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Seigmen
(
thing
)
by
Asfodel
Thu May 04 2000 at 16:35:04
MEMBERS
:
Alex Myklebust -
Vocals
and
piano
Sverre Økshoff -
Guitar
Noralf Ronthi -
Drums
, chamberlin,
piano
and
bass
Marius Roth -
Guitar
, mandolin, chamberlin and
vocals
Kim Ljung -
Bass
,
guitar
and
vocals
Music
genre:
Their style change from
album
to album, but I would say it's a kind of
Gothic
,
heavy metal
,
Rock & Roll
thingy.
BIO
:
Seigmen is a
Norwegian
band
which was first formed in 1989. Their first
apperance
ever was during a
christmas
concert in Tønsberg. The bands vocalist, Alex Myklebust, had a cousine who invited him to
play
. Apparently Seigmen was a bit more
aggressive
than their audience had suspected, and the concert wasn't really a big success, still later they would grown and become one of those bands which would change
Norwegian
Rock & Roll
history
. At this point they called themselves "Klisne seigmenn", it wasn't until later that they would change their name to just Seigmen.
After selling out every copy of their demo, they decided to release their mini-album Pluto (1992), under their new name: Seigmen. Their next album Amenon, was released two years after Pluto. This time they had better
equipment
, and the quality of the recording was much improved. After listening to this album the Sony-label 1:70 contacted the band and gave them a contract.
Soon after they had signed the contract with Sony they went on tour. Unfourtunatly they had an accident on the way, the tourbus cought fire and all of their equipment was lost. But from the ashes of this accident came their next album: Total. Many think this
album
is the best they have released, and not without
reason
.
The
sequel
Metropolis was release the following year.
Commercially
it was an even bigger succces than Total, but some of their most die hard fans belive this album was a bit too commercial and still claim Total is the best they have ever released. They
translated
the
lyrics
of Metropolis to
english
and tried to release it outside the borders of Norway, it wasn't a very big
success
.
At this point Seigmen decided it was time to break some new borders, as they wasn't really satisfied with the way Metropolis had turned out. And their next, and last, album; Radiowaves, was very different from what they had
produced
earlier
.
When they released their first album in 1992, Alex had stated that "if one of the band members leave, it's over." So when Sverre Økshoff (guitars) decided to leave they wentout on one last tour. In the spring of 1999 they released "Monument (1989-1999)", which contained all the most
important
songs from their
entire
collection
of albums.
ALBUM
S:
Pluto - 1992
Ameneon - 1993
Total - 1994
Metropolis - 1995
Radiowaves - 1997
Monument (1989-1999) - 1999
Funny
facts
:
Seigmen is the name of the
Norwegian
equivalent of a jelly baby.
Alex, and the rest of the Seigmen crew, except of course Sverre, have
formed
a new
band
called
Zeromancer
. All their texts are
english
, and their
music style
is alot
harder
and more industrial. They
sound
like a
mix
between
Deftones
,
Nine Inch Nails
and Seigmen.
Zeromancer
Subgud
Vampire State Building
Female Goth stereotypes
KMFDM
Tristania
Project Igloo White
Aqua
inane
opium
Dutch
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