Elvarhøi søker gitarist med heavy metal i blodet. Vi ønsker å inkorporere tyngre, og mer catchy riffing i gitarspill enn vi har gjort tidligere. Sans for metal-rytmikk er derfor et krav.

PS: Vi vil ikke ha gitar-soloer.

Vi søker også bassist. Her er vi åpne for ganske mye.

Folk med band-erfaring er ønsket, men ikke et krav. Vi vil helst ikke ha leirbål gitarister, og vil ikke snakke med folk som har et repertoar som inneholder Stairway to heaven, knocking on heavens door, Guns n Roses, eller R.E.M. Leirbål- og party-gitarister.... GTFO.

Vi lar oss inspirere av både visemusikk og folk/black/heavy metal.

Ta kontakt på mail: magnus@elvarhoi.com
eller telefon: 48064504

Elvarhøi spiller konsert i lag med Glittertind og Trollfest på STUDiO-festivalen på Chateau Neuf i Oslo den 21 august. Vi spiller gamle slagere, gjestet av gamle medlemmer.

http://studio.studentersamfundet.no/2010/glittertind-trollfest-elvarh%c3%b8y-its-vikingarock-by-gawd/


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I have uploaded two songs from Viser fra Reisen which I have been allowed to release despite the problematic nature of the record as a whole. Please note though, that these tunes are not mixed as loudly as most of the other tunes in your collection. This is in order to retain the dynamic range of the music and increase the listening experience. Please, use your volume knob. You can find the tunes in the "Releases" section.

During the latter part of 2009, we believed we were on a path of total reformation, so we hid all downloadables on the website, since they were not in accord with what we were doing at the time. Later however, we realized that this reformed Elvarhøi was not a stable unit, forcing us to break it in two. With the reformed band now as a seperate band, the downloadables are again more or less in tune with our vision, or at least represent a past we will not be ashamed of. Therefore, we have again filled out our discography section with releases previously hid under the table, but now freely available again. Note also that live bootlegs are available in the concerts section.

Some of you may be wondering what in the world is going on in the Elvarhøi-camp. Are they doing anything at all? Are they split up? Where is the demo that was left unreleased two years ago? Why all the delays?

Well, the truth is that the band has indeed split up. But it is not dead. It is just that we are twice the band we used to be (as in, "we are two bands now"). So some of the band has moved on to other pastures. Kièrs is studying in Scotland, so she is out for now at least, and Are has quit to focus on the other band and the numerous other projects he finds much more interesting than what we do. Such things happen. He has been in the band for 5 years now, and he always was the outsider, so it is no great wonder we have drifted totally separate ways.

In brighter news, amongst all the tumults of the split, we have gotten Sean Murphy on board as a flutist.

We have started work on the new album "Mens vi venter på tidevannet" (while we wait for the tide). My hopes are great for this one. It shall be both a lament of what we have lost, and a celebration of what we have gained. A sobbing defeat against the jaws of industry, and a roaring battle-cry for the young and angry. We have a track list almost ready, for which all the material is written. We are not quite decided on how we are planning to approach the recording yet, so so far, we are just working on playing the songs together and getting a good groovy group feel to it. Once we have that, and our studio is finally built, we will start preliminary recordings to see what actually works and what does no t.

Ihave started writing an overarching storyline to the album, which will probably be included in the booklet if things go as I have planned, and work on the artwork is already in progress.

With love,

There's been a lot of back and forth lately with things changing all the time and too much uncertainty to be able to make any statements to the outside world. But now things are beginning to move more steady again. Most of the material is written and we'll soon begin the process of learning them.

In related news: due to conceptual differences, Are has had to end his engagement in the band. If you, like I, loved all the stuff he brought to the band, you're in luck, for we have formed a new band to follow the new concept which features all of the Elvarhøi-members from before the split. Stay tuned for more news on this.

Elvarhøi will play at Ukjentfestivalen Romerike in Eidsvoll on the 15th of may.

Ukjentfestivalen is a nationwide festival concept directed at the creative undergrowth of norwegian bands. Their purpose is to give unestabilished bands an arena to play.

Elvarhøi has opened up an official YouTube channel, which is viewable behind this link:

Elvarhøi was awarded 2nd. place by popular vote during the Emergenza Festival 4th. semifinal at John Dee. This means that we are through to the next gig witch is the norwegian final at Rockefeller Music Hall on the 23rd. of May.
We wish to extend our thanks to all who showed up and supported us. Without you this would not be possible.
We are now in the process of selecting new material for the preformence at Rockefeller in May and we can guarantee that it will be a concert you do not want to miss. Tickets are available through our merchandice section. Be there!

After getting some fantastic response from the audience attending our concert at Sub Scene on the 20th of march, we are now proud to announce that our next concert will be set at John Dee the 25th of april. We hope to see you all there and that you'll have just as good a time as we plan to do.

Tickets are available through our merchandice section. Rumor has it that the doorsales may be sold out so get your tickets today.

Finally we have our own webshop where you will be able to buy merchandise and tickets for our concerts.
Check it out HERE!

Greetings! On the 20th of march, we'll be playing a gig at Sub Scene to celebrate the 181th birthday of the renowned playwright Henrik Ibsen. This fabulously cozy club is located right in the center of Oslo, and we can promise you a gig more powerful than ever. If you've never seen us live before, this is the time to do so, and if you have, you're in for a lot of surprises. We'll be on at 20:00 sharp, no delay, since we don't like to keep you waiting. We're really looking forward to seeing you there!

Elvarhøi is trying to build up our best line-up yet, and we're really closing in on that goal. Now we only need a secound guitarist and we're there! We need someone who can play both crushing riffs as well as a neat folkish acoustic guitar. Anyone interested can send us an e-mail at post@elvarhoi.com Once we have you, we can finally go on and conquer the live-stages of the world!

Good morning, everyone! We've been trying out with possible new members lately and we've found ourselves a nice young lady to sing and play piano with us. Her name is Ina Kièrstine Olsen and she's incredibly creative and has a great voice of a kind that we've never tried before. I believe her to have the most fitting voice we've ever tried and I'm really looking forward to playing more with her!

Greetings fellow humans! On this most holiest of days, the sky is not without a single cloud! We have gained, but we have also lost! As we get a new guitarist, we loose an old singer. So give a hand for Nora. She did great and we had a blast!

I've added the Daudeskaar-video from last winter to the Media-section on this site. Daudeskaar will feature on this year's Christmas-compilation from Stoppestedet.

It's late evening in Krokskogen as I'm writing this, and the trees are finally covered in snow. It's not weighing them down heavily just yet, but it's enough to make the mood of the forest just perfect enough for the news I'm about to bring. Come on, take a good guess! This is an easy one! One try only!

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Got it? Oh, yes! We've gone ahead and done it at last. We've found ourselves a new guy to hide behind the six-strings. His name is Christopher Rakkestad and he hails from the same herað as Ivar and myself. He's a talented guy, both behind the guitar as well as the microphone which makes this really exciting as we finally have a compentent male singer again.

He's interested in bringing more metal to our metal side and will do so by producing crushing riffs, which we've been too sparing on eariler. So get ready to get folked, the next venture will be heavy!

Due to some unfortunate circumstances, Elvarhøi finds itself without a single guitarist in our permanent lineup. Our current lead guitarist has moved to England and it has proven impossible for us to work with that distance. We are now, therefore, more concerned than ever with finding guitarists to play with. If you would like to play with us, contact us now!

See our flyer for more info:
http://elvarhoi.datser.com/Gitarist-flyer.pdf

We've put up a song from our new demo on MySpace. It's called 'Eg har sakna min heim' and is a slow viking ballad of longing and the ocean.

Hei alle gitarister av den typen som bor i Oslo-området og tror de kunne tenke seg å spille sammen med Elvarhøi. Musikken vår blir stadig mere polyfon, og i takt med dette har vi funnet ut at vi trenger flere musikere. Til høsten drar også vår nåværende gitarist til utlandet for en stund så vi er litt i beit for gitarister for å si det mildt.

Lineupen vår nå består av gitar, trommer, bass, diverse typer vokal og diverse andre instrumenter.

Du må ha sansen for sånn musikk vi driver med, de tekniske ferdighetene til å kunne spille det, godt humør og god humor. Fra og med neste måned vil du være eneste gitarist i bandet, men vi håper at vår nåværende gitarist kommer hjem igjen og joiner oss, for vi trenger virkelig to gitarer (og han er en knall fyr).

Her er en smakebit fra den nye demoen vi jobber med for tiden som skal kunne gi et hint om hvilket nivå vi er på nå:
http://www.elvarhoi.com/MySpace/gitarsample.mp3

Et liveopptak:
http://www.elvarhoi.com/media/originals/20080106/04SkogensVandrar.mp3

Og her på hjemmesiden vår kan finne vår gamle demo til nedlasting, samt flere live-opptak.

Høres dette ut som noe for deg så kontakt oss dal vel! Gi oss et lite vink enten på forumet vårt her, på MySpace eller på mail til magnus@elvarhoi.com

Søknader fra keyboardister tas også gjerne imot.

The newest issue of Serbian metal magazine "Nocturne Metal Magazine" features a review of the "Fjellet Faller Aldri"-re-release. Check out an english translation in our press-section.

http://www.nocturnemagazine.net/

Ane has been discharged of all duties as a flautist. Her status as 'member of Elvarhøi' reverts to 'friend of Elvarhøi'.

The demo I spoke about in the last entry is progressing. Only instruments left now are vocals and some rerecordings of various other instruments. The tracklist is probably as follows:

1. Endekvad (The song of the end)
2. Eg har sakna min heim (I've been longing for my home)
3. Intro
4. Trú (Faith/Faithful)
5. Æra (Honour/Era)
6. Kjærleik (Love)
7. Skogens Vandrar (The forest wanderer)
8. Fortidens Skygger (The shadows of the past)

Tracks 3-6 are all part of the same song cycle.

If anybody are wondering what's happening in the Elvarhøi-camp, we currently working on a demo to showcase our newer material. We've recorded all the electric instruments and will continue with the acoustic ones after the Huset-gig this friday. Hope we'll see you there!

Love, Elvarhøi!

The official Elvarhøi Forum is now online again. We did not manage to recover the old posts, so we're starting fresh.

On the 26th of january, Gustav Jørgen played his last concert as an official member of Elvarhøi. It was as worthy a goodbye-concert as can be, as Sub Scene hosted the most sentimental and rocking Elvarhøi-concert to date. Through almost three years, Gustav Jørgen has been one of our key members, providing passionate vocals and a positive vibe to the band and we are sorry to see him go. But we do live on. For this concert was also the secound (the first being earlier that day) concert with Nora as a singer, so as old blood is washed away, new blood streams in. This is not the total end for the collaberation between Gustav Jørgen and Elvarhøi as he will still provide his expertice as a session-musician from time to time. Those who want to keep following the musical path of Gustav Jørgen would be adviced to check out Les Ténèbres at http://www.myspace.com/lestenebres

Incidentally, this day was also the day for the completion of our very first proper music video, directed by Henrik Zahl Andersen from the Noroff Institute. It is freely available on YouTube, and we will upload it to Stage6 and provide a link from this very site.

On the 26th of january, we'll be playing two gigs in Oslo. One at Kattarock 18:40, and one at Sub Scene 20:15, ending the Lydexpressen Tour.

We've now gotten a new gallery up and running at this site. Currently we've only got pictures from two concerts, but it'll be further fleshed out soon.

We just got home from the woods where we did the first test recordings for the drums on our new album! Instead of micing up each drum separately in a studio, we sat up a drumset in the middle of a frozen marsh about half an hour into the woods and I sat down in the snow at the edge of a nearby woodside (approx. 20 metres from the set) with two directional mics, each aimed slightly to each side of the set. We did test drums for two songs (Daudeskaar and Endekvad) and the sound was marvellous, but the recording suffered from several things such as bad monitoring and night. On the weekend of 11-13 of january we'll be going back with the knowledge we gained today and do it properly.

Keeping both the English and the Norwegian site updated became an unneccesary bother, so I took the norwegian one down. At the same time I updated the site somewhat. The forum and gallery are still not working, but I've made a new press-section, made the concert-section more throughout with better info about the locations of gigs, setlists of past gigs and bootlegs of past gigs. I've added a new release to the album-section, which is a re-release of Fjellet Faller Aldri, remixed, with added bonus-tracks and for free download. In the band section I've updated the biography and last, but not least, I'd like you all to welcome the newest member of the Elvarhøi-clan, Nora Krågebakk.

Love, Elvarhøi.

I've added english translations of the lyrics. Check them out!

The website has been down because of server-problems, but it's finally been taken care of. During the short year that's gone by, a series of things have happened to Elvarhøi. Fjellet Faller Aldri was sold out over half a year ago and we've gotten much good critique on our work. Espen has returned from the military, so now we're all finally gathered for the first time in quite a long time! We've also played our first gig in over two years. This took place at "Huset" Youth Culture Center at Nøtterøy 21.09.07. The audience might have been small, but the atmosphere was excellent! The band had a great time and we got a lot of good response afterwards.

Elvarhøi is now planning to do a few gigs this autumn and hopefully some more in the new year. More updates will come!

The concert-list as it stands now is:

13.10.07 - Trikkehallen
10.11.07 - Stoppestedet

From then on, we'll be playing some new songs, that are gonna be on the next EP. See you!

The EP "Fjellet Faller Aldri" has been reviewed in Urkraft Magazine and got 3 out of 5 stars.

Elvarhøi has now taken new promo-pictures and is now officially represented by this image:

The sample of unmixed material I promised in he newspost on 8/9 is now to be found in the download section.

The date for the release of this release is closing and I now want to say a couple of words about this record.

I first want to mention that "Fjellet Faller Aldri", or "The Mountain Shall Never Fall" as it can be translated into, does not have any intentional overall theme. It is a collection of seven songs written under different circumstances with the focus on that perticular song and only that, without any consideration for the other songs. The songs are therefore quite varied. As a result, this is an album you don't have to listen to from start to end. You can easily pick out the songs you like best and hear them on their own without loosing their meaning. The record comes with a 20 page booklet filled with beautiful illustrations by the talented artist Sara Bruun, specially drawn for Elvarhøi. We know an elaborate booklet like this is not usual for a demo-release, and that it's often viewed in a bad light, but we don't really care. I, who has been in charge of the making of the booklet, like puzzling with things like this and happen to think a good booklet is quite fancy.

"Eg rodde meg ut.." (I rowed out..) was an idea put forth by Gustav to be a song we could have some fun with playing live. We started playing it straight-forward and then later we tried to upgrade it and came to the conclusion that it was best the way it was. It's a traditional song one can find in many different variantsm but I don't think any of them are as straight-forward and un-folky like our. I must say I find it quite amusing to start the album with such a song, in contrast to the calm folky introsong often found on other folk-metal records.

"Drikkevise" (Drinking Song) was written by Ivar right before, during and right after aLEP 2005. This is one of the most folky songs on the record and is a both joyous and melancolic tale of an old farmer's last trip to the pub after loosing his wife.

"Trú" (troth/faith/religion, one who is faithful) was written by Ivar with the intention that this should be a song as national-romantic as could be. It is therefore pompous and celebrates norwegian nature and folk without critique. With big choirs and images of mountains and fjords and the landscapes thought by many to be typically norwegian. It's catchy and even cheesy in it's pomposity. It's even got a guitar-solo.

"Skogens Vandrar" (The Forest Wanderer) is yet another song written by Ivar. This is the calmest song on the record. It's built around one theme played five times with different variations. The main character can be viewed as a creature somewhat similar to Snufkin. He is bound to no place and travel around at will. He's helpful and goodwilling, but will not be bound by this. After being in one place for too long and getting to know the people there he may suddenly disappear, never to come back.

"Daudeskaar" (The Mountain Pass of Death, as it can so cheesily be translated) is "the cold song of the album". The music is written by Ivar and the lyrics are penned by my own hand. In this song we take use of some elements that can be traced back to black metal. in the "refrain" one can hear high-pitched shrieks and a sort of rock'n'roll-ish take on harving. The story follows a couple as they are heading north to a fictive realm known as "The Land of the Brotherhood". On their way they must pass through "Daudeskaar", a haunted mountain pass.

"Venelite" is the secound song on the record that is a traditional tune. As opposed to "Eg rodde meg ut..", this has recieved a great deal more work. This song features guest vocals by the talentet, traditional singer Mari.

"Lykkejegaren" (or "The Fossicker") is a sort of bonus-track, for Venelite is a perfect ending track, but one day during recording, Gustav and I decided to record this. It turned out to be a proper sing-a-long-song, but we're still debating wether to keep all the vocal tracks. If we choose to keep them, we must at least re-record them without my sore, out-of-tune squakbox. The lyrics are partly based off "Life & times of Scrooge McDuck: Pt.8 White Agony Creek".

I hope this record contains something for everybody and that most people will find at least one song to their liking. I, myself, like all of them, but I'll buy any crap they release these days. In the next couple of days there'll be released a short mix with a short sample from each of the songs and tehn the record itself will be released during this or the next month.

PS. This is a shortened-down version of the norwegian version of this article. I didn't bother to translate it all.

About time for a life-sign here. The band is currently in the planning stages for a proper demo-recording. We have approximately 13-15 song of which we deem 3-4 will be on the first demo. We do not wish to have too many songs on the first demo as the same songs will probably also end up on the first proper record. The songs we have picked are as follows: "Eg rodde meg ut.." (I rowed out...) which is a short old folksong somewhat out of style from the rest that should work perfectly as an intro. "Drikkevise" (Drinking Song) wich is a drinking song. This is the song from which we have already released a sample. "Trú" (Faith/Faithful) which is a national romantic song. Somewhat more pompous that the other songs. As is in style with most other romantic songs. "Skogens Vandrar" (The Forest Wanderer) which is a sad acoustic song about the farewell of a son of nature. "Venelite" (Fair Little Maid) which is the last song we played on the John Dee-concert and also the only one of those song that has been kept in the repertoire. The lyrics are an old folksong. The music has changed somewhat since the gig.

LISTEN UP! - We feel that it's taken far too long a time, during which this page has existed without its visitors having the ability to witness what kind of music we actually play. Therefore, upon this joyous occation, we have decided to share with you a small sample from the first Elvarhøi-recording session. So now you may have a look in the downloads-section to find this small sample from the song Drikkevise.

Mari and Elvarhøi have decided to go seperate ways. We in Elvarhøi wish her good luck further on.

Here is the new website. This was not supposed to be made public until the release of the demo, but due to the delays that have come up following Ivar's military service, the wait became too long.

Because of the powerloss in Oslo/Akershus to day the server has had some problems. therefor the Forum will be closed until we can fix the problem.

The images from the Elvarhøi-concert on 21th of may are available in the gallery.

Elvarhøi are opening for Lumsk on John Dee 21th may. On 18th may we're holding a smaller concert at Stoppestedet for those under 18.