Organizers of Norway's Inferno Festival have issued the following update:

"EYES OF NOCTUM will be replaced by the Turkish black metal band EPISODE 13 at John Dee on April 9th. Also the running order at John Dee on April 8th of has been altered. SARKE will switch places with MENCEA and open the show."

The 2009 installment of the Inferno Festival which will take place in Oslo, Norway from April 8th - 11th at the following venues: Rockefeller, John Dee, Sentrum Scene, Garage, Rock In and Blå. 40 artists will appear at the event in total. The billing is as follows:

MESHUGGAH, PARADISE LOST, CARPATHIAN FOREST, PESTILENCE, SAMAEL, SEPTIC FLESH, AZARATH, BENEA REACH, BLACK COMEDY, BLOOD RED THRONE, , DEATHHAMMER, DEW-SCENTED, EARTH, EXECRATION, EPISODE 13, GRAND MAGUS, HELHEIM, KAMPFAR, KEEP OF KALESSIN, KOLDBRANN, KRYPT, KRAANIUM, MANHATTAN SKYLINE, MENCEA, NEGURA BUNGET, PANTHEON I, RAMESSES, ROOT, SAHG, SARKE, SEREGON, SWALLOW THE SUN, TAETRE, TERRORDROME, TROLL, UNEARTHLY TRANCE, VICIOUS ART, VREID, VULTURE INDUSTRIES, VÖRGUS, WARLORD, ØRKENKJØTT, ÅRABROT

Inferno Film – Cinemateket:

Inferno is extremely happy to tell you that this year easter will give you even more options for horror & gore in Oslo. Cinemateket – the movie lovers' no.1 choice - is tailoring a screening programme espescially for you, the Inferno crowd, so you can enjoy movies, documentaries and a very exclusive DARKTHRONE concert from ye olde days!

Inferno Music Conference:

2009 will see the 4th version of IMC. The Inferno Music Conference have proved to be the best place for people in the Metal Music Business to meet every year and 2009 will see an extended program of: Seminars, Workshops, Panels, Speed-meetings, Black Metal Bus Sightseeing part 2 and more. If Metal is your business - meet at IMC.

Inferno Metal Expo:

This year the Expo will be open from noon until 8 pm Thursday and Friday during Inferno – this is the place you'll find merchandise, instrument clinics, signing sessions with Paradise Lost and Keep of Kalessin, tattoo shop, metal DJ's, vorspiel bar, stands, exhibits – you name it, we may just have got it!

For more info visit www.infernofestival.net.