This Negative Karma

The band was formed in 1999, by the Tor Arne Fassotte and Alain Fassotte. Under the name Mantra. They were joined by Jan Henrik Vuyk on bass, Arild Skjæran on lead guitar, an K.M Waage on drums. They later on changed the name to This Negative Karma.They recorded their first demo in 1999, played the 99 Zoom festival. They also got air played on nation radio. In early 2000 they were asked to do a compilation album called Thanks to the unknown. And they also played several concerts.In 2001 K.M Waage was replaced on drums by Tore Heden. They recorded a 5 track demo at Mansion Studio. Shortly after recording the demo, Alain and Arild quit the band. Alain was replaced by Arvid Tjelta (K [nine]), Tor Arne took on the guitar duties alone.In 2004 the band replaced Tore Heden with Blod (the Deviant, ex Gehenna) . They recorded a track called The Pain Inside for a compilation called West-Core Underground. Jan Henrik quit the band later that year.In 2005 they recorded a new demo, now with Stefan Køningsberg from Lowdown on drums, with Tor Arne playing both bass and guitar. Later that year Arvid joined K[nine], Tor Arne joined Artifact, and so they could not find the time to continue.The band has now decided to record some new tracks in late 2007 and then hopefully some new concerts in 2008.