@=@= Tristania ------ inteview, biography, discography, photos, news
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Tristania Line up Vibeke Stene - Female Vocals Østen Bergøy - Vocals Kjetil Ingebrethsen - Extreme Vocals Einar Moen - Synth & Programming Anders H. Hidle - Guitars Rune Østerhus - Bass Kenneth Olsson - Drums Tristania Biography Tristania was founded in 1996, by Einar Moen (synth & programming), Kenneth Olsson (drums) and former singer/guitarist Morten Veland. Moen and Veland decided to leave the band Uzi Suicide, which they were a part of. They managed to get Olsson to join them in their new band, Tristania. Shortly after, Rune Østerhus (bass) and Anders H. Hidle (guitar) joined the band. In May 1997 the band entered the studio for the first time and recorded their demo in Klepp Lydstudio. In the meantime, Vibeke Stene had been recruited. She was supposed to contribute on the demo as a session musician, but the rest of the band were convinced on that her voice matched the band perfectly, and she became the 6th member. During the summer of 97 the demo was distributed to different labels, and Napalm Records came up with the best offer. Tristanias first release on Napalm was the MCD named Tristania, which was the demo, but with a new mix and artwork. Inspired by good reviews for the MCD all over Europe, the band was eager to record the debut album. After some months, Moen and Veland had the songs ready. Before the end of 97, their first full-length album Widow's Weeds was recorded and released in the beginning of 1998. Widow's Weeds is a symphonic metal album with elements from different genres, such as gothic rock, death metal, classical music and black metal. Essential for the album were 2 session musicians, which both have been important on the bands later albums. Østen Bergøy (Morendoes), who today is a regular member of the band, contributed with clean male vocals on the song Angellore. Violins were plaid by Pete Johansen (The Scarr), who also has been contributing on the later albums of Tristania. After doing their first live shows outside of Norway as a support act for Lacrimosa in Belgium and on the Mind Over Matter Festival in Austria during the summer of 98, Tristania went on their first European tour in the autumn same year, together with Solefald and Haggard. In 1999, the 2nd full-length album, Beyond The Veil, was released. The songs on the album are built around the same elements as the previous one, but all in all the album is a bit more extreme, compared to Widow's Weeds. Moen/Veland were still writing most of the music, but Moen and Hidle also composed a couple of the tracks together this time. Østen Bergøy and Pete Johansen were once again contributing on a Tristania album, in addition to yet another singer; Jan Kenneth Barkved (Elusive). The band followed up the album with their first headlining tour, together with The Sins Of Thy Beloved, Trail of Tears and Antichrisis as support acts. 1999 was also the year for Tristania to appear at the Wacken Festival, and joining Tiamat on the Skeleton Skeletron Tour together with Anathema. In 2000, Tristania continued the extensive touring, and went on a new European headliner tour, in addition to several of the European summer festivals. 2000 was also the year that the band got their first opportunities to tour outside of Europe, with festival shows in Mexico in August and the US in November. In the end of 2000, Veland and the rest of the band decided to go on separate ways, due to musical and social differences. The band was eager to go on with the composing, and Moen and Hidle continued to work on their new song material for the 3rd album, World of Glass. The album was recorded in Sound Suite Studio, France during the spring of 2001. Since the replacement for Veland wasn't ready yet, Ronny Thorsen (Trail of Tears) contributed on the extreme vocals, while Bergøy and Barkved contributed with clean vocals. Pete Johansen did the violins for his 3rd time on a Tristania release. After returning to Norway, Kjetil Ingebrethsen (Blindfolded) joined the band as a replacement for Veland. At the same time it was a natural thing that also Østen Bergøy became a regular member of the band, after participating at all the 3 full-length albums. He had become more and more important as a singer, and on World of Glass also as a lyricist. World of Glass was released in September 2001, and the album represents the natural next step for the band, after Widow's Weeds and Beyond The Veil, and the band managed both to keep the "tristanian" sound and the basic elements in the music, as well as to have development and natural progress. The musical diversity that always has been important for the band became even clearer with World of Glass. This album also included the first ever cover-version recorded by Tristania, called The Modern End, originally recorded by the legendary Norwegian band Seigmen. Just days after the album was released, the band started the World of Glass Tour in Europe, supported by Rotting Christ, Vintersorg and country-mates Madder Mortem. The touring continued in 2002 and 2003 , with more European gigs as well as shows in Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Columbuia. Source: Tristania website |
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World Of Glass 2001 Midwintertears/Angina 2001 Widow's Weeds 2000 Beyond The Veil 1999 Angina [EP] 1999 Widow's Weeds 1998 Tristania [MCD] 1997
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Osten: (on the future of Tristania) " We want to continue developing our music, play live as often as we are able to, and I guess we all share a dream about being able to earn enough money out of music to make a living of it. It can be frustrating that our jobs, studies etc. put limitations on the touring." Source: metalkings.com, Roman The Maniac. Your band name, Tristania, brings to mind sadness and doomy music; however, you aren't an extremely doomy band, or at least that doesn't seem to be your main concern. So how did that name come up? Anders: " It's true that the name "Tristania" refers to melancholy and sadness. It's not a real word in any language (as far as I know), but it is a result of the Norwegian word for sad (trist) and our own fantasy. We sort of added an ending to that word. We liked the sound of it, and there's also something that's very important: it's a bandname that has never been used before. I agree with you that we are not an extremely doomy band. But making our music as doomy/sad as possible has never been our goal (and never will be). Tristania's music has a melancholic and gloomy mood, but that is because we like to express this kind of mood in our songs. I think the music would have sounded quite stupid if we said to ourselves that it had to be sad and dark and all that when we were composing. I think it's very important that the music's mood is something natural. So we don't try to make the music as sad as possible, although we like a melancholic mood and feeling in the music." Source: www.metal-e-zine.com, Pedro Azevedo How long have you been playing keyboards and what made you take up playing them? Einar: " Actually, I played a bit of piano before I bought my first keyboard. I started about eight years ago with the keyboard thing. My father has always played piano and we have a grand piano in our living room, so it was quite natural for me to do it. I was never very good at piano, so I really started to take it serious when I got a keyboard and when I started to make music myself. I never took any lessons myself, except for my father." Source: http://members.tripod.com/~kmon666/tristania.html, Kenneth Morton |
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advanced technologic sound magazine 2004 november issue 131
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