BATTLE BIOGRAPHY
Norway has been a member of the Wacken Metal Battle officially since
2007 and has been produced and promoted
all over the country by Zone Booking; having its HQ in Trondheim where all the finals has been taken place so far.
Everything from 4 to 10 bands have been on the prefinal-stages around Norway and 6-8 bands have been playing their asses off in the finals.
Every year the quality of all the applicants has been higher and higher and also every year the finals tougher and tougher. A huge variety of genres has been applying to the battle, then also the winners are unique very year.
Everything from our first winner: the heavy metal outfit Fracture, to technical thrash heroes Pica Fierce, to cave mining experimental downtempo deathsters Irr, our brutal death metallers of No Dawn and our last winner black/extreme metallers Aeon Throne.
The future looks heavy and uncompromising. Every year again sees a rise in quality and the bands who apply every year are all making the competition harder and more interesting.
It is now Norway's 6th year of participating, there has been no victory on the International Battlefield as of yet...Can 2012 bring the glory up North?
May the best Norwegian metal band succeed!
Links:
www.facebook.com/ZoneBookingTrd
www.myspace.com/zonebooking
www.zone-home.net
Norway has been a member of the Wacken Metal Battle officially since
2007 and has been produced and promoted
all over the country by Zone Booking; having its HQ in Trondheim where all the finals has been taken place so far.
Everything from 4 to 10 bands have been on the prefinal-stages around Norway and 6-8 bands have been playing their asses off in the finals.
Every year the quality of all the applicants has been higher and higher and also every year the finals tougher and tougher. A huge variety of genres has been applying to the battle, then also the winners are unique very year.
Everything from our first winner: the heavy metal outfit Fracture, to technical thrash heroes Pica Fierce, to cave mining experimental downtempo deathsters Irr, our brutal death metallers of No Dawn and our last winner black/extreme metallers Aeon Throne.
The future looks heavy and uncompromising. Every year again sees a rise in quality and the bands who apply every year are all making the competition harder and more interesting.
It is now Norway's 6th year of participating, there has been no victory on the International Battlefield as of yet...Can 2012 bring the glory up North?
May the best Norwegian metal band succeed!
Links:
www.facebook.com/ZoneBookingTrd
www.myspace.com/zonebooking
www.zone-home.net
Metal-Battle Winner in Norway
Norway
Winner Band: Faanefjell
Winner Band: Faanefjell
The music can be described as black folk metal, utilizing haunting screams, bowel-moving death metal vocals, classical themes in the vein of Grieg as well as a dash of umpa metal to keep the audience drunk.
The band's live performances has been described as a visual kick in the balls combined with the taste of ashes and blood in a cold granite cave.
In addition to aggressive black metal riffs, powerful headbanging sequences and startling symphonies, Faanefjell uses lyrics deeply inspired by Scandinavian folklore and fairy tales. But make no mistake
- there is no princess in the tower or happily ever after in the realm of Faanefjell. Only shadows, trolls and songs long forgotten.
Trollmarsj (Troll March), the debut album of 2010, tells the story of two angry trolls setting out on a journey to gather the remaining trolls and spirits of nature into an organized army and drive humanity out of their ancient homeland. The album includes a booklet with a 16 page folk tale, based on numerous Danish and Norwegian folk tales - and the lyrics of Trollmarsj reflect this tale. All the lyrics are written in an artificial "Faansk" dialect, reflecting the binational nature of the band.
In response to countless requests for live performances in Norway, Faanefjell chose to recruit three additional trolls; Kjell "Draagyn"
Can (lead guitars), Marcus "Beist" Billington (bass guitars) and David "Berserk" Olsen. With the ensemble complete, Faanefjell is ready to march southwards and let all of Europe know their war chants.
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