POTENTIAM BAND PAGE
 POTENTIAM
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CURRENT NAME
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Potentiam |
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FORMER NAMES
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- |
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ORIGIN
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Reykjavík, Höfuđborgarsvćđi, Iceland |
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STATUS
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Active |
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FORMED IN
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1997 |
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LABEL
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Wounded Love |
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GENRE
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Black metal |
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STYLE
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- |
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LYRICAL THEME
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- |
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BAND ADDED
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2005-09-10, 00:00 |
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LAST UPDATE
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2009-01-14, 22:05 |
Potentiam was born in '97 when Eldur and Forn joined
forces. Eldur had been writing material for his band THULE which was
formed in '95. Forn started a project on his own in '96. Eldur joined him
and few months after that, G.Ó.Pálmason from Sólstafir came along and Hel
was born. Hel recorded 4 songs in a low budget studio. Soon after
that, Eldur and Forn decided to work together and form a project with deeper
perspectives since neither Thule or Hel could be considered as something
pure and original. Potentiam was given birth in September '97. Ten
tracks were written and recorded in a small private studio (which later got
the name studio Hel) ,and released early in February '98. One track from
Hel, Hrafnaţing, was taken and reproduced for this demo. In march, that
same year, Thule broke up because of some serious lack of commitment.
Eldur took the Thule style a little further and formed his own solo/side
project later in '98 called Curse.
The Potentiam demo was entitled "Bálsýn" and was released in only 50
copies. One of those copies went to Avantgardemusic/Wounded Love rec.. in
Italy and they showed interest right away and offered Potentiam a
record deal. The debut album was also entitled "Bálsýn",with 7 songs from the
demo put into it plus 2 new ones. G.Ó. Pálmasson joined Potentiam again
as a session drummer to record this album. It was released in August
'99.
After this release, a long dead period came along while Potentiam was
developing and looking for a drummer to help them out. Few drummers were
tried out but it wasn't until in September '00 that Potentiam finally
found an excellent drummer that joined in for their next album " Orka I
Myrkri ". Right after the studio recordings of that album he left the
band to focus entirely on Changer, his main band.
Another sad period was ahead for Potentiam as they almost gave up hope
of ever finding a new drummer on this small Icelandic soil. But in the
summer of '02 they discovered a drummer from an Icelandic Blackmetal
newcomer called Myrk. This drummer, having the same name as the earlier
one, left the band in late 2003.
Potentiam tried to get back on track but was having a hard time
recruiding a dedicated drummer. The band was inactive almost the whole year of
2004.
It wasn't until in the beginning of 2005 that G.Ó. Pálmason joined the
band once again that things started to look promising for the future.
The band has now written a new material and will be entering studio this
year with a totally different musical style from their earlier work. It
shall be interesting to see how critics will try to label the band this
time. So far, Potentiam has been called heavy metal, gothic metal,
black/death metal, dark metal, suicide metal, avantgarde metal ect.
| Session musicians Add - Fetch |
| Unknown / none |
