Asgeir Mickelson

Norwegian musician and artist (born 1969)

Asgeir Mickelson
Birth name	Asgeir Mickelson
Born	(1969-09-30) 30 September 1969 (age 54)
Origin	Norway
Genres	Progressive metal, black metal, death metal, thrash metal, doom metal, heavy metal
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, graphic designer
Instrument(s)	Drums, percussion, guitars, bass

Musical artist

Asgeir Mickelson (born 30 September 1969)^[1] is a Norwegian musician, artist, photographer and music reviewer. Although primarily known as a drummer, he is also a skilled guitarist and bassist.

Biography

He has stated on his official message board that he started playing guitar roughly around 1982,^[2] and switched to drums in 1988-1989.^[3] He took two drum lessons in 1991, and is otherwise self-taught. He began playing guitar again in late 2002^[2] and has stated on his forum that he has been recording solo thrash metal.^[4] He has also said that he is working on a doom metal album similar to the works of Candlemass. To this date he has only been employed as a drummer in all of the bands he is/has been a member of excluding Borknagar on their album Epic, where he played drums, bass, and performed the guitar on the track "The Weight of Wind".^[5]

Mickelson has been a member of several metal bands, among which the best known ones are Spiral Architect which he co-founded, and Borknagar. He has also contributed session drums and live drumwork for several bands and artists, including Ihsahn's first solo album The Adversary and the albums Visions From The Spiral Generator and The Focusing Blur by Vintersorg. He most recently joined the Norwegian death metal band, Thornbound as drummer.

Aside from his work as a musician, Mickelson has worked as a writer for Scream Magazine in addition to his work as a graphic designer. Mickelson is the lead designer for Scream Magazine and the Inferno Metal Festival. He has arranged Scream Magazine's festival Screamfest and Norwegian Metal Awards. He designed the artwork for The Trivial Act Mindscape album, the last three Borknagar albums, and is currently designing the artwork for Scariot's forthcoming full-length. He is a web designer as well and is currently working on a Norwegian drummer website entitled Blastbeat.no which will feature various drummers from the Extreme Metal world, including such men as Jan Axel Blomberg, Trym Torson, Frost, Tjodalv, Horgh, Bård Faust and himself.

He has owned and run the Multimono recording studio in Norway, where he produced and engineered recordings, including the latest Scariot album.^[6] Additionally, such bands as Scariot, Twisted Into Form, Red Harvest, Solefald and Myoclon recorded on its premises. John Jacobsen of Sturmgeist also recorded his Gothenburg metal album with ENE there.

Asgeir quit Borknagar due to creative differences in 2008. In May 2011 Asgeir joined Jens F Ryland in the band Artisan, and also began working on the Artisannorway website. A Metal Soapbox And Music project.^[7]

Outside of music, he is responsible for the release of a Norwegian poker magazine entitled, Norsk pokermagasin.

Discography

Borknagar

Quintessence (2000)
Empiricism (2001)
Epic (2004) (Drums and bass on entire album as well as select guitar parts)
Origin (2006)

Enslavement of Beauty

Session drummer Megalomania (2001)

Hardingrock

Session drummer Grimen (2007)^[8]

Highland Glory

Live session drummer (2003) playing 5 Iron Maiden cover songs

ICS Vortex

Storm Seeker Drums (2011)

Ihsahn

The Adversary (2006)
angL (2008)
After (2010)

Lunaris

Drummer (May 1999)
Session drummer Demo 2000 Demo (2000)
Session drummer Creative Destruction Demo (2000)
Session drummer The Infinite (2002)
Session drummer on the song "When It Ends" on Cyclic (2004)

Myoclon

Session drummer and producer. Forthcoming Full-Length

Sarke

Oldarhian (2011)
Aruagint (2013)

Scariot

Momentum Shift (2007)

Spiral Architect

Spiral Architect Demo (1996)
A Sceptic's Universe (2000)

Sturmgeist

Live session drummer (2005). One week tour in Europe.

Testament

Live session drummer (2003). One gig in San Francisco and 2 week headlining tour in Europe (No Mercy festival)

Thornbound

Forthcoming Full-Length

Veil of Secrets

Dead Poetry Guitars, Bass, and Drums (2020)

Vintersorg

Visions From The Spiral Generator (2002)
The Focusing Blur (2004)

Notes

^ "Lunaris Official Site - Asgeir Mickelson biography Archived July 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine"
^ ^a ^b "Extremedrumming.net - April 2006 - Guitar and bass playing thread Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine" April 2006.
^ "Extremedrumming.net - April 2006 - I was just wondering... thread Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine" April 2006.
^ "Extremedrumming.net - April 2006 - Whoa! thread Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine" April 2006.
^ "Borknagar official webpage - June 2004 - Epic album details" June 2004
^ "Extremedrumming.net - January 2007 - Update, January 07 thread Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine" January 2007.
^ "Artisan Norway - A Metal Soapbox and Music Project - May 2011 - There's a new sheriff in town" June 2004
^ "Extremedrumming.net - January 2007 - Update, January 2007 thread Archived March 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine" January 2007.