Haunted by Silhouettes, 12 April 2024

Haunted By Silhouettes is a melodic death metal band from Trondheim, Norway.

The band was formed in 2013 by the members Fredrik Voje Vinje, Mathias Jamtli Rye and Stian Hoel Fossen. They wanted to write mordern, melodic death metal with a hint of thrash metal. In December 2013 they all went to Stians cabin in the middle of the forest. It was freezing cold, dark and the perfect enviroment for them to record their first EP together. In 2014 the EP was finished and was released on youtube, soundcloud etc, and was available on streaming services in 2016. The name of that EP is The Final Mind Plague.

In october 2015 Fredrik had decided to leave the band to join Eye of Horus. In came Vidar Sættem Nielsen on guitar, Ola Nilsen Kjøren joined on bass and Håvard Bustad started playing drums for the band.

In 2016 the band performed together for the first time at Familien in Trondheim. They played the EP The Final Mind Plague and two new songs.

The band continued to write new songs and performing live. and late 2016 the band went to Sweden to record their second EP at Studio Eff Sharp. The band was there for 4 days and recorded the whole EP.

January 2017 the band parted ways with Vidar and a month later Per Kristian Grimsland (Hunting the Hidden) was hired as a replacement.

April 2017 the EP Wrath of Kharon was released. The band then played live in Trondheim several times and Ålesund to back this release.

September 2017 the band started to record their debut album Shortcuts to Dead Ends. The first song of that album was released on October 30, together with the band's first music video. The album was released on March 9, 2018.