Jon Øyvind Andersen (born 29 July 1965), mostly known as Jardar, is a Norwegian
black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw ( lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an em ...
guitarist
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. He was one of the founding members of the band
Old Man's Child
Old Man's Child is a Norwegian black metal band from the city of Oslo. The band is the brainchild of Galder (formerly known as Grusom; birth name: Thomas Rune Andersen) who is the only permanent member of the band.
History
Old Man's Child was ...
, with
Galder
Tom Rune Andersen (born 18 October 1976), also known by his stage name Galder, is a Norwegian guitarist and vocalist. He is from the small town of Jessheim, north of Oslo. He is a founding member of the melodic black metal band Old Man's Child ...
and
Tjodalv
Tjodalv (born Ian Kenneth Åkesson in 1976) is a Norwegian drummer. He is a founding member of both Dimmu Borgir and Old Man's Child. He now plays in Black Comedy and Susperia. Tjodalv played guitar on the first Dimmu Borgir albums ''Inn i evigh ...
. He has played on all the band's albums, except ''
Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion'' (1998), ''
Vermin
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'' (2005) and ''
Slaves of the World
''Slaves of the World'' is the seventh studio album by Norwegian black metal band Old Man's Child. The album was released 18 May 2009 in Europe and 19 May 2009 in North America via Century Media Records. The album was recorded in autumn 2008 at ...
'' (2009)
, where Galder was the sole guitarist. Besides as a guitarist, Jardar has also contributed with
backing vocals
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, and he was also co-writer on two songs on ''In Defiance of Existence''.
In 2005 he formed the band
Insidious Disease, together with
Silenoz
Silenoz (born Sven Atle Kopperud, 1 March 1977) is a Norwegian guitarist who is a founding member, along with Shagrath and Tjodalv, of the Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir of which he is the primary songwriter. He is also guitar ...
, the
Dimmu Borgir
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guitarist, singer Marc Grewe of
Morgoth
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...
, the bass player
Shane Embury
Shane Embury (born 27 November 1967) is a British bassist and a member of the grindcore and death metal band Napalm Death since 1987.
Career Napalm Death
While not a founding member, Embury is the longest standing member of the band, havin ...
from
Napalm Death
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and drummer
Tony Laureano
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.
Metal Underground
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Discography
With Old Man's Child
*'' In The Shades Of Life'', Hot Records, 1994,
*'' Born of the Flickering'', Hot Records, 1995
*'' The Pagan Prosperity'', Century Media
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A centennial or ...
, 1997
*'' Revelation 666 - The Curse of Damnation'', Century Media, 2000
*'' In Defiance of Existence'', Century Media, 2003
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andersen, Jon Oyvind
1965 births
Living people
Norwegian heavy metal guitarists
Old Man's Child members