Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival
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| Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival | |
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| Location(s) | MacEwan Hall - University of Calgary |
| Years active | 2007 - present |
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| Genre(s) | Black Metal, Folk Metal |
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The Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival is a metal festival held in Canada. The 2008 festival will be held on October 4, 2008.
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[edit] Festivals and Dates
- Noctis Valkyries
September 22, 2007
Calgary, AB, Canada
MacEwan Hall Ballroom
- Noctis II - Age of Darkness
October 4, 2008
Calgary, AB, Canada
MacEwan Hall Ballroom
[edit] Press Releases
[edit] 2007
Calgary, AB Canada (September 10, 2007) Scarab Metal Productions was pleased to announce Noctis Valkyries, a Metal Fest at the University of Calgary’s MacEwan Hall Ballroom on Saturday Sept 22, 2007. Headlining the show was Sumerian black thrashers Melechesh whose acclaim is still rising worldwide since the 2006 release of their album Emissaries, recently chosen as an album of the month by the renowned Canadian based international metal magazine, Brave Word and Bloody Knuckles. Also featured was the legendary black metal band, Inquisition in a rare Canadian show, which followed headlining summer festival appearances in Berlin and Los Angeles. Their 2007 release of Nefarious Dismal Orations was hailed as a rare gem from the black underground.
Rounding out bill was Canada’s black thrashers Infernal Majesty from Vancouver; folk heavy metal act Verbal Deception, and pagan black metal band Dark Forest, both from Calgary; Wolves in the Throne Room, blackened folk doom from Washington State, Insidious Omen, black metal from Edmonton and three local openers, Norrath , Lords of the Mountain and Wargod.
[edit] Lineups
[edit] 2007
- Melechesh
- Inquisition
- Infernal Majesty
- Verbal Deception
- Dark Forest[1] [2]
- Wolves in the Throne Room
- Insidious Omen[3]
- Norrath[4]
- Lords of the Mountain[5]
- Wargod[6]
