It was during Christmas in 2014, when they were due to perform at a party in Løten, with Rune and Odd Gunnar expected to attend, that things started to happen. Frode and Leif would occasionally perform together as part of the cover band, I Live. Halloween, however, changed into Loud ‘n’ Proud, adding another Nergård brother, Frode, to the mix on bass, as well as Arnstein Ødegård on vocals.įast forward to the early 2000s and resurrecting Halloween is a thought that’s on almost nobody’s mind. He moved to Oslo and joined a new band, Neon Night. The band soldiered on for a couple of years before the singer Leif decided to leave the band. Then, in 1984, the German band Helloween emerged, with a pumpkin logo, similar to the one used by Halloween, and with a pun in their band name. While the band did keep performing for a few years, building a decent local following, none of the original music was ever recorded in any meaningful way. With one foot in the hard of the 1970s and the other in 1980s metal, they found their sound. After a few months of rehearsing in a borrowed garage, the evolving line-up settled on a three-piece consisting of Odd Gunnar Nergård on guitar, his brother Rune Nergård on drums, and Leif Knashaug on bass and vocal.ĭeep Purple, Black Sabbath and Motörhead were early influences, but as the songwriting process evolved, it became clear that the metal scene of the early 1980s was equally influential.
In the early 1980s, a group of young boys from Løten in rural Norway, decided to start a band. After 35 years, The Halloween Project are finally ready to release their debut album, “Masters Of It All”!