Bands from Norway?

I'm a fan of two Norwegian bands: Di Derre and I Was a King.

I recently learnt that the main lyricist of Di Derre is actually a well-known Norwegian writer and novelist, his name is Jo Nesbø.

The other, I Was a King, is a new band, they currently are Robyn Hitchcock's backing band when he visits the country and have recorded music together.

Unfortunately none of these albums are available in North America!

Anybody is a fan of other Norwegian bands?

 

The YUM YUMS , great power pop band

 

Apoptygma Berzerk, love these guys, and of course A-ha

 

I Was A King and Motorpsycho are the two finest Norwegian bands I'm aware of...

 

I believe the AWESOME band, Graveyard is from Norway. Their latest LP is amazing. If you like good rock music, played with power and passion...Graveyard is for you.

 

Midnight Choir - great alt country act. Here is their Gene Clark cover.

 

The Cocktail Slippers.......modern all-girl garage band that Little Steven plays all the time (produced some of their records too).

 

That was pretty great.

Jeff

 

Gorgorath.

satan

 

Madrugada especially their first two albums "Industrial Silence" and "The Nightly Disease".

 

I like some of Razika's songs. An all-girl band playing catchy, melodic guitar pop with occasional and tasteful hints of ska.

 

They are from Sweden.

 

My top 2 albums from 2009 came from Norway.

Every Floyd fan should buy this CD. It's melodic prog with a dark twist. I listened to the whole album again trying to decide what song to post. Most of the album if DSOTM mellow, and I've posted other songs on other threads. This is one my favorite albums since being introduced to Porcupine Tree in 2005. The whole album is posted on YouTube if you want to get a taste of the rest of the album. I really wanted to post Steal My Soul as the guitar work is nothing short of beautiful. But so is Colours and Sounds that I Hear and...

 

Wobbler

 

De Press are classic post punk. From 1982. Check it out if you like Joy Division and the sorts.

 

I can hardly believe that Airbag haven't been mentioned yet.

 

Airbag are just three posts up.

 

See post #13.

 

Sorry, but I can't see it on my monitor.

 

Ulver. They're amazing. Absolutely amazing. Fom black metal to electronica and ambient, they've been very eclectic and refuse to be pigeonholed.

Enslaved. Fantastic progressive black metal. Epic riffs.

Darkthrone. Seminal and vastly influential black metal band.

 

The other album, one of the few I describe as brilliant. Gazpacho's Tick Tock album still blows me away!

I might note, I'm from Midwest America. I found these guys through The Pineapple Thief forum.

Sorry about how the video ends as it runs into Part II of a three part song. But this song does give you a taste of this fantastic Norwegian band.

 

Bands I like from Norway (will be predominately black metal, because it's Norway):

1349 (Black Metal)
Antestor (Death/Doom, Black metal)
Arcturus (Progressive Metal)
Ark (Progressive Metal)
Asmegin (Viking Metal)
Aura Noir (Black/Thrash Metal)
Black Majesty (Black Metal)
Blood Red Throne (Death Metal)
Borknagar (Black Metal, Progressive Folk Metal)
Burzum (Black Metal)
Cadaver (Death/Thrash Metal)
Carpathian Forest (Black Metal)
Circus Maximus (Progressive Metal)
Conception (Progressive Metal)
Cor Scorpii (Black Metal)
Covenant (Black Metal)
Darkthrone (Black Metal)
Deathhammer (Death Metal)
Dodheimsgard (Black Metal)
Einherjer (Viking Metal)
Emperor (Black Metal)
Enslaved (Progressive Black Metal)
Forgotten Woods (Black Metal)
Frantic Bleep (Progressive Metal)
Gehenna (Black Metal)
Glittertind (Viking Metal)
God Seed (Black Metal)
Gorgoroth (Black Metal)
Green Carnation (Progressive Metal)
Hagalaz' Runedance (Ambient Folk Metal)
Helheim (Viking Metal)
Ihsahn (Progressive Metal
Ildjarn (Black Metal)
Immortal (Black Metal)
In The Woods (Black Metal, Progressive Metal)
Isengard (Black Metal)
Iskald (Melodic Black Metal)
Jorn (Progressive Metal)
Kampfar (Black Metal)
Keep of Kalessin (Melodic Black Metal)
Khold (Black Metal)
Koldbrann (Black Metal)
Leprous (Progressive Metal)
Limbonic Art (Symphonic Black Metal)
Lumsk (Folk Metal)
Madder Mortem (Doom Metal, Progressive Metal)
Mayhem (Black Metal)
Minas Tirith (Black Metal, Progressive Metal)
Morgoth (Black Metal)
Myrkgrav (Folk Metal)
Naglfar (Black Metal)
Nattefrost (Black Metal)
Nocturnal Breed (Black/Thrash Metal)
Old Man's Child (Melodic Black Metal)
Pagan's Mind (Progressive Metal)
Peccatum (Avant-Garde Metal)
Pellek (Power Metal)
Sahg (Doom Metal)
Satyricon (Old material) (Black Metal)
Solefald (Post-Black Metal)
Svartediket (Black Metal)
The 3rd and the Mortal (Melodic Doom Metal)
The Sins of Thy Beloved (Gothic Metal)
Theatre of Tragedy (Doom/Death Metal, Gothic Metal)
Trollfest (Folk Metal)
Ulver (Black/Folk Metal, Experimental)
Vreid (Melodic Black Metal)
Wardruna (Folk/Ambient)
Windir (Viking/Folk Metal)

 

Seigmen, quite big in the nineties (at least in Norway).
I love their "Total" and "Metropolis" albums.

 

Petter Carlsen

 

Høst. Great prog from 1974.