Biography:

Svartsinn (Jan Roger Pettersen) is an artist from Trondheim, Norway. He creates music of the dark ambient nature and has since 1999.
Over the years Svartsinn has made five full albums and a split. The debut "Devouring Consciousness" was released via Eibon Records in Italy and then all other full albums
via Cyclic Law in Berlin (previously Montreal/Canada) and a split release with Northaunt via Loki/PAS in 2014. His recordings also appear in several compilations, collaborations,
movies, documentaries, and theatre plays. In addition to recordings, Svartsinn performs live frequently - recently also accompanied by cellist Amund Ulvestad.

Svartsinn emerged from the yearning to find a personal outlet and create atmospheric soundscapes that could satisfy the sombre chambers of the soul,
to create moods and states of mind. It is the challenging journey to find atmospheres and moods through dark and obscure soundscapes.

A journey into a world where darkness is all and nothing. It can be emotions, a mind struggle, the ugliness of the world or the imagination taking you on a journey.
In short, the darkness is all around, inside each and everyone of us. It's not the fear of it, it's merely where we want to be, prosper in darkness…