Gorgoroth breaks up![views:18803][posts:47]______________________________ [Oct 21,2007 4:49pm - CNV ""] i am writing to inform you about the fact that there has been taken a decision to split up the band, infernus on one side, gaahl and king on the other. we can not continue working together any longer. what is still not agreed upon is who rightfully get to keep the bands name, as it is both parts will to continue. since this will be a question of legal affairs, i am afraid this might take time to get sorted out. i am sorry for that. infernus, 21.10.2007 |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 5:17pm - dreadkill ""] infernus should get the name. he's the only original member left. |
| _____________________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 5:25pm - infect sli sli sli ""] JRR Tolkein should get the name |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 5:27pm - DaveFromTheGrave ""] infect sli sli sli said:JRR Tolkein should get the name winner! |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 5:44pm - dreadkill ""] hahahahaha, tolkien is dead |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 6:02pm - Kinslayer ""] I should get the name. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 6:17pm - the_reverend ""] gaahl is doing trelldom too. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 6:37pm - nick // dys ""] sucks, as they are the only black metal shit i really truly liked... |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 6:44pm - nick // dys ""] Agreed it should be Infernus but rather than go the litigal route for the now contested name, shouldn't they battle on top of some grim snowy mountain in Fjaler? |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 7:38pm - the_reverend ""] im listening to twilight of the idols now. nick, if you really like these guys, you might like imapled naxerene or impiety. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 7:40pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] imapled naxerene is the best! |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 8:14pm - the_reverend ""] that's what I get for typing while driving. sounds more like a mexican bm band |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 8:19pm - I_am_not_me ""] Lame. But yeah, they should battle it out in Gaahl's mountain town home or something. The winner drinks the loser's blood, mixed with a fine chianti from Gaahl's wine cellar. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 8:38pm - thuringwethil ""] . . . . . . Satan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . freedom. |
| _____________________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 8:48pm - infect sli sli sli ""] I_am_not_me said:Lame. But yeah, they should battle it out in Gaahl's mountain town home or something. The winner drinks the loser's blood, mixed with a fine chianti from Gaahl's wine cellar. dont forget the fava beans |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 9:04pm - thuringwethil ""] and sweetbreads. |
| __________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 9:37pm - tomxnli ""] dont forget the imapled syrup |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 9:43pm - I_am_not_me ""] infect sli sli sli said:I_am_not_me said:Lame. But yeah, they should battle it out in Gaahl's mountain town home or something. The winner drinks the loser's blood, mixed with a fine chianti from Gaahl's wine cellar. dont forget the fava beans Of course. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 9:48pm - GoatCatalyst ""] Impiety is fucking savage. "Sodomythical Frostgoats" may well replace "Desecration Master" as my new theme song. And I would prescribe Old Wainds' "Scalding Coldness" to Nick's jaded hessian ears. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 9:49pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] I just got those OLD WAINDS - Scalding Coldness digipaks in stock... http://www.pathosproductions.com/ |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 21,2007 10:01pm - nick // dys ""] :satancross: |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 9:06am - Jimmy Justice ""] sucks. |
| ______________________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 9:15am - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] This could lead to some awesome black metal gossip; Infernus gave one of the best interviews I've ever read a few years ago when he said that Carpathian Forest had a "weight problem" |
| _______________________________ [Oct 22,2007 10:45am - Yeti ""] i liked some of Ad Majorem and Destroyer, but after Under the Sign of Hell they just weren't the same. i miss the Antichrist sound. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 11:48am - Whoremastery ""] i just watched on you tube a norwegian black metal documentry where they went to gaahls house in the middle of nowhere. In part 5 at the end the journalist asks gaahl a question he didnt like and gaahl stared off into the camera for 2min without moving or blinking...that guys fucking wacked! |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 12:43pm - nick // dys ""] gaahl in those documentaries oddly reminds me of 'sardo numpsa' in the golden child. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 12:48pm - jewbacca ""] post a link |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 1:10pm - nick // dys ""] www.youtube.com use your boolean. i think the doc was done by vbs.com |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 2:00pm - Whoremastery ""] i'd post it if i knew how....there is 5 parts..its a good doc...gaahl lives in such isolation. the part im talking about is at the end of part 5...watch it..its bizzare. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 2:35pm - nick // dys ""] this will give a summation of the docs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puwllq0fBLs |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 22,2007 2:45pm - RichHorror ""] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
| ______________________________ [Oct 24,2007 12:51am - HTR ""] Gaygoroth |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 24,2007 7:05am - corpus_colostomy ""] GAHHL wants to have "lunch" with you in Bolton. |
| _______________________________ [Oct 24,2007 10:34am - Yeti ""] apparently they are not breaking up, they are continuing as a duo without Infernus. there is a new interview up. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 24,2007 11:00am - GoatCatalyst ""] don't see how they can continue as Gorgoroth without Infernus |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 24,2007 12:05pm - quintessence ""] King and Ghaal have written the last 3 or 4 albums entirely. Infernus is sort of a lazy p.o.s so I've heard. They obviously feel some attachment to all the music they have created and want to keep playing it live. I don't see how they could do that if they changed their name. Granted Infurnus is the only real founding member. This is where the rift lies. Neither side can have both sides of the black metal cake.....Oh well there goes my hopes of ever seeing them live. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 24,2007 12:22pm - GoatCatalyst ""] gaahl should just relocate to tijuana and fuck little boys |
| _______________________________ [Oct 24,2007 12:41pm - Yeti ""] GoatCatalyst said:don't see how they can continue as Gorgoroth without Infernus i gather from various interviews with Gaahl that he thinks of Gorgoroth as his own. |
| _________________________________ [Oct 24,2007 4:42pm - Anthony ""] Yeti said:GoatCatalyst said:don't see how they can continue as Gorgoroth without Infernus i gather from various interviews with Gaahl that he thinks of Gorgoroth as his own. That's bullshit, since the best shit they've ever done doesn't even have him in the band. He's hilarious though. |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 24,2007 4:46pm - My_Dying_Bride ""] gaahl should just do a band with samoth and trym |
| _______________________________ [Oct 25,2007 10:38am - Yeti ""] Hellhammer just became the drummer. what band hasn't he been in? i bet he did the drum fill in "In the Air Tonight". |
| __________________________________ [Oct 27,2007 9:32pm - rotivore ""] gaahl is a silly willy |
| _______________________________ [Oct 27,2007 9:38pm - Troll ""] Gaahl is a poser...Norwegian black metal is fraudulent. |
| _______________________________ [Oct 27,2007 9:40pm - Troll ""] Metal is lame. |
| ___________________________________________ [Oct 28,2007 12:53pm - GoatCatalystNLI ""] Gaahl was on some chick's hiney Friday night at Cherry St. All true. |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 28,2007 1:09pm - DaveFromTheGrave ""] GoatCatalystNLI said:Gaahl was on some chick's hiney Friday night at Cherry St. All true. He has good taste. |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 28,2007 1:18pm - GoatCatalystNLI ""] DaveFromTheGrave said:GoatCatalystNLI said:Gaahl was on some chick's hiney Friday night at Cherry St. All true. He has good taste. a certified pleasant hiney, for sure. ... with papers |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 31,2007 2:37pm - Dwellingsickness ""] From a Myspace bulletin ______________________________________________ regarding the INFERNUS/GORGOROTH situation, october 31st i will here present you a press statement which is my intention to be the last in the line of short open letters to the media, where i have informed fans, friends and co-workers on the somewhat strange situation that occurred some one and a half week ago and its progression until now. first i will open with a short summary, for those of you who did not get it all from the beginning. late friday afternoon, october 19th, i got to know that my former band members had made the decision that we should split the band and that their intentions were to continue - without me - under the name and logo of gorgoroth. that people get tired of each other or have reasons for not getting along after a quite long and at times pretty close partnership i find fully natural and understandable. it goes without saying that you learn to know both eachother's positive and negative sides. i will nevertheless not participate in any open discussion on the nature or personalities of anyone involved, that is well below my standards. neither will i do anything to defend myself against whatever accusations people might come up with in a situation like this. i have a strong belief that people are able to judge themselves, based on the chronology of how things happened, and from the actions that have already been taken. when being told that we should split ways, i immediately proposed that we should do the european tour as planned, then let lawyers do the legal discussions for us, settling the question of ownership of the band's name and logo. as its founding member, building the trademark in the formative years, and with a clear intention on keeping the pact with the devil i made in sunnfjord, 1992, i would of course not agree on giving away the name i rightfully own to our 3rd vocalist and 6th or 7th (!) bass player. for whatever reasons they might have. the vocalist has been considering quitting the band numerous times. the other actually quit last year due to difficulties combining playing in a clear cut satanic metal band as gorgoroth with the fact that he is full time employed as a primary school teacher. it was my intention to do the tour and then, after the tour, come to terms with the legal problems as smoothly and professionally as possible. i am sorry for the european audience which at the moment must witness this embarrassing circus it has become, and i am sorry for the russians and ukrainians we were supposed to have done a mini tour for from 23rd to 28th of january. late sunday evening, october 21st, i received a text message from the vocalist stating that the november tour would go on without me, and that they had consulted legal advice on the matter. and that next day they would release a press statement on the issue. to keep things straight, i will focus on legal matters here. it took me ten minutes to get confirmed that what they did was of a highly illicit character. according to norwegian law of march 3rd, nr. 4. 1961, § 2 & 7 it is. it is also difficult for me to see how they thought it was possible to achieve what they wanted by doing what they did. next morning i contacted attourney egil horstad from vogt & wiig. in a letter to their legal representantive he presents the case and parts of the paragraphs, which is now translated into english and available to whoever's interested at my personal myspace page, blog section. ( www.myspace.com/160310525) it also refers to one of metal history's worst cases of backstabbing and greed to date. the same monday i got confirmation that the bass player already before we went on the september tour to south america - without informing me - applied for copyright of the name and the logo. it seems like he actually believed it would be as easy as that to get it transferred to himself as his own personal belonging ad infinitum! it is available to the reader as https://dbsearch.patentstyret.no/Vis_patent.aspx?idappl=200710859&domene=V&version=1&tyapplication (https://dbsearch.patentstyret.no/ - "varemerke" - look for "gorgoroth) regarding the upcoming european tour, which it seems that they intend to do in the name of gorgoroth: i have personally been in touch with henk at vain productions offering him a good deal if he would delay it, until i have a new line up ready. and my lawyer has explained to him the possible legal consequenses of him making the wrong choice in this situation. i am convinced they could be able to start up a new and rather good band on their own, and he should rather do a separate tour for that band, whatever else they would choose to call it. now for my future plans: i will devote myself 99% to the present situation and the mess that occurred to help getting clarity in it and to take whatever legal action towards whoever is exploiting the name and reputation of the band. this includes some certain third parties, as there seems to be a few rotten apples among them. this is a necessity for me at the time being, so that i am sure who i can trust when starting to restructure and plan my return. i am afraid this might have to take the time it needs. i promise for satan that i will come back, and i am already now at an initial stage consulting possible future partners, including a new line-up for studio and live. so far both ex-members and other more or less sinister musicians from norway and abroad have shown interest. choosing the right partners will be difficult, as i have high demands for these. i will update the world on this when the time is right. first things first. when the legal matters are properly settled, i will implode for a while letting media be an arena for other ones. during restructuring i will finish off the writing of new material for the next studio album - quantos possund ad satanitatem trahunt - to be released through regain records. in between 50 and 70% of the music has already been written (some of it even prerecorded) as goes for two or three lyrics. for the rebirth of the live band it is considered necessary to get this done first, as it is my intention to erase as much as possible of the traces of the last years' periods output. the new live band will focus on old material and brand new and shall in one form or another by satan last for another 15 years! that is about what i have to say at the moment. i will only accept doing a few select interviews and these should be requested via jarne brauns at regain records. i will use the opportunity to not only thank the faithful and dedicated fans around the world for this seemingly endless support i have received the last week, but also joe hollow, satannichen, frank watkins and the obituary guys for letting me use their networks and capacities in this time when i do not have access to my own website or even the band's myspace. thank you a thousand times and praise hail satan! infernus, gorgoroth, october 31st 2007 www.myspace.com/160310525 infernus.gorgoroth@gmail.com -- www.forcesofsatan.com www.myspace.com/gorgorothmyspace www.myspace.com/forcesofsatanrecords www.myspace.com/160310525 www.myspace.com/4680609 www.regainrecords.com www.season-of-mist.com www.nuclearblast.de www.nuclearblastusa.com |