Return is a Norwegian rock band from Stange

Stange

is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebyen.-Name:...

, Hedmark

Hedmark

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and Värmland County. The...

. The band started in 1980, and was in its prime in the late 1980-

80s

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 and early 1990-

90s

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. In this period they had several singles on the Norwegian hit charts and were among the bestselling bands in the country. In 1993 the band took a break, but came back in 2001 with a collection and some gigs. In 2005 they released a new studio album, and in 2008 they released another collection which also includes a DVD with shots from a concert in Hamar in 2007.

The band's musical style has gone through minimal changes through almost three decades; they've kept most of the typical 80s rock, with a substantial amount of socalled power ballads.

The band have hits in their native Norway and in other countries such as Switzerland.

The band

• Knut Erik Østgård: vocals and guitar
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• Steinar Hagen: guitar and chorus
• Tore Larsen: bass
  Bass guitar
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   and chorus
• Øyvind Håkonsen: drums
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In addition, Magnus Østvang has contributed on synthesizer

Synthesizer

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 and chorus.
Henning Ramseth was for a longer period with the band as a supplement musician on keyboards and guitar (Henning Ramseth has his own band, Ram-Zet

Ram-Zet

Ram-Zet is an extreme metal/avant-garde metal band formed in Norway in 1998. It began as a one-man project by singer and guitarist Zet, which later evolved into a full-grown band with the arrival of Küth and Solem , leading to the release of Ram-Zet's debut album Pure Therapy in September...

).

Albums

• To the Top (1987)
• Attitudes (1988) CBS
• Straight Down the Line (1989) CBS
• Fourplay (1990) Sony/Columbia
• V (1992) EMI
• Return (2005) MTM

Collections

• Replay (1991)
• Return (Best of…) (2000) Sony
• Return (Live) (2000)
• Best of…both worlds (2008)

External links

• Results in the Norwegian hitlists -in Norwegian VG
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• short review in Norwegian Dagbladet
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• The band's homepage