Earth Electric

T

he driving force here is guitarist Rune Eriksen (stage name Blasphemer), a major player in Mayhem for years as well as Aura Noir and several other bands. This project goes in a quite different direction, as the music mixes a variety of prog and metal guitar styles with dominant Hammond organs (like an ultra-heavy Deep Purple), but then over the top are ethereal soprano vocals from one Carmen Simoes, with whom Eriksen has collaborated with in yet another band, Ava Inferi. Adding Alexandre Ribeiro (bass), Ricardo Martins (drums) and Dan Knight (guest; keyboards) they would debut with Vol.1: Solar in 2017.