SHINING's KVARFORTH To Join MANIAC's SKITLIV On GALLHAMMER Tour

September 12, 2007

SHINING's Niklas Kvarforth will join the touring lineup of SKITLIV on their forthcoming six-date mini-tour with Japanese all-girl band GALLHAMMER. Also on stage with the band will be their new bass player, the sculptor Spacebrain, who was in the past responsible for MAYHEM's stage sets. He is currently preparing stage sets for SKITLIV and will be debuting some of them on the tour, which is set to kick off in the band's hometown of Oslo, with a gig at Club Maiden on September 30. The dates are as follows:

Sep. 30 - Club Maiden, Oslo, Norway
Oct. 01 - Spanien, Aarhus, Denmark
Oct. 02 - Loppen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oct. 03 - K17, Berlin, Germany
Oct. 04 - Scheld'Apen, Antwerp, Belgium
Oct. 05 - Baroeg, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Earlier this year Kvarforth joined former MAYHEM frontman Maniac's new doom black metal band SKITLIV as studio guitarist with the intention of playing live whenever his commitments to SHINING allowed. A close friend of Maniac's, Kvarforth is a big fan of the band, and the two have been working together on material for the forthcoming album, "Glem Aldri Korset".

Commented Maniac: "The arrival of Kvarforth into the band has actually caused a delay in the completion of the album as we have been re-writing together. It's very much a positive rather than a negative, because his input has been extraordinary. He has an amazing skill and creativity, and is adding extra dimensions to the music that fit in perfectly with what I had originally envisaged. We're lucky that the GALLHAMMER tour schedule fits in with his free time so that he can join us live."

SKITLIV will join SHINING and Austrian black metallers HELLSAW for an 18-date European tour in December, with dates being announced shortly once the schedule is confirmed. Plans are also being considered for the two bands to tour further together in the future.

Unfinished tracks from "Glem Aldri Korset", including "Amfetamin" with current MAYHEM frontman Attila Csihar joining Maniac on vocals, and "Hollow Devotion" with spoken intro and outro by GORGOROTH's Gaahl, can be heard on SKITLIV's official MySpace page.

Watch SKITLIV's video for the track "Virescit Volnere Virtus":

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