Norway & Sweden

OSLO - John Dee

We were looking forward to play first time in the land of the burning churches and the only true black metal. We had some arrogant punk-attitude going on and we were strong and northernmost evils and didn´t pay the NorWegian governments road tolls. We just drove thru them - autopass, eh! Expensive Norway didn´t get any extra money from us. The countryside and "mountains" of southern Norway looked very nice and pretty, so this journey was full of sights for sore eyes!

When we finally arrived to Oslo, the most fucked up moments were still ahead, as this time we didn't have anymore the GPS navigator a ka mr. TomTom of Finland to guide our way to the venue. Thanks for the Gothenburg thieves (= Or the gypsies of GBG, as the police officers thought to us...). But after some wandering in the Oslo centrum jungle we found the John Dee venue. Cool but small venue.

We had very early playing time here - the doors opened at 8 o´clock and we were starting to play at 15 past 8. But, luckily the venue were already really packed during our gig and we played the really best show of this tour so far and the audience really dug it! Of course, there was again some strange "perkele" shouts in the crowd and there were again also some fellow Finns there. Merch sales were the biggest one there, so thanks Norge! We also met again our pals from Norwegian black metal band Nebular Mystic.


GOTHENBURG again, NOW THE GIG itself

After Norway we headed back again to the city of the thieving gypsies - The Gothenburg! This time we had some serious action on the city and not just a day-off. The evenings metal event took place at the Musikens Hus venue, which reminded us strangely from "legendary" 4-teatteri venue of our home town Kotka, of course this one was bigger and better one though. Again we had some time-off to wander in the city and surprisingly we found ourselves in one big record store, and the strange cd buyings continued - Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Kansas, Crash Test Dummies, Tears For Fears etc... It seems that everybody is little bit heard enough brutal death metal during the last weeks, haha.

After loading in, Nile FOH engineer Punchy Gonzalez was having big problemos with the shitty PA-system and the stupid decibel restrictions of the Sweden / this venue. So, this time we haven´t got time for a normal soundchecking as everything was late here because of this... But our gig went cool enough and our soundman Kalke did some spells to save our evenings live sound and he did it well, again. But the guitar equipment set-up of Markus was AGAIN having some problems, tubescreamer pedal just didn´t work and the wireless transmitter was having some shitty moments.

Our local Gothenburg friends from Dark Tranquillity had also arrived to check out our gig and after the gig Stanne and Henriksson of DT wanted to show us some Gothenburg nightlife. After listening some Kansas and drinking beers with DT guys in our tour camper we headed to bar and found also Jivarp of DT there. Fellow Finns and fellow Swedes were a lil bit drunk this time and after these beerful brotherhood of metal moments it was again time to jump to the bus and get back on the road to the Malmö Kultuurpuulaaki.

MALMÖ - Kulturbolaget

So the journey continued. The next place to play was in Malmö in the venue called 'kulturbolaget'. The venue itself was really nice, capacity was something like 750. This time every band had their own dressing room which was exellent indeed! But but, our dressing room was the only one with shower and a toilet so you guys can imagine the traffic our room had during the night, weird... . Still the night was really good and again we made a lot of new friends.
This was also the venue which had the best dinner and all the other preparations worked really well too. Hejja Sverige, När kommer nästa bussen till Slussen!?

There was one point which made the evening a little sad, as our mates from Grave had their last show of this tour and amazing one it was! They had Seth from Severe Torture on vocals in song "you'll never see", as also Nile's drum technician Adam was behind the drumkit on that song and also our Roadie-guy Mihail was jamming with bass. And on "Soulless" Nile's bassist Chris was doing the vocals, so the Gravies had a hellowa gig!

Only one gig in Berlin to go on this tour before we go go. Then it´s the time for Finnish touring for the og's!

So, one for the road!
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