Ancestral Legacy
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Bio
Norwegian dark/goth/doom metal band, present style and line-up was established in 2002, prior to that the band played more symphonic black metal.
First demo in the new style was "Of Magic Illusions", released Spring 2003, followed by "NOvember" later the same year and "Goodbye Reality the year after. Except for a homemade DVD release in 2005 the band was low on activity until mid 2007 when a recording session started.
A 5 track EP "Trapped Within The Words" was released in April 2008, the album "Nightmare Diaries" is out in late Spring 2009 on the new label Femme Metal Records. After the recording vocalist Elin had to leave the band due to an injury after a car crash. She was replaced by the Mexican chica Isadora Cortina.
About
Ancestral Legacy is a continuation of the original band Permafrost that saw it's birth the last days in 1995. Around 1998/99 and the inclusion of keyboardist Øyvind Rosseland to the original line-up of Eddie Risdal (Guitars, vocals) and Kjell-Ivar Aarli (Bass, vocals) the band changed their name to the slightly more sophisticated Ancestral Legacy.
A couple of demos were cut in 2000 and 2002 before both Rosseland and Aarli left the band. Risdal took the opportunity to lead the band in an new direction, letting out the keyboards and instead include female vocals, adding Elin Anita Omholt behind the microphone. The other new additions were Børre Iversen (drums), Tor Arvid Larsen (guitars) and Anton Dead, aka Atle Johansen (bass). Three more demos were cut in 2003 and 2004 before the band shoot their first music video for the song "Crash Of Silence" in late 2004. On the live scene there has been less activity than prefered, but the highlight stands as the participation on the biggest showcase/festival in Norway, by:Larm, in Stavanger, February 2005.
Drummer Børre Iversen left the band late 2005, and the band was inactive for several months until the replacement was found in Ciffe a.k.a. Christopher Vigre in the Autumn 2006. The band spent the latter half of 2007 recording 14 songs and in January and February 2008 these were mixed and mastered by Knut Magne Valle in his studio, where he has produced bands like his own Arcturus, Rotting Christ, Ulver and Norwegian Grammy winners Mayhem. The five track EP "Trapped Within The Words" was released in April 2008. Vocalist Elin left the band in the Autumn the same year and was replaced by Isadora Cortina from Mexico. The album "Nightmare Diaries" will be released by the new UK label Femme Metal Records late Autumn 2009.
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