Inferno Metal Festival offers concerts within the extreme metal genre such as black metal, death metal, thrash metal, doom metal and more. Since 2001 the festival has gathered metal fans from all over the world to participate in around 70 concerts every year in the very heart of the black metal capital of the world. The festival has become a cult phenomenon around the world, and more than sixty percent of the tickets are sold abroad to more than fifty different countries to fans that want to experience black metal at its home ground. The festival takes place at the legendary venue Rockefeller from 1986, known for being Norway's most frequently used concert hall with hundreds of gigs each year.