BORKNAGAR Part Ways With Bassist
June 1, 2010, 14 years ago
Bassist Jan Erik "Tyr" Tiwaz (session and touring bassist for EMPEROR and SATYRICON) has decided to leave the BORKNAGAR fold, due to general disagreements. According to a band update, "the split happened in a friendly manner and with mutual respect. The band wants to wish him the best of luck for future endeavours!"
BraveWords.com spoke with Borknagar guitarist/founder Øystein Brun about the band's latest album, Universal, recently.
“When I was a kid my father had LPs from BLACK SABBATH and the bands from the ‘70s, so for me that’s ground zero. That’s the way good music should sound. Not necessarily the sound, but the feeling you get when you listen to it. That’s something we really tried to achieve with the album, and of course some people don’t understand that,” says Brun. “Maybe they’re too young, I don’t know. Maybe they just don’t have any real experience when it comes to music. We’re really searching out this organic ‘70s feeling. We’re not trying to make ‘70s prog rock or anything, but we want to capture some of the magic from that era. We wanted to make things sound like 2010 – very big and professional and sounding like a million dollars – so it was a balance between keeping Universal sounding natural and up-to-date and organic.”Read the entire interview here.
