The correct answer to yesterday's scribbly, unreadable logo of the day is c) Enthral.
The band came together in the summer of 1995 when two Norwegians, vocalist and drummer Kjetil Hektoen and guitarist Gunnhild Bratset, discovered the shared a mutual interest in dark music and ancient times. They started rehearsing in their hometown on Sunndalsøra but didn't get serious until the end of the year when they moved to Oslo and started working on their demo with bassist Thomas Kjørnes. "Demo 1996" was distributed mostly among friends, but gave the band its start.
In August 2006 Enthral recorded a song at Hov Studio at Sunndalsøra, and were so pleased with the result that tehy contacted Hot Records, which included the track, "Awaiting the Rise of the Forestgod," on the 1997 Hot Records compilation CD The Rape of the Holy Trinity, which also featured Dimmu Borgir, Covenant, Dødheimsgard and Old Man's Child.
Enthral then hired an ew bassist, Martin Rafoss, and started working on their debut album, Propheciies of the Dying, which was recorded in just four days at Stovner R.F studio in May 1997 and includes the tracks "Salig er den som Lir", and "Prophecies of the Dying...."(parts I and II).
After recording the album, Enthral secured a second guitarist, Espen Simonsen and keyboardist Stian Aarstad (ex-Dimmu Borgir). Then the band re-entered the studio to record the follow up to Prophecies of the Dying.
The Mirrors Opposite End, which includes the raging "When the Sky Touched the Earth" and the pensive "In Passion Swept," came out in 1998. The music was diverse -- a colorful hybrid of black metal, doom metal, classic metal, folk music and atmospheric rock -- and the lyrics were more evocative than those of many bands of the era.
In 2002, Enthral signed with the Dutch label Displeased Records and released their third album, the duskier, more atmospheric Subterranean Movement, in 2003. The next year Hektoen played on Crest of Darkness' Evil Knows Evil. Currently, Enthral again consists of just Hektoen and Bratset and are currently without a label. However, the 2006 demo tracks "Celebration of Agony," "Death to you All" and "A Spiteful Dirge" is available for streaming.
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