For the past 7 years he has been touring with Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. But that is something that happened almost by coincidence.

“I did session-work on a industrial metal record in 2000 (Norwegian grammy- award winning “Sense Anima”) and I had gotten to know some of the guys in this scene. He asked me to join his newly formed band Sarke in 2008. We played some festivals but after a while the guitar player was drafted in to the live-lineup of Dimmu Borgir. Steinar Gundersen, guitarist for Satyricon then joined Sarke so after a while he asked me to join them on keyboards in 2011. It has been a hell of a ride and very educational for me, playing with a band at this level.”

But all throughout there was a strong will and passion for the project that ended up being AtomHart, a band that saw the light of day in 2015. “We share a common passion for melodic, melancholic, adventurous pop-music with a beat you can move to. I think the vision for the band was pretty clear, there would be dreamy guitars and of course a lot of synths and electronics.. But musical inspirations ca range from edgy post-punk to the New Romantics classics. It can inspire nostalgia and still feel like modern, contemporary music.”

“The first A-ha record changed my life”

In the early nineties there was a certain trend in these parts of Norway, the east side suburbs of Oslo. There was a strong desire to make progressive music, usually with a grungy vibe at the core. All the members of the recently formed AtomHart where involved in this scene throughout the nineties. Sverre Rødseth, (vocals) and myself, went back to the roots and formed The Landlords in the first half of the noghties,a classic Depeche Mode inspired synth-pop outfit.

“There was a lot of great things happening in Norway at that time, with the release of the Røyksopp album, and we were once again drawn to the Tromsø scene, like 10 years earlier with the likes of Biosphere and Bel Canto. I was touring at the time with Aggie Frost and Per Martinsen (Mental Overdrive )and this was a great experience for me. In the same period I was doing live session work with my long time favourites Briskeby, a band that was huge in Norway at the time.”

From 2006 Rødseth and Hunstad were involved with the band Bermuda Triangle, when Rødseth was asked to take over the vocal duties after the previous singer, Alex Møklebust, left to pursue reunion tours with his band Seigmen. Bermuda Triangle released 3 albums and toured in Europe, Canada and the U.S.

AtomHart is now presenting their self titled debut-EP with four songs attached.