Atrox

Norwegian extreme metallic outfit Atrox was originally founded in 1988 beneath the extremely popular, and for that reason unusable name of “Suffocation” (that they soon discarded), but their 1st album, Mesmerised would just surface nearly ten years later on, in 1997. At that time, the band’s preliminary predilection for straightforward loss of life metallic had given method to an extremely unconventional type of intensifying death fusing components of metallic with opera, jazz, ambient music, space rock and roll, and also electronica. Led by vocalist/keyboardist Monika Edvardsen (sister of Ann-Mari Edvardsen, of Another as well as the Mortal, to whom Atrox tend to be likened) and guitarist/vocalist Eivind Fjoseide, the group offers used an ever-shifting solid of supporting music artists along their peculiarly idiosyncratic trajectory. Pursuing such significantly quirky, actually baffling efforts, such as for example 2000s Contentum, and 2002’s Terrestrials, Atrox’s daring nature and personnel-swapping methods remain unchanged arrive their fourth recording (and 1st for fresh label Code666), 2003’s Climax, which also presented guitarist/bassist Rune Sørgård and drummer Tor-Arne Helgesen.