Blood Tsunami

Blood Tsunami
Pete Evil, during a concert in London (2007)
Background information
Origin	Oslo, Norway
Genres	Thrash metal
Years active	2004 – present
Labels	Indie Recordings
Associated acts	Mongo Ninja, Emperor, Aborym, Scum, Hellride, StudFaust
Website	Band website
Members	Pete Evil Dor Amazon Faust Calle (Carl Janfalk)
Past members	Riff Randall Stu Manx Jørgen "Jay" Nordlie

Blood Tsunami is a Norwegian thrash metal band from Oslo. Formed by Peter Michael Kolstad Vegem in 2004 and they are now signed to Indie Recordings. They used to incorporate elements of Death Metal and NWOBHM in their music but now, on their latest album "For Faen!", they deliver "old school Thrash Metal with a strong 80's feeling and a distinctive punk edge."

Lead vocalist and lead guitarist Peter Michael Kolstad Vegem (a.k.a. Pete Evil) had been fronting his punk/rock' roll band, Hellride, for several years, but when this quartet called it quits during the fall of 2003, he decided it was time to do what he really wanted to do... Play metal! Pete began to write material for his yet unnamed metal band and quickly found his own style where he incorporated much melody in the guitars and topped it off with aggressive non-melodic vocals. In early January 2004 he formed Blood Tsunami.

Jørgen Nordli (a.k.a. Jay) joined on drums and the two immediately started rehearsing on Pete's material. The first Blood Tsunami song ever was "Killing Spree". Shortly after Pete found a bass player in Frode Sørskaar (a.k.a. Riff Randall) and Kristoffer Sørensen (a.k.a. Dor Amazon) joined on Lead Guitar.

During the spring of 2004 this line up recorded a 4-song demo. Blood Tsunami's debut live performance took place on August 24, 2004 at a small club in Oslo called Last Train. This night Blood Tsunami played support for the Swedish death metal legends Entombed.

Frode Sørskaar didn't feel comfortable with playing metal and declared himself as a more "Ramones-type-of-guy". Pete contacted his former band mate from the Hellride days, Peter Boström (a.k.a. Bosse). Bosse was into metal and the two had shared many drunken nights listening to Slayer and Judas Priest in the back of the Hellride van.

With Bosse on bass, Blood Tsunami once again decided to record a demo. During January 2005 they went to Sverre Dæhli (Audiopain) who runs his own little studio called Fias Co Prod Studios. There they attempted to record a new song called "Evil Unleashed", but it soon became evident that Jay had problems behind the drumkit. Songs like the mentioned "Evil Unleashed" and "Stabbed To Death" did not maintain the right speed and intensity that Pete had in mind for the music. The recording was stopped and disappointed the band returned to the rehearsal space. It was a tough decision as Jay had become a very good friend and was a devoted member of the band, but he had to go.

At this time, Pete had recently joined as the bass player of a punk band called Bomberos. Bomberos consisted of Bjørn Hinkel, Sven Erik Kristiansen (a.k.a. Maniac, ex Mayhem, Skitliv) and Einar Sursjø (a.k.a. Necrodevil of Infernö, Virus, Beyond Dawn etc.. ). Pete only played one concert with this band, but as Necrodevil decided to quit the Bomberos, little Bjørn Hinkel soon hired a new drummer. During a few rehearsals with the new Bomberos drummer it was obvious to Pete that he needed this guy in Blood Tsunami.