Levi gawron
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Levi Gawron is a Norwegian industrial rock, metal guitar
Guitar
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Biography

Levi Gawron (real name, Levi Gawrock Troite) was born May 2, 1982 in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway
Norway
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As far as we know Levi started a black metal band with the name Lost in Time in mid 90s with his brother Ogee (real name, Age Michael Troite). They recorded three demos
Demos
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 and did their last live show at the Norwegian metal festival 'Inferno festival' in 2002.
Levi then started touring 'the smell of rain' album with Mortiis (2002).

In 2003 he went into silvertone studios in Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad
is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad....

/Norway to record and co-mix the next Mortiis
Mortiis
Mortiis is a band from Notodden, Norway fronted by Håvard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. The name is a misspelling of the word 'mortis', which is the pronunciation used by the band. However, Mortiis started as the solo project of Ellefsen as a means to convey a story...

 album
Album
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 (The Grudge).

The Grudge, Mortiis first-ever single from the album of the same name, was released prior to the album and reached Number 51 in the Official UK Singles Chart. The second single "Decadent & Desperate" entered the UK Billboard charts at number 40.

In April 2008 Levi joined Gothminister as a guest guitarist on their Europe
Europe
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an tour with Samael
Samael (band)
Samael is a industrial black metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland.-Biography:Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are an early 2nd Wave black metal band and an innovator for...

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Today Levi and Mortiis are working on their new album.

Mortiis

  • The Grudge (2004), Earache Records
    Earache Records
    Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...

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  • The Grudge, single (2004) Earache Records.
  • Decadent and Desperate, single (2005), Earache Reords.
  • Sole in a Hole, live DVD (2006), Earache Records.
  • Some Kind of Heroin (2007), Earache records.
  • Perfectly Defect (2010), gratis nedladdning

Lost in Time

  • Dawn of a New Creation.
  • Extravagant Masks of Corruption.
  • Theatrical Spheres (2001).

Zombie Girl

  • Jesus was a zombie (from the remix album of 'Blood, brains and rock'n'roll'), Alfa Matrix Records (2007).

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