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Bergen, Norway (1989 – 2003, 2006 – present)

Immortal is a prominent black metal band from Bergen, Norway. The group began in 1989 as “Amputation”, a death metal band. Immortal’s early full-length releases were of a traditional, yet complex black metal style, but their acclaimed album At the Heart of Winter saw the band begin to experiment with a fusion of black metal and German thrash. The resulting sound was a style which characterized Immortal’s later works. Immortal has been influential to many modern metal artists. Immortal’s founders; Abbath and Demonaz, have attained a legendary status in the Scandinavian heavy metal scene. Out of these many bands Immortal has arguably maintained the most occult-mysticism image and way of life traditionally credited to black metal. Their peculiar music style of melodic black metal has guaranteed them a spot on the list of the best bands in the history of the genre, and has most definitely triggered the rise of their albums sales, even though most of the albums, with the exception of Sons of Northern Darkness, are quite difficult to obtain in some regions.

Amputation recorded their first two demos in 1989 with Demonaz Doom Occulta and Jorn Tunsberg on guitars, Abbath Doom Occulta on bass and vocals, and Armagedda on drums. The group changed its name to “Immortal” around 1990-1991. Their third demo, Unholy Forces of Evil, saw a stylistic change to black metal and earned them a record contract. Tunsberg played many of the guitar parts of Immortal’s first album Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, but is not officially credited.
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  • garandhero

    have so many terrible quality recordings of immortal... damn shame... theyre damn good in places.

    yesterday morning
  • MetalMeghier

    Crab walks FTW ! [3]

    yesterday morning
  • xerber1

    degradation syndrome

    Saturday afternoon
  • robboelrobbo

    gooby pls

    Saturday morning
  • XtremeBrutality

    Dolan duck

    Friday evening
  • CaCoffiny

    donald duck

    Friday afternoon
  • Elicoor13

    Norden on Fire makes me want to bury an axe in someone's head and burn a church. But that's what listening to Burzum's for.

    Friday morning
  • lucas_xs

    Still not as gay as twilight.

    Thursday morning
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Christmas Metal Festival - November 26

14 Nov 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/immortalofficial

Thanks to all who came to the Winterfest in Mülheim on Saturday! We had some technical problems during the show, but it was still a great night. We'll be back in Germany in two weeks, so see you all …

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