Anders Odden - Music Career

Music Career

Anders Odden started out as a black metal musician and artist in the mid 80s, and went on to start one of Norway's first death metal bands, Cadaver, in 1988. He went on with bands like Apoptygma Berzerk and Magenta, and reunited Cadaver in the late 1990s. He released two more albums with Cadaver, and toured with Morbid Angel, Extreme Noise Terror, Mayhem, before ending Cadaver in 2004. Odden then went back to Apoptygma Berzerk and co-wrote their album, You And Me Against The World.

He toured the world with Apoptymga Berzerk until Celtic Frost recruited him as their live guitarist in 2006. He toured Europe, USA, Canada and Japan with them on their Monotheist Tour, which ended in 2007. Celtic Frost came to an end in April 2008. By then Odden had just completed the new album from Magenta, Art And Accidents, as well as beginning to write more metal-oriented music again. In June 2008 he filmed his first-ever show for TV with Karaoke From Hell which was broadcasted from September to November 2008 on TV3 in Norway. The show was called Charterfeber and is a docusoap about Norwegians on holiday.

Odden also had a career as a cartoon-writer for Pyton Magazine from 1991-1992 in Norway. The series was called "tre små anarkister" ("Three Small Anarchists") and he also stood model for one of the characters. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Odden worked as a consultant for music organizations in Norway, such as RIO, GramArt, MIC and MFO (Musicians Union in Norway). He is the founder of music business seminar IMC, which is held during the annual Inferno Festival in Oslo, Norway.

In 2011 he release his autobiography, "Piratliv", on Jurtizen Forlag which received great reviews in Norwegian media. In 2012 he started a career as a music producer in his own studio, Studio Tomb and the first albums he is recording is the debut album of Norwegian metal core band, Oslo F.

In the beginning of 2013 Magenta began recording their comeback album, Songs For the Dead. They return to their roots of dismal dark and misty music with the enchanting vocals, in English yet again.