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Infobox musical artist | name = Keep of Kalessin| image = Keep of Kalessin at Devilstone festival (09-07-17)01.jpg| caption = Live at Devilstone Open Air festival in Anykšciai , Lithuania on July 17–19, 2009| image_size = 250| landscape = yes| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Trondheim , Norway | genre = Black metal , Draconic Black Metal (early) Melodic black metal , melodic death metal (later)| years_active = 1993–2000 2003 2005–present| label = Nuclear Blast Candlelight Records|Candlelight Tabu Recordings|Tabu Indie Recordings|Indie | associated_acts = 1349 (band)|1349 , Aptorian Demon, Antares Predator, Gehenna (band)|Gehenna , Gorgoroth , Mayhem (band)|Mayhem , Satyricon (band)|Satyricon , Tormentor , Subliritum| website = http://www.keepofkalessin.no/ www.keepofkalessin.no| current_members = Obsidian C. Thebon Wizziac Vyl| past_members = Keep of Kalessin#Former members|See below | notable_instruments = Keep of Kalessin is an extreme metal band from Trondheim , Norway formed in 1993. http://www.musicmight.com/artist/norway/trondheim/keep+of+kalessin Band biography at MusicMight The group's early lineup consisted of Ghash on vocals, Obsidian C. (the group founder) on guitar s and keyboard instrument|keyboards , Warach on bass guitar|bass , and Vyl on drum kit|drums . They released two albums under this lineup: Through Times of War (album)|Through Times of War in 1997, and Agnen: A Journey Through the Dark in 1999, before splitting up.Eduardo Rivadavia, Allmusic|class=artist|id=p370245/biography|pure_url=yes Keep of Kalessin at Allmusic Obsidian C. then toured with Satyricon (band)|Satyricon , but revived the Keep of Kalessin name for a 2003 EP, Reclaim (EP)|Reclaim . In 2006 he reconstituted the group with a new lineup and released a third full-length, Armada (album)|Armada) . They toured with Behemoth (band)|Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir early in 2008. Their fourth album Kolossus was released on June 6, 2008. They take their name from Ursula K. Le Guin 's Earthsea series of books, where Kalessin is the name of the arch-dragon who is the bearer of the Earthsea world. Keep of Kalessin was nominated for a Spellemannprisen in the heavy metal music|metal category in 2008.
Biography
Unlike most black metal bands, Keep of Kalessin is in its harshness still melodic and technically oriented. In contrast to traditional Norway|Norwegian black metal, Keep of Kalessin also make use of other instruments like the piano , Keyboard instrument|keyboards and synthesizers . They started experimenting with a new sound which gave Keep of Kalessin its new character after Arnt Ove Gronbech|Obsidian C. recruited the new band-members Torbjörn Schei|Thebon , Robin Isaksen|Wizziac and Vegar Larsen|Vyl for their album Armada in 2006, the follow-up after the Reclaim EP in 2003. Before Reclaim , the band had a much darker and colder character because of the different line-up they had back in the days. The line-up split in 2000, though Obsidian C. still wanted to make something of the band and the split-up wasn't the end of the band yet. He wanted to give Keep of Kalessin a unique character and develop its music, and improve himself too as a musician and lyrics writer, but the band still needed a drummer who could keep up with his riffing and he couldn't find one in Trondheim . After nearly 3 years, the band Satyricon (band)|Satyricon was in the need of a guitarist and Obsidian C. participated in the auditions and "played the ass off" some other 30 guitarists who also had applied for the job. He made it to the band and came in contact with Satyricon's drummer Kjetil Haraldstad|Frost .
Obsidian C. didn't give up on Keep of Kalessin and as soon as Frost heard its material, without hesitation, he immediately said yes when Obsidian C. asked him to do the drumming on his new Extended play|EP . As the band's new guitarist , Obsidian C. also toured with the band and this made it possible to recruit Attila Csihar for his EP to do the singing|vocals . This new line-up recorded Keep of Kalessin's new EP Reclaim and sky-rocketed the band into the elite black metal scene of Norway . But the line-up did not last and fell apart because of the distances between the band members. Still, this would not stop Obsidian C. and he was more and more determined to bring Keep of Kalessin to the masses. As part of Satyricon he toured a lot with the band and understood that touring is a must to promote a band. Not much later he teamed up again with Vegar Larsen|Vyl , who was a part of the band before the breakup in 2000. Now the band still needed a vocalist and preferably a bassist as well. This is when Thebon (vocals) and Wizziac (bass guitar) became part of the band.
Together with Torstein Parelius – the lyric writer from their EP Reclaim – the new line-up spent 2 years preparing to record their next album entitled Armada . This elevated the band to a higher place in the elite black metal scene of Norway and the band finally had a line-up which could last and made the band even more promising than before.
This same line-up recorded in 2007 the new album Kolossus , released in the summer of 2008 , demonstrating the band improved their sound after the well received and highly acclaimed release Armada in 2006 which even got some good attention from the more mainstream media in Norway. This resulted in a nomination for the Spellemannprisen in the metal category in 2008. On Kolossus they started to experiment more with different instruments and the band indeed created a unique character for Keep of Kalessin.
In 2010, Keep of Kalessin entered a song in the Melodi Grand Prix , the annual competition to select Norway's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest , which was hosted by the country due to its victory in the 2009 content, becoming the first Heavy metal music|heavy metal band to vie in the competition.Cite news |author= Ertsås, Kirsti |title= - Vil at bestemødrene skal ramle av stolen |url= http://www.seher.no/832424/sundnes-har-tro-paa-keep-of-kalassin |work= Se Her |language= Norwegian |date= January 8, 2010 The band performed their new song, "The Dragontower", in the first of 3 semi-final rounds and advanced to the Gold Final round,cite web|url= http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/14790|title=First semi final in Norway|last=Klier|first=Marcus|date=2010-01-08|publisher= ESCToday |accessdate=2010-01-18 where the band finished in 3rd place overall through a combined viewer and jury vote.cite web|url= http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news? id=8743& _t=Didrik+Solli-Tangen+wins+Norwegian+final!|title=Didrik Solli-Tangen wins Norwegian final!|last=Kirkpatrick Green|first=Simon|date=2010-02-06|publisher= European Broadcasting Union|EBU |accessdate=6 February 2010cite web|url= http://esctoday.com/news/read/15027|title=Norway sends Didrik Solli-Tangen to Eurovision |last=Klier|first=Marcus|date=2010-02-06|publisher= ESCToday |accessdate=6 February 2010
Obsidian C. announced in the Studio Report 4 video of Kolossus that they're already working on some new songs for the next album.
cquote|I think we'll have maybe one week of vacation after these recording sessions are done before we start recording the next album again. We have written songs for the new album, so hopefully the fans won't need to wait more than a year between Kolossus and the next one.|author= Arnt Ove Gronbech|Obsidian C |source= http://www.keepofkalessin.no/
Discography
Studio releases
Through Times of War (album)|Through Times of War ( 1997 in music|1997 )
Agnen: A Journey Through the Dark ( 1999 in music|1999 )
Armada (album)|Armada ( 2006 in music|2006 )
Kolossus ( 2008 in music|2008 )
Reptilian (album)|Reptilian ( 2010 in music|2010 )
http://www.keepofkalessin.no/ Keep of Kalessin Official Homepage
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