VIRUS

Release Year: 2008
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: intricate creative avantgarde progressive metal

at the turn of millenniums, Czral was not happy anymore with Ved Buens Ende development, and moved on even in more experimental, eccentric direction, along the equally creative characters of Audiopain bass player Plenum and Beyond Dawn drummer Einar Sjursø, quickly developing a magic amalgam of ultra-important rhythm section - their progression has turned out more jazzy, groovy and avantgarde rock than metal oriented, with a very aesthetic, poetic nature and vast areas to evolve in; quite unmatched, one of a kind, mind-expanding debut album [2003] sets up the band's direction for years to come, while guest appearance by Kristoffer Rygg [Ulver] adds an extra flavour to the fiesta; quite rare Russian edition comes with authentic design