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Jaqueline is a hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band from Elverum
Elverum
is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Elverum...

, 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...

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History

The trio
Trio (music)
Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:* A group of three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.* The performance of a piece of music by three people.* The contrasting section of a piece in ternary form...

, composed of Morten Wærhaug, Marius Drogsås Hagen and Bjarne Ryen Berg, formed in 1998 and released their debut album Idiots in March 2005. Idiots was given the score 5/6 in Norway's three biggest newspapers; one critic dubbed the album "Norwegian rock debut of the year".

In 2006 the band released their second album Reaping Machines and has received further critical acclaim in the Norwegian media. The video for the single Demon Seed has also been shown numerous times on the Norwegian television show Svisj. the band is touring various places in Norway. Their latest album is called Cape Horn and was released in 2009.

Members

  • Morten Wærhaug - 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...

    , 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...

    , bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Marius Drogsås Hagen - vocals, bass guitar, guitar
  • Bjarne Ryen Berg - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....


Discography

  • Idiots (2005)
  • Reaping Machines (2006)
  • Cape Horn (2009)

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