Arcturus

...are new songs. The album title is in Latin and means "''Harsh Winter's Symphony". This was the only black metal album Arcturus released, though it still contains many of the experimental elements that are seen in their following albums, which...

In this article: Aspera Hiems Symfonia, Constellation, Darkthrone, and Mayhem

...formed in Norway in 1987 under the name Mortem. In 1990, the band changed their name to Arcturus (meaning Bear Guardian), after the Behenian fixed star Arcturus. The band released four official full-length albums. Arcturus has experimented...

In this article: Hellhammer, ICS Vortex, Spiral Architect, Steinar Sverd Johnsen, Dimmu Borgir, Carl August Tidemann, 7 String Guitar, Samoth, and Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg

...of the year in the magazine. In 2007, at a concert in Australia, Simen stated that the concert would be Arcturus' last show. On April 17th, the band officially announced they had disbanded. Most recently, Simen lent his voice to the...

In this article: Dimmu Borgir, Borknagar, Spiral Architect, Lise Myhre, Sideshow Symphonies, ICS Vortex, Terrorizer Magazine, Mustis, and Uystein G. Brun

...of the drummer and founding member Kjetil Manheim. In addition to Mayhem, one of his long-standing bands was the avant-garde metal band Arcturus , which he formed with Steinar Sverd Johnsen in 1987, originally under the name Mortem, and...

In this article: Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg, Mayhem, The Kovenant, Hellhammer, Winds, Dimmu Borgir, Andy Winter, Steinar Sverd Johnsen, and Mortem

The Sham Mirrors is the third full-length album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Arcturus . It was released on April 9, 2002. The Sham Mirrors is a departure from the band's previous albums. It features a much more modern, "outer...

In this article: The Sham Mirrors, La Masquerade Infernale, Mathias Eick, and Ihsahn

...of Immortal and Gorgoroth, and Ivar Bjornson of Enslaved . When Garm of Ulver, Head Control System, and Arcturus joined the project, it brought the band immediate attention. The band never even recorded a demo; they simply asked for a record...

In this article: Borknagar, Asgeir Mickelson, Gorgoroth, Uystein Brun, Otyg, Norwegian death metal, and Norway

My Angel is a 1991 EP by Arcturus . Arcturus's first work published on an actual record label, My Angel represents a halfway point between band leader Steinar Sverd Johnsen's original project Mortem, a death metal band, and Arcturus's later...

In this article: Steinar Sverd Johnsen, Spikefarm Records, True Kings of Norway, and My Angel

...working in four languages - Cree, Greek, Latin and English - Ursa brings two classic stories into the same orbit: Ovid's retelling of Arcturus and Callisto, the basis for the Great Bear constellation, and Bear Woman, a Cree story by the...

In this article: Robert Bringhurst, Human, Bill Reid, Cosmopolitanism, Claude Levi-Strauss, Margaret Atwood, Callisto, and Noam Chomsky

Sideshow Symphonies is an album by the Norwegian avant-garde metal band Arcturus . It was released on September 19, 2005. It is the first to feature Simen "ICS Vortex" Hestnæs as the principal vocalist and Tore Moren as second guitarist, as...

In this article: Sideshow Symphonies, Hydrogen, and Season of Mist

Aspera Hiems Symfonia '95, Constellation '94 and My Angel '91 is a compilation album by the Norwegian black metal band Arcturus . The album contains their first full-length album Aspera Hiems Symfonia (remastered) and two earlier releases,...

In this article: My Angel, Constellation, Aspera Hiems Symfonia, and Aspera Hiems Symfonia/Constellation/My Angel