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About Borknagar:

Borknagar is a band from Bergen, Norway founded in 1995 close Øystein Garnes Brun. The ribbon began as a jet/viking metal sash and quickly adopted a more advancing metal class after their first album.

As such, the bandeau's most known kind would be that of continuing jet-coal-inky metal, with most of their albums attractive from this diversity. Borknagar's lyrics frequently deal with metaphysics, paganism, property, and the cosmos. Øystein Brun stated formerly upon a period that the designation was inspired beside a Scottish epic circular a gentleman who climbed Lochnagar, a mountain in Scotland.

Borknagar rose exterior of the ashes of the Norwegian demise metal fillet Molested when then-colleague Øystein G. Brun became exhausted of the inhumane aspects of the bind's music. Øystein formed Borknagar to examine a more melodic manner out of verbalization; he wrote all of the music and lyrics and gathered together an all-celestial assembly of sooty metal musicians to amuse oneself in his companionship. Well-known musicians of the swart metal location (such as Infernus of Gorgoroth, Grim of Immortal and Gorgoroth, Ivar Bjørnson from Enslaved, Garm of Ulver, Head Control System, and ex-Arcturus) joined the offer, bringing instantaneous recompense attention to to Borknagar. The troop at no interval regular recorded a demo – they merely asked representing a pen agreement on Malicious Records and were granted their ask for. Borknagar's queenly, melodic sound was instantly liked next to numerous and received certain matter to outlook.

Borknagar has released seven albums to stretch. Their self-titled debut album features lyrics in Norwegian; all succeeding albums be obsessed featured lyrics written in English close to both ICS Vortex from Arcturus and Dimmu Borgir and later alongside contemporary singer, Vintersorg from Otyg and his eponymous company (Vintersorg). All of the body of men's records (excluding the initial immediate of the debut album via Malicious Records) own been released by the Century Media identification. Borknagar has toured with different bands, including the known Cradle of Filth.

Discography:

1996 - Borknagar
1997 - The Olden Domain
1998 - The Archaic Course
2000 - Quintessence
2001 - Empiricism
2004 - Epic
2006 - Origin
2009 - Universal

Members:

Current Members

* Vintersorg (Andreas Hedlund) - Vocals
* Øystein G. Brun - Guitar
* Lazare (Lars Nedland) - Keyboard
* Asgeir Mickelson - Drums
* Jens Ryland - Guitar
* Tyr (Jan Erik Tiwaz) - Bass - Session Member championing Origin album

Former Members
* Garm (Kristoffer Rygg) - Vocals
* ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs) - Vocals, Bass


* Kai Lie - Bass
* Infernus - Bass

* Ivar Bjørnson - Keyboard

* Grim (Erik Brødreskift) (Causa mortis: Suicide. 1969 - 1999.10.04.)