Green Carnation

Green Carnation
Green Carnation in 2005, Day of the Equinox Festival in Toronto, Canada. From L-R: Michael Krumins, Bjørn Harstad, Kjetil Nordhus, Kenneth Silden, Terje Vik Schei (Tchort), Tommy Jacksonville, Ole Vistnes
Background information
Origin	Kristiansand, Norway
Genres	Progressive metal,hard rock, gothic metal, doom metal, death metal
Years active	1990–1991, 1999−present
Labels	Sublife Records, Prophecy, Season Of Mist, The End
Associated acts	In the Woods...
Website	www.green-carnation.com
Members	Terje Vik Schei, Kjetil Nordhus, Stein Roger Sordal, Michael Krumins, Tommy Jacksonville, Kenneth Silden
Past members	(See: full-listing)

Green Carnation is a progressive metal band from Kristiansand, Norway formed in 1990. Green Carnation's trend of music has continuously become less and less heavy after every release; from straight forward death metal, to a progressive doom metal sound, to an atmospheric gothic metal sound, to a melancholic hard rock sound and in 2006, went as far as to releasing an entirely acoustic album Acoustic Verses.

Green Carnation is the creation of former Emperor bass player Terje Vik Schei (a.k.a. Tchort), founded before Tchort joined Emperor in 1990. It eventually split, with the remaining members X-Botteri, Cm:Botteri and Anders Kobro creating avant-garde metal band In the Woods....

Green Carnation's first album, Journey to the End of the Night, wasn't recorded until 1998 and was released in October 2000 through German record company Prophecy Productions. The release was a folk inspired doom metal album. The Botteri brothers, Alf Tore Rasmussen and Geir Solli left the band after recording the debut album, and then Anders Kobro from In The Woods... joined up with Tchort and them two made the foundation and arrangements for the whole song that became Light of day, day of Darkness. (almost 2 years of working), they then did a pre-production in dub-studio with Endre Kirkesola helping out with the bassguitar, Tchort did the guitars and Anders Kobro the drums. This was enough to convince Bjørn Harstad (In The Woods... guitarist), Stein Roger Sordal (Soxpan ITW... live bassplayer), Kjetil Nordhus (vocals) and Bernt Andrè Moen (Shining) to join the band in time for the actual recording for the album Light of Day, Day of Darkness, a single track, 60-minute progressive metal epic again recorded in Dub-studio. The album was released in 2001 via Prophecy Productions in Europe, whereas the US release was handled by The End Records. The album is highly regarded, and is one of the longest single songs in metal.