Cyclophonia

Cyclophonia was founded in 1997 as a quartet, mainly doing covers of the fastest and most anguished songs by bands like Helloween, Manowar, Blind Guardian and Riot. We caused a sensation, received rave reviews in the local press and even triumphed at a music contest where hundreds of bands from all over Norway gather to compete. It was a good time, but it didn't last. In 1999, the band split up and its members went their separate ways. A brief reunion in 2003, with new singer Andreas Angell, served to whet the metal appetite of Cyclophonia's founding members and brothers Øystein and Kristian Kvile Hanssen, but shortly afterwards the band collapsed again.