Gorgoroth studio report available
Twilightheart of Sheol-Magazine.com and Zero Tolerance visited Norwegian black metallers Gorgoroth in Stockholm, Sweden late last month while they were recording their new album, "Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt", for a tentative October 2009 release via Sweden's Regain Records. You can read her report, which includes a number of photos, at this location.As previously reported, Gorgoroth recently spent time at Threeman Recordings in Stockholm with producer Nico Elgstrand (Entombed). During the sessions, Gorgoroth frontman Pest replaced Gaahl's vocals for the "True Norwegian Black Metal - Live in Grieghallen" album, which was originally released in June 2008 via Regain Records. According to a posting on the group's web site, Gorgoroth mainman Infernus (guitar) "has already consulted legal representatives regarding this album, and is prepared to support Regain Records in the label's ongoing legal conflict with two of the band's ex-members, if any such support is needed."
The 2009 incarnation of Gorgoroth consists of Pest (vocals), Infernus (guitar), Tormentor (guitars), Frank Watkins (bass) and Tomas Asklund (drums).
Infernus recently won a court battle against vocalist Gaahl and bassist King ov Hell over the rights to the Gorgoroth band name. According to a posting on Infernus' MySpace page, "The court has decided that King ov Hell's trademark registration of the band name Gorgoroth is Not valid and shall therefore be deleted. The court states that King ov Hell and Gaahl excluded themselves from the band Gorgoroth when they tried to fire Infernus in October 2007. The court further states that Infernus cannot be excluded from Gorgoroth, unless he himself decides to quit."
Infernus filed a lawsuit against King ov Hell in September 2008 claiming that King (the sixth bass player in Gorgoroth's history) went behind his back in September 2007 and secretly applied for trademark protection of the Gorgoroth bandname and logo, which Infernus had been using since 1992.
