GALAR Schedules Live Debut

April 11, 2011

Since the release of their second full-length album "Til Alle Heimsens Endar" last year, Norwegian black-folk metallers GALAR have been recruiting session musicians in preparation for the band's live debut. With founders M. Kristiansen (screams and rhythm guitar) and A. B. Lauritzen (clean vocals and bassoon) now having been joined by Specter (GRAVDAL, AETERNUS) on lead guitar, Phobos (GRAVDAL, AETERNUS, MALSAIN) on drums and Simon Futterlieb on bass, GALAR will perform on April 19 at the legendary Elm Street Rock Cafe in Oslo. Also appearing will be Dark Essence Records labelmates SULPHUR and the Oslo-band FORCEFED HORSEHEAD.

Starting out originally as a two-man studio project in Bergen, GALAR used guest musicians from a variety of musical genres to record "Til Alle Heimsens Endar" (English translation: "Until The End Of All Worlds"),an album with the sound and feel of both black metal and folk metal. The CD is said to be a concept effort based around Snorri Sturluson's history of Norwegian kings the "Heimskringla". As well as their live drummer Phobos, other guests on the album include Ricardo Odriozola on first and second violins, Hans Gunnar Hagen on viola, Siri Hilmen on cello, Morten Nome on double bass, and Cecile Langlie on female vocals.

GALAR's live debut in the band's hometown of Bergen will take place on April 29 at the Ungdomsklubben Bizarre, supported by one of the new generation of local upcoming black metal bands, HADENS, and hardcore thrashers QUAVILA.

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