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Refimprove|date=December 2011Infobox musical artist | name = Tristania| image =| caption =| background = group_or_band| origin = Stavanger , Norway | genre = Symphonic_Metal#Symphonic_gothic_metal|Symphonic gothic metal , death/doom metal (1996& ndash;2004), gothic metal (2005& ndash;present)| years_active = 1996& ndash;present| label = Napalm Records , SPV GmbH|SPV | associated_acts = Sirenia (band)|Sirenia Trail of Tears (band)|Trail of Tears Octavia Sperati | website = http://www.tristania.com/ Official website| current_members = Mariangela Demurtas Kjetil Nordhus Anders Høyvik Hidle Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard Ole Vistnes Einar Moen Tarald Lie Jr.| past_members = Morten Veland Kjetil Ingebrethsen Vibeke Stene Svein Terje Solvang Rune Østerhus Østen Bergøy Kenneth Ølsson Tristania is a band from Norway , formed in 1996 by Morten Veland , Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. Tristania's music is usually classified as Symphonic_Metal#Symphonic_gothic_metal|Symphonic gothic metal with death/doom influences (especially on the early albums), due to its strong ties with the goth metal's history.Citation needed|date=January 2010
Biography
Tristania was founded 1996 in Stavanger, Norway by Einar Moen (keyboards), Morten Veland (vocals/guitar), and Kenneth Olsson (drums). A few weeks later Anders Høyvik Hidle (guitars/vocals) and Rune Østerhus (bass) joined the band. In May 1997 the band entered the studio for the first time and recorded their demo in Klepp Lydstudio. Vibeke Stene was initially recruited as a guest singer for the demo recording, but she later joined as a regular member. During the summer of 1997 different labels showed interest in the demo.Citation needed|date=January 2010 Tristania signed with Napalm Records and released the EP Tristania .
Tristania's first full length album, '' Widow's Weeds (album)|Widow's Weeds , was recorded at the end of 1997 and released early 1998. The album is symphonic metal with elements from a large variety of genres including gothic metal, death metal, classical music, and black metal. Two guest performers who were involved in Widow's Weeds would later get more prominent roles on Tristania’s albums; singer Østen Bergøy (who would later become a full band member) and violinist Pete Johansen . Tristania got to do their first shows outside of Norway as support act for Lacrimosa (band)|Lacrimosa in Belgium and at the Mind over Matter festival in Austria in August 1998. Later the same year Tristania went on their first European tour, with Solefald and Haggard (band)|Haggard .
The band's second full length album Beyond the Veil (album)|Beyond The Veil was released in 1999. As on the debut album, Moen and Veland wrote the majority of the music, but Moen and Hidle emerged as a songwriting team. Jan Kenneth Barkved appeared as an additional singer. Tristania followed up the release with their first headlining tour with The Sins of Thy Beloved , Trail of Tears (band)|Trail of Tears and Antichrisis as support acts. The band also toured with Tiamat (band)|Tiamat and Anathema (band)|Anathema in 1999. The band continued touring extensively in 2000. In December 2000 Veland and the rest of the band agreed on going separate ways, due to musical and personal differences.Citation needed|date=January 2010 World of Glass (album)|World of Glass was released in September 2001, with guest contributions from Ronny Thorsen , Johansen, and Barkved. The album added classical music|classical and industrial music|industrial elements to Tristania's sound, and included the band's only cover version: "The Modern End," originally by Seigmen . Bergøy, now a permanent member of the band, also began to write lyrics on this album and has since become the band's main lyricist. Kjetil Ingebrethsen joined the band prior to the World of Glass tour on extreme vocals. On that tour Tristania was supported by Rotting Christ , Vintersorg , and Madder Mortem . More touring of Europe and Latin America followed in 2002.
In 2003-2004 Tristania took a break from performing live to focus solely on songwriting. Ashes (Tristania album)|Ashes was released on SPV GmbH|SPV/Steamhammer Records in February 2005 and featured a stripped-down sound that de-emphasized the classical and operatic elements of the previous albums.
The band then toured Europe and Latin America (sometimes without Moen, who chose to remain at home and focus on songwritingCitation needed|date=January 2010) along with Nightwish , Gothminister , and Kreator . After the tours, Ingebrethsen decided to leave the band as he wanted to continue his musical career at a lower level.Citation needed|date=January 2010 The band decided not to recruit a replacement, and Hidle took over the growling vocals.
Illumination (Tristania album)|Illumination was released in January 2007, with touring guitarist Svein Terje Solvang added as an official member. Vorph of Samael (band)|Samael appeared as a guest singer and a string quartet appeared on several songs. Shortly after the release of the album, Vibeke Stene suddenly decided to quit her musical career in order to focus on family and her work as a teacher.Citation needed|date=January 2010 As a result, all planned touring activities were put on hold. After holding auditions for a singer with a voice different than Stene's, Tristania recruited singer Mariangela Demurtas from Sardinia , Italy, who officially joined the band in October 2007.
Østerhus and Solvang both quit the band in 2008. Ole Vistnes joined as the new bassist and Gyri Losnegaard later joined as second guitarist. The new line-up featuring Demurtas on vocals debuted on February 29, 2008 at a festival appearance in Kiev, Ukraine. The next member to depart was drummer Kenneth Olsson, who was replaced by Tarald Lie; while singer Østen Bergøy scaled back to part-time status with the band due to family commitments. Kjetil Nordhus was added to the lineup on clean vocals. The band's sixth album, Rubicon (Tristania album)|Rubicon , was released on August 25, 2010.
After the Out of the Dark Festival on October 2, 2011, the Hungarian Lambda Team released a freeware PC game about Tristania, named Tristania 3D .cite web|url= http://lambdateam.blog.hu/2011/10/04/tristania_3d_release|date=October 4, 2011|accessdate=December 18, 2011|title=Tristania 3D released!|work=lambdateam.blog.hu
Music
On their early albums the band's sound was based on melodic death metal riff s with dominant Keyboard instrument|keyboard and choirs. Doom metal is another strong influence, which can be heard in the slow, melancholic riffing. Tristania put a lot of focus on opera tic female Singing|vocals , choruses, and European classical music|classical musical instrument|instrument s such as pipe organ , harpsichord , flute s and violin s. On the band's early albums there was also a prominent focus on the death grunt|death vocals of Morten Veland .
On later albums Tristania stepped back from the layer-over-layer production and focused more on balancing the various vocal styles.Citation needed|date=January 2010 Østen Bergøy was added on clean male vocals (baritone) for the album Beyond the Veil (album)|Beyond The Veil , first as a guest singer and later as a full band member. After the departure of Veland, the death vocals were performed by guitarist Anders Høyvik Hidle and Kjetil Ingebrethsen (who joined the band officially for the album Ashes (Tristania album)|Ashes ) , and a variety of guest vocalists.
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