Anders Odden is a musician. He is the guitarist of Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult

Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult

Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult is a supergroup formed in 2009. The band made its live debut in Helsinki, Finland on May 11, 2011 at club DOM followed by shows in Oslo, Stockholm and Örebro...

 and as well as multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for Magenta

Magenta (Norwegian band)

Magenta is an alternative rock band from Norway formed by Anders Odden during the summer of 1995; Vilde Lockert joined him on vocals that autumn....

. He is also involved with bands like Karaoke From Hell and played live guitar for Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synthpop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia...

 (1992–1999; 2003–2006) and Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...

 (2006–2007).
He is also the co-founder and guitarist of the Norwegian death metal band Cadaver

Cadaver (band)

Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...

 (1988–1993; 1999–2004), and was the live bass player for Norwegian black metal band Satyricon

Satyricon (band)

Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label .-Biography:Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral and Wargod. Ulver and Satyr soon joined them...

 (2009–2011).
He has played guitar with bands such as The Young Gods

The Young Gods

The Young Gods are a Swiss post-industrial band. The band's lineup has generally consisted of a vocalist, a sampler operator and a drummer. Their instrumentation often includes sampled electric guitars, drums, keyboards, and other samples. The lyrics are depicted in English, French and...

 and Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

 among others.

Personal life

Anders was born in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

. He moved to Fredrikstad and then to Råde sometime during his childhood, where he grew up without any TV and listened to his father's collection of classical music. He was unaware of rock music until the age of 7 when he discovered Kiss and devoted his life to music.

Music career

Anders Odden started out as a black metal musician and artist in the mid 80s, and went on to start one of Norway's first death metal bands, Cadaver

Cadaver (band)

Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...

, in 1988. He went on with bands like Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synthpop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia...

 and Magenta

Magenta (Norwegian band)

Magenta is an alternative rock band from Norway formed by Anders Odden during the summer of 1995; Vilde Lockert joined him on vocals that autumn....

, and reunited Cadaver

Cadaver (band)

Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...

 in the late 1990s. He released two more albums with Cadaver, and toured with Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked one Morbid Angel album in its “Top 40 greatest death metal albums”, with their 1989 debut Altars of Madness appearing at number 1...

, Extreme Noise Terror

Extreme Noise Terror

Extreme Noise Terror are a British crust punk / grindcore band originally formed in Ipswich, England in 1985. The band are widely considered one of the earliest and most influential European grindcore bands, and particularly the forefathers of the crustgrind subgenre.Notable for one of the...

, Mayhem

Mayhem (band)

Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...

, before ending Cadaver in 2004. Odden then went back to Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synthpop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia...

 and co-wrote their album, You And Me Against The World.

He toured the world with Apoptymga Berzerk until Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...

 recruited him as their live guitarist in 2006. He toured Europe, USA, Canada and Japan with them on their Monotheist Tour, which ended in 2007. Celtic Frost came to an end in April 2008. By then Odden had just completed the new album from Magenta, Art And Accidents, as well as beginning to write more metal-oriented music again. In June 2008 he filmed his first-ever show for TV with Karaoke From Hell which was broadcasted from September to November 2008 on TV3 in Norway. The show was called Charterfeber and is a docusoap about Norwegians on holiday.

Odden also had a career as a cartoon-writer for Pyton Magazine from 1991-1992 in Norway. The series was called "tre små anarkister" ("Three Small Anarchists") and he also stood model for one of the characters. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Odden worked as a consultant for music organizations in Norway, such as RIO, GramArt, MIC and MFO (Musicians Union in Norway). He is the founder of music business seminar IMC, which is held during the annual Inferno Festival in Oslo, Norway.

Discography

Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synthpop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia...

• Soli Deo Gloria, Tatra (1993)
• Non-Stop Violence, Tatra (single, 1995)
• APBL98, Tatra (1999)
• Unicorn, 2003 WEA (EP, 2003)
• In This together, GUN/SonyBMG (single, 2005)
• You and me against the world, GUN/SonyBMG (2005)
• Shine on, GUN/SonyBMG (EP, 2006)
• Sonic Diary, GUN/SonyBMG (2006)
• Black, Metropolis (EP, 2006)
• Cambodia, GUN/SonyBMG (single, 2006)
• Rocket Science, GUN/SonyBMG (2009)

Cadaver

Cadaver (band)

Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...

• Hallucinating Anxiety
  Hallucinating Anxiety
  Hallucinating Anxiety is the debut album by the Norwegian death metal band Cadaver. Originally, it was released as a split CD with Carnage's only album, Dark Recollections, in 1990, through a sublabel of Earache Records, Necrosis, which consisted of members of popular grindcore/death metal band...
  
  , Necrosis/Earache (1990)
• Primal, (EP, 1999)
• ...In Pains
  ...In Pains
  ...In Pains is the second album by the Norwegian death metal band Cadaver. It was released in 1992 by Earache Records.-Track listing:# "Bypassed"  – 3:35# "Mr...
  
  , Earache (1992)
• Live Inferno
  Live Inferno
  Live Inferno is the final release from the Symphonic Black Metal band Emperor. It was filmed during the band’s sold out 2005-2007 reunion performances. It was released in Europe on the 20th of April with several editions available...
  
  (konsertalbum, 2002)
• Necrosis
  Necrosis
  Necrosis is the premature death of cells in living tissue. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma. This is in contrast to apoptosis, which is a naturally occurring cause of cellular death...
  
  , Candlelight (2004)
• Discipline
  Discipline
  In its original sense, discipline is referred to systematic instruction given to disciples to train them as students in a craft or trade, or to follow a particular code of conduct or "order". Often, the phrase "to discipline" carries a negative connotation. This is because enforcement of order –...
  
  , Earache (2001)

Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult

Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult

Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult is a supergroup formed in 2009. The band made its live debut in Helsinki, Finland on May 11, 2011 at club DOM followed by shows in Oslo, Stockholm and Örebro...

• (Don't) Waste It, (single) Season Of Mist (2011)
• I declare: Treason, Season Of Mist (2011)

Karaoke From Hell

• Charterfeber tur/retur Aiya Napa TV3 (2008)
• Pondus Flat Fuzzpedal Compilation, Universal Music (2008)

Magenta

Magenta (Norwegian band)

Magenta is an alternative rock band from Norway formed by Anders Odden during the summer of 1995; Vilde Lockert joined him on vocals that autumn....

• Magenta, (EP) AT&MT (1997)
• One Mind, (single) 1998 RapaxPRod/Tatra (1998)
• Periode, RapxProd/Tatra (1998)
• All Over, (single) Re:pop (2002)
• Little Girl Lost, Re:pop (2002)
• Art and Accidents, AT&MT (2009)

Satyricon

Satyricon (band)

Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label .-Biography:Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral and Wargod. Ulver and Satyr soon joined them...

• Megiddo
  Megiddo (album)
  Megiddo is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"The Dawn of a New Age" – 5:45 #"Night of Divine Power" – 5:50 Megiddo is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.-Track listing:#"The Dawn of a New Age" – 5:45 (Remixed by Apoptygma Berzerk)#"Night of Divine...
  
  , Moonfog (EP, 1997)
• Rebel Extravaganza
  Rebel Extravaganza
  Rebel Extravaganza is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon released in 1999.Re-released in 2006 by Nuclear Blast as with Intermezzo II tracks as a bonus....
  
  , Moonfog (1999)

Bands/Instruments

Deadly Metal - 1985 - guitar

Slaught - 1986–1987 - guitar

FOAD - 1986 - guitar, bass, vocals, drums

Asmodeus - 1987 - guitar, bass, vocals, drums

Baphomet - 1987–1988 - guitar

Monument - 1988 - guitar

Cadaver

Cadaver (band)

Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...

 - 1988–1993, 2003–2004 - guitar

Braindead - 1988 - drums

Balvaz - 1989 - drums

Hydr-Hydr - 1990–1991 - drums

Nesten Døde - 1989–1991 - drums

Thy Abhorrent - 1991 - live guitar

Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synthpop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia...

 - 1992–1999, 2003–2006 - guitar, bass

Germ - 1992

Go Go Gorilla - 1992 - live guitar

The Young Gods

The Young Gods

The Young Gods are a Swiss post-industrial band. The band's lineup has generally consisted of a vocalist, a sampler operator and a drummer. Their instrumentation often includes sampled electric guitars, drums, keyboards, and other samples. The lyrics are depicted in English, French and...

 - 1992, 1995 - live guitar

Jemotor 1 - 1993–1995 - guitar

Magenta

Magenta (Norwegian band)

Magenta is an alternative rock band from Norway formed by Anders Odden during the summer of 1995; Vilde Lockert joined him on vocals that autumn....

 - 1995–present - guitar, bass, keyboard, vocals

Satyricon

Satyricon (band)

Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label .-Biography:Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral and Wargod. Ulver and Satyr soon joined them...

 - 1997–1999 - session recording guitar, 2009 - live bass

Cadaver Inc - 1999–2002 - guitar

Mayhem

Mayhem (band)

Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...

 - 2000 - programming

Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...

 - 2006–2007 - live guitar

Rock Furore - 2007 - live guitar

Karaoke From Hell - 2007–present - host

Pigface

Pigface

Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.-History:Pigface was formed from Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour, which produced the In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up live album and video. For the tour, Al Jourgensen brought...

 - 2009 - guitar

Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

 - 2008 - live guitar

Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult

Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult

Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult is a supergroup formed in 2009. The band made its live debut in Helsinki, Finland on May 11, 2011 at club DOM followed by shows in Oslo, Stockholm and Örebro...

- 2009–present - guitar