In Lingua Mortua is a Melodic Black Metal band from Norway, formed by Lars F. F. back in 1999. The music is inspired by a wide range of music – everything from Norwegian black metal of the 90’s to prog rock of the 70’s, to jazz of the 50’s, to folk, country, classical music, electronica/trip-hop to film music (film noir and horror in particular) and so on…

The first album, “Bellowing Sea – Racked by Tempest” consists of 8 tracks (about 50 minutes) and was created in 1999/2000. Recordings began in the summer of 2000. Lyrically it’s a mix of Van der Graaf Generator’s “A Plague of Lighthouse keepers” from their 1971 album “Pawn hearts”, Dante’s “Inferno” and Homer’s “Odyssey.” With him he got Uruz (from Urgehal and Vulture Lord) on drums, Marius Glenn Olaussen (from Asmegin) on guitar, Trondr Nefas (from Urgehal and Vulture Lord) on vocal, Raymond Håkenrud (from Asmegin) on additional guitar, Kristian Hultgren (from Wobbler) on saxophone, Sareeta (from Ram-Zet) on violin and Jonny Pedersen on flute.

Things moved slowly, and the project was haunted by one disaster after the other. The last recordings were finished summer 2005… Since things was going so slow, Lars made the basic ideas for the second album, which is being recorded in these days.

Then autumn 2006 In Lingua Mortua was signed on the norwegian indie label Termo Records (www.termorecords.com), and finally the release dates were set to June 11th in Norway and July 16th in the rest of the world.

2009: ILM has now finished recording, mixing and mastering the second album “Salon des Refusés”, which features lots of incredible guest musicians like Jørgen Munkeby (Shining) on sax and bass clarinet, Niklas Kvarforth (Shining) and Thebon (Keep of Kalessin) on vocals, Ketil Einarsen (Jaga Jazzist) on flute, plus tons of various guitarists; Jacob Holm-Lupo (White Willow), Thomas Myrvold (Beastcraft), Tony Kareid, Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen (Xploding Plastix, Kvist), Geir Marius Bergom Halleland (Thunderbolt), Raymond Haakenrud, Martin Johansson and many more.. Jens Petter Nilsen (Xploding Plastix) has given some assistance with the recordings. Like always, Lars is using his many vintage keyboards (like mellotron, moog, arp, clavinet, rhodes, hammond c3 and so on – no shitty samples or modern equipment) all over the place, and on this album things are stretched way further than the first album with the idea that it could have been made in the 70s; with vintage Ludwig drums, Rickenbacker bass, space echo, fender twin reverb and so on.

Current line-up:

Trondr Nefas - Vocals, Guitars (Urgehal, Beastcraft, Krypt, Styggdom, Svartekunst, Dim Nagel/Endezzma, Vulture Lord, Angst Skvadron, Kvist, Bloodsworn)

Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Harmonica,

Contrabass (Endezzma, Angst Skvadron)

Marius Glenn Olaussen - Guitars (Ásmegin)

Raymond Håkenrud - Guitars (Ásmegin)

Former Members:

Kristian Karl Hultgren - Saxophone (Wobbler)

Sareeta - Violin (Ram-Zet, Ásmegin, Voluspaa)

Jonny Pedersen - Flute

Uruz (Jarle Byberg) - Drums (Vulture Lord, Urgehal, Esgaroth (Nor), Shining (Swe), Crest of Darkness, Where Angels Fall, Nàttsòl, Voluspaa)

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