Now everything was set, and ENSLAVED was ready to go. He immediately came up with the right "answer": ENSLAVED (inspired from their song "Enslaved in Rot" from the IMMORTAL demo tape). And coming with them where none other than Demonaz of the infamous IMMORTAL. As Ivar, Grutle and Trym where turning their minds inside out to come up with something, OLD FUNERAL came to play in ENSLAVED's "hometown" Haugesund. The next question was a simple one: what to call the band. And I guess time has proven them more or less right, wouldn't you? They had a feeling that this band would go somewhere. It was soon to be clear that this would be no ordinary band. He accepted, and they started working on songs. So Ivar and Grutle asked him to join their new band. Ivar's childhood friend Trym Torson was still rehearsing after Obnoxious got split up. So where were we? Oh yeah! Grutle Kjellson and Ivar Bjornson were wandering the dark woods outside Haugesund in search of good ideas for their new project. Even though ToT's music never really hit the top of our playlists, we've got to give him credit for this particular career-move. ![]() He left for Stavanger and started Theatre of Tragedy. Their departure was the death of PHOBIA (excuse the pun), and Hein Frode Hansen left both the band and the city. Sometime early in 1991, however, Grutle and Ivar got "fed up" with the lack of progress and innovation and decided to leave and start something on their own. ![]() PHOBIA produced one rehearsal-demo entitled "The Last Settlement of Ragnarok" and a demotape with the juicy title "Feverish Convulsions". This band existed for a little over one and a half years. ![]() PHOBIA did some extremely low-down Doom Death Metal with AUTOPSY and early DARK THRONE as the main influences. They got two additional members and PHOBIA was founded. These three guys got together and decided to join forces. They were playing in different bands at the time, Ivar in the trash-metal outfit Obnoxious (now, that's original.) along with amongst others Trym Torson and Grutle was just getting started with a Death Metal project along with Hein Frode Hansen. ![]() Some windy day back in 1990 Grutle Kjellson and Ivar Bjornson met in their local rehearsal room, located in Haugesund (on the west-coast of Norway, between Stavanger and Bergen).
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