TRISTANIA's male vocalist Østen Bergøy has checked in with a new blog offering a trip down memory lane with their 2001 album World Of Glass. Check it out below.

"World Of Glass got good reviews in the magazines - like its predecessors - some extremely positive - and a few were a bit more reserved.

For some musicians good reviews and the recognition and status that comes with them are extremely important. It is easy to forget that journalists are just human beings that write their opinions - they are critics - just like every fan that is into the music. Some responses from die-hard fans were quite harsh - but every bands focus should be on the music - not the opinions held by others.

The album was released on the second or third day of our European headlining tour. This meant that our new songs were unknown to most of the people in the crowds. They would still recognize the old ones and the reception of 'The Shining Path', 'Tender Trip On Earth' and 'World Of Glass' was fairly promising (the 3 new songs that we played). However, the new material wasn't the biggest change that had been made since the last show. There were changes in the lineup as well.

Morten was out and Kjetil Ingebrethsen and myself - eventually full members - were handling the male vocals. Obviously this kicked up a lot of dust. Kjetil's stage-appearance was quite different from Morten's. Where Veland was a static piratish man with a guitar, Kjetil was like an attacking pitbull - running all over the place - and frenetically whipping the crowd. He loves the kind of attention you get on a big stage - playing with the lights and doing his robot-like dances.

The main challenges when you are on stage with five or six fellow band members is the space you give/take and where you want to have the main attention. Me, Kjetil and Vibeke all had solo parts - and on a couple of the songs there were soft duets with Vibeke and myself. On this tour we played a lot of 'old' songs where I had either no lines or only a few and I would leave the stage and watch the show from the back. It took me a long time to find my role in this lineup. Kjetil had all the aggressive lines - inviting headbanging and all sorts of craziness - while Vibeke - as a natural frontwoman - didn't have to move much to get the crowd's attention. She could lean on her impressive vocal capabilities and that would get people going. I brought my 'stage act' from The Morendoes - basically just clinging to my microphone stand like it was the ONLY thing that could save me. In the Tristania setting this didn't work out very well - my vocal parts - as you all know are mainly low pitched and mellow on the earlier Tristania albums, and I felt like Kjetil and Vibeke and Anders and Rune would get the crowd moving and I would make them stop. Would YOU jump around to these words: 'Perchance to dream, you're my dancing Queen, Behold thy haven of light'? Of course you wouldn't! I also had restrictions on dancing, climbing and headbanging - due to a couple of fuck ups the previous year.

I was the boring blonde guy to the left."

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