Brocken Spectre

Brocken Spectre

Brocken Spectre is a group name used by more than one act. One version is a Norwegian progressive rock and metal band formed by Kristoffer Solheim, Thomas Øhrn Hartmann, Jørn Eliassen and Vetle Warland, who begin playing together in February 2011 after attending Trøndertun music school in the same year. Because the members live in different places, the band is on hold.

Another Brocken Spectre is the solo project of Lucio Duran. Before working under that name, Duran is a member of Blackcell and In Ether. His background in Denver’s electronic scene brings him into contact with electro-industrial producers and DIY noise artists, and his work uses hardware synthesizers, drum machines and samplers to create music that combines dark ambient atmosphere with dancefloor-oriented electro. This project is signed to Backwards Records and Chimera Central.

A third Brocken Spectre forms in Vancouver around brothers Nic and Collin Campbell, who clear out a spare room and build a space for rehearsals with amps, microphones, speakers and drums. After meeting singer and songwriter Colin Ablitt at college, they develop the band from material rooted in old high-school bands and side projects. Their early songs go through repeated rewriting and rearranging before they settle into an angular, driving indie-rock style, and the group plays its first major show within three months of forming.