1349 (band)
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1349 is a Norwegian 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....

 band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1997. Their name comes from the year the Black Death
Black Death
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Of several competing theories, the dominant explanation for the Black Death is the plague theory, which attributes the outbreak to the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Thought to have...

 reached Norway.

History

1349 formed in 1997 and comprises several former members of the band Alvheim. Their drummer, Frost, is also a member of Satyricon
Satyricon (band)
Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label .-Biography:Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral and Wargod. Ulver and Satyr soon joined them...

.

1349 tour on a regular basis; their live shows often begin with drummer Frost and guitarist Archaon fire-breathing. In recognition of their influences, the band performed a cover of Mayhem
Mayhem (band)
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...

's "Buried by Time and Dust" on their debut album, Liberation
Liberation (1349 album)
Liberation is the second album by Norwegian black metal band 1349 released in 2003.-Track listing:# "Manifest" - 4:05# "I Breathe Spears" - 4:26# "Riders of the Apocalypse" - 4:36# "Deathmarch" - 1:07# "Pitch Black" - 3:20...

. At their live shows they have also covered Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...

, the band that vocalist Ravn cites as his principal influence.
In 2006, they toured the USA with Celtic Frost. Ravn also appeared on Celtic Frost's 2006 album, Monotheist
Monotheist (album)
Monotheist is the sixth and final album by the Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost. The album was released in May 2006 and was the first new recording released by the band for fourteen years.-Development:...

, performing guest vocals on the CD digipack bonus track, "Temple of Depression". In 2007, during the French Hellfest
Hellfest Summer Open Air
Hellfest is an annual music festival which takes place in Clisson, France in mid-June. It is held within the Val de Moine sport complex in Clisson, approximately 35 km south-east of the city of Nantes, and approximately 400 km south-west of the nation's capital Paris. Billed as an "extreme music...

 festival, they were slated to play during the day, but asked to reschedule their appearance to play in the dark instead. During their appearance at the Oslo Inferno Metal Festival
Inferno Metal Festival
Inferno Metal Festival is an annual extreme metal festival in Oslo, Norway. The festival was founded by Borknagar guitarist Jens F. Ryland in cooperation with Radar Booking in 2001 and take place at Rockefeller Music Hall.-2011:...

 on March 2008, the band was joined on stage by Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...

 frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer for a rendition of the Celtic Frost song "The Usurper".

In September 2008 they toured with Carcass
Carcass (band)
Carcass are an extreme metal band from England, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1995. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons....

, Suffocation
Suffocation (band)
Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1989 in Long Island, New York. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Guy Marchais, drummer Mike Smith and bassist Derek Boyer. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for...

, Aborted
Aborted
Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...

 and Rotten Sound
Rotten Sound
Rotten Sound is a grindcore band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 1993. The band comprises vocalist Keijo Niinimaa, guitarist Mika Aalto, bassist Kristian Toivainen and drummer Sami Latva...

 titled as the Exhume to Consume Tour.

A music video of 1349's song 'Sculptor of Flesh' was released following the band's 2005 album, Hellfire
Hellfire (album)
Hellfire is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band 1349, released on October 24, 2005.The album's closer and title track was intentionally written and recorded to be 13:49 in length....

. The video, directed by Judd Tilyard, alternates between footage of the band performing the song in Norway and clips of surgery
Surgery
Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

 filmed in Australia
Australia
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.

During the winter of 2008 the band recorded their long awaited fourth album Revelations of the Black Flame
Revelations Of the Black Flame
Revelations of the Black Flame is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band 1349.The studio sessions took place during December 2008 in a woodland studio in Bøverbru . 1349 mixed the album in January 2009. The album was co-mixed by Tom Gabriel Fischer...

. The album is co-mixed by Tom Gabriel Fischer, and was released in Europe on 25 May 2009. Revelations of the Black Flame marked a change in direction for the band as songs on the album were slower than previous releases and there were also some dark ambient and industrial tinged tracks.

At the beginning of 2010 the band signed a contract with Indie Recordings
Indie Recordings
Indie Recordings is a Norwegian independent record label specialising in heavy metal. The label was founded in 2006 by brothers Espen and Erik Solheim Røhne, who previously founded Tabu Recordings. Indie Recordings has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway...

 for the release of their fifth album in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, with Prosthetic Records
Prosthetic Records
Prosthetic Records is a record label specializing in heavy metal recordings. Founded by E.J. Johantgen and Dan Fitzgerald both former employees of Columbia Records, in Los Angeles, California in 1998...

 distributing the album in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

.

1349 toured with Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released eleven studio albums, one box set, and one live album...

, Skeletonwitch
Skeletonwitch
Skeletonwitch is an American heavy metal band from Athens, Ohio formed in 2003. The band currently consists of drummer Dustin Boltjes, vocalist Chance Garnette, bassist Evan Linger, and guitarists Nate Garnette and Scott Hedrick...

 and Lecherous Nocturne on the Evisceration Plague Tour, in April–May 2010. The band also performed at the Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...

 and Summer Breeze Open Air
Summer Breeze Open Air
Summer Breeze Open Air is a heavy metal music festival in Germany. It takes place annually in Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria. It was first held in 1997. The festival had been held in Abtsgmünd until 2006 when it was moved to its new location of Dinkelsbühl. The festival draws around 40,000 attendees annually...

 festivals in August 2010.

1349 released their fifth full length album Demonoir
Demonoir
Demonoir is the fifth full-length album by Norwegian Black metal band 1349. The new album shows "a return to the band's more traditional, raw-yet-technical black metal sound." It was released on 26th April 2010 in Europe and the day after in North America....

on 26 April 2010. The album shows a return to their earlier hyperspeed sound before Revelations of the Black Flame
Revelations Of the Black Flame
Revelations of the Black Flame is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band 1349.The studio sessions took place during December 2008 in a woodland studio in Bøverbru . 1349 mixed the album in January 2009. The album was co-mixed by Tom Gabriel Fischer...

, while continuing its low-fi production and ambient sensibilities.

They are scheduled to tour Canada and the United States with Tom Gabriel Fischer's project Triptykon
Triptykon
Triptykon is a musical project of Thomas Gabriel Fischer, founding member of the pioneering heavy metal bands Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Apollyon Sun. Fischer announced his departure from Celtic Frost in May 2008 and shortly afterwards revealed his new project would be entitled Triptykon...

 in October 2010.

A deluxe box set of Demonoir is due to be released in October 2011. The band's first live DVD will be released October 24, 2011 on Candlelight Records. It will be titled Hellvetia Fire - The Official 1349 Bootleg, and was filmed at Bikini Test La chaux De Fonds in Switzerland in 2005.

Band members

Current members
  • Ravn (Olav Bergene) – 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...

     (since 1997), 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 ....

     (1997–2000)
  • Archaon (Idar Burheim) – 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...

     (since 1999)
  • Seidemann (Tor Stavenes) – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     (since 1997)
  • Frost (Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad
    Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad
    Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad , was born on June 28, 1973 in Øyer, Oppland, Norway, and is the drummer in the black metal bands Satyricon and 1349....

    ) – 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 ....

     (since 2000)


Touring members
  • Tony Laureano
    Tony Laureano
    Tony Laureano is a heavy metal drummer originally from Puerto Rico. He has been playing for a number of metal bands including Dimmu Borgir, Nile, Angelcorpse, Malevolent Creation, God Dethroned, Acheron, Aurora Borealis, Belphegor, Nachtmystium, 1349 and Brujeria...

     – drums (since 2006)
  • Mads Guldbekkhei – drums (since 2007)
  • Thor Anders Myhren – guitar (since 2008)
  • Tony Ingibergsson – guitar (since 2009)


Former members
  • Balfori (Lars Larsen) – guitar (1997–1998)
  • Tjalve (André Kvebek) – guitar (1997–2006)

Discography

Studio albums
  • Liberation
    Liberation (1349 album)
    Liberation is the second album by Norwegian black metal band 1349 released in 2003.-Track listing:# "Manifest" - 4:05# "I Breathe Spears" - 4:26# "Riders of the Apocalypse" - 4:36# "Deathmarch" - 1:07# "Pitch Black" - 3:20...

    (2003)
  • Beyond the Apocalypse
    Beyond the Apocalypse
    Beyond the Apocalypse is an album by Norwegian black metal band 1349. It was released in 2004 on Candlelight Records.- Track listing :*All songs published by Tanglade Music/Abstract Sounds.# "Chasing Dragons" – 6:31...

    (2004)
  • Hellfire
    Hellfire (album)
    Hellfire is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band 1349, released on October 24, 2005.The album's closer and title track was intentionally written and recorded to be 13:49 in length....

    (2005)
  • Revelations of the Black Flame
    Revelations Of the Black Flame
    Revelations of the Black Flame is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band 1349.The studio sessions took place during December 2008 in a woodland studio in Bøverbru . 1349 mixed the album in January 2009. The album was co-mixed by Tom Gabriel Fischer...

    (2009)
  • Demonoir
    Demonoir
    Demonoir is the fifth full-length album by Norwegian Black metal band 1349. The new album shows "a return to the band's more traditional, raw-yet-technical black metal sound." It was released on 26th April 2010 in Europe and the day after in North America....

    (2010)


Extended Plays
  • 1349
    1349 (EP)
    1349 is the self-titled EP by Norwegian black metal band 1349 released in 2001.- Track listing :# "End of All" – 5:55# "Antichrist Warzone" – 4:23# "Chaos Within" – 4:08# "The Usurper " – 3:26- Personnel :...

    (2001)


Demos
  • Demo (1998)
  • Chaos Preferred (1999)

Videography

  • Sculptor of Flesh (2005)
  • Hellvetia Fire - The Official 1349 Bootleg DVD (2011)

External links

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