"Tchort announce that the current line up of Green Carnation has split up.

Although releasing the amazing concert DVD A night under the Dam earlier this year, the band felt drained of energy after the miserable organized USA tour put together by The End Records and their booking agent. The End Records being one of the main supporters of the band the last years, bringing hope back to Green Carnation's view on the music business, left the band with broken promises, huge debts, theft of license money and a poor organized tour draining the band for energy. The band doesn’t blame The End Records for all of its problems, but they made a bad situation worse by first giving the tour a green light when the conditions for the tour were doomed from the beginning and then later withdraw license money, merchandise money, merchandise and not paying the band or its sound engineer, leaving the band in debts. All of which could have been avoided by cancelling the tour before it started. The End Records lost money on the tour as well, so why it wasn’t cancelled when the contracts for the tour were offered to the label, is a unanswered question.

The deal for the tour was that Green Carnation would cover the flights to and from the USA, while the rest of the tour would be covered by The End Records and tour income. But in the end, the band covered the flights, their own fee, the fee of the sound engineer, some of the gas and hotel expenses during the tour, and paid for CD's that were sold during the tour. On top of that The End Records - withdraw the license money from the last album, took all the merch money and the CD's to cover their own losses. What The End Records had to gain from sending the band across the world, driving across the continent of America twice, just to come to a town where the local promoter haven’t been seen around for the last 4 months, or arrive at clubs that don’t even know you are coming, to clubs where the local promoter put up another show because the booking agent never replied to their booking confirmation so instead they went ahead and booked other tours on the same date.

In the end, it made the band members avoid live situations, tours and business partners. The band members felt they had little or nothing to give anymore, and I don’t blame them. I saw where we were heading and it wasn’t where we wanted to be at, so instead of ending up with a mediocre album, we decided to call it the quits after the most spectacular release we have produced so far; A Night Under the Dam on DVD.

Tchort will continue writing music under the name Green Carnation, but probably will never play live again with the band."


Green Carnation started as a Death metal band in 1990, in Kristiansand, south of Norway, and released their first demo (Hallucinations of Despair) in 1991. The band was disbanded in the end of 1992 when guitarist Tchort (Terje Vik Schei) was offered the position as bass player in Black Metal cult act; EMPEROR.

Finally after 6 years as musician in Emperor, Satyricon, Einherjer and Carpathian Forest, Tchort reunited in 1998 with original members of Green Carnation and recorded their debut album in 1999. The album, Journey to the end of the night, was released by German`s Prophecy Productions, in the year 2000 10 year after the start of the band. The album received top reviews in all of Europe.

This was also the year when the work with the masterpiece, Light of Day, Day of Darkness, started. The album went down in history as one of the most ambitious album projects of its time and perhaps ever.

150 recording tracks, more than 600 samples and more than 30 musicians, including a childrens choir and an opera choir, created a continuous song of 60 minutes that made the music press and fans praise the band as one of the most innovative acts in todays scene. As a following of the great reviews (Album of the month in German Metal Hammer) and high sales, Green Carnation was honoured to be a part of the ending acts of well-known Wacken Open Air, in Germany, and re-created its masterpiece, Light of Day, Day of Darkness, in front of 8000 thrilled fans.

October 2002 saw the beginning of the third album, A Blessing in Disguise, as pre-production started in Brown Sound Studios. The recording of the album took place in January and February 2003 and Green Carnation made new partners with French based Season Of Mist.

A Blessing in Disguise was released on June 16th 2003, and was awarded 6 times Album of the Month (Terrorizer, Metal Hammer, MetalWord, BraveWords & BloodyKnockles, etc). Extreme score and high numbers of awards, witness of another great album from Green Carnation.

Green Carnation presented its new material during the Quart; Hole in the Sky and Elements of Metal Festivals in Norway during summer of 2003 and received great live reviews.

The band tour Europe for the first time in November 2003, supported by Mrk Gryning (SE) and Suidakra (DE), performing material from all three albums. Michael S Krumins replace Bjrn Harstad on guitars for this tour and the following live appearances.

This DVD was recorded in January 2004 and the current situation is as follows:

Bernt A Moen left the band due to a busy personal schedule, and ystein Tnnessen step in for the DVD recording. The band is scheduled to record its 4th album in August and September 2004.

Following the recording of The Quiet Offspring, from Aug Sept. of 2004, original drummer Anders Kobro was replaced by Tommy Jackson, due to musical differences. The Quiet Offspring is scheduled to be released in February 2005 release through Season of Mist (world) and The End records (North America). The band is very anxious to see/hear the reactions, as they believe this is their most diverse, yet hardest album to date.

Vocalist Kjetil Nordhus says: "We have recorded 11 tracks in Sound Suite
Studios with producer Terje Refsnes and we are very happy with the results and
sound. It's heavier than anything we have done before and the production sounds
awesome. Also once again we had the pleasure to work with the great artist
Niklas Sundin, who provided us with the artwork."