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Iver Sandoy

About Me

Born 1974, 6 / 6 at 6AM. Yes, that IS the number of the beast, folks...
Bands:
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies
Manngard
Trinacria
oppnedbass
ILTI MILTA
Moon Pedro & The New Farm Street Orchestra
PVstaff
War Pigs
Turbostipend
Various live/studio session work:
Jazkamer
Enslaved
Sister Sonny
Magnet
Evil Tordivel
Christine Sandtorv
Fredrik Saroea
Discography:
Jazkamer - Art Breaker - coming 2008
Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely - 2008
Sister Sonny - Just Wait Till You Meet The Locals - 2007
Manngard - European Cowards - 2007
Magnet - The Simple Life (on the song "Navigator")- 2007
Moon Pedro & TNFSO: Ed Wood - 2007
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies: Spin Out Live - 2006
Jazkamer: Metal Music Machine - 2006
PVstaff: Too Hot For Disco - 2005
oppnedbass: Raring - 2005
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies: Electric Reverie - 2005
Manngard: Circling Buzzards - 2005
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies: Misty Trails (compilation) - 2004
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies: If This Darkness Lingers - 2003
Manngard: EP - 2002
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies: Loosebox - 2002
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies: Vengeance EP - 2001
oppnedbass: Malamuitten, verdens sterkaste hund (EP) - 1999
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies: Viva Revenge - 1999
PVstaff: Create Your Lover (EP) - 1999
oppnedbass: Hesten (EP) - 1998
Emmerhoff: The Joy Of Mourning - 1996
ILTI MILTA: Maze (cassette demo) - 1992
ILTI MILTA: Wolves (cassette demo) - 1990
ILTI MILTA: Notify The Situation (cassette demo) - 1989
Check out these band sites:
http://www.manngard.net
http://www.emmerhoff.com
http://www.oppnedbass.com
http://www.jazzkammer.com
I will not accept friend requests from profiles set to "private". Neo-nazis and other fruitcakes: be gone!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/11/2006
Influences: The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Slayer, Celtic Frost, King Crimson, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Residents, Primus, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Karlheinz Stockhausen, early Metallica, Pink Floyd, DEVO, Black Sabbath, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, etc
Drummers: Aynsley Dunbar w/Zappa, Bonham (obviously), Ringo (of course), Bozzio w/Zappa, Lombardo, Tim Alexander, Paice, Bruford, Clive Burr, Cobham w/Mahavishnu, Elvin w/Coltrane, Lars 83-88 (have to give him credit for those first 4!), Nick Mason (the spaces!), Phil Rudd, Jakson "Thunderfoot" Spires, Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor (although chemically induced, he had ENERGY)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Interview

A Norwegian website (heavymetal.no) has published my first-ever drums&drumming-oriented interview. This one is for the drum freaks.... in Norwegian only, fortunately/unfortunately.http://heavymetal.no...
Posted by Iver Sandoy on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:03:00 PST

Grammy winner

Again, nothing I can take credit for, really, but for the first time I'm a Grammy winner...Magnet's "The Simple Life", on which I appear on the song "Navigator" won the Norwegian Grammy in the "Best M...
Posted by Iver Sandoy on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:36:00 PST

Recent activity

Been kind of a busy autumn. The September Norwegian tour with Trinacria was an exeptionally rewarding experience, and there seems to be more to come from that camp. Stay tuned.Did another one-off with...
Posted by Iver Sandoy on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:01:00 PST

Enslaved, June1

Once more, my services are called for from the Enslaved camp. I'll be filling in for Cato at a special FREE show this friday (June1), where we'll be performing some quite unique versions of old Norweg...
Posted by Iver Sandoy on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:41:00 PST

Trinacria review/pics

One of Norway's most prominent newspapers, Aftenposten, has posted a review and some nice pics (even one of yours truly) of Trinacria's Inferno performance. In Norwegian, obviously...See it here:http:...
Posted by Iver Sandoy on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:49:00 PST

Top of the charts

Not really anything I can take credit for, but for the first time I'm on #1 on the official Norwegian album chart, VG-lista, as Magnet's last album (on which I drummed on one song) entered at #1 this ...
Posted by Iver Sandoy on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:44:00 PST

Gearhead

You bet I am...Vintage snares, vintage kits, new kits, cheap-absolute-trash drums, hi-end extravaganza kits and snares (gay but ok)... For the pleasure and enjoyment for all you total gearfreaks out ...
Posted by Iver Sandoy on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:18:00 PST

Underground album of the year

Just back from Berlin and a very satisfying Jazkamer gig, to discover (somewhat late, but what the hey) that METAL MUSIC MACHINE by Jazkamer was voted underground album of the year, 2006, in MOJO. Tha...
Posted by Iver Sandoy on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:54:00 PST