Ole Børud
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December 6, 1976 Hamar, Norway |
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| Relatives | Arnold Børud (father) |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
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| Website | rambleon |
Ole Børud (born December 6, 1976) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, known both for his solo recordings and as a member of the band Extol. Børud, son of Norwegian gospel singer Arnold Børud, began performing music at age five as part of Arnold B. Family. He later started playing in hard rock and heavy metal bands, first in the two-man project Schaliach and later for Extol and, briefly, the hardcore punk band Selfmindead. Since the early 2000s, he has also recorded several solo albums featuring pop, funk, and jazz styles. He re-joined Extol in 2012, and in 2016 he co-founded a heavy metal side-project, Fleshkiller.
Børud started his musical career at the age of five years as a singer in his family's Christian pop group Børud-gjengen, later renamed Arnold B. Family. Highly popular within Norway, Arnold B. Family participated three times in the national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, landing in the top ten all three times. The group took second place in 1995 for its song "La oss feire livet" ("Let Us Celebrate Life").
In the 1990s, Børud ventured into heavy metal, teaming up in 1995 with Peter Dalbackk to form a short-lived doom metal project called Schaliach, for which he played guitar, bass and drums. The group released one album, Sonrise, in 1995, and was noted for its "huge" sound, Metallica-influenced guitar style, and strong classical influences, which were likened to a "metal symphony". He joined Extol in 1996, where he played guitar and bass and provided background signing. Extol performed a highly technical mixture of death metal and progressive metal, incorporating other extreme metal styles as well as hardcore punk, orchestral music, jazz, and folk music. After recording two albums with the group, Burial, Undeceived, he left to further pursue his solo career in 2001, but briefly rejoined the group to record its third album, Synergy. He has rejoined the group, which reformed as a trio in 2012, and helped record its fifth, self-titled release. In the early 2000s, he also served for a brief period as a guitarist for the hardcore punk band Selfmindead. On February 12, 2016, Peter Espevoll of Extol announced that Børud had formed a new side-project, Fleshkiller, with his former Schaliach bandmate Dalbackk. Børud himself later announced that drummer Andreas Skorpe Sjøen also joined the band. In January 2017, it was announced that Peter Dalbakk left the band and was replaced by Elisha Mullins.
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