Høstsabbat 2023: Akersborg Confirmed for Norwegian Stage
So, I don’t know this band at all and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. Høstsabbat, in celebrating its 10th anniversary this October in Oslo, has brought on Akersborg as the first announcement for its stage focused solely on Norwegian artists and bands, and while I like to think myself familiar with at least some of the country’s heavy oeuvre, I know about as much about hardcore as I do about TV/VCR repair and the rest of the stuff that the Polytechnic Institute advertised degrees in in the ’90s. There are a great many things I don’t know, not just this band, I guess is what I’m saying.
Fortunately I have a few months in which to be introduced, since October remains a ways away, and I’m sure Akersborg won’t be the only homework I’ll have to do before I board the flight to the fest. Nonetheless, as I’ve said before, the Høstsabbat crew more than has my trust — not that they need it, because they don’t — when it comes to picking interesting and on-stage-killer acts, so here’s me, taking the lineup adds as they come. I’m just happy I’ve managed to keep up this far. We’ll see about next Friday when we get there.
From social media:
HØSTSABBAT 2023 – (#128293#)AKERSBORG(#128293#)
The confirmed bunch of artists so far, has left our Norwegian stage more or less unnoticed. That is about to change starting now.
Verkstedet has grown into a sinful pit of pure live mayhem over the years, and we absolutely adore it. Maybe its the crossing of that street that does something to our mindset. Like it provides an energized urge to lose oneself completely in the sounds of whatever fresh Norwegian talent is playing.
The sound at Verkstedet is sick, and just as encompassing and punishing as in the church, just the other way around – if that makes any sense? You can honestly feel and breathe the riffs, sweat and energy coming from the bands. It’s like a sauna, steam-filled with the essence of Høstsabbat.
Nothing beats a killer floor show.
And speaking of that:
It’s hard to think of a more fitting first announcement to this very stage than the futuristic avant-gard-ish, hardcore bliss of AKERSBORG.
Its so refreshing with the out-of-the-box-thinking twists and turns that is lurking around every corner. At times frenetic, furious and devastating. A fistful of anger knocking you straight down. The next moment AKERSBORG is acting like its own evil twin: joyful, catchy but also jazzy, with hooks coming at you like Don Johnson in Miami Vice.
There is some kind of twisted 80´s flavor mixed into the spaced out brilliance of AKERSBORG.
Please welcome Akersborg to Høstsabbat 2023 – 10th Anniversary!
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