...which was a great retreat. The place is outside Nashville and has got a lot of trees, nature, birds and squirrels out the window! The perfect place to rest, pray, don't see anyone but animals and reflect on my situation and what God has shown me during the last six month.
It was packed at the concert and it was a good crowd. We were helping each other crowd-surfing and pulling each other up from the floor whenever someone fell i the circle pit, the "wall of death" or where ever! It was fellowship.
The American hard core moshpit is often very violent, especially if the "spirit" from the bands are destructive. This concert also had its pit with arms and legs flying everywhere, but around this pit, big bald guys fell lead to stand and protect people from being too violent.
I've been in bed the last few days because of a cold, and I'm really looking forward for me and my running shoes to get out there in God nature again! When I was 16 I ran my first marathon (42,2km/26,2miles), and last year I did my 8th (an 50km/31miles ultra marathon). You kinda get addicted, tsk tsk...
This is a cool path they're building outside of Nashville, which is a great idea! One of the cool things, besides the nature, was these rundown houses :-P Would be very cool for band pictures!
The little family, P.Bob and I went to the cinema the other day when it got out => what a great movie :) 
VeggieTales is a great and weird way to tell bible stories, which is pretty cool..!
Mary (Larry's wife) was there some of the days, and I had a great time with 'em!
Here's the view from our room looking down at Times Square and the New Years Stage where Lenny Kravitz and others played. I decided to go down in the streets to the 1.000.000 people and watch the ball drop, though. This year was the 100 years anniversary for the Ball Drop at Times Square.
It was funny to work at the boat show with all the million dollar boats and everybody else in shirts, ties and suits. ..And then me in my black clothes, dreads, black metal band t-shirt, tattoos and a big smile :) Looked like I probably enjoyed the work more than most of the business men. One of the business men came over to me to hear if I had some marihuana he could buy, hehe. Nope, I've still got nothing like that, though I keep getting the question.
I haven't seen my nephew for two months, and man he has grown a lot; it was a lot of fun playing with him again!
Amy's family is the best and it was an honor to spend time with her parents and her brother+wife+newborn girl. Thank you!
At the moment my biggest project is the Intense Extreme Radio..!
"Jeg skal være storebror" = "I'm going to be a big brother"
I didn't think it would be that hard on me not playing in a band and doing gigs, but it really is. When I think about it, I've been playing in bands and doing concerts since I was 15.
Spend the day together with some cool friends outside of Nashville.
Bryndan is taking very good care of me => he's a great entertainer!
I've moved back in with the little family (Jamie, Tricia and Bryndan) and they are just the best. My little American family!
Aaaand we went to have Chinese food! My favorite restaurant in Nashville :)
I met tons of cool people at Nordic Fest as usually. It's so cool with all the fellowship at these festivals, and I believe we can have even more intense fellowship at the Christian metal fest's. That's one of the things that's on my heart these festivals. This fellowship is very special. I whole lot of these people is traveling around on the underground Christian metal festivals in Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, England, USA and so on. ...Like I do :)
Above: Upper left corner is Adam from England, some great Danes and Daniel from BobFest, Sweden.
...And Jokull/Ravn/Raven from Frosthardr playing with a new member of the nordic metal family.
An awesome weekend at Nordic Fest. Hanging out, enjoying the good spirit and fellowship, working as crew and making 20 interviews for the Intense Extreme Radio, which will be up at the 1st of January 2008! Positive, Extreme and Brutal Metal 24/7!!
Merchandise and hangout was at the SubCafé in one of the other underground atmospheric rooms at SubChurch.
Accommodation is at the Holy Riders Cave. A huge metal gate into a stone mountain outside of Oslo City. The MC Club, Holy Riders, is now using the cave. But if a war breaks out the cave will be used as shelter for the citizens of Oslo. This is an awesome place.
Above: My Danish friend Martin Svinth...
Pastor Bob's seminars are always great and extremely useful for a daily relationship with God. Make sure to meet him at one of the festivals if you haven't or listen to his Broadcast at sanctuaryinternational.com
Again there was a lot of awesome bands playing. One of them was Mortification from Australia. Steve Rowe (on the picture below) is a living legend and miracle. Doctors has proclaimed his death a couple of times (cancer + more) and he's still doing concerts! Steve Rowe has done an amazing job for extreme metal for more than 30 years. He did some cool testimonies from the stage and proclaimed that he wouldn't stop doing concerts before he fell dead on stage. Though he didn't move around and had a cup of tea beside him on a table all the time, it was awesome to meet him. I welcomed Mortification when they arrived and they are such cool guys.
My American friends from Once Dead played as well. I saw them at Cornerstone California two month ago, but here at Nordic Fest they really had the right crowd. Once Dead has got members from Vengeance/Vengeance Rising, The Crucified and Fasedown. Ooool sKuuuul thrash!
The bass player from Dalit => longest hair + longest beard at the festival! Very cool doom metal:
Pål Dæhlen (Frosthardr drummer) is the Nordic Fest main organizer and the man behind Nordic Mission. Nordic Mission metal distribution had its 10 years anniversary at Nordic Fest this year!
On the picture above I'm standing with Cameal and Melany, whom I had a great time with. I've met Cameal several times before at BobFest, NordicFest, DestructionFest and EndtimeFest. He's a cool guy and his parents opened their house for me to stay. They've got a very comfortable couch. Pastor Bob married Cameal and Melany about half a year ago and it's cool to see them together! Great finally to meet and hang out with Melany who's actually from the States. Her brother Jason is living in Nashville and I know him very well. Melany and Jason played in the American metalcore band LoPhat.
Some very cool people from the Glorious Undead Church .
A cool couple from Czech.
Great metalhead from Brazil.
I was honored to get the guest room where John PROUDLY showed me his train landscape that he's working on, which was half of the room :) . Very cool. This picture shows 1/4 of the landscape.
Margery and I had a good talk about death metal, black metal, doom metal and goth metal. I couldn't think of a better place to stay!
Jasmines parents were on the Meltdown crew.
Jeff did a cool "little" gimmick about six month ago, where he broke the Guinness Record of "Most guitar players playing together". He gathered almost 1900 guitar players and lead them in "Smoke on the water" :P
Everything is within this cool castle. Lots of small corridors to get to the rooms. One room for eating together, one room for café and on room for rock worship and seminars by Pastor Bob and Jeff Scheetz.
Every time I've been to a festival or just meeting great people, I always wonder why I nearly didn't take any pictures of the folks I got to know. I met a whole lot of cool people at Meltdown. One of them is Doogle from Scotland: 
The concert"hall" before we build the stage:
And in action:
My top 3 concerts of the weekend:
