Pale Forest
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Pale Forest, originally named Pangaea, is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 female fronted alternative
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

/gothic rock
Gothic rock
Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

 band, similar in sound to The Gathering
The Gathering (band)
The Gathering is a Dutch alternative rock band, founded in 1989 by brothers Hans and René Rutten and vocalist Bart Smits in the small city of Oss, North Brabant....

, although softer and less electronic. Possibly best known among The Gathering
The Gathering (band)
The Gathering is a Dutch alternative rock band, founded in 1989 by brothers Hans and René Rutten and vocalist Bart Smits in the small city of Oss, North Brabant....

 fans, whom Pale Forest have toured with.

Band members

  • Jarle Hagen – 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...

  • Lars Magnus Jenssen – bass, Founder
  • Bjørnar "Bernhard" Jenssen – 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 ....

  • Kristin Fjellseth – 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...


Previous members

  • Kristian Pålshaugen – 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...

  • Eyvind Brox – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Tommy Jørgensen – 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...

    , Founder
  • Jan Petter Ringvold – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Anders Byfuglien -– keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...


Discography

  • Layer One (1998)
    1. Inside the Violence
    2. Mother Cocoon
    3. Pictureframe
    4. Hurt Me!

  • Transformation Hymns (1998)
    1. Once Again
    2. Karma Violins
    3. Puny Minds
    4. Asylum Pyre
    5. Nothing Left
    6. Bedlam Friends
    7. Layer One
    8. Transformation Hymn
    9. Remnant Song
    10. Fading
    11. Butterfly Clan

  • Of Machines and Men (2000)
    1. Second Opinion
    2. Pt. 2
    3. Prom Queen
    4. Redrum
    5. Mooncycle
    6. Becoming One
    7. Tristesse
    8. Taller, Yet Smaller
    9. Sound of the Machine
    10. Mentally Deranged
    11. We Have Died

  • Exit Mould (2001)
    1. Stigmata
    2. Exit Mould
    3. Urban Walls/Orphan Heart
    4. Nine-Eight
    5. Spiral
    6. Revelation
    7. Perspective on Certain Matters According to X
    8. Pale Suit of Drunkenness
    9. Mr. Trenchcoat
    10. These Old Rags
    11. Holy Summer
    12. Mistaken Identity

  • Anonymous Caesar (2003)
    1. Anonymous Caesar
    2. Welcome to the machine
    3. Exit Mould (live)
    4. These old rags (live)
    5. Stigmata (broken instruments version)

  • Video Release: Tristesse
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