Dismal Euphony is a gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 band from Norway

Norway

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 that mixed styles including death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

, 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 classical music

Classical music

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Biography

The history of Dismal Euphony began in 1992 in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 (Norway

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...

) by bassist Ole K. Helgesen and drummer Kristoffer Vold Austrheim under the name "The Headless Children", a cover band of Slayer

Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...

 and Kreator

Kreator

Kreator is a thrash metal band from Essen, Germany, formed in 1978, but formalized in 1982 under the name Tormentor. They originally performed a speed metal style with Venom influences. Their style of music is similar to their compatriots Destruction and Sodom, the other two big German thrash metal...

. A year later singer Erik Borgen and guitarist Kenneth Bergsagel joined the group.

They changed the name in "Carnal Tomb", then Borgen left the band and Helgesen became the singer/bassist with the female voice of Linn Achre Tveit (Keltziva). Elin Overskott joined the band as a keyboardplayer.

This was the first line-up of "Dismal Euphony", officially formed in 1995. In the same year, the group composed the demo "Spellbound". After this publication, they were signed by Napalm Records

Napalm Records

Napalm Records is an Austrian independent record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock.Originally, Napalm Records focused mainly on black metal acts such as Abigor and Summoning and folk metal bands such as Falkenbach and Vintersorg....

 . Here they produced other albums like Soria Moria Slott, Autumn Leaves - The Rebellion of Tides and the Lady Ablaze-EP (which already features Anja Natasha as female singer).

Later, Dismal Euphony joined Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...

 and released All Little Devils

All Little Devils

All Little Devils is the 3rd studio album by the gothic metal band Dismal Euphony. It was released in 1999, and was the band's first album with Nuclear Blast.- Track listing :# "Days of Sodom" # "Rage of Fire" # "Victory"...

, with the new female singer Anja Natasha.

Their last album is Python Zero. After this release the band split up.

Keyboardplayer Elin Overskott died from a heroin overdose on September 6, 2004.

Final lineup

• Anja Natasha - Vocals
• Ole K. Helgesen - Vocals/Bass
• Frode Clausen - Guitars
• Kristoffer Vold AKA Austrheim - Drums
• Svenn-Aksel Henriksen - Keyboards

Former members

• Erik Borgen (1993, Vocals)
• Kenneth Bergsagel (1993-? Guitars)
• Linn Achre Tveit AKA Keltziva (1994–1998, Vocals)
• Elin Overskott (1994–1998, Keyboards)
• Dag Achre Tveit AKA Boreas (?, Bass)
• Erlend Caspersen
  Erlend Caspersen
  Erlend Caspersen is a Norwegian fingerstyle bassist, known for his work with bands such as Blood Red Throne, The Allseeing I and session jobs for bands such as Vile, Decrepit Birth, and Incinerate...
  
   (2001, bass)

Discography

• Spellbound (Demo, 1995)
• Dismal Euphony (Single, 1996)
• Soria Moria Slott (Full-length, 1996)
• Autumn Leaves - The Rebellion of Tides (Full-length, 1997)
• All Little Devils
  All Little Devils
  All Little Devils is the 3rd studio album by the gothic metal band Dismal Euphony. It was released in 1999, and was the band's first album with Nuclear Blast.- Track listing :# "Days of Sodom" # "Rage of Fire" # "Victory"...
  
   (Full-length, 1999)
• Lady Ablaze (EP, 2000)
• Python Zero (Full-length, 2001)