Samoth

Samoth ( Tomas civil Thormodsæter Haugen ) is a Norwegian metal musicians. He is particularly known as the guitarist of the band Emperor.

Life

In 1991, with Samoth Ihsahn ( Vegard Sverre Tveitan ) the band Thou Shalt Suffer, who played death metal with keyboards. In the same year she was placed on ice; Bassist Ildjarn founded an eponymous project in 1992 helped on its demo Seven Harmonies of Unknown Truths Samoth as a guest singer; Ihsahn and Samoth founded under the influence of Euronymous ( Øystein Aarseth ), the Emperor Group, in the first Samoth Drums and after the introduction of Thorns drummer Faust ( Bård G. Eithun ) played guitar. On a tour with Cradle of Filth, he met Andrea Meyer, whom he later married and with whom he has a daughter. They are now divorced, but she still carries his bourgeois last name.

Together with Count Grishnackh ( Varg Vikernes ) Burzum lived Samoth some time in the basement of the record store Helvete in Oslo, helped him on the Aske EP as a bassist and sat with him the Skjold Church in Vindafjord on fire, for which both 1994 to prison terms were convicted. After that they went to each other at a distance. Samoth described Vikernes as mentally ill and accused him of its views to change constantly; Vikernes countered that he had his mind to Samoth changed after this the police have betrayed everything he knew and described him as a police informer. He threatened Haugen, he will not sit forever in prison, and Haugen should watch what he say when Vikernes would be really insane. In addition, Vikernes accused him of being responsible for his arrest in connection with the Skjold Church, and in the book Lords of Chaos false information regarding his arrest and his relationship with Euronymous to have expressed.

In 1995, on the side project founded by Samoth Zyklon-B, the EP Blood Must Be Shed, 1997 Emperor took the first time more recordings on after also Tchort ( Terje Vik Schei ) and Faust had been imprisoned. 2004, the band Scum was founded in Samoth with fist, Casey Chaos of Amen, Happy Tom of Turbonegro and Cosmocrator plays of Mindgrinder.

2005 Samoth married again, on 23 April 2008 his wife gave birth to their daughter Erin. In 2008 he founded with Cosmocrator of Mindgrinder the band The Wretched End.

Discography

  • See Emperor ( band ) # Discography
  • See Zyklon - B # Discography
  • See cyclone ( band ) # Discography
  • 2004: Valfar, a Windir
  • See Scum ( band ) # Discography
  • See The Wretched End # Discography
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