Tormentor (musician)

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Tormentor
Tormentor
Tormentor
Background information
Origin Norway
Genre(s) Black metal
Instrument(s) Guitars
Label(s) Southern Lord Records
Associated acts Orcustus
Gorgoroth
Desekrator
Gaahlskagg
Norwegian Evil

Tormentor is a black metal musician who is best known for his work as guitarist with the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth.

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[edit] Biography

Tormentor joined Infernus in Gorgoroth in 1996, and participated as guitarist and songwriter on the two Gorgoroth albums Destroyer (1998) and Incipit Satan (2000), both albums released by Nuclear Blast. He toured with Gorgoroth both in Europe and South America. He left the band in 2002[1], but returned for a one-off concert in Bergen, Norway, in 2003.


In addition to his work with Gorgoroth, Tormentor is one of the founding members of Orcustus, together with Taipan, Infernus, and Dirge Rep. Orcustus' debut full-length album will be released in 2008 by Southern Lord Records.


Tormentor also participated on the album Metal for Demons (1998) by the black metal side project Desekrator, featuring members of Gorgoroth, Old Funeral and Enslaved. He has also appeared as bassist on releases by Gaahlskagg, and together with Infernus (as Norwegian Evil) he covered Von's Satanic Blood on a 2005 tribute double 7".


In late 2007, after internal conflicts in Gorgoroth led to the band being split into two conflicting factions, Infernus announced that Tormentor would assist him in the pre-production of his next Gorgoroth album, Quantos Possund Ad Satanitatem Trahunt.[2]

[edit] Current bands

  • Orcustus

[edit] Discography

[edit] Orcustus

  • Demo 2002 (2002)
  • World Dirtnap 7" (2003)
  • Wrathrash 7" (2005)

[edit] Gorgoroth

[edit] Desekrator

  • Metal for Demons (1998)

[edit] Gaahlskagg

  • Erotic Funeral Party I (Split with Stormfront) (1999)
  • Erotic Funeral (2000)

[edit] Norwegian Evil

  • A Norwegian Hail to VON - gatefold double 7" with Amok, Taake and Urgehal) (2005)[4]

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