Peccatum was an avant-garde metal band from 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...

. Their influences range from black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

, progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

, industrial music

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

, symphonic metal

Symphonic metal

Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...

 and gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 to European classical music and contemporary music

Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...

.

Biography

Peccatum was formed by singer Ihriel

Ihriel

Ihriel is a Norwegian musician and singer formerly half of the experimental band Peccatum and her own solo project Star of Ash...

 (Heidi Solberg Tveitan), her husband Ihsahn

Ihsahn

Ihsahn is a Norwegian composer, guitar, bass, keyboard player and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor. He has appeared in Thou Shalt Suffer, up until March 4, 2006, played in Peccatum with his wife Ihriel , and now devotes himself to his solo project,...

 (of the well-known black metal band Emperor

Emperor (band)

Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...

), and her brother Lord PZ. The group released three albums and two EPs. Lost in Reverie, released in 2004 after Lord PZ's departure, moved towards a more classical, avant-garde and musically opaque direction.

Lost in Reverie and the 2005 EP

Extended play

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 The Moribund People were both produced under the label Mnemosyne Productions

Mnemosyne Productions

Mnemosyne Productions is a Norwegian record label formed by husband and wife team Ihsahn and Ihriel of Peccatum. It focuses on "dark music with an innovative tendency inside the more avant-garde forms of metal and rock." It was formed in 2003...

, owned and operated by Ihriel

Ihriel

Ihriel is a Norwegian musician and singer formerly half of the experimental band Peccatum and her own solo project Star of Ash...

 and Ihsahn

Ihsahn

Ihsahn is a Norwegian composer, guitar, bass, keyboard player and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor. He has appeared in Thou Shalt Suffer, up until March 4, 2006, played in Peccatum with his wife Ihriel , and now devotes himself to his solo project,...

 themselves.

On March 4, 2006 Peccatum split, leaving room for Ihriel to continue with Star of Ash and Ihsahn

Ihsahn

Ihsahn is a Norwegian composer, guitar, bass, keyboard player and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor. He has appeared in Thou Shalt Suffer, up until March 4, 2006, played in Peccatum with his wife Ihriel , and now devotes himself to his solo project,...

 to work on his solo work.

Studio releases

• Strangling from Within
  Strangling from Within
  Strangling From Within was released on November 23, 1999 by the Avant-garde metal project Peccatum. The themes on this album can mostly be described as symphonic and neo-classical as well as the more prominent black metal influences....
  
  – (1999)
• Oh, My Regrets
  Oh, My Regrets
  Oh, My Regrets is a 2000 EP by the avant-garde metal project Peccatum....
  
  (EP) – (2000)
• Amor Fati – (2001)
• Lost in Reverie
  Lost in Reverie
  Lost in Reverie is the third studio album release from the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Peccatum. It was released in 2004 on Mnemosyne Productions, the label run by band members Ihsahn and Ihriel.- Track listing :# "Desolate Ever After" - 8:26...
  
  – (2004)
• The Moribund People
  The Moribund People
  The Moribund People is a 2005 EP by the avant-garde metal project Peccatum and their last release before they split up in 2006. On this EP, Peccatum's style hovers between black metal, modern classical and electronica....
  
  (EP) – (2005)