another series of metal bands who will hit the road in Norway in February 2012. For Volume 2 of this tour it is Aura Noir, Skeletonwitch and Nekromantheon who will give the norwegians a lecture in good metal from Norway visiting six cities... Read more

In February and March 2012 Enslaved will tour Europe again. Tour dates: 23.02.12 Underground, Cologne. (DE) 24.02.12 Bibelot, Dordrecht. (NL) 25.02.12 Biebob, Vosselaar. (BE) 26.02.12 Atak, Enschede. (NL) 28.02.12 SO36, Berlin. (DE) 29.02.12 Backstage, München. (DE) 01.03.12 Die Rohre, Stuttgart... Read more

Indie Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Nekromantheon for the release of their new album out on January 13th 2012. Nekromantheon has one thing in mind: To play fast, evil and dirty thrash metal in the way of the old gods. Influenced by the classics of Slayer, Sadus, Kreator, Dark Angel and Sepultura, they've unleashed their attacks on modern metal since their inception in 2005... Read more

Indie Recordings is proud to announce the signing of El Caco for the release of their new album out January 27th 2012. El Caco is an institution in the Norwegian music scene. A well kept secret for those outside Norway, a hidden treasure that we mostly kept to ourselves for more than 10 years... Read more

Kvelertak is touring Europe in November and December on their 1st headliner tour for their self titled debut! The shows in Hamburg, Koeln and London are already sold out! Get your tickets now! Check out the tour dates: KVELERTAKTOXIC HOLOCAUSTDOOMRIDERSTHE SECRET08.11... Read more

On Sahgs facebook page you can now download the brand new single for Mortify including the yet unreleased live song, The Executioner Undead for free. Go here: http://www.facebook.com/Sahgband Sahg recently released the music video for Mortify, watch it here: http://www... Read more

If you order Shining, Kvelertak, Einherjer, Vreid or Kampfar’s lates record you might find a shiny golden ticket that allows you to get a free ticket to one of the Norwegian tour dates on the Shining tour, the Fire Walk With Me tour or for a couple of dates that Kvelertak is playing in Denmark or Sweden... Read more

On II.II.II Shining is releasing their first ever live album and dvd from a concert in Rockefeller, Oslo. Today we are premiering the music video for the song "In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will be a Monster". Watch it here: Shining is also touring Europe... Read more

The music video for “Mortify” from Sahg latest record Sahg III is premiering today, and can be viewed on the Terrorizer site. CLICK HERE The video is directed by Tommy Naess. Sahg to play the only UK show 2011 at Hard Rock Hell in Wales on Dec. 02nd! Sahg is looking forward to seeing you there! Due to forces beyond their control, Norwegian doom heavy rock band Sahg have been forced to cancel their three headliner shows in the UK... Read more

As the first metal band ever, Enslaved received the Norwegian Artist and Songwriters Associations honorary award 2011 today in Oslo. The award is appointed, for the 10th time, by a jury consisting of the board at the Norwegian Artist & Songwriters Association. The award prize is a glass microphone made by glass artist Camilla Prytz, and the inscription reads as follows: The prize is presented to a person or group that has done a significant effort to promote Norwegian music within the genres of which the Norwegian Artist & Songwriters Association represent; Pop / Rock / Related... Read more

As a gift to all Insense fans out there we're giving away their new single “Burn In Beautiful Fire” for free! Visit their Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/insenseHQ to collect your copy. The new video for the same track is also available today. Visit one of our partners to check it out! www... Read more

1349 confirmed for the 2012 Inferno metal festival in Lausanne, Switzerland alongside Meshuggah, Kruger and Borgne. Ravn comments; "We have always felt a special connection to Switzerland, it has brought forth great musicians and artists that have inspired us immensely. We would not have been what we are today had it not been for the art of HR Giger and the music of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost... Read more

Norwegian band Enslaved (20 year anniversary this year) is the first metal band to receive the Norwegian Artist & Songwriters Associations honorary award. Norwegian minister of culture Anniken Huitfeldt will present the award to the band Monday October 31st. Enslaved recently finished yet another successful tour in the US and Canada, and received the news about the award while on tour... Read more

Indie Recordings has to postpone the release of God Seed`s "Live at Wacken" until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause and we will hopefully soon come with updates concerning the planned release. The CD will include footage of the group's infamous live show from the 2008 edition of the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany where they headlined the main stage in front of 75,000 screaming fans... Read more

For the first time ever, the raw energy of their legendary live performances has been captured on tape in a setting organized solely by the band itself. Produced by the multi-talented front-man Munkeby, and backed by the same mixing and mastering team as on their previous Blackjazz studio album, we could not get a truer version of what Blackjazz is meant to be... Read more

Cannibal Corpse, Triptykon, Enslaved and Job For A Cowboy will head up the first edition of Metal Hammer’s Destroyers Of The Faith tour! Metal Hammer is proud to announce that legendary death metal innovatorsCannibal Corpse will headline the first-ever edition of Destroyers Of The Faith, and will be bringing with them some of the biggest names in extreme music! Joining the New York titans of gore on this history-making trek will be none other than bowel-exploding doom metal kings Triptykon, spearheaded by seminal extreme metal icon Tom G Warrior of Celtic Frost and Hellhammer fame... Read more

Next year three worlds will come together when Rukmini Chatterjee's performance "Questionsings" with Vreid and French New Technologie artists Idun, will perform at the Norwegian Opera and several stages in India. The performance is conceived, choreographed and directed by Rukmini Chatterjee, a performance based on the different polarities of existence... Read more

SEE THE FIRST CLIP FROM LIVE BLACKJAZZ For the first time ever, the raw energy of their legendary live performances has been captured on tape in a setting organized solely by the band itself. Produced by the multi-talented front-man Munkeby, and backed by the same mixing and mastering team as on their previous Blackjazz studio album, we could not get a truer version of what Blackjazz is meant to be... Read more

Since Norway’s jazz-metal outfit, Shining, shocked the music world with their genre-defining and now classic “Blackjazz” in January 2010, people have been asking themselves if it’s humanly possible at all to reproduce the sheer ferocity and aggressiveness on a stage, while still retaining the machinelike precision displayed in their punishing studio tracks... Read more

1349 “Demonoir” LTD Norwegian Collectors Edition out October 7, 2011 (Nov. 25 in North America). It contains 7 bonus tracks (incl. an unreleased track), 12 page booklet, 24-page poster, 1 guitar pick, a patch and autographed photo card. The box is hand numbered and limited to 1000 copies worldwide! Track list: 11... Read more

It’s been three weeks since Einherjer released Norrøn and now they are joining Kvelertak on the charts at #38 We celebrate that with announcing that the Norrøn Vinyl is finally in. Order here: Norway: www.rockstop.noUS: shop.indierecordings.us UK: www... Read more

Last week Kvelertak released their special edition re-issue of their debut, and are now back on the norwegian sales charts at #39. The special edition will include bonus tracks, extended artwork and a DVD with music videos, live recordings and a documentary of the making of their debut album... Read more

For the first time ever, the raw energy of their legendary live performances has been captured on tape in a setting organized solely by the band itself. Produced by the multi-talented front-man Munkeby, and backed by the same mixing and mastering team as on their previous Blackjazz studio album, we could not get a truer version of what Blackjazz is meant to be... Read more

This November and December Insense will tour Europe. Several dates are with the the Defenders of the Fait tour with Trivium, In Flames, Ghost and Rise to Remain. “Tiny Insense is going on tour with the metal greats! There will be so many firsts for us it’s hard to keep track. Although we have an image to take care of – we’re giddy like little babies!” - Tommy Hjelm (Insense) Insense is known for their brutal and energetic live shows and even impressed the In Flames vocalist Anders Fridén so much that he decided to become the bands manager... Read more

11. October – Underworld. London. (UK)12. October – Central station. Wrexham.(UK)13. October – Cock pit. Leeds. (UK)14. October – Moho. Manchester. (UK)15. October – The Pint. Dublin. (IRE)17. October – BOGIEZ Cardiff. (UK) MAIN SUPPORT WILL COME FROM ANCIENT ASCENDANThttp://www... Read more

“The video was made by our good friend Torjus Førre Erfjord (AKA Ultra Sheriff). We wanted a simple and stylized but brutal animated video. It’s an appeal to our nerdier cartoon loving side of the band I guess. It’s bascially a parade of badassery and gore! ”- Kvelertak KVELERTAK will release a special editon of their debut album on September 23rd (Europe) and October 11th (North America)... Read more

On Sept. 9 the German Metal Hammer Awards took place in Berlin. Indie Recordings is very proud to announce that two of our bands won prices! Best Up & Coming went to AUDREY HORNE and Best Debutalbum to KVELERTAK. “We feel really honored that we won the german metal-hammer award for “best debut”! Also want to congratulate our fellow norwegians in Audrey Horne with their award... Read more

Ghost will not be able to make it to the US and me opening act for Enslaved on their North-American tour starting in September. The reason, according to a press release, is “last minute complications with the Ghouls’ visas.” Sad news indeed, but Junius will step in and make this an incredible tour non the less... Read more

On September 9nd (Europe) and September 13th (North America) Einherjer will release their first record in eight years! ”Norrøn” is the album of the month in the new issue of the Norwegian metal magazine Scream! 10/10 metal.de, 10/10 powermetal.de, 9/9 Rock City News, 10/10 metal... Read more

It`s aggressive rock, borderline metal and dangerously catchy! The Black Metal references are there, but first and foremost this is a modern Rock Album!After only two days of sales the debut album from the Norwegian band Djerv crashed into the official Norwegian sales charts at an impressive # 8 this summer... Read more

1349 fans! We are now selling a DEMONOIR limited edition Boxset! It contains 7 bonus tracks (incl. an unreleased track), 12 page booklet, 24-page poster, 3x333 guitar picks, a patch and autographed photo card. The box is hand numbered and limited to 1000 copies worldwide! You can pick it up here at our European web-shop... Read more

September 9th (Europe) and September 13th (rest of the world) will se the release of Einherjer’s new album “Norrøn”. The album will be released in the following formats: Europa: Digipak CD, LP North-America: Jewelcase CD, LP Also, a limited edition bundle with T-shirt and CD will be available here: Europe: http://www... Read more

There is a lot going on for Wardruna these days. On august 24th they will perform a special concert in Bergen during Hole in the Sky. They will perform at Logen Teater and it will be no ordinary concert. Wardruna will play with an expanded line- up, thirteen musicians will make Wardruna’s already powerful and magical musical expression even more massive... Read more
September 9.th the legendary viking metal band Einherjer will release their combackalbum “NORRØN”. It is without a doubt an album which combines the best qualities from all of Einherjer’s previous albums. It’s dark bombastic and aggressive, but still atmospheric, beautiful and melancholic... Read more

The Norwegian metalband Insense will be supporting In Flames November 18th & 19th at Hovet, Stockholm and Scandinavium, Gothenburg. Insense have already been confirmed for other supportingdates in Europe. See full list below. Insense released their new album “Burn In Beautiful Fire” April this year... Read more

Keep Of Kalessin will support SAMAEL when they embark on a five week European tour visiting 17 countries playing over 30 shows. Also supporting is experimental Black Metalers Melechesh. Starting September 2nd. Read more

(Photo: Mads Maurstad) Kvelertak was invited as special guests when Foo Fighters played at the Telenor Arena in front of 22.000 people in Oslo Friday June 24th. After the show Indie Recordings and Dave Grohl surprised Kvelertak and presented them with the Norwegian gold record for selling more than 15... Read more