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KEEP OF KALESSIN
CURRENT NAME	Keep Of Kalessin
FORMER NAMES	-
ORIGIN	Norway
STATUS	Active
FORMED IN	-
LABEL	Tabu Recordings
GENRE	Black metal
STYLE	-
LYRICAL THEME	-
BAND ADDED	2006-01-19, 00:00
LAST UPDATE	2007-06-18, 09:36

Band biography

Keep Of Kalessin formed back in 1993/94 under the dark monicker of "ILDSKJAER" by Ghash (at the times guitar & vocals) and Obsidian C. (drums). After a while they started to play some gigs and recruited some additional members. Since Obsidian C. was originally a guitarist he switched back to the guitar duties; Vyl (drums) & Warach (bass) entered the line-up. The band managed to survive despite pretty hard problems in getting a rehearsal place in the dead town of Trondheim, Norway: problems that forcely caused a 6 months break because of no chance to rehearse together. Anyway in the dark Fall of 1996 the four dead souls rejoined together and recorded their demo tape "Skygger av Sorg" ("Shadows of Grief"); unfortunately the long rest resulted in an untight performance on that recording and the band decided to avoid selling the tape. A few ten copies were just sent out to labels and magazines and it gained relevant responses: the small greek label Demonion Productions offered the band to finally release that tape with a colors cover, and Avantgarde Music definitely gave them a multi-albums contract. "Through Times of War" has been recorded in Summer 97 at Brygga Studio, yet used by people like The 3rd & the Mortal and several other Trondheim area bands. With a crystal-clean but fucken heavy production the band managed to create a masterpiece of violent, dark and epic black metal.

Current members Add - Fetch
Vegar Larsen	1994-2000, 2005-	Drums	See also Goat The Head
Wizziac	2005-	Bass	See also Eternal Silence
Arnt Grønbech	1993-2000, 2003-	Drums, guitars, keyboards	See also Satyricon
Torbjørn Schei	2005-	Vocals	See also Subliritum

Former members Add - Fetch
Attila Csihar	2003-2005	Vocals	See also Aborym, Anaal Nathrakh, Finnugor, Limbonic Art, Mayhem
Kjetil Haraldstad	2003-2004	Drums	See also 1349, Furze, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Zyklon B
Øyvind Westrum	1994-2000	Bass
Ghâsh	1993-2000	Guitars, vocals

Session musicians Add - Fetch
Tor-Helge Skei		Guitars	Live. v
Kesh		Bass	Live.

Buy Keep Of Kalessin albums

Official releases Add
1996	Skygger Av Sorg	No label
1997	Through Times Of War	Avantgarde Music
1999	Agnen: A Journey Through The Dark	Avantgarde Music
2003	Reclaim 9.5 / 10 Read our review here	FaceFront
2006	Armada 8 / 10 Read our review here	Tabu Recordings

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