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Album: Then Comes Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer

Released: Aug 31, 2006

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Genre: Metal / Progressive
Location Oslo, NO
Profile Views: 99396
Last Login: 8/16/2011
Member Since 8/31/2006
Website www.twistedintoform.no
Record Label ..Sensory..
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....Twisted Into Form was formed by long time friends Kaj Gornitzka (guitar, ex-Spiral Architect) and Erik Aadland (bass, Ex-Lunaris) in Oslo, Norway in 2000. From the onset, it was agreed that the band's mission was to create music that fused the intensity of jazz/fusion and technical metal while conjuring extraordinary emotions through each musician's contribution. There were to be no boundaries, no limits — only music.....Shortly after Extol drummer David Husvik joined in. By 2003 we had the basic structures of maybe five songs. A deadline for the recording of an album had already been set, and all of a sudden hours were spent in the rehearsal room, developing the songs we already had, testing new ideas, writing vocal lines.......Who would actually be singing these lines? Leif Knashaug. Twice before he has come to the rescue (first with Anesthesia, years later with Spiral Architect), and we were hopeful that in this particular case, three would be the charm. He graciously agreed to give it a shot.....We opted for a full length, self-produced album, hoping to get an appropriate label to release it upon completion and agreed to record the album at MultiMono Studio in Oslo, Asgeir Mickelson's (Borknagar and Spiral Architect) newly constructed studio. In fact, the studio was so new that it was not nearly finished when we entered it around February 2004, and we were the first band to really work there. By then, drums were already recorded with Børge Finstad at Toproom Studio (Mayhem, Borknagar, Extol, Arcturus etc). Having full access to MultiMono's facilities, we continued to develop the songs all through the recording phase.....The deadline came and went (no surprise there), and so the summer was spent fine-tuning the songs. By August we were back to finish what we had started — or so we thought.......Once the recordings were done, several labels were considered and approached. Strangely enough, most of them did not know what to do with the music, and although the overall tone was positive, they simply did not know how to present this kind of material to the masses. Not so with Ken Golden and his Laser's Edge/Sensory labels, and we gladly chose to collaborate with Sensory (Spiral Architect, Gordian Knot, Zero Hour, et al) for the release of the album. But there was, as so often is the case, a catch: Mr. Golden wanted more.......Yet again we threw ourselves into the creative process and met up at MultiMono Studio to record the last two songs of the album, only now it had become September 2005.....With everything finally ready, noted producer Neil Kernon (Nevermore, Queensrÿche, Spiral Architect, Flotsam and Jetsam, Red Harvest, Nile etc) was the ideal person to do the final mix, as he had shown a keen interest in the project and was completely in tune with our desire to grant the material the unique representation it craved.....The finished effort, released in September 2006, is titled "Then Comes Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer". We hope you will enjoy the journey as much as we have — and still do....... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Members
..Erik Aadland, bass.. Kaj Gornitzka, guitars.. David Husvik, drums.. Leif Knashaug, vocals.. ..
Influences
..Death..Cynic..Al DiMeola..a-Ha..Metallica..Psychotic Waltz..Vicente Amigo..Believer..Fates Warning..Atheist..Weather Report..Depeche Mode..Opeth..Kate Bush..VoiVod..
Sounds Like
..Metal with a twist..

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Twisted Into Form was formed by long time friends Kaj Gornitzka (guitar, ex-Spiral Architect) and Erik Aadland (bass, Ex-Lunaris) in Oslo, Norway in 2000. From the onset, it was agreed that the band's mission was to create music that fused the intensity of jazz/fusion and technical metal while conjuring extraordinary emotions through each musician's contribution. There were to be no boundaries, no limits — only music.

Shortly after Extol drummer David Husvik joined in. By 2003 we had the basic structures of maybe five songs. A deadline for the recording of an album had already been set, and all of a sudden hours were spent in the rehearsal room, developing the songs we already had, testing new ideas, writing vocal lines...

Who would actually be singing these lines? Leif Knashaug. Twice before he has come to the rescue (first with Anesthesia, years later with Spiral Architect), and we were hopeful that in this particular case, three would be the charm. He graciously agreed to give it a shot.

We opted for a full length, self-produced album, hoping to get an appropriate label to release it upon completion and agreed to record the album at MultiMono Studio in Oslo, Asgeir Mickelson's (Borknagar and Spiral Architect) newly constructed studio. In fact, the studio was so new that it was not nearly finished when we entered it around February 2004, and we were the first band to really work there. By then, drums were already recorded with Børge Finstad at Toproom Studio (Mayhem, Borknagar, Extol, Arcturus etc). Having full access to MultiMono's facilities, we continued to develop the songs all through the recording phase.

The deadline came and went (no surprise there), and so the summer was spent fine-tuning the songs. By August we were back to finish what we had started — or so we thought...

Once the recordings were done, several labels were considered and approached. Strangely enough, most of them did not know what to do with the music, and although the overall tone was positive, they simply did not know how to present this kind of material to the masses. Not so with Ken Golden and his Laser's Edge/Sensory labels, and we gladly chose to collaborate with Sensory (Spiral Architect, Gordian Knot, Zero Hour, et al) for the release of the album. But there was, as so often is the case, a catch: Mr. Golden wanted more...

Yet again we threw ourselves into the creative process and met up at MultiMono Studio to record the last two songs of the album, only now it had become September 2005.

With everything finally ready, noted producer Neil Kernon (Nevermore, Queensrÿche, Spiral Architect, Flotsam and Jetsam, Red Harvest, Nile etc) was the ideal person to do the final mix, as he had shown a keen interest in the project and was completely in tune with our desire to grant the material the unique representation it craved.

The finished effort, released in September 2006, is titled "Then Comes Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer". We hope you will enjoy the journey as much as we have — and still do.