Atrox is an avant-garde metal band from Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The group originally formed under the name "Suffocation" but soon changed it because of numerous other bands with the same name. Formed in 1988, the band released its first material only in 1997, and followed it with two releases on notable French metal label, Season of Mist

Season of Mist

Season of Mist is a record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing...

. While their early releases are firmly rooted in death metal, later releases incorporate more progressive

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 elements.

Current

-viNd- - Guitars

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

Rune Sørgård - guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

s, Programming

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

Tor Arne Helgesen - Drums

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

Erik Paulsen - Bass

Bassist

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Rune Folgerø - lead vocals

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

Per Spjøtvold - Keyboard

Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

, backing vocals

Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

Former

Ole Marius Larmerud - Guitars (2002–2005)

Monika Edvardsen - Vocals, Keyboard (1996–2004)

Pete Beck - Vocals, Bass (2002–2004)

Daniel Stavsøyen - Bass (2001–2002)

Tom Wahl - Bass (1999)

Dag Rune Øyan - Guitars (1995–1999)

Lars Halvard Søndrol - Drums (1994–1999)

Tommy Sebastian Halseth - Bass (1995–1999)

Geir Tore Johansen - Vocals (1988–1997)

Svenn Tore Mauseth Bass (1988–1995)

Tor-Helge Skei - Guitars (1988–1994)

Tomas Smagersjø - Drums (1993)

Geir Knarrbakk - Drums (1988–1992)

Gunder Audun Dragsten - Guitars (1988–1990)

Discography

• 1997 Mesmerised (Head Not Found Records)
• 2000 Contentum (Season of Mist
  Season of Mist
  Season of Mist is a record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing...
  
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• 2002 Terrestrials (Season Of Mist)
• 2003 Orgasm (Code 666)
• 2008 Binocular (Season of Mist)

External links

• Official website
• Interview with Tor Arne Helgesen - English @ Metalfan.ro