Lorentz Aspen (born 23 April 1978 in

Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...

) is a Norwegian heavy metal

pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

and

keyboardist A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instru ...

. He played in

Theatre of Tragedy Theatre of Tragedy was a Norwegian band from Stavanger, active between 1993 and 2010. They are best known for their earlier albums, which influenced the gothic metal genre. History Formation (1993) Theatre of Tragedy was founded on 2 October 199 ...

from 2 October 1993 to 2 October 2010 and with them he released seven

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

s, one

live album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th centur ...

and five EP's. He also played in Imperium as an additional musician, and he played the

hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

on Therion's '' Vovin''.

Discography

With Theatre of Tragedy

*''Theatre of Tragedy'' - Demo (1994) *''

'' (1995) *'' Velvet Darkness They Fear'' (1996) *'' A Rose for the Dead'' - EP (1997) *'' Aégis'' (1998) *'' Musique'' (2000) *'' Closure: Live'' - Live (2001) *''Inperspective'' - Compilation EP (2001) *'' Assembly'' (2002) *''Two Originals'' - Compilation (2003) *''

Storm A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body. It may be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning (a thunderstor ...

'' (2006) *''

Forever Is the World ''Forever Is the World'' is the seventh and final studio album by the Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy. It was released on 18 September 2009, on AFM Records. The album was produced by the Zeromancer singer Alexander Møklebust an ...

'' (2009) *''

Addenda An addendum or appendix, in general, is an addition required to be made to a document by its author subsequent to its printing or publication. It comes from the gerundive , plural , "that which is to be added", from (, compare with memorandum, ag ...

'' - EP (2010)

Singles

*"Der Tanz der Schatten" (1996) *"Cassandra" (1998) *"Image" (2000) *"Machine" (2001) *"Let You Down" (2002) *"Envision" (2002) *"Storm" (2006)

With Imperium

*''Imperium'' - EP (1996, re-released 2004)

With Therion

*'' Vovin'' (1998) -

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

on "Draconian Trilogy"

External links

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's official website 1978 births Living people Heavy metal keyboardists Norwegian heavy metal musicians Norwegian male pianists Musicians from Stavanger Theatre of Tragedy members {{Norway-musician-stub