''Jaqueline'' is a
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...
band from
Elverum,
Norway
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.
History
The
trio, composed of Morten Wærhaug, Marius Drogsås Hagen and Bjarne Ryen Berg, formed in 1998 and released their debut album ''
Idiots
An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person.
'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot ...
'' in March 2005. ''Idiots'' was given the score 5/6 in Norway's three biggest newspapers; one critic dubbed the album "Norwegian rock debut of the year".
In 2006 the band released their second album ''
Reaping Machines'' and has received further critical acclaim in the Norwegian media. The video for the single ''
Demon Seed'' has also been shown numerous times on the Norwegian television show ''
Svisj''. the band is touring various places in Norway. Their latest album is called ''Cape Horn'' and was released in 2009.
Members
* Morten Wærhaug -
vocals
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,
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
,
bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...
* Marius Drogsås Hagen - vocals, bass guitar, guitar
* Bjarne Ryen Berg -
drums
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Discography
* ''
Idiots
An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person.
'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot ...
'' (2005)
* ''
Reaping Machines'' (2006)
* ''
Cape Horn
Cape Horn ( es, Cabo de Hornos, ) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America (which are the Diego Ramírez ...
'' (2009)
References
External links
Official website
Norwegian hard rock musical groups
Musical groups established in 1998
1998 establishments in Norway
Musical groups from Hedmark
Musical groups from Elverum
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