Beyond The Gates Festival has revealed its full lineup for 2023, taking place in Bergen, Norway from August 2 – August 5, 2023! The full lineup and daily schedules, which includes Dimmu Borgir’s only performance in 2023 as well as special album sets from Deicide, Enslaved, and Primordial, is as follows:
Dimmu Borgir (only show in 2023)
Kreator
Deicide (performing ‘Legion’ in full)
Enslaved (performing ‘Eld’ in full)
Gorgoroth
Alcest
Possessed
Marduk
Perturbator
Taake
Pentagram
Primordial (Performing ‘To The Nameless Dead’ in full)
Midnight
Blood Incantation
Mare
Eternal Champion
Bölzer
The Ruins of Beverast
Aeternus
Negative Plane
Grave Miasma
(Dolch)
In Twilight’s Embrace
Stormkeep
Sijjin
Issolei
This pummeling festival will take place for four days across multiple venues, including USF Verftet, Kulturhuset, and the legendary Grieghallen, where many seminal Norwegian black metal albums were recorded in the 90s. The day to day schedule of bands can be found below!
Four day passes purchased before the end of December 2022 will include all night shift and day shift concerts in addition to the main event!
Tickets can be found HERE.
Wednesday Aug 02
USF Verftet
Deicide – Legion
Possessed
Midnight
Bölzer
Grave Miasma
Thursday Aug 03
USF Verftet
Gorgoroth
Marduk
Blood Incantation
Negative Plane
The Ruins of Beverast
The Day Shift – Kulturhuset
(Dolch)
Sijjin
Venue X
Perturbator
Friday Aug 04
Grieghallen
Kreator
Alcest
Primordial
Eternal Champion
The Day Shift – Kulturhuset
In Twilight’s Embrace
Stormkeep
Issolei
The Night Shift – Kulturhuset
Pentagram
Saturday Aug 05
Grieghallen – Grieghallen Messe XXMMIII
Dimmu Borgir
Enslaved – Eld
Taake
Aeternus
The Night Shift – Kulturhuset
Mare
In addition to this massive extreme metal event, Beyond the Gates offers attendees unique and exciting opportunities to explore Norwegian and black metal culture in this historic city!
For years, fans have been flocking to Bergen to experience their favorite Norwegian artists in their home environment. Nature and local culture has always been a poignant source of inspiration for the bands emerging from the Bergen scene.
Beyond the Gates will make a great effort to give all the traveling fans a unique insight into all aspects of the Norwegian Metal scene and the local culture in general. In that regard, the festival hosts will be putting together a series of events so that fans can enhance and build on the Beyond the Gates Experience, including guided tours, art exhibitions, a tattoo festival, and more that will be revealed soon!