Intourium

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9 years into their career felt it was the right time to define a couple of things. Define the band. Define the music. "We feel that we’ve developed our own sound now, I can’t think of any band that sounds like us, at least not here in Norway. We try to combine the trifecta of great songwriting, lyrical acumen and catchiness, and I feel that we’ve accomplished just that" Bassplayer Balchen confidently says. Well it’s certanly rock. They got the rock guitars, the decent drumming and the deep roaring bass lines. But on the other hand they got the harmonies and the catchiness of good pop-music mixed in. So it’s rock and it’s pop. They call it Rock/Pop! "The last couple of years we’ve been working a lot more on how we arrange our songs. You know, to get a more interesting sound and add those little things that keep the listener listening. We hadn’t been paying much attention to the composition of the songs until we started recording for "I Need You" and our producer totally ripped our songs apart. It was pretty scary back then, you know, when someone outside the band starts messing with your songs, well, let’s just say that bands don’t like that. But it didn’t take long before we saw that the new changes made our songs better. We got to see it from the producers point of view, and hopefully we learned a great deal from that" Three year after the release of their debut EP "I Need You" the band released another EP “Balls and Glory”. By using the same studio and producer as they did on "I Need You" the band is hoping to hit the spot once again. "We recorded for “Balls and Glory” for a year, that’s a long time, considering it’s a four song EP. We’re not rushing things, we got plenty of time. We know it’s like the biggest cliche but we don’t want to release something that will be embarrasing to listen to a year from now." "But it’s all about playing live, guess we just mentioned the second biggest cliche of the music buiness, but nowadays you can’t take for granted that a band can play live. It’s getting better though, the last couple of years a great deal of new rock bands have hit it pretty big. But right before that, with all the lipsync and s***, that was just terrible. As far as playing shows, luckily we can say that we love it! That is the goal that we’re trying to reach, you know, living in a tourbus for 6 months a year and playing shows every night." 2006