Asgeir Mickelson

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Asgeir Mickelson (also known as Verdens Beste Trommis and Høvdingen) is a Norwegian musician. Although primarily a drummer, Mickelson has stated that he considers himself a musician above a drummer, and is also a guitarist and bassist.

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[edit] Biography

He has stated on his official message board that he started playing guitar roughly around 1982[1], and switched to drums in 1988-1989.[2] He took two drum lessons in 1991, and is otherwise self taught. He began playing guitar again in late 2002[3] and has stated on his forum that he has been recording solo thrash metal.[4] He has also said that he is working on a doom metal album similar to the works of Candlemass. To this date he has only been employed as a drummer in all of the bands he is/has been a member of excluding Borknagar on their album Epic, where he played drums, bass, and performed the guitar on the track The Weight Of The Wind.[5]

Mickelson has been a member of several metal bands, among which the best known ones are Spiral Architect which he co-founded, and Borknagar. He has also contributed session drums and live drumwork for several bands and artists, including Ihsahn's first solo album The Adversary and the albums Visions From The Spiral Generator and The Focusing Blur by Vintersorg. He most recently joined the Norwegian death metal band, Thornbound as drummer and is also playing session drums for Norwegian/English black metal band, Code.

Aside from his work as a musician, Mickelson is also a graphic designer. He designed the artwork for the last three Borknagar albums, and is currently designing the artwork for Scariot's forth-coming full length. He is a web designer as well and is currently working on a Norwegian drummer website entitled Blastbeat.no which will feature various drummers from the Extreme Metal world, including such men as Jan Axel Blomberg, Trym Torson, Frost, Tjodalv, Horgh, Bård Faust and himself.

He is also owner of Multimono recording studios in Norway, where he produces and engineers recordings, including the latest Scariot album[6]. He has had such bands as Scariot, Twisted Into Form, Red Harvest, Solefald, Extol, Gravferd, and Myoclon record on its premises. John Jacobsen of Sturmgeist also recorded his Gothenburg metal album there.

Outside of music, he is responsible for the release of a Norwegian poker magazine entitled, Norsk pokermagasin.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Borknagar

[edit] Code

  • Forthcoming Full-Length

[edit] Enslavement Of Beauty

  • Megalomania (2001)

[edit] Highland Glory

  • Live session drummer (2003)

[edit] Ihsahn

[edit] Lunaris

  • Session drummer (May-October 1999)
  • Creative Destruction Demo (2001)
  • The Infinite (2002)

[edit] Myoclon

  • Forthcoming Full-Length

[edit] Scariot

  • Momentum Shift (2007)

[edit] Spiral Architect

[edit] Sturmgeist

  • Live session drummer (2005)

[edit] Testament

  • Live session drummer

[edit] Thornbound

  • Forthcoming Full-Length

[edit] Vintersorg

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Extremedrumming.net - April 2006 - Guitar and bass playing thread" April, 2006.
  2. ^ "Extremedrumming.net - April 2006 - I was just wondering... thread" April, 2006.
  3. ^ "Extremedrumming.net - April 2006 - Guitar and bass playing thread" April, 2006.
  4. ^ "Extremedrumming.net - April 2006 - Whoa! thread" April, 2006.
  5. ^ "Borknagar official webpage - June 2004 - Epic album details" June, 2004
  6. ^ "Extremedrumming.net - January 2007 - Update, January 07 thread" January, 2007.

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