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Intourium

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About Me


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9 years into their career felt it was the right time to define a couple of things. Define the band. Define the music... "We feel that we’ve developed our own sound now, I can’t think of any band that sounds like us, at least not here in Norway. We try to combine the trifecta of great songwriting, lyrical acumen and catchiness, and I feel that we’ve accomplished just that" Bassplayer Balchen confidently says. Well it’s certanly rock. They got the rock guitars, the decent drumming and the deep roaring bass lines. But on the other hand they got the harmonies and the catchiness of good pop-music mixed in. So it’s rock and it’s pop. They call it Rock/Pop! "The last couple of years we’ve been working a lot more on how we arrange our songs. You know, to get a more interesting sound and add those little things that keep the listener listening. We hadn’t been paying much attention to the composition of the songs until we started recording for "I Need You" and our producer totally ripped our songs apart. It was pretty scary back then, you know, when someone outside the band starts messing with your songs, well, let’s just say that bands don’t like that. But it didn’t take long before we saw that the new changes made our songs better. We got to see it from the producers point of view, and hopefully we learned a great deal from that" Three year after the release of their debut EP "I Need You" the band released another EP “Balls and Glory”. By using the same studio and producer as they did on "I Need You" the band is hoping to hit the spot once again. "We recorded for “Balls and Glory” for a year, that’s a long time, considering it’s a four song EP. We’re not rushing things, we got plenty of time. We know it’s like the biggest cliche but we don’t want to release something that will be embarrasing to listen to a year from now." "But it’s all about playing live, guess we just mentioned the second biggest cliche of the music buiness, but nowadays you can’t take for granted that a band can play live. It’s getting better though, the last couple of years a great deal of new rock bands have hit it pretty big. But right before that, with all the lipsync and s***, that was just terrible. As far as playing shows, luckily we can say that we love it! That is the goal that we’re trying to reach, you know, living in a tourbus for 6 months a year and playing shows every night." 2006

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Member Since: 8/20/2005
Band Website: intourium.com
Band Members:
Mikkel Melsom - Vocals

Roy Holmes - Guitar

Endre "EB" Balchen - Bass

Audun Mangelroed - Drums

Sounds Like: Arctic Rock!
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

RIP 2

Etter 10 år med opp- og nedturer har vi bestemt oss for legge ned bandet vi er så glad i. Det å spille i et band med store ambisjoner koster utrolig mye tid og engasjement, og det har blitt vanskelige...
Posted by Intourium on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:14:00 PST

Intourium 1997 -2008

Intourium 1997-2008 RIP
Posted by Intourium on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:38:00 PST

Anmeldelser/reviews

Vi har i det siste fått mange gode anmeldselser av vår nye EP Balls and glory. Klikk her for å lese! Lately we have recieved a lot of great reviews of our new EP Balls and glory. Check it out here (No...
Posted by Intourium on Fri, 11 May 2007 02:45:00 PST

dått com

anbefaler ikke domeneshop.no hvis man skal flytte domenet sitt. faen så treigt det går der.I mellomtiden kan man finne hjemmesiden vår på http://www.punk.no/intouriumog den ORDENTLIGE bloggen vår...
Posted by Intourium on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:12:00 PST

Auduns diary

Hi there people!Just me again, with a little update. We are booking a lot of gigs right now, or to be more exatct, Endre is booking a lot of gigs. So we might show up in your hometown in the near futu...
Posted by Intourium on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:07:00 PST

A little update from Audun

Hey!Just giving you guys a small update. As most of you know we are wraping up our EP now. Just waiting for our designer to finish the last touch on the cover. We're expecting darker winter times up h...
Posted by Intourium on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:00:00 PST

A Little news bulletin

After mixing our EP, we have decided that the song Some Day needs a little fine adjustment, so mastering has been delayed. Of course we think is pretty annoying to wait even further, but than again we...
Posted by Intourium on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:14:00 PST

Greetings from Tønsberg Rock City!

Just wanted to thank all of you showing up at our gig this weekend! We had a blast and things couldn't have gone better! The whole day was a blast. We had a camera team following us the entire day, an...
Posted by Intourium on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:33:00 PST

Recording finished!

It's finally finished! The recording of our new EP! All that's left now is mixing and mastering. The EP will be mixed in Oslo during the last weekend this month. Hopefully mastering will go as planned...
Posted by Intourium on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:27:00 PST

Diary from Mikkel

Ok children& About time I make an entry in the diary. I just got back from our studio. Ive done the vocals on Growing today and it sounds really nice. Your Friend and Crave is also done so that...
Posted by Intourium on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:25:00 PST