11.10.08 Gig at Checkpoint Charlie, Stavanger confirmed
Yet another gig is confirmed, at Checkpoint Charlie, Stavanger 20.11.08.

14.09.08 Christmas gig confermed!
Pictures of Pain will play live Saturday 13. Desember at Flytten, Haugesund togther with the swedish metalband In Mourning. We will play a lot of new stuff this evening. More information about the event can be read here:
Karmoygeddon
Heavymetal.no

24.08.08 Mixing
We are now in the mixing-prosess. Drums are finished, and the rest will be done during the next few weeks. We really looking forward to get the result! 8 Tracks are been recorded, some of the old ones have been recorded again, and some new tracks have been added. These tracks will be on the record:
Final State
Betrayal 
Deviator
Far Beyond
Eternal Rage
Sign of Times
The Reckoning
Years of Disgrace

Next step will be to do a gig or two during autumn. Stay tuned for updates!

02.08.08 SUMMER UPDATE
Hello everyone!! We are SO sorry for not having updated our webpage lately. There has been so much stuff going on now; like a tour for one of our band members, summer holidays, computer problems ++++++. Well...finally, here's a small update just to let our fans know that we are still alive:-)
Now for the news; We have a little bit of vocals left to finish in the studio. We are hopefully getting it all done this week, and then it's just a matter of mixing it, and we should be all set.
We are also planning to get out there and play a local live gig some time this fall. We will have to get back to you on the details.
That's it for now, but we promise to keep in touch! Cheers, have a great summer!

29.04.08 STUDIO UPDATE
We have been quite busy with work, conserts ect for the last few weeks, so there has been less time for studio-work. But now, we have finished about 70 % of the vocals. On Friday we will have our first "practice" together since we started recording. Hopefully we will decide how to do the remaining details based on the remaining vocals work. So far things have worked out really well, and we really look forward to completing the work !

25.03.08 ALL INSTRUMENTS ARE NOW FINISHED RECORDED
Yesterday, Rune played all guitar solos. We also started the recording of the vocals. All clean vocals were done at the end of the day for two of the songs. Our producer, Stein Roger Sund in Black dimension studio, has made a studio report on the work so far. Take a look here.

21.03.08 ONLY SOLO's AND VOCALWORK LEFT
By now, we are finished with all drums, bass, rythm guitars and lead guitar. Only guitar solos and vocals are left, so things have worked out really well in the studio. Solos will be recorded on forthcomming Monday, and thereafter the vocalwork will start. So far, we're really pleased with the result!

15.03.08 MORE UPDATES FROM STUDIO
Things working out really well in Black Dimension studio. Monday, Roy recorded all the bas lines, and today we've finished one of two rythm guitars. We'll continue with the second rythm guitar on forthcoming Monday.     

06.03.08 STUDIO REPORT 
Frode has now completed the drum recordings in studio. The next step will be recording of the bass and rythm guitars. There won't be any recordings this weekend due to other activities in the studio, but hopefully we will be back for more work next weekend. Stay tune for more studio updates!

Frode doing drum sections in studio 

 
13.02.08 VOTE FOR PICTURES OF PAIN 
Help Pictures of Pain to become one of the bands to be playing at this years RaumaRock-Festival. Click on the logo above, and give your support by voting on Pictures of Pain's track "Final State". Thanks.

 And finally, Pictures of Pain can introduce a new second guitarist; Arne Marton Tangjerd. He is now a full member of the band, and will be a part of the upcomming studio work, starting 27th of February. 

07.02.08 Vote Pictures of Pain to RaumaRock_Festival! 
Pictures of Pain are one of total 25 bands that have been picked out in final voting for RaumaRock Festival 2008. RaumaRock is Mid-Norways biggest outdoor festival, taking place at Aandalsnes. The festival has been happening for many years already, and had 7000 visitors last year. The 5 bands with most votes, will be play at this years RaumaRock Festival, to take part first weekend of August.

Show your support, and give your vote here. In advance - Thanks in advance!

As some of you may have discovered, we offer different types of merchandise,including T-shirts, sweathers and girlies. For further information, take a look at the link "Merchandise".      

11.01.08 Preparing for studio-work
We continue to work on the fourthcoming full length album. We start recording within the next 2 months. All recordings will be done in Black Dimension Studio by Stein Sund - the man behind the production of our two demoes back i 2005 and 2006. It seems likley that 8 songs will be recorded, and it has been really hard to sort out the songs that won't be on the record.

22.12.07 Merry Christmas
 Pictures of Pain want to wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and all the best for the NEW YEAR! We also want to thank all of you that has supported us during 2007. It has been a great year, with many successful gigs! The main thing next year is recording of a fullength. As earlier mentioned, hopefully we will start the work early March.

05.12.07 Still Working
At this moment, we are still working to improve the songs that will be on the full-length record that we suppose starting to work with early March next year. We are quite close to a desission regards which songs that will be recorded, and are now working with details to improve the songs even more.

We are also checking out a new guitarist at this moment. Hopefully he will fit into the band both musically and sosially. - Time will show!

02.11.07 Sad News.... 
Despite to lack of time, Jan Gunnar Tangen ain't no longer a member of the band. He has done a real good job for us at all our live performances, and we would like to thank him for his job in the band. He is a great guy to work with, and we wish him all well in the future.

25.10.07    2 Live-clips from Island of Rock Festival 20.07.07 added! 
2 live clips from Island of Rock Festival are now added on Pictures of Pain's MySpace - site. Feel free to take a look, by clikcking on the "MySpace" link above!

12.10.07 Live pictures
Due to problems with the web-computer, the site hasn't been updated for a while. But now everything seems ok. We are still working with new material, and it goes real well so far! It seems that the problem will be to pick out the songs that won't be included on our upcoming full-length cd early next year. But that's only a "good problem" indeed.

We have also added some live-shots from the gig at Island of Rock, back in July. Take a look at the "PICTURES" link above! Thanks to Ola Gytri for the photoes!


31.08.07 New live review
The norwegian metal magazine Rimfrost, have made a review of this years Karmoygeddon Metalfestival, where Pictures of Pain where one of the bands. We received an excellent review for our show. Take a look here, for further information. (The report is written in norwegian)
A big hail goes to Anita Niflheim, for sending us a copy of the magazine. 
The review is also added under the "Review"-link. 

15.08.07 Summer holiday
Due to summer holidays, we haven't practised since our last gig, late July. But hopefully we will be back in "normal-modus" from next week. We've several plans for the coming months. First of all we will work even harder with new material, producing even more songs etc. Later on we're planing to do a full-length recording. Stay tuned for more updates.   

21.07.07 Festival?
 The guys behind Island of Rock "Made it again". Pictures of Pain where one, beyond many local bands, that were interrupted in one song. We were so "lucky" that we obtained to play 2,3 songs, before the orginizers pulled out the cables. Ordinary we should have played on thursday, but among others there "wasn't time" for it, so we tried again yesterday. 45 minutes became 10 minutes...... Hail to the professional staff at the festival. - - NEVER AGAIN! - IT'S A BIG SHAME FOR BOTH BANDS AND SUPPORTERS!

We feel very sorry for all of you that were there and supported us (2 days and 2,3 songs for only 800 Norwegian krones!) We are really sorry for this. YOU ARE THE BEST, and we are REALLY THANKFUL for your support. We will come back, even stronger, so stay tuned!     

20.07.07 SORRY...
Due to "bad organizing" (to many bands in to short time) we had to "move" our show at Island of Rock untill tomorrow, FRIDAY 20.07.07... We feal REALLY SORRY for all of you that came today, and didn't get the show. We hope everyone understand that this is beyond our reach.  And for you that only bought tickets for Thursday (when we ordinary should have played) -please contact one of the band members, and we will arrange a free enter at our live show Friday.    

26.06.07 ISLAND OF ROCK AND NEW MATERIAL
We will be playing on Thursday 19 of July on Karmoy's new festival "Island of Rock". Tickets are now available at Scanticket or at local Shell-stations. There are also camping-possibilities at the festival-area. Support the festival, and BE THERE!

At this moment, we're also working with new materials. 2 brand new songs are made since our last performance at Karmoygeddon Metalfestival in May. There's only some lyric-works left, and they're completed. Hopefully, at least one of these songs will be played live for the first time at the Island of Rock Festival.   

04.06.07 ISLAND OF ROCK FESTIVAL
Pictures of Pain are confirmed to be one of the bands, playing at Island of Rock Festival 19-21 of July. For further informations, please visit the festivals' official website:
  

29.05.07 CONGRATULATIONS!
Jan Gunnar and Marion became proud parents during the holiday. We congratulate with the new family-member, a little boy. Well done ;-) 

14.05.07 FIRST REVIEW FROM KARMOYGEDDON
 Heavymetal.no have made a review from Karmoygeddon Metal Festival. Yet another great live-review. To read the review of Pictures of Pain's gig, take a look here. The review is written in Norwegian. 

11.05.07 GREAT REVIEW OF GIG - NORWEGIAN FINAL - WACKEN METAL BATTLE
One of the bigest metal-zines in Norway, METAL-NORGE.COM have made a review of the Norwegian Wacken Metal Battle in Trondheim 23.03.07. Pictures of Pain got 8/10 point for the performance. Take a look at the review here: www.metal-norge.com    

08.05.07 SUCCESSFULL KARMOYGEDDON 2007
 Karmoygeddon Metalfestival was a great success! 550 visitors Friday, and 600 Saturday. The festival was a big party for everyone, and we had a real great time! 

As you may know, we played Saturday. We've added some pictures from the gig, take a look at the link "Pictures". 

A big hail goes to the organizers, Roald and Magnar for filming/photoes, and Mr Heavy Metal -Rune Andersen, for sending some of his pictures.  
And at last: Thanks to all of you that were at the festival and showed your great support! THANKS!
   

04.05.07 KARMOYGEDDON
Today and tomorrow is the biggest metal-weekend at Haugalandet. Karmoygeddon Metal Festival is one of Norway's biggest Metal-festivals, and we are happy to be a part of this years festival. We will be playing tomorrow, SATURDAY 18:30.   
Show your support for the organizers, that's doing a great job, and the metal-venue at Haugalandet, and be there! 

26.04.07 CHANGED DAY ON KARMOYGEDDON
PICTURES OF PAIN will be playing SATURDAY 05.05.07 INSTEAD of friday on this years Karmoygeddon Metalfestival. Unfortunately 1349 had to cancel their gig, but the organizers have found a very good replacement for them. The local black metal band Throne of Katarsis will replace our originally "friday-gig", and we will be playing Saturday 18.30 o'clock. 

For further information, playorder ertc, please visit Karmoygeddon's homepage. 

16.04.07 REVIEW FROM THE CONSERT PICTURES OF PAIN & RED HARVEST
The norwegian metalwebzine Eternal Terror have made a review of the consert 09.03.07 at Hellion/Playground, Kopervik. Take a look here.  

10.04.07 SOME MORE PICTURES FROM TRONDHEIM
Some unserious pictures from Trondheim have been added. Take a look under the link "Pictures".
No practice this week, Frode has sold his drum-set, and we are waiting for his new one. Frode: We want to practice!!! "Be quick - or be d..d..."  

28.03.07 PICTURES AND REVIEW FROM WACKEN METAL BATTLE, TRONDHEIM ADDED
We had a faboulous weekend in Trondheim! A fantastic place, great people and a lot of good music! We got an unexpected problem, just a few days before the gig. The wife to one of our guitarist, Jan Gunnar, was inlaid at the hospital, and flown to Haukeland Hospital just 2 days before the gig. Therefore we have to "replace" him within any prewarning. A big hail goes to Arne Marton Tangjerd who helped us out of the problem and did a great job! Really impressive work by this young lad! -Thanks a lot! We also want to thank Magnar Kvaloy for filming, photoes etc, the organizers of the arrangement (Zone), Blæst, Eternal Terror webzine (Rune Grande) and all of you that made the evening just great! 

We are pleased with our performance, due to the unexpected problems we got just a few days before the gig. A review of the several bands are done by Eternal Terror Webzine and can be read here. 
Pictures of the event have been added - take a look at our pictures-link. (Some of them are taken by Rune Grande from Eternal Terror Webzine - a big hail!). Pictures of all bands can be seen here.     

More pictures from the gig, and some party-pics will come soon. 

15.03.07 NEW REVIEW
Yet another great review of our second demo. This time the review is done by Eternal-Terror Webzine. The review has been added under our "Review"-link, and can also be read here. The review is written in Norwegian.

13.03.07 WACKEN METAL BATTLE
8 bands will compete in the first ever NORWEGIAN FINAL at BLÆST, Trondheim FRIDAY 23.03.07. The winner will be representing Norway at this summers Wacken Open Air Festival, Germany.
For more info about the bands, take a look here: Heavymetal.no (Norwegian)  
For more info; click on the picture below: 

12.03.07 PICTURES FROM FRIDAYS' GIG ADDED
Pictures from the gig on Friday are now been added under the "pictures" link. A big hail to all of you who were at the show, and spesial thanks to Magnar, Roald and Arian for pictures and film! 

And now it's only some days left to the next gig, the Norwegian Final, "Wacken Metal Battle" at Blæst, Trondheim  23.03.07. 

26.02.07 NEW GIG ADDED
Pictures of Pain will replace Thundra, as support for the Norwegian metalband Red Harvest at Playground, Kopervik, friday 9th of March. 

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond their control, Thundra were forced to cancel the gig. - BUT we are sure that the band will be back as soon as possible, even stronger, and wish them all the luck for their comming work. 

This will be our first consert at Karmoy. Be There!

23.02.07 WACKEN _BATTLE 

Pictures of Pain are one of total 8 bands selected to compare in Norway's WACKEN METAL BATTLE, to take part in Trondheim FRIDAY 23th of Mars. 
More info to come soon.

29.01.07 REVIEW OF OUR SECOND DEMO
Heavymetal.no have made a review of our second demo "From the Ashes" The review can be read here, or under the "Review"-link.

12.01.07 TICKETS AVALABLE FOR KARMOYGEDDON METALFESTIVAL
All bands for Karmoygeddon Metalfestival 4-5th of May are now booked. There will be total 10 bands playing live this weekend, 5 each evening, and we will be playing at Friday. We hope to see as many of you there as possible! For tickets, and recent uptates click here. A little update about the festival can also be read here. Still more to come!

29.12.06 REVIEWEVLINK UPDATED
The review link has been updated.
We would also like to thank all of you that have been supporting the band during 2006. A big hail to all of you that have been on the concerts, the guys behind Karmoygeddon and Stein Roger Sund especially for the great work for the growing metal scene in our area!
2006 has been a very exciting year for us, and we really look forward to 2007. A year we suppose would be even better, and yet another big step forward for the band.

So to all of you, take care and all the best wishes for 2007!
"Do it right - Do it Metal!" 

22.12.06 NEW REVIEW
A review of the compilation-cd "Metal from Haugaland" has been added on Heavymetal.no. 
And to all of you; enjoy the holiday and thanks for your support during the year!

19.12.06 NEW MYSPACE SONG ADDED
As our "Christmas-gift" to you, we've added a new song at our MySpace profile. This song, "Final State", is the song that's on Karmoygeddon's compilation cd "Metal from Haugaland" released November - and on our second demo "From the Ashes". The song can be heard, but not downloaded. Take a look at our MySpace profile in the menu to listen.         

18.12.06 HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!
Pictuires of Pain wish all of you a pleasent and happy Cristmas! We'll have our last practice before Christmas-eve, tomorrow. So to all of you; take care and thanks for your suport so far!
  

12.12.06 NEW LINK ADDED
A new link "Discography" is added. 
As you'll see, according to the recording of our song to the "Metal from Haugaland" cd, we also recorded another song "From the Ashes". These two songs made our second demo "From the Ashes".   

08.12.06 THE FIRST BANDS CONFIRMED FOR NEXT YEARS KARMOYGEDDON METALFESTIVAL
Beside Pictures of Pain, the first bands for the next Karmoygeddon Metalfestival, are confirmed. Kamelot and Doro are among the bands already confirmed, so it looks like it's gonna be a real great line-up! A big hail to Karmoygeddon for their excellent work, bringing the "Metal to Haugaland"! For further information about the first bands, and updates about the last bands, please visit the festivals own homepage. 

27.11.06 REVIEWS 
A review of the compilation-cd "Metal from Haugaland" have been added at Eternal Terror's website. Take a look here. (It's written in Norwegian). Yet another review can be written at Aske metalzine. (also in Norwegian)
A little "update" from Karmoygeddon is also added at heavymetal.no. This article is also written in Norwegian, and the first bands for the festival are announced in this article. (Among theese, Kamelot). We also recomend you to take a look at Karmoygeddons official homepage for further band-updates. 

17.11.06 LIVE-PICTURES FROM THE RELEASE-PARTY
We've added some live-pictures from the "Metal from Haugaland" release-party at Byscenen 04.11.06. The pictures can be seen under our "picture"-link. A big hail goes to Erik Westerlund from Zeno Morf, one of the bands performing this evening, for sending us the pictures! Cheers!

06.11.06 PICTURES OF PAIN TO PLAY AT KARMOYGEDDON METALFESTIVAL 07
Due to the releaseparty for the "Metal from Haugaland" held at Byscenen on Saturday, we were voted by the public to be the band playing at Karmøygeddon Metal Festival. A big hail to all of you that wanted Pictures of Pain to be the band from the compilation-cd, to be playing at next years festival! We also want to thank Karmoygeddon for yet another good arrangement. Also a big cheers to the producer and metal entusiast Stein Roger Sund. We salute you! And at least, to all of you that were at the party. You were just great! For more information, take a look at Karmoygeddons Homepage. 

We also want to request you to give your support for the great work done by the Karmoygeddon-guys and Stein Roger Sund, and buy the "Metal from Haugaland"-cd out now! The cd can be bought at most of the music stores at this area, or ordered directly from Karmoygeddons homepage. The cd includes 11 different bands from Haugalandet. The level of the bands are, in our opinion, real impressive! 

3.11.06 THE DAY BEFORE THE DAY!
Tomorrow is the day that we been waiting for, Karmoygeddons release-party for the cd "Metal from Haugaland". We hope most of you have the possebilety to join the party!
We want to thank Karmoygeddon and producer Stein Roger Sund from Black Dimension Studio, for an excellent job, as always.
we really look forward to the party, and promise to do our best!
Some general info:  
Year-rate: 18 years.
CC: 100 NOK
7 bands will be playin'
Door opens 19.30
First band will play 20.00 
Be there!

28.10.06
Less than a week left to the release-party for the "Metal from Haugaland" cd at Byscenen. We've just received information that we will be the last band playing this evening. (no. 7). This will be a real metal-party- so for you that like metal: Do it rigtht- Be there!
More information about the event can be read at Karmoygeddon's homepage and at Heavymetal.no.    

12.10.06 BAND PROFILE AT "MYSPACE"
An article of Karmoygeddons' compilation-cd "Metal from Haugalandet" can be read at Heavymetal.no's site. Take a look here. (The article is written in Norwegian) 

06.10.06 BAND PROFILE AT "MYSPACE"
We've just created a band-profile at MySpace.com. This is one of Internet's bigest sites. Take a look at our profile here, or click on the "MySpace"button in the menu. This is only a "start" setup, and more stuff will be addes soon. Feel free to add coments, your profile etc if you or your band also have a MySpace-profile. Have a nice weekend!    

04.10.06 NEW GIG
Pictures of Pain will be one of the bands, performing at Byscenen Saturday, 4th November. This concert is the Release-party for Karmoygeddons Compilation Cd, continuing a lot of local bands, like Pictures of Pain. This is a great opportunity to see many local metal-bands live in on evening! For further information, visit Karmoygeddons homepage.  

02.10.06 CONGRATULATIONS TO RUNE AND TORUN
A new Fredriksen (and guitarist?) is born! Congratulations goes to Rune and Torun from the bandmembers. 

28.09.06 FESTIVALGIG CANCELLED
We've just received a message from Rune, that they are on their way to the hospital, accelerating the birth of their coming child. Due to this, we have to cancel tomorrows gig. 

We wish Rune and Torun all the best, for the coming birth!    

25.09.06 FESTIVAL-PROGRAM
There have been some changes in the festival-program. We will play earlier than first announced. We will be playing 22.00 o'clock, Friday 29 Sept. 
Here are the program for the 2-days festival:

20.09.06 JUST A LITTLE UPDATE
Just one week left to the festival-gig. Unfortunately, our bass-player Roy Ostrem will be on vacation this weekend 29-30 September. But stein Roger Sund (Thundra, and the producer of our demoes) will replace Roy for this gig. We will be the last band out (of 6) on Friday 29 September. BUT we must have a little reservation, due to approaching birth for one of the members. 

04.09.06 NEW GIG CONFIRMED
Pictures of Pain will take part in a nationwide festival called "Ukjentfestivalen". The first part of the festival have already been hold in Oslo in May. Next weekend, the festival continues in Trondheim, and thereafter it will take place in Haugesund Friday 29 - Saturday 30 September, with Pictures of Pain among the line-up! Take a look at the festival's official webzite for further info.
  
More details will follow real soon.

18.08.06 NEW SONG AND BACKSTAGE-PICTURES ADDED
One brand new song was produced during last week. Some lyrics are still left, but hopefully this will be finished real soon. Some backstage pictures after the Metz-gig have also been added under the "picture" link.   

01.08.06 FINISHED RECORDING
The studio work has been finished for a while. One of the songs will be chosen to be on Karmoygeddon's compilation cd - wich will be released during November. The recording went well, and Stein Sund once again did an excellent job as producer! Some pictures from the studio recording can be seen under "Pictures". More updates etc will come, so stay tuned for the summer!  

13.07.06 STUDIO UPDATE
Yesterday afternoon, we started the recording of 2 brand new songs. All drums, bass and rythm guitars were added yesterday, and today, we will do the rest of the recordings (solos and vocals). 
"Final State" and "From the Ashes" are the titles of the new songs. One of them will be on Karmoygeddon's compilation cd which will be released this autumn. For further information, please visit Karmoygeddons homepage. 
The recordings are done at Black Dimension Studio, by Stein Roger Sund. 

06.07.06 STUDIO DATES
Live pictures from Metz added. Theese can be seen at link "Pictures".   

03.07.06 STUDIO DATES
We have now decided the studio dates for our fourthcomming recording. We will be recording 2 or 3 songs, and one of theese will be on Karmøygeddons compilation cd that will be announced this autumn. The record-dates will be Wednesday 12 July-13/14 July and will take part in Black Dimension studio where our debut-demo was recorded. Producer will be Stein Roger Sund. We really look forward to do our second studio recording. There will also be a concert arrangement according to the cd-release. More updates will come on this site. 

We apologize that no pictures/soundclips from our debut gig haven't been added yet, but this will come, so stay tuned!    

19.06.06 PICTURES OF PAIN IN STUDIO AGAIN!
First of all, we have to say some words about our debut-gig at Metz. It was a great live-start for the band. A lot of people, and a succsessfully arrangement by the boys from Karmoygeddon! Thanks! Pictures from the gig will be added real soon.

Then some other good news! Pictures of Pain have been asked by Karmøygeddon to take part in their fourthcomming cd, which will be released late summer/early autumn this year. We will record one of our newest songs in studio in mid of July. More info will come.      

30.05.06 DEMO OF THE WEEK IN SLAM HOURS METAL SHOW- BELGIUM
Our debut demo, was selected as "la demo de la semaine" (the DEMO OF THE WEEK) in Slam Hours Metal show - Belgium. The band and demo were for the first time presentated during 2 shows, 23.04.06 (Guardian of Tears) and 25.04.06 (Betrayal & Years of Disgrace). Thanks to Francis Leduc in Slam Hours Metal show for showing some great interest for the material!

By know, there are only a few days left to the concert at METZ (Lille Byscenen), Saturday 3. of June.      

20.05.06 ALL DEMO SONGS ADDED!!
We have now added ALL 3 SONGS COMPLETE from our demo! These  songs will be out on this homepage only for a limited time, so you can be able to know some of the songs that we will play at METZ Saturday 3 of June. You will find the songs under the Media-link. Enjoy!

18.05.06
Some general information about our debut gig has been added at Karmoynett.no. The article can be read here. (It's in Norwegian)

16.05.06
Only 2 and a half week left to the debut gig at Metz, Haugesund. We are almost agreed upon which songs we want to play. It's not a big secret that all of the songs on our demo will be played, among some never songs, with maybe a "suprise" or two. One thing is for sure, we really lokk forward to the gig. Hopefully many people will be able to come to Haugesund!    

30.04.06 
For about 1 month ago, we received an e-mail from Serbia, from a person that asked for a copy of our demo. He is a webmaster for a big website in Serbia&Montenegro. He have made a review of our demo, and you can find this under the "Review" link. Pointscore: 8 out of 10.

28.04.06 
As you may have discovered, our debut-gig will be 3th of June in Haugesund. The arrangement is by Karmøygeddon, and there will also be another band playing this evening. The band is called Code:Red. As far as we know this is a thrash band". More information can be found at Karmøygeddon's site. (Check out link under or click on "Links")

Today we will have a special practising. We will start at about 6 o'clock this afternoon, and afterwards we will celebrate Frode's 30th birthday! Happy birthday to you from all of us, your oldie, hehe.. We guess he won't be sober today. 

The birthday-boy!

14.04.06 DEBUT GIG
Saturday 3. Juni, we will make our debut gig at METZ (Lille Byscenen) in Haugesund. We really look forward to this gig. We will come back with further information soon on this site. For more information, check out Karmøygeddon`s website.

12.04.06 NEW GUITARIST!
Finally, we have found a new second guitarist! It have been taking some time, but hopefully the band now are completed. The new guitarist is an experienced guitarist. Jan Gunnar Tangen is also the lead-guitarist in MindCrime. He has been practising with the band for a while now, and it really seems to work out in a good way. Further information will come soon.
  

04.04.06 INTERVIEW
An interview of the band has been done by Heavymetal.no. It's in Norwegian, and you will find it under the "Media" link, or here.  

31.03.06 YET ANOTHER REVIEW ADDED
Another rewiew added from the Greek metalzine- Power Play Records. You will find it under "reviews".

16.03.06 THE FIRST REVIEWS ADDED
The first 2 reviews from our demo can now be read under the new link "Reviews"  

28.02.06 SOUNDCLIP FROM THE LAST SONG ADDED
Finaly, we have added a soundclip from the last song on our demo! This song is called Years of Disgrace, and feel free to listen to the soundclip under the "Media"-link.  

17.02.06 A LITTLE UPDATE
We are still working with new materials. This has resulted in total 3 brand new songs so far this year. There are only some lyrics left and they're completed. Musically they are complete already. 

According to the demo. We have got a lot of positive feedback on the outcomming result. A lot of people have asked for the demo also, and that's nice of course. Thanks for your support! We have also got good reviews, for example from the last Scream Magazine, and this will be presentated on this homepage quite soon. And there are still more to come!

We have also been asked about comming gigs. Details will follow later. So there's a lot of exiting things going on in the nearest future!        

20.01.06 YET ANOTHER SOUNDCLIP ADDED!
We have added more sound! 
As you probably know, you already have been able to listen to the whole song "Betrayal" taken from our demo. Now, you can also listen to a soundclip from song number 2; "Guardian of Tears". Take a look at the "Media"-link for further information.    
Feel free to write in the guestbook, or send an e-mail, if you got any opinion on music, homepage or whatever that's related. We apriciate all kinds of constructive feedback from you!

Today we will have a friday practice, with different kind of "liquid-accessories". Hopefully we will complete the last song that we have made also. There are only some small adjustments and some lyric works left. 

13.01.06 SOUND FINALLY ADDED!
Finally, some demo-sound have been added to our site! The song you now can listen to, is the first track on the demo. Please follow the link "sound" for further details. Also a big "hail" to our producer Stein Roger Sund at Black Dimension Studio for an excellent piece of work with the sound on the demo.
We appoligize that there had been a little while since the demo was finished until we present our first sound-shot, but it had been a quiet busy time for us. We have recent started to send out demoes to a few record-labels, and we still want to send some more. Hopefully it will be well received, but we know that there will be some time before we may get some feedback, if we're lucky. The only thing we can do meanwhile, is to wait and see, make more songs and practice even harder. We already have produced yet another new song this year, and we can promise this won't be the last one!

At last, hope you enjoy the song, and we are happy to get any kind of feedback from you as well good as bad. If any of you want a copy of the demo, please contact one of the band members! 

25.12.05
It's nearby the end of 2005, and it's time for a resume. 
After our opinion, it has been a year of growing according to our music-quality, an we really look forward to 2006. Late November, we were in studio and recorded our first demo. We have now finished the cover. 


The 3 songs that we selected for the demo:

1. Betrayal
2. Guardian of Tears
3. Years of Disgrace
All music, made by Pictures of Pain.

07.12.05
As you probably have understood, our demo is now finished. We will now start further work on cover-art etc before sending the promo-package to various record-labels and magazines. Hopefully it will be well received.
And, yes... There will soon be some soundclips added this site.

We have also added some studio pictures. Theese pictures can be seen under the link "Pictures".  

21.11.05
We are happy to anounce that our demo now are finished! It was a really usefull weekend, and all was recorded during Friday-Sunday. On fourthcomming wednesday, we will mix the songs. We are quiet pleaced with the result so far, and we really look forward to bring on some sound-clips to our homepage during the next weeks!

We also want to thank our great producer Stein Roger Sund. We are very pleased with his work. He did an excellent job and we couldn't even get a better producer! Thanks a lot Stein! For further info, check out studio-link at "Links".  

We also want to thank Roald Helmersen for his support during the recording, and for all the practice-recordings he have done before the studio recordings. This have been great help for us! 

And at last; a big CONGRATULATIONS to our guitarist Rune Fredriksen, our producer Stein Roger Sund and the rest of the band Thundra for their recent record deal. All the best wishes, and we really look forward to your cd-release!  

10.11.05
We will start our demo-recording next weekend, 18-20 November. The songs start to sound really well now, so we really look forward to get them on tape with good sound. We are agreed upon which songs we want on the demo. The songs are, Guardian of Tears, Years of Disgrace, and our latest song, that we haven't decided the tiltle on yet. We will bring on more news according to the studio work, how things goes on etc,  during the next few weeks. Hopefully we will be able to bring on some "Soundclips" soon also, so stay tuned! 

25.10.05
Time for some updates again. We have now decided to start the recording of our forthcomming demo 18-20 November. The recording will be done in Black Dimension Studio. This is the same studio that Thundra have used. The recording/mixing will be done by Stein Roger Sund. We are shure that he will do a great job!

We will bring on more news about the recording, which songs that will be on the demo etc. soon.   

03.10.05
On Saturday, we had our longest ever practice. We started about 16.00 and continoued on, only interrupted by a couple of small breaks, until 00.30! A very useful day, indeed. We have also clarified that the studio is vacant in late November/early December. Therefor we will decide which weekend we will record. The demo will include 3 or 4 songs. By now, we are already agree on 2 of the songs that will be on the demo. 

15.09.05
We decided to contact a studio when we practised on Monday. So we will now check if there is any possibility, making a demo in late November. Hopefully the studio is vacant at this moment. If we suceed to get a deal with the studio at this time, we are planning to intensivate our practising from late September until late November. This to get as good result as possible. We have already decided to have a "practice-weekend", Friday 30 September and Saturday 01 Oktober. 

Hopefully we will be able to bring on some good news according to this soon.     

06.09.05
Time for a little update again, for whats's going on right now. 
Since Nils left the band, we have continued the practising as usual. Mainly with only Rune on guitar, but Hans has played some rythm-guitar where it has been needed. This works as a temporary solution, but in the nearest future, we want a new rythm guitarist on permanent basis. We have a couple of names that we may think can do the job, but we haven't stressed this because it sounds pretty good despite of mainly one guitarist. So no guitarist have been tried yet. But one guitarist will come and listen to the band soon, so hopefully we will be able to bring on some news about this in short time. Meanwhile we go on making even more songs, and preparing for comming studio-work and gigs in the future.           

04.08.05
Nils Peder Utne has left the band. 

Due to lack of further inspiration Nils desided to quit. But the band will still continue, and we have made several new songs during the past weeks. (3 brand new songs) Some vocal-work still remains before the songs are finished, but we will prefer to work with this now to get the songs complete. 
Roald Helmersen has also joined for the last practising. Roald doesn't play, but he has a great mind for music, and has worked in studioes etc several times. We will try to make some "live rcordings" with his help during a weekend. (Hopefully late August/early September) We are happy to have his support! 

We will also work to get a replacement for Nils on guitar. Stay tune for further news!  

26.07.05
We practised on Sunday and yesterday, and things start to sound better and better. Rune has been the only guitarist for the last 4 practising, but we have although continued to play the old songs, and have even made a brand new song, so the songlist are growing even bigger. Today Frode went on a holliday/vacation to Sweden, so our next practising will be on forthcoming Monday. 

22.07.05
The wheel keeps turning. We've been practising twice this week, and we have also produced a new song. Musically this song is nearby finished, but we have to work with the lyrics before it's totally completed. According to gigs/demo-recording, it looks by now, that we will get in the studio for a demo-recording in the late summer/autumn. A lot of people have also been asking for some music-materials, so we think this is the most important thing to do first. This is also something we really look forward to do. The main reason for that we haven't done this yet, is that we have been continouing writing songs, and some of the latest songs have been turned out really well, so we've continued this. Due to new band members, the music sound have also changed a little bit from the "old" sound. It's been a harder, more power/"metall-sound" than we had earlier. But we still do many old songs, and will also continue to play some of these in the future.  

04.07.05
On thursday, we will start to intenivate the practising. We looking forward to this, and hopefully, we will be able to bring some "live recorded clips" from the practising on the homepage during the next weeks, so stay tuned! There are even more new materials on it's way!
Untill the clips are ready, we have added a new link "Songs" that shows some of the songtitles.  

16.06.05
The past 2 weeks, and the next week, we haven't been practising, due to hollidays/vacations and other concerts for some of the band members, but we will definitively intensivate our practising at the end of June and during the summer. We then hope to be able to bring on some news about recordind/gigs. Hopefully there will be some live music-clips from a practising added on this site also. We really apoligize that no music have been added, but we have also changed practice-place, so we haven't got our recorder ready yet. But - stay tuned for some metal!  

23.05.05
As you probably see, our new Band-logo is now announced! We're still working to improve colours etc. but the Logo itself is now ready. We are also working to improve the outlook of the homepage, so several changes will be done in a few days.     

19.05.05
The band-logo is now ready, and will be announced next week.  

28.04.05
Last week, we received several logo-suggestions, and the new band-logo is now under construction. Hopefully, it will be announced during next week.    

20.04.05
We had our latest practising on Sunday, and the songs really start to sound better and better. 3 New songs have been made since Rune joined the band, and we started on the fourth on Sunday, so it seems that we won't have any problems producing enough songs after all. The problem so far has rather been the opposite, but because of our priority -to play some of the old material first because of new band members, we haven't stressed the song-writing so far. It always take some extra time in the beginning, when new members are joining, but hopefully it will be worth it.  

04.04.05
We are still working to improve our Homepage. One of the things we are going to do soon is to get a better/improved band - LOGO. 

We are currently practising to get songs to a full playlist. At this moment we have about 15 songs, and are still produsing new materials. More info abouth the songs, and other related news about the band will come soon. 

22.03.05
Welcome to our Homepage! More info, will come soon. The homepage is under construction, but will be updated more soon.