Green Carnation was formed in 1990 by X-Botteri, Cristopher Botteri, Tchort and Anders Kobro. in 1991/1992 a Death Metal demo, Hallucinations of Despair, was released. Tchort left the band in late 1992 to join Norwegian Black Metallers, Emperor. With him, the present vocalist, Richart Olsen, also decided to leave the band. Green Carnation found a new vocalist and changed their style and name into what is now known as In The Woods...
Through friendship and the wish to fullfill the dreams and goals of Green Carnation when it was started, GC decided to reform the band and achieve the goals they had set, 8 years ago. November 1998, Green Carnation was reformed, but with a new drummer, Alf T Leangel. The process of writing music for the debut album was both inspiring and brought forth creativity long gone within Tchort, since the death of his daughter - a subject that also became the concept of the first album from the band.
Tchort and X-Botteri composed music together, plus making their "own" songs for the album. Writing music together was also a challenge they had looked forward to since the beginning of the band.
July 1999 - Green Carnation started recording the debut album, Journey to the end of the night, a 72 minute long concept album. The recordings took place in Jailhouse studios, located in Kristiansand, Norway.
All participation from the 5 different vocalists, Vibeke Stene, Atle Dorum, Geir Sollid, Synne Soprana and Linn Solaas happened under difficult circumstances, since the 2 original vocalists had to cancel studio duties, while Green Carnation were in studio. In the end, all vocals were performed by the 5 above mentioned vocalists - under total improvisation.
Due to different reasons, "Journey to the end of the night" was not ready to be launched until late October 2000, by Prophecy Productions.
July 2001 - Green Carnation is again ready to record, this time its a 60 minute long concept song, which will be featured on their second opus, Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness, as a one track album.
The band also presents a new line up for this recording, with Tchort as the only member left from the first album, but with the original drummer, Anders Kobro back in the line up.
New members to the band are:
Stein R on bass Bjorn H on guitar Kjetil Nordhus on vocals Anders Kobro on drums
Tchort - guitar, lyrics and composer
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