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black metal
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formed in 2006. The band features
Immortal
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members
Abbath
Olve Eikemo (born 27 June 1973), better known by his stage name Abbath Doom Occulta or simply Abbath, is a Norwegian musician best known as a founding member of the black metal band Immortal. Before founding Immortal, Abbath performed with Old ...
and Armagedda,
Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth is a Norwegian black metal band based in Bergen. It was formed in 1992 by guitarist Infernus, who is also the only original member remaining, and the band have since released nine studio albums. Gorgoroth are a Satanic band and have ...
bassist
TC King, and
Enslaved's
Ice Dale
Arve Isdal (born 28 August 1977, Bergen, Norway), also known as Ice Dale, is a Norwegian musician and producer, best known as lead guitarist for the progressive black metal band Enslaved.
Career
Isdal was initially influenced by hard rock ba ...
. The band cites
Bathory as one of their major influences.
History
The band's debut album, ''
Between Two Worlds'', was released on 3 November 2006 in the United Kingdom and 14 November 2006 in the United States through
Nuclear Blast Records
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.
Their first and only live show was at the
Hole in the Sky festival in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
on 26 August 2006. Currently, there are no more scheduled live shows. In 2007, Abbath stated that he had started working on new songs for the next album, although no further comment has been made since. Given Abbath's formation of the band Abbath in 2015 following his departure from Immortal along with I bassist
TC King, it is unlikely that a future I album will emerge. As part of prompting their new project, Abbath covered I's Warriors in October 2015.
Style
The band features Abbath's raw black metal vocals accompanied with a classic metal influenced sound. Blasts beats and some of the more "erratic" structural traits of black metal have also been excluded, this gives the band more of a classic metal sound but the black metal influences are still evident giving the band a unique sound.
Members
*
Abbath Doom Occulta
Olve Eikemo (born 27 June 1973), better known by his stage name Abbath Doom Occulta or simply Abbath, is a Norwegian musician best known as a founding member of the black metal band Immortal. Before founding Immortal, Abbath performed with Old ...
(Olve Eikemo) – vocals, guitar
* Ice Dale (Arve Isdal) – guitar
*
TC King (King ov Hell, Tom Cato Visnes) – bass
* Armagedda – drums
Discography
* ''
Between Two Worlds'' (2006)
References
External links
Official website(archived)
Official band page at Nuclear Blast
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Norwegian black metal musical groups
Norwegian heavy metal musical groups
Norwegian viking metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2006
2006 establishments in Norway
Heavy metal supergroups
Musical quartets
Musical groups from Norway with local place of origin missing
Nuclear Blast artists