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Our Story...
Anders Odd1 formed
Magenta during the summer of 1995. Vilde joined him on vocals that autumn.
They released their first EP simply named Magenta in 1997. The song Secret Sky went into the charts in Norway and established their career.
Anders Odd1 was already a well-known name to most of the music-oriented people. He's been members of bands like Apoptygma Berzerk , Cadaver as well as recording for Satyricon , and being liveguitarist for Celtic Frost .
The album Periode was released in march 1998, and Magenta went on tour in Norway and Germany.
Magenta signed a new record-deal in April 2001 with the German indielabel Re:pop Music. The summer of 2001 saw the recording of the album Little girl Lost, when they joined forces with producer, Vegard Ibo Blomberg
The album was released in Germany the 24th of June 2002, and was very well received in the German alternative press. It reached number 4 in both the German Alternative Charts during the fall of 2002.
Magenta made a video for All Over featuring Mortiis , but were quite stunned to find out that COCA COLA company wanted this song for their worldwide release of Sprite Zero. The best chart position so far has been reached when Magenta CD single All Over climbed to ..2 in the official charts in Greece on the 8.7.2002 when this campain went into a frenzy there.
Magenta played a lot of gigs in 2002/2003 and the took some time off after the Arvika Festival in Sweden in 2003. Anders re-joined Apoptygma Berzerk on the recording of their new album "you and me against the world" in 2004/2005.
In 2006 Magenta was reinforced with programming wizard Elec This, and guitar manic Daniel Hill. This was very inspiering for the band and led to one of the most creative period in the bands history. Magenta released a track together with Apoptygma Berzerk called Friendly fire in the beginning of 2006, and this kicked Magenta into a serious writing process for a new album.
Magenta have now started to record more stuff and the album will most likely be released in 2008. The first new song of the new direction is Darkest Dream
UPDATE: December 2007. Magentas keyboarder Elec This decided to leave Magenta after musical indifference. Geir Bratland from Apoptygma Berzerk is going to replace him when the band is playing live. Geir Bratland used to play keyboards for Magenta from time to time since the very first gig back in 1996. Magenta is also enforced with Jonas Groth who is contributing to the production of the rest of the new album. All the songs are now ready for this long awaited release, and the expected release date is now in May 2008. Magenta is with you.
