trollfest

We arrived in rocking Reno thursday 5. april and immmideately hit the in an out burger for som local cuisine. A beatiful experience of gastric enjoyment. The alley was our venue and the party started right away. The localshad a fine tradition of giving the bands rounds of liqeur and that is a good start for a beautiful friendship.

The crowd was really into the band as well and the whole night ended in a party were all the bands was partying together with bands in the bar. Next day kind of reflected our mood with a lot of rain and cold weather.

How to repair this? Well all of us seemed to go for the healthy stuff with sushi and fruit. That lasted for like four minutes and then we hit the macaroni and cheese and mead and mojito and bloody mary and whisky and coke and over all absinth 78%. Suddenly the mood had changed for some reason and we were gettting ready to play. The venue was Hawthorne theater in Portland, Oregon. The crowd was going crazy  at the first song and it got crazier and crazier. At one moment a girl started licking the foot of our singer Trollmannen. It's got to be a first thing for everything. Well that was a good start of the evening. Then it's go on and on and right now we are drinking amazingly good homemade mead called Slaughterhouse from a friend we met at the concert. Hail to Jeff Raude the supplier of amazing liquer. Right now we have no idea were this night is going.

We are a bit late with this blog. We are currently in Reno at the 5. concert on the paganfest tour an the sixth concert for Trollfest. What that means is that we had a concert in Mexio city before starting the Heidenfest. Let's rewind to Mexico city. We landed there after a grueling 17 hour flight from Oslo. Those 17 hours ment nothing when meeting a hord of local fans at the airport. We hail Trollfest Mexico for their fantastic welcome. The show in Mexico was crazy. Hot and a lot of  "loco" metalheads gave a fantastic first concert, but hopefully not the last, for Trollfest in Mexico. A big thanks to Jen, Gabriel and Steph for taking care of us in the big and scary Mexico City!

Empty venue in mexico and other pictures from Mexico


Next show was in Denver. Another hard trip without any sleep. Denver seemed like a real nice city to us. Some technical problems before the show gave us the much needed adrenalin to do a kick ass show with kick ass audience. Nothing more to be said - smash in the face.

Venue in Denver

Next we had a day off in Aleberquerque and spent it on a bar owned by a nice guy with a Norwegian fiance who gave him strict instructions to take well care of us. That ment enormous amounts of hospitality and booze. Met a lot of nice people that night and of course some who worked on Breaking bad, the pride of Alberquerque.

 Next day the hangover hit us really bad. We arrived in Tempe and they were still building the stage when we arrived . Everything was disastrously late and everything seemed very improvised. We also got a sample of the alcohol restrictions in Arizona. No drinking in the parking lot, no drinking at stage, no drinking outside small, designated areas, no drinking without a white wristband on your RIGHT hand. Well as you can understand we had a shitty concert with shitty sound and we had to cut our set since we were so delayed. I feel a bit sorry for the audience that things were not better organized since it could have been a magick evening under the stars of the Arizona sky. Well, some of the other bands on the tour made it a bit more magical than us and we have to give a big hand to other bands on the paganfest tour. We share bus with the physical big netherlander - Heidefolk. With a mean weight of over 100 kg and 1.95 m height (one adoping the name "Billy Brøytebiff") they give a weighty argument to the more vocaldriven metal with two mitghty good vocalists. And talking about vocals, Heidefolk are loud people. Our bus is so loud at night that it sounds like we have moved the Paganfest concerts inside the bus.

Then we have the amazing Tyr from Fareo Islands. They have perfected the skill of singing in harmony of fourths over a more progressive metalcomp. The headliners on this tour is Ensiferum and play a kind of uptempo epic metal with vocals similar to wintersun. And the poor fellas who drive around in a van getting no sleep at all are the 1. band out. The amazing Hellsot guys from California. 

Construction site

Well, then we rolled in to LA on the 2. of april to play at the house of blues. We went straight away to Barneys Beanery to consume an enourmous breakfest with trollfest. I had a 2 cm ham slice with runny eggs and onion rings. Very filling. Then we went to the Rainbow club to get some booze. we hooked up with the guy playing leatherface in the two last chainsaw massacre movies. Nice guy and very drunk. Mr.Seidel and Dr.Leif Kjønnsfleis was on fire to be in the city were their heroes in Metallica started their career. Seeing "Whiskey A Go Go" for them was like seeing Jesus, Mary and Joseph riding into town on a donkey!

 
Barneys brakefest.

House of blues, were it all took place!!

the Rainbow club, so fucking cool to have been there!!

The house of blues concert was great. Everything was perfect on stage and the energy was on top. Top concert! 

 How could we top this day. Well what about going to San Fransico? Waking up after an awesome party and witnessing the beautiful city of San Fransico was a sight to behold! After doing some serious touristing (Pier 39 and seeing Alcatraz) we hit the stage and everything exploded. A fucking killer gig with killer audience. Really extrem. And the night just got better and better and when Ensiferum played everybody was "bonkers on mars". The night on town was as extreme as the consert. With shotting, spanking and fetish clubs. Hail free San Fransisco. We hope to be back soon!

Ensiferum

Now we are getting ready for our show in Reno, sitting on the bus drinking Corona, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Rom&Coke and some other assorted beverages! Going to be a afterparty we might not remember! See all you crazy Reno-fuckers at "The Alley" later today!! 

Cheers from the Mighty Drekka Dag!!!

So we're in Saarbrücken, and we woke up to some exeptionally sweet and nice catering girls in the backstage. We wanted to swim today, so one of the girls drove us to a waterpark where some of the trolls was sliding, getting massage, diving and just having fun wile washing of the road dirt. Now we are nice and clean Trolls :)

The stage (garage) is also very nice, and it's our first time here in Saarbrücken so we are really looking forward to the show! Something special will happen on stage today as well... 

We are also having a blast as audience as well. Mr. Seidel and Kane from Korpiklaani was right in front of the stage during the wintersun concert! This is the prove:

Good times on the road!

-L. Bolt

So the tours goes on.. Shows every day and a lot of great beer.. We are getting in to the rythme pretty good, but sometimes we simply had enough of eachother.. This came out in a big clash between Kjønnsfleis and Trollbank, a little blood spilled, but exept from that things are going smooth! Tonight it's münchen's turn at bacstage venue. Come and see us!

Trollbank og Leif Kjønnsfleis is hammering it out!

We are well hung over in Prauge today. Shitty weather and shitty mood after an extatic night in rocking Leipzig yesterday. Our brains were literally on fire yesterday and we hammered out a new consept for our new album in a  drunken stupor and thats just of many plans being laid that evening... Well all coins have a backside and we met that backside when we woke up this morning. Hail to the people of Leipzig who attended our consert yesterday an gave us such a great evening.

Drekkadag

After a fantastic show in Italy yesterday, and a very long drive, we are now hanging out backstage in Austria.  The town is Wien and the venue is the Gasometer and it is going to be awesome according to random dude number five.  

Day 4..Tonight we are back in pratteln on the Z7-stage. Nice venue and we are really looking forward to tonights show!

The last tree days have been great, every day it's nice pepole, good food, great beer and happy audience! Amazing show yesterday, got to hand it to you Netherland, you know how to rock even when the time is just 16:00!

we don't leave for the next venue before 12:00 tomorrow bc there is only a 2 hour drive to tomorrow's stage, so if you want to heng out after the show, we wont be leaving early tonight!

Yesterdays show in Stuttgardt was awesome, great crowd, great crew, plenty of booze and a very nice party atmosphere.  As some of you may know, waking up today was a bit of a struggle, hordes of lumberjacks have sneaked into our heads during the night and now they chop down trees and sing the song from snow white and the seven dwarves.  Today we are going to play the 013 venue in Tilburg and we are very excited.  The stage is awesome and the venue looks really cool, its going to be fun phun fun...

Allright so we're finally on tour! 

We arrived Germany yesterday with the wonderful airline KLM (They got free beer!) There  we met up with the great guys from Korpiklaani, wich will stay on the same bus as us.

After getting in the bus and drive for a couple of hours, we went out to taste the german beers and nightlife in Essen, before getting in our bunks for a snoring symphony..

But no lazy trolls today, we got up and went to a aquarium, saying hi to som sharks and other fancy water creatures...

Now we are just waiting to enter stage, and we are super psyced for today. The venue is Turbinhalle in Oberhausen. If you are here, come and have a blast with us! We will enter stage as early as 5, bc we are 7 bands playing.. but it's all good, more time to party!

Let the games begin!

first free beer on the plane

On the bus!

turbinhalle! nice stage!

aquarium time!

Milan

Milan started out great with beautiful sunshine and a cooooolld beer! TrollBANK crashed his crash-cymbal, so it got killed. We had to find a musicstore faster than fast, so he could get a new and alive cymbal. We found what we were looking for and the rest of the tour was saved:) We started playing early this day because the venue was going to be a gay-club after the concert. This sucked more than just dick, because some fans of TrollfesT never got to see us, because the website stated that the concert started 22:00 instead of 19:15. Well, hopefully we will be back faster than fast. The audience was great and we had a blast on stage! 

Florence

Today we actually had some time to do tourist things so we went into the city centre and saw some statues, some churches and ate some  pizzas and pastas.  The food was really good even though it took the better part of a decade before it arrived.  After some more touristy stuff we went back to the venue and had a great time onstage.  Mr. Seidel thought he spotted some homemade trollfest t shirts in the crowd and sure enough, after the show we met some really nice people who had actually made some trollfest t shirts for us.  Unlike us, greedy t-shirt pushing euro hunting bastardos, they gave them to us for free.  Needless to say they are going up on the rehearsalroom wall as soon as we get home.  We had a great party with them outside our bus after the venue had closed, and that seriously pissed off our busdriver who missed his last half hour of sleep because we were screaming and yelling drinking songs.