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New Album Out Now! |
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| Location: | Bergen, |
| Country: |  Norway |
| Last Login: | Jun 12, 2008 (79 days back) |
About Me |
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Octavia Sperati - Moonlit Add to My Profile | More Videos HISTORY OF OCTAVIA SPERATI OCTAVIA SPERATI took shape in Bergen (Norway) in 2000, basically as a result of new friendships and common musical preferences. The first line-up consisted of Silje Wergeland (vocals, synth), Trine C. Johansen (bass), Bodil Myklebust (guitars) and Gyri Losnegaard (guitars). Shortly after, drummer Silje Røyseth joined the band. In 2001, Silje met Tone Midtgaard and invited her to replace her on keys, completing the line-up which (with the exception of a Spinal Tap-ish trail of past drummers) equals the band as we know it today. When drummer Silje left the band after only a year, the girls persuaded Hege Larsen from local tundra rock band Östblokk to join forces with them. With a brand new line-up OCTAVIA was honoured to support Enslaved at the release of their ‘Monumension’ album in Bergen in 2001. During the next couple of years OCTAVIA played several gigs in Norway, including major festivals like Hole in the Sky, 1001 Watt (Skien), Ride This Train (Bergen), Rjukan Rock (Rjukan), Slottsfjellfestivalen (Tønsberg), Lost Weekend festival (Askøy) and the Elements of Metal festival (Sandefjord). In 2002 OCTAVIA SPERATI released a self-financed, low budget 5-track demo ‘Guilty'. Early 2005 the debut album Winter Enclosure was finished after signing a record deal with Candlelight Records autumn 2004. In 2004 OCTAVIA recorded the first "Lifelines of Depths" music video, that ran on Metal Svisj, Norwegian channel NRK2's metal video program, for almost 6 months. Rounding off the eventful year 2004, drummer Hege Larsen left the band, and the resisting members immediately started looking for a new drummer. After a few months OCTAVIA found another local drummer, Kristoffer 'Kikken' Risbakk Vegsund - the first male member of the band. At last, “Winter Enclosure” was released on May 9th, 2005. 'Winter Enclosure' was embraced by both critics and audience. OCTAVIA won flattering comparisons to the likes of CANDLEMASS, THE GATHERING and THE THIRD AND THE MORTAL, and top UK hard rock magazine, Kerrang! described the album as ‘Extravagant, dramatic doom with a rock ‘n roll heart.’ OCTAVIA reached top 10 best newcomer acts 2005 in highly important Terrorizer magazine. At home, the readers of the newspaper Bergens Tidende chose ‘Winter Enclosure’ as the best album of the year by a local band. Male drummer Kikken was also delighted to find that he was on TERRORIZERS 10 ten list of “most shaggable females”… Two videos were recorded: ‘Hunting Eye’, which was shot at composer Edvard Grieg's home Troldhaugen, and a second version of ‘Lifelines of Depths’. The latter was A-listed on the English TV channel Scuzz, and also played at VIVA, NBC Giga, NRK2 among others. Both videos made by director Asle Birkeland (Enslaved, Audrey Horne ++). The album being rewarded with great reviews and sales numbers increasing beyond expectations, OCTAVIA now started touring. OCTAVIA's played GoNorth, Aberdeen/Scotland in May followed by UK 'Winter Enclosure Tour' in June 2005. In September OCTAVIA supported metal legends Paradise Lost, followed by a number of own gigs and an appearance at In The City Music in Manchester. In December, OCTAVIA was granted success as support act on Cradle of Filth's UK tour together with legendary Cathedral. A few months into the new year 2006, it turned out that OCTAVIA was once again short of a drummer, and the band decided to dedicate some time and effort into finding the right person for the band. On June 6th 2006, at a split concert with Vulture Industries and Syrach, OCTAVIA introduced their fourth drummer Ivar Alver. Ivar also plays in Trine's side project HUNTING LEAGUE. Preparing the recordings of a new record, OCTAVIA went to Tone's home in Sandefjord in October 2006 to do a pre-production in Morpheus's (Limbonic Art, Dimension f3h) studio MO. Shortly after they started recording their second album. Like with ‘Winter Enclosure’, OCTAVIA used producers Herbrand Larsen and Arve Isdal. Also Bjørnar Nilsen, singer of Vulture Industries and producer of several Bergen bands Helheim, Vulture Industries and Bourbon Flame, assisted during the recording process. Morfeus took part in recording the synth and one of the songs on the album. In addition, Herbrand Larsen collaborated with producer Geir Luedy on the mixing this time. The band hit the road again and supported Amon Amarth and Finntroll in UK and Ireland April 2007. The launch party for the new album “Grace Submerged” took place 16th of May in their home town Bergen at Garage and thereafter Stavanger. UK was once again visited, this time with legendary FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM at Astoria, and then with To-Mera at the Underworld. Octavia will play shows in Norway this autumn, and then hit UK again Nov-Dec. Grace Submerged received fantastic reviews all over. To mention some: Big Cheese 5/5: “The likes of ‘Moonlint’ have that droning, gothic feel that will have fans of bands like Type O Negative almost breaking into a smile while haunting ‘…And then the world froze’ is the sound of a band who are surely destined for even bigger things upon the release of this gorgeous album. Classic Rock 7/10: “.. So leave it to us to day that the rendition of ‘Don’t Believe A Word’ is beautiful: full of sparse piano, mournful strings and sighing vocals. Phil would’ve been proud…. One can’ help but feel that these Norwegian atmospheric doom merchants are on the cusp of something special. BANNERS AND ONLINE SHOPPING! To add the Octavia banner to your profile, copy and paste the codes:
To buy CD GRACE SUBMERGED click image below To buy CD WINTER ENCLOSURE click image below OTHER MERCH: Reviews of GRACE SUBMERGED English www.vampire-magazine.com www.lordsofmetal.nl 77/100 www.hardrockhaven.net 8/10 www.absolutezeromedia.us www.metal-temple.com 4/5 www.metal-observer.coml 8/10 www.nocturnalcult.com www.feastofhateandfear.com www.absolutezeromedia.us Norwegian www.planb.no 4/6 www.ba.no 4/6 www.metalzone.dk 4/6 German www.rockhard.de 7,5 www.metal.de 8/10 Other www.arsmetallia.net 4/5 (French) www.powermetal.pl 8/10 (Polish) Reviews of WINTER ENCLOSURE Norwegian www.bt.no 4/6 www.vg.no 5/6 www.groove.no 5/7 www.ba.no 5/6 www.metal-norge.com 8.5/10 www.heavymetal.no 9/10 www.musiq.no 5/6 www.panorama.no 5/6 English www.smother.net www.live4metal.com www.geocities.com www.metalperspective.com German www.metalius.de www.powermetal.de www.metalnews.de www.feindesland.de Visit the official Octavia Sperati website and sign up to our forum!! |
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Music:Member Since: 10/20/2005Band Website: octavia-sperati.com Band Members: Silje - Vocals Bodil - Guitar Gyri - Guitar Trine Bass Tone - Synth/Keyboards Ivar - Drums Former Members Kikken - Drums Hege S. Larsen - Drums Silje Røyseth - Drums Record Label: Candlelight Records Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Metal) |
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Octavia Sperati confirmed for The Dames Of Darkness Festival |
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We are happy to inform you that we have another UK show coming up. We will be playing at this years Dames Of Darkness Festival in Birmingham.
Cheers
Octavia Sperati
... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Mon, 19 May 2008 06:31:00 PST |
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Pictures from April UK tour |
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Live pictures from our last UK tour has been added to our "My Album" section, more will be added soon.Thanx alot to all of you who have sent us pictures!
And for those of you that did... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:54:00 PST |
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Hey Everyone! |
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| We are now back in Norway after our England tour, and we just want tothank everyone that came to our shows. You were fantastic and made ourgigs special! We also want to thank all the bands that suppor... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PST |
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Street Team: Octavia Sperati wants YOUR help! |
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| Octavia Sperati is establishing street teams!
If you want to be a part of the Octavia team, helping us promoting the band, you may contact us at octavia_sperati@yahoo.no.
For those of y... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:10:00 PST |
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Pictures from Clive Aid |
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Below are some pictures from our gig at Clive Aid at Garage in Bergen last Saturday. Pictures are taken by Noel Buckley http://noelbuckleyimages.com/
We want to thank everyone who came ... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:04:00 PST |
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Danny Cavanagh from dream rockers Anathema joins Octavia Sperati for some select shows |
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| We are happy to announce that Danny Cavanagh from dream rockers Anathema will be special guest to the bands shows in Doncaster and London on our tour in April. Danny will bring his guitar and pla... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:42:00 PST |
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Octavia Sperati & Clive Aid |
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Just a quick note to remind everyone about Clive Aid in Bergen March 29th. Octavia Sperati will play this evening along with Blaze Bayley, Martin Walkyier & friends and The Betties.
Hope ... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:55:00 PST |
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Newly born babies and session musicians |
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| Newly born babies and session musicians:
On our last UK tour Jan-ge Svendsen and Tom-Erik Svendsen, from the Bergen based band Temple Sleep joined us due to the fact that our drummer Ivar's g... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:18:00 PST |
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April 2008 UK Tour |
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Posted by Octavia Sperati on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:23:00 PST |
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PRESS RELEASE FEBRUARY 2008 |
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| PRESS RELEASE FEBRUARY 2008
Nostalgic, poignant and whimsical, OCTAVIA SPERATIS's outstanding debut 'Winter Enclosure' (Candlelight Records) was embraced by both critics and audience when rel... Posted by Octavia Sperati on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:24:00 PST |
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