DIMMU BORGIR's HESTNAES To Sing For ARCTURUS At London Gig

[TheGraveDigger]

Several sources are reporting that Simen Hestnaes (a.k.a. ICS Vortex, DIMMU BORGIR, ex-BORKNAGAR, LAMENTED SOULS) will be singing for ARCTURUS at the Inferno Festival kick-off event at the Underworld in London on January 27. It is not presently clear if Hestnaes' involvement with ARCTURUS will continue beyond this gig.

Hestnaes had previously performed vocals on three tracks and written the lyrics for one song on ARCTURUS' 1997 album, "La Masquerade Infernale".

ARCTURUS announced last week that vocalist Øyvind Hægeland (SPIRAL ARCHITECT) had left the group. No reason was given for his departure.

 

[The Grimace]

Groovy. First good news from Arcturus in a long time.

 

[unknown]

heard about this a week ago from the Jester board...


kinda bummed me though that Oyvind left...he did a pretty good job live. Course, Simen hestnaes is God...hopefully he'll join the band permanently

 

[crimsonfloyd]

It would be nice if Vortex just left Dimmu Borgir where his vocal skills are underused and joined Arcturus where he would thrive.

 

[KMADD]

:Smokedev: Maybe he can do both. I think his clean background vocals
are essential to Dimmu's music!

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Well they only used him on two songs on the last album, so I wouldn't they're essential...

 

[KMADD]

Yeah he did do more on Puritanical that I have to agree. Was he on Spritual Black
Dimesions also? He wasn't credited on that disc.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

I think that was his first album with the band, but I could be wrong...

 

[Ol' Dirty Bastard]

He did vocals on Spiritual Black Demensions, and he is credited. He just wasn't full time and didn't play bass.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Neat.

 

[Jaded]

i hope this becomes a full time thing