Carl-Michael Eide
Encyclopedia
Carl-Michael Eide is a Norwegian
black metal
musician, multi-instrumentalist
(mainly known as a drummer), and vocalist. He is also known under stage names Aggressor, Czral and Exhurtum. He has played in various black metal
and avant-garde metal bands. These include Ved Buens Ende
, Aura Noir
, Cadaver
, Dødheimsgard
, Satyricon
, Ulver
, Infernö
and recently the jazz/rock band Virus. His drumming is unusual in style, with very little repetition and a tendency to shy away from traditional drumming. For example, many of the blast beats on Ved Buens Ende's Written in Waters
feature a highly active and non-repetitive right hand, which becomes a separate voice from the foot and left hand, often playing in a different meter than the other two. (This description refers to right-handed drummers; Eide is in fact left-handed.)
His singing abilities are diverse. Other than usual harsh vocals in black metal
, he uses a form of croon in the avant-garde metal bands Ved Buens Ende and Virus.
He has gone back to playing guitar and was writing music for the re-grouped Ved Buens Ende
, before the band once again split up in early 2007. Beyond that, he continues to write material for Aura Noir and Virus.
He was also a session drummer for Dimmu Borgir
on their 1997 tour.
On March 26, 2005 he fell (it's unclear whether he fell or jumped) from a four-story building and was hospitalized for several months. He has lost the use of his feet as a result of the incident. He is not able to play drums anymore, but is still active as a vocalist, guitarist and bassist.
With Ulver
With Ved Buens Ende
With Aura Noir
With Infernö
With Dødheimsgard
With Virus
With Cadaver
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...
black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
musician, multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
(mainly known as a drummer), and vocalist. He is also known under stage names Aggressor, Czral and Exhurtum. He has played in various black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
and avant-garde metal bands. These include Ved Buens Ende
Ved Buens Ende
Ved Buens Ende is a Norwegian heavy metal band. Their sound is diverse with quiet instrumental jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats and vocals...
, Aura Noir
Aura Noir
Aura Noir is a black metal/thrash metal band from Oslo, Norway. Aura Noir is heavily influenced by early thrash bands such as Slayer, Sodom and Kreator, to the latter they have also dedicated some of their songs...
, Cadaver
Cadaver (band)
Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...
, Dødheimsgard
Dødheimsgard
Dødheimsgard is a Norwegian heavy metal band formed in 1994. Dødheimsgard was originally a black metal band, but 1999's 666 International saw them change into an experimental and avant-garde / industrial metal band. In 2000, they shortened their name to DHG...
, Satyricon
Satyricon (band)
Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label .-Biography:Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral and Wargod. Ulver and Satyr soon joined them...
, Ulver
Ulver
Ulver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...
, Infernö
Infernö
Infernö is a Norwegian thrash metal band. They formed in 1995, and are currently releasing on Duplicate records. The latest Infernö studio album is called "On Earth As It Is In Hell" and was released in 2006....
and recently the jazz/rock band Virus. His drumming is unusual in style, with very little repetition and a tendency to shy away from traditional drumming. For example, many of the blast beats on Ved Buens Ende's Written in Waters
Written in Waters
Written in Waters is the debut album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Ved Buens Ende. It is also their last LP album before the band was put on hold.The album is unique and unusual...
feature a highly active and non-repetitive right hand, which becomes a separate voice from the foot and left hand, often playing in a different meter than the other two. (This description refers to right-handed drummers; Eide is in fact left-handed.)
His singing abilities are diverse. Other than usual harsh vocals in black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
, he uses a form of croon in the avant-garde metal bands Ved Buens Ende and Virus.
He has gone back to playing guitar and was writing music for the re-grouped Ved Buens Ende
Ved Buens Ende
Ved Buens Ende is a Norwegian heavy metal band. Their sound is diverse with quiet instrumental jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats and vocals...
, before the band once again split up in early 2007. Beyond that, he continues to write material for Aura Noir and Virus.
He was also a session drummer for Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. Dimmu borgir means "dark cities" or "dark castles/fortresses" in Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse. The name is derived from a volcanic formation in Iceland, Dimmuborgir...
on their 1997 tour.
On March 26, 2005 he fell (it's unclear whether he fell or jumped) from a four-story building and was hospitalized for several months. He has lost the use of his feet as a result of the incident. He is not able to play drums anymore, but is still active as a vocalist, guitarist and bassist.
Discography
With SatyriconSatyricon
Satyricon is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius...
- All Evil (EP) (1992)
With Ulver
Ulver
Ulver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...
- Vargnatt (Demo) (1993)
With Ved Buens Ende
Ved Buens Ende
Ved Buens Ende is a Norwegian heavy metal band. Their sound is diverse with quiet instrumental jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats and vocals...
- Those Who Caress the PaleThose Who Caress the PaleThose Who Caress the Pale is an EP by the Norwegian Metal band Ved Buens Ende.-Track listing:#"A Mask in the Mirror" – 5:24#"The Carrier of Wounds" – 8:09#"You That May Wither" – 4:36#"The Plunderer" – 5:12#"Those Who Caress The Pale" – 6:17...
(Demo) (1994) - Written in WatersWritten in WatersWritten in Waters is the debut album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Ved Buens Ende. It is also their last LP album before the band was put on hold.The album is unique and unusual...
(1995)
With Aura Noir
Aura Noir
Aura Noir is a black metal/thrash metal band from Oslo, Norway. Aura Noir is heavily influenced by early thrash bands such as Slayer, Sodom and Kreator, to the latter they have also dedicated some of their songs...
- Dreams Like DesertsDreams Like DesertsDreams Like Deserts is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Aura Noir.-Track listing:#"The Rape" – 3:26#"Forlorn Blessings To The Dreamking" – 3:29#"Dreams, Like Deserts" – 5:00#"Angel Ripper" – 3:50#"Snake" – 1:51#"Mirage" – 2:58-Credits:...
(EP) (1995) - Black Thrash AttackBlack Thrash AttackBlack Thrash Attack is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Aura Noir. This is the first album to feature Blasphemer from Mayhem on guitars. As indicated in the title, this album is a mix of black metal and thrash metal and as such contains quite a few hints at early German thrash bands such...
(1996) - Deep Tracts of HellDeep Tracts of HellDeep Tracts of Hell is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Aura Noir.-Track listing:#"Deep Tracts of Hell" – 1:57#"Released Damnation" – 4:22#"Swarm of Vultures" – 2:45#"Blood Unity" – 4:47#"Slasher" – 3:29#"Purification of Hell" – 2:45...
(1998) - The MercilessThe MercilessThe Merciless is an album by the Norwegian black/thrash metal band Aura Noir. It features guest appearances by members of Darkthrone and Carpathian Forest...
(2004) - Hades RiseHades RiseHades Rise is an album by the Norwegian black/thrash metal band Aura Noir. It features guest appearances from Danny Coralles and Blasphemer...
(2008)
With Infernö
Infernö
Infernö is a Norwegian thrash metal band. They formed in 1995, and are currently releasing on Duplicate records. The latest Infernö studio album is called "On Earth As It Is In Hell" and was released in 2006....
- Utter HellUtter HellUtter Hell is the first album of the Norwegian retro thrash metal band Infernö. The music and lyrics are often inspired by German thrash metal bands such as Kreator and Destruction...
(1996) - Downtown HadesDowntown HadesDowntown Hades is the second album of the Norwegian thrash metal band Infernö. It was recorded and released in 1997.-Track listing:#"Straight from Hell" – 3:35#"Utter Hell" – 2:18#"Rot in Hell" – 2:38#"Roadkill" – 3:26#"In Bed with Satan" – 2:23...
(1997)
With Dødheimsgard
Dødheimsgard
Dødheimsgard is a Norwegian heavy metal band formed in 1994. Dødheimsgard was originally a black metal band, but 1999's 666 International saw them change into an experimental and avant-garde / industrial metal band. In 2000, they shortened their name to DHG...
- 666 International666 International666 International is an album by Dødheimsgard. Proceeding with Satanic Art, DHG went further into the experimental industrial sound characterized by Moonfog bands such as Thorns and Satyricon....
(1999) - Supervillain OutcastSupervillain OutcastSupervillain Outcast is the fourth full length album by Dødheimsgard.Supervillain Outcast continues the black metal/industrial music fusion sound from their previous album 666 International....
(2007)
With Virus
- CarheartCarheartCarheart is the debut album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal/jazz rock band Virus.-Track listing:#"Something Furry This Way Comes" – 1:36#"Carheart" – 3:56#"Queen of the Hi-Ace" – 4:15#"Road" – 5:44#"Gum Meet Mother" – 5:00...
(2003) - The Black Flux (2008)
- The Agent That Shapes the Desert (2011)
With Cadaver
Cadaver (band)
Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...
- DisciplineDiscipline (Cadaver Inc. album)Discipline is the third album by the Norwegian death metal band Cadaver, but was released under the moniker Cadaver Inc. It is particularly notable for the vocal contributions of two Norwegian extreme metal figures - Bard "Faust" Eithun and Fenriz...
(2001) - NecrosisNecrosis (album)Necrosis is the fourth and final album by the Norwegian death metal band Cadaver. A video was released for the song "Decomposed Metal Skin". Design and Illustration by Justin Bartlett: -Track listing:# "Necro as Fuck" – 3:24...
(2004)
Guest appearances
- FleuretyFleuretyFleurety is a Norwegian avant-garde metal band. The band was formed in 1991 by Svein Egil Hatlevik and Alexander Nordgaren.-History:The band released their first demo Black Snow in 1993. After that came the 7" EP A Darker Shade of Evil in 1994, released via the English label Aesthetic Death Records...
, Department of Apocalyptic AffairsDepartment of Apocalyptic AffairsDepartment of Apocalyptic Affairs is the second album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Fleurety. The band used many guest musicians from the Norwegian music scene.-Track listing:#"Exterminators" – 6:50#"Face in a Fever" – 6:16...
(2000) - UlverUlverUlver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...
, Blood Inside (2005) - ZweizzZweizzZweizz is the primary performing alias of Norwegian musician and composer Svein Egil Hatlevik .Hatlevik started using the Zweizz alias in 2003 after leaving the Norwegian black metal group Dødheimsgard. According to Hatlevik, Zweizz should be considered a one man band, not a solo project...
, The Yawn of the New AgeThe Yawn of the New AgeThe Yawn of the New Age is the debut album by the Norwegian electronic/noise/avant-garde metal artist Zweizz.All music and lyrics are created by Svein Egil Hatlevik, except "Blacker Than Darkness", which is an adaptation of the song by the same title, written by Norwegian black metal group...
(2007) - DarkthroneDarkthroneDarkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...
, F.O.A.D.F.O.A.D.F.O.A.D. is the twelfth album by the Norwegian band Darkthrone. Released in September 2007, the album is a further shift from Darkthrone's black metal roots, expanding on the punk-oriented style introduced on their previous album, The Cult is Alive. It also features some parts that are similar to...
(2007)