ABOUT FULL NAME: MORTEN MULIN NICKNAMES: MOE, ALBERTS MOR BORN: 25. SEP. 1980 CURRENT HABITAT: PREFERRED TIME OF YEAR: SPRING AND
AUTUMN HOBBIES:
COLLECTING INSTRUMENTS, MAINLY GUITARS INFLUENCES:
IRON MAIDEN
MANOWAR
OLD METALLICA
OLD BLACK SABBATH
MY BROTHER
FOLK MUSIC I STARTED OUT PLAYING GUITAR ON MY
17TH BIRTHDAY, MAINLY INSPIRED BY MY BROTHER, JACOB, WHO HAD
STARTED PLAYING BASS A YEAR OR TWO EARLIER. HE GOT IN A BAND WITH OUR DRUMMER
KENNETH AMONG OTHERS. I USED TO WATCH THEM PLAY AND
WANTED TO TRY IT OUT MYSELF. STARTED OUT BY PLAYING A TOTAL
WRECK OF AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR I BORROWED FROM MY BROTHER. UNFORTUNATELY HE DIED THE YEAR
AFTER, IN 1998, SO I INHERITED HIS BASS AND AN ELECTRIC GUITAR, THAT’S STILL
IN MY COLLECTION AS A MEMORY. MY FIRST BAND WAS WITH SOME OF HIS
OLD CLASSMATES I HOOKED UP WITH IN THE END OF THAT YEAR. THE BAND WAS NAMED
“FAILED”. THE STYLE WAS MOSTLY NU-METAL,
WITH BIG INSPIRATIONS FROM KORN AND LIMP BIZKIT. IN 1999 I GOT TO KNOW ANOTHER
LOCAL LOONGHAIRED DUDE, RUNE, AND SOON JOINED THE BAND HE HAD CALLED
ILLPOSSESSED. THIS BANDS STYLE WAS A MIX BETWEEN PUNK AND METAL, ILLCORE, AS
WE CALLED IT. THIS BAND ENDED UP TAKING MY FULL FOCUS, AS I LEFT FAILED IN
2001. I WAS KICKED OUT OF ILLPOSSESSED
DUE TO SOME PERSONAL BATTLES WITH THE OTHERS AND WAS OUT FOR ABOUT 9 MONTHS. MY REPLACEMENT WAS BRIAN, AND THUS
WE GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER. (WE ATTENDED THE SAME SCHOOL, SO WE KNEW
EACH OTHER A LITTLE ALREADY.) ILLPOSSESSED SOON CRUMBLED TO DUST
AND I HOOKED UP WITH RUNE AND BRIAN TO FORM DEAD BUSHES – SAME ILLCORE-STYLE
BUT WITH POLITICAL LYRICS AS THE NAME OF THE BAND MIGHT SHOW. THE BAND LASTED FOR 2 YEARS AND
THEN WE KIND OF GREW APART. I THEN WANDERED AROUND, PLAYING IN
SMALL BANDS THAT NEVER REALLY GOT ANYWHERE AND ENDED UP ABANDONING MUSIC
TOTALLY. MEANWHILE, BRIAN HAD STARTED S.I.D.E AND I WAS ASKED A COUPLE OF TIMES TO JOIN BEFORE I DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY. THE RESULT IS SHOWN ALL OVER THIS SITE... J
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