ON THE RISE

This is Terje Eide’s Official ON THE RISE MySpace website. Hailing from Bergen, Norway, Terje Eide (lead & background vocals, guitars) is the former and founder of ON THE RISE.
Terje first captured the public ear at age 16, as singer, guitarist and songwriter. His musical career began in earnest a year later, through winning a local talent contest. He later enjoyed a stint with the band Heaven & Hell, a rock institution in Bergen in the 80s. In 1986 he won the Norwegian National Rock Championship on national TV with the band The Heat. He started his own band a few years later.
Terje has spent several years exploring various musical genres, as well as playing with local artists as a guitarist, singer and backup singer. This capacity landed him a variety of large-scale shows and concerts, backing acclaimed Norwegian artists.
Terje went back to his roots of melodic rock in 2000 by starting a project who later on became ON THE RISE. A demo was made in early 2001 which immediately raised the interest of Frontiers Records s.r.l, who signed the project in June 2002.
Several rockmagazines writes that ON THE RISE has created the melodic rock ultimate debut album, boasting influences from the likes of Toto, Nelson and Boston with elements of the typical Skandinavian melodic rock.
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"SUMMARY OF REVIEWS FROM EVERYWHERE ON THE NET" Some reviews scores and remarks are following:
ROCK IT Magazine - Germany Number 1 in the soundcheck Review 6/6 Every now and then there comes a time when a band hits the big one. Means a band manages to create the perfect album within its little musical universe. In this case ON THE RISE completely comes out of the blue.
METAL HEART Magazine - Germany 9/10 Review
MELODICROCK.COM - Australia 98% out of 100% On The Rise offers something different, with a great deal of musical variety, all packed and delivered with some amazing harmonies, fantastic production and some of the best melodic choruses I have heard in a long time.
ONTHEROCKS.DE - Germany 97% out of 100% With the Norwegian band ON THE RISE, Frontiers Records presents some of the most promising newcomers to the European AOR scene in years!
MELODICROCK.DE - Germany 9.5/10 An album that is pure aural pleasure for every Giant and Nelson fan or indeed anyone even remotely into melodic rock - a must ! Thorsten Giemsa
AORDreamzones - Netherlands 85/100 "On The Rise have come out of nowhere and delivered a terrific album where every song works, the production is silky and the all the musicians play their parts with perfection" Nicky Baldrian
ROCK HARD Magazine - Italy Top album of the Month 10/10 No faults on this album: production, songwriting, sound and performances everything is on top level Omar Zampetti
FLASH Magazine - Italy 85/100 ON THE RISE are the nicest surprise of this start of 2003! Andrea Bertamino
METAL FORCE Magazine - Italy Top Melodic Album of the month! 95/100 Review by Primo Bonali
METALLUS.COM - Italy 8.5/10 A great rock record! Fabio Negri
ROCK TIME - France This debut album is a complete must a revelation ! Jee Jacquet
MELODIC.NET - Sweden On The Rise is here to stay and they have showed us what melodic rock/AOR is all about with this album Juha Harjula
LEVEL 11- Sweden 9/10 I was totally blown out by this release! Teddy Jonasson
GET READY TO ROCK - UK **** This is one of the best albums to come along in awhile Jason Ritchie
ROCKUNITED.COM - Various 9/10 A must have! Urban Wallstroem
PEITERSEN.COM - Denmark 4/5 All in all I will say that this is one of the finest debuts in my record collection Steen Peitersen