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Valtam

Pure AMERICAN Black Metal

About Me

Valtam was started in 2004-2005 as a thrash metal cover band by Ziu and his close friend from school. Ziu then asked Trigve to join the band as a vocalist and Trigve came up with the idea to become a black metal band. Upon hearing this Ziu's friend left the band and Ziu asked his long time friend Laakien to join on bass. Shortly after this incident Trigve and Ziu had been trying to come up with a name for the band for quite some time. While looking up things on Norse Mythology, Trigve stumbled upon an alternate name for Odin, the primary Norse god. That name was Valtam. The name was an instant hit among the band members and their friends. At this point in time Ziu needed surgery on his shoulder due to a wrestling mishap so all actions were postponed. during this time period however the band searched for a drummer and what they got was Thor a long time friend of the vocalist Trigve and a realatively newer friend to Laakien and Ziu. Ziu, who has had troubles with depression for years was hospitalized for suicidal ideations twice; once in late '06 and early '07. almost as soon as Ziu got out of the hospital, the band began writing their first few songs with Trigve handling the lyrics and Ziu writing the scores. these songs, however, are still in the production stages and will not be recorded for some time yet. it was about this time that the band realized they needed a second guitarist so Ziu approached his long time friend Frenrisulfr, whom he had had numerouse jam sessions with, if he would like the spot. He accepted gleefully and Valtam was formed.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4Valtam Covering A World To Win By Gorgoroth

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/8/2006
Band Members:

Trigve - Vocals

Ziu Hjalmar - Guitar

Fenrisulfr - Guitars

Laakien - Bass

Þórr - Drums


Influences: Major influences from Darkthrone, Emperor and Gorgoroth, but also included are Immortal, Mayhem, Bathory, Burzum, Satyricon, 1349, Scholomance, Venom, and any other Black Metal you can think of.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Phishing sucks

I would like to apologize on behalf of myself and the rest of Valtam for the random links that you received. If you couldn't tell already, we were phished, and it's a pain in the nuts that we were.Peo...
Posted by Valtam on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:52:00 PST

Zius Apologies

Ziu wishes to apologize for the lack of activity on the part of the band we WILL be practicing again soon Sincerely Ziu Hjalmar of Valtam...
Posted by Valtam on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:31:00 PST

Trigve's Mighty Return

Trigve is home from alaska and the band is moving full steam ahead as i am proud to announce we have officially played infront of an audience.......it was a rather informal event but hey it counts to ...
Posted by Valtam on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:13:00 PST

Hailz from Alaska

Hello, brothers and sisters! Hailz from Alaska!I just wanted to say I'm having a fucking blast here, what with the scenery, the 9-hour fly fishing trip down the Kenai River (which is the most beautifu...
Posted by Valtam on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:55:00 PST

Trigve

Trigve would like me to let you all know he is taking a trip to Alaska for a couple of weeks but the rest of the band will work on material without him during this time period Hail Satan ~Ziu Hjalmar~...
Posted by Valtam on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:20:00 PST

Ziu and Fenrisulfr

Ziu and Fenrisulfr have recorded two video covers: Emperor's I Am The Black Wizards and Emperor's Inno A Satana the vid for I Am The Black Wizards is not available due to the fact that the file was to...
Posted by Valtam on Sun, 13 May 2007 09:05:00 PST

Unholy fuck, we're doing something for once.

Wow, I'm surprised at what we've been doing. So far:1. Goatlord has had a score set to it, which showed me how amazing Ziu is at life.2. We finally got real cymbals instead of the shitty bent ones.3. ...
Posted by Valtam on Wed, 09 May 2007 06:29:00 PST

Off we go!

I'm gonna be gone for 4 days in about a week's time, along with the rest of the band. We'll get some work done with songs (I hope).'Till we return (from the day that we leave), stay true to your mast...
Posted by Valtam on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:04:00 PST

Bad News

It sucks to be saying this, but you won't be seeing any work up from us any time soon. Ziu has needed surgery on his shoulder for a while, and the damn thing was re-scheduled for last Tuesday (I think...
Posted by Valtam on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:38:00 PST

Names

So we finally got all of our fucking names done. Took us long enough > Summer has begun, which means we'll start practicing and recording soon! Hope you like the shit that we can belt out at you all. ...
Posted by Valtam on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:20:00 PST