February 05, 2012 It has been rather quiet on this site for a while, but from now on you'll see updats here more frequently. First thing worth mentioning is that Leprous just signed a deal with Amber Booking for bookings in Norway exclusively. We're looking very much forward to this collaboration, as Amber has a really good reputation in Norway. Leprous January 07, 2012 Interested in seeing some awesome photos of LEPROUS from the European tour? Check out these galleries: Nuernberg, Germany, January 04, 2012 - photos by Manuela Speckner, The Pit Saarbruecken, Germany, January 03, 2012 - photos by Emanuel Recktenwald, Musicheadquarter Webmaster December 26, 2011 Happy holidays to you all! We apologize for the last month and a half of silence ... sorry. We hope you've been able to read along with the tour blog and watching the video clips that the band has posted ? LEPROUS, the super active prog metal newcomer-sensations from Norway are nowhere near to be taking a real rest from promoting their current album "Bilateral". After a highly successful first half of the European tour with Amorphis, LEPROUS just recently toured in Japan together with Ihsahn and The Haunted. The band has checked in with the following comment while briefly being at home, before leaving for the final run of dates with Amorphis, starting December 26th, in Jena / Germany: "We've just come home from one of the best adventures in the LEPROUS career so far! It was absolutely amazing to get the chance to play in all those great European countries once again, not to mention our unbelievable trip to Japan! Thank you so much everyone, we're speechless!" "We can't wait to go out on tour again with Amorphis, and this time also with The Man-Eating Tree. The first leg of the tour was perfect and left us hungering for more. Therefore we are extremely happy about hitting the road again very soon! No better way to celebrate Christmas and New Year than on the road with LEPROUS! See you soon!" After being supported by the Spanish band Nahemah in first part of the tour, the second part will see The Man-Eating Tree from Finland as the opening act. Here are all the remaining dates of the trip that sees LEPROUS doing a total of 41 shows in 21 countries: MON 26.12.2011 (Germany) JENA - F-Haus TUE 27.12.2011 (Germany) BOCHUM - Zeche * Sold Out! WED 28.12.2011 (Germany) OSNABRÜCK - Hyde Park THU 29.12.2011 (Germany) HANNOVER - Capitol FRI 30.12.2011 (Germany) KARLSRUHE - Substage SAT 31.12.2011 (Switzerland) PRATTELN - Z7 TUE 03.01.2012 (Germany) SAARBRÜCKEN - Garage WED 04.01.2012 (Germany) NÜRNBERG - Hirsch THU 05.01.2012 (Austria) SALZBURG - Rockhouse FRI 06.01.2012 (Austria) GRAZ - Explosiv SAT 07.01.2012 (Slovakia) BRATISLAVA - Majestic Music Club SUN 08.01.2012 (Hungary) BUDAPEST - Club 202 TUE 10.01.2012 (Austria) VIENNA - Szene WED 11.01.2012 (Czech Republic) PRAGUE - Retro Music Hall (New venue!) THU 12.01.2012 (Germany) ASCHAFFENBURG - Colos-Saal FRI 13.01.2012 (The Netherlands) EINDHOVEN - Dynamo Club SAT 14.01.2012 (Belgium) VOSSELAAR - Biebob SUN 15.01.2012 (The Netherlands) HENGELO - Metropool Webmaster November 09, 2011 Wish you could be out there with the band experiencing the amazing LEPROUS-AMORPHIS tour right now? Well, now YOU can be a part of it! (well, sort of...) LEPROUS has started an awesome tour diary/video blog and are posting daily updates on http://leprousband.blogspot.com/. Some of it is hysterical and really fun to watch. There may be one or two live clips on there as well (so far)... Wanna learn about Estonia's beautiful Talinn? Want to see the most brutal crowd at a "cruiseship" concert? Learn where Riga is? Dance with a babushka? Learn the ancient secrets of metal guitar playing with Oystein? Then come check this out right now!!!! Webmaster November 08, 2011 Free digital sampler from InsideOut Music: The sampler features 12 of InsideOut's best releases of 2011 including tracks from some of the label's flagship and new developing artists... Pain Of Salvation's "Road Salt Two" has been widely received and the band is starting a big Euro run supporting Opeth. Steve Hackett hasn't slowed down since being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame last year, and the new double CD "Beyond The Shrouded Horizon" shows that. Redemption's which features Nick Van Dyk along with Ray Alder (Fates Warning) have put out one of the best metal albums of the year with "This Mortal Coil" and 2012 will bring them to Atlanta to headline ProgPower in September. Leprous has made waves with their new album "Bilateral". The band has been known as Ihsahn's backing band, but as Leprous they are hitting the road to finish out the year with Amorphis in Europe. Jolly is bringing happiness to all rockers with "The Audio Guide To Happiness, Part One". They are touring the east coast this month and planning out "Part Two" for 2012 Devin Townsend Project just finished up an amazing US headlining run and is now in the UK where he'll perform Ki, Addicted, Deconstruction and Ghost over 4 nights in London! Access the sampler at: www.insideoutmusic.com/specials/freesampler Webmaster November 01, 2011 New interview online: Lords Of Metal - Webzine Webmaster October 30, 2011 We regret to inform you that the Leprous/Amorphis/Nahemah gig in Istanbul, Turkey on November 11 had to be cancelled as a consequence of the recent earthquake in Turkey and out of respect for the many who lost their lives. All tickets will be refunded immediately. Also, we have a change of venue for Sofia, Bulgaria - November 10 - Arena Sofia. Webmaster October 25, 2011 Progressive/Avantgarde Metallers LEPROUS have recently shot an official video clip for the song "Restless", off their acclaimed third album and InsideOutMusic debut "Bilateral". The video clip for "Restless" was directed by David Solbjørg and Kjetil Kolbjørnsrud of Twitchy Films and can now be seen here: LEPROUS have checked in commenting on the outstanding clip as follows: "We had a lot of fun, but also went through several gross and painful moments in the making of this video. We're really happy about the result, and we expect you to understand the entire chain of events during the first watching. Enjoy!!!" LEPROUS will be promoting their "Bilateral" album, which entered the official charts in the band's native Norway on position #61 upon release, by supporting Finnish Metallers AMORPHIS on a long European tour starting next week and heading well into January 2012. Webmaster October 01, 2011 Progressive/Avantgarde Metallers LEPROUS have not only just released their third album and InsideOutMusic debut “Bilateral” to much international acclaim, but also most recently announced a massive high-profile European tour supporting Finnish metallers AMORPHIS. Now, these talented youngsters are pleased to announce another milestone in their fast rising career by revealing their first-ever tourdates of Japan: THE HAUNTED + IHSAHN + LEPROUS: 05.12.2011 - Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya O-East 07.12.2011 - Osaka, Japan - Big Cat 08.12.2011 - Nagoya, Japan - Club Quattro More info: http://smash-jpn.com/band/2011/12_hauntedvsihsahn/index.php The band checked in with the following comment about the tour: "We are more than happy to announce that we're going to Japan at last! We will perform alongside The Haunted with both LEPROUS and Ihsahn, and we promise our Japanese fans a concert they won't forget! We look forward to seeing you all soon!" Webmaster September 24, 2011 Here's another LEPROUS interview: - Metal Underground - webzine, USA Webmaster September 20, 2011 LEPROUS – Confirm massive European tour with Amorphis! Progressive/avantgarde metallers LEPROUS have recently released their much anticipated third album and InsideOutMusic debut "Bilateral" on August 22nd, 2011 in Europe and entered the national sales charts in their native Norway on position # 61 upon release, followed by position # 66 in its second week and # 78 in its third week of release. To further promote their "Bilateral" release, LEPROUS are now proud to announce that they have just been confirmed to be supporting Finnish Metallers AMORPHIS on a massive European tour between November 2011 and January 2012. The full list of concerts, covering a total of 41 shows in 21 countries, is as follows: AMORPHIS + LEPROUS - European Tour 2011/2012: PART 1 02.11.2011 (Estonia) TALLINN - Rock Cafe 03.11.2011 (Latvia) RIGA - Melna Piektdiena 04.11.2011 (Lithuania) VILNIUS - Mulen Ruzas 05.11.2011 (Poland) WARSAW - Progresja 06.11.2011 (Poland) CRACOW - Kwadrat 08.11.2011 (Romania) SIBIU - Oldies Pub 09.11.2011 (Romania) BUCHAREST - Silver Church Club 10.11.2011 (Bulgaria) SOFIA - The 4th kilometer 11.11.2011 (Turkey) ISTANBUL - Romeo and Juliette 12.11.2011 (Greece) THESSALONIKI - Block 33 13.11.2011 (Greece) ATHENS - Gagarin 205 15.11.2011 (Italy) TREVISO - New Age 16.11.2011 (Italy) MILAN - Alcatraz 17.11.2011 (France) LYON - Ninkasi Kao 18.11.2011 (Spain) BARCELONA - Bikini 19.11.2011 (Spain) MADRID - Sala Heineken 20.11.2011 (Portugal) PORTO - Club Hard 22.11.2011 (Portugal) LISBON - Incrível Almadense 23.11.2011 (Spain) SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - Sala Capitol 24.11.2011 (Spain) BARAKALDO - Rock Star Live 25.11.2011 (France) TOULOUSE - Le Phare 26.11.2011 (France) PARIS - Divan du Monde 27.11.2011 (England) LONDON - O2 Academy Islington PART 2 26.12.2011 (Germany) JENA - F-Haus 27.12.2011 (Germany) BOCHUM - Zeche 28.12.2011 (Germany) OSNABRUECK - Hyde Park 29.12.2011 (Germany) HANNOVER - Capitol 30.12.2011 (Germany) KARLSRUHE - Substage 31.12.2011 (Switzerland) PRATTELN - Z7 03.01.2012 (Germany) SAARBRUECKEN - Garage 04.01.2012 (Germany) NUERNBERG - Hirsch 05.01.2012 (Austria) SALZBURG - Rockhouse 06.01.2012 (Austria) GRAZ - Explosiv 07.01.2012 (Slovakia) BRATISLAVA - Majestic Music Club 08.01.2012 (Hungary) BUDAPEST - Club 202 10.01.2012 (Austria) VIENNA - Szene 11.01.2012 (Czech Republic) PRAGUE - Abaton 12.01.2012 (Germany) ASCHAFFENBURG - Colos-Saal 13.01.2012 (The Netherlands) EINDHOVEN - Dynamo Club 14.01.2012 (Belgium) VOSSELAAR - Biebob 15.01.2012 (The Netherlands) HENGELO - Metropool The first part of the tour (02.11.2011 - 27.11. 2011) will additionally feature NAHEMAH from Spain as opening act and THE MAN-EATING TREE from Finland will respectively be the opening act on the tour's second part (26.12.2011 - 15.01.2012). LEPROUS checked in to comment about the tour as follows: "Hey everybody! Thanks for the great feedback you have given us for "Bilateral" so far - we truly couldn't ask for a more positive vibe at this stage! And now it's time for some touring ... One year has passed since our previous run with Therion, and we're all very excited to be heading out on our second tour of Europe at last in order to showcase "Bilateral" on stage as well. This is truly what we want to do, and we're very happy to be able to go together with Amorphis this time around. It's nice to see that we'll be visiting many new exciting places, but we're also pleased to see that we'll be returning to many of the great places we've been before. We hope to meet as many of you as possible along the way, and hopefully we'll give you a show you won't forget!?" Prior to the start of the AMORPHIS tour, LEPROUS will still be playing the following shows: October 8th, 2011 Copenhagen / Denmark - Denmark Rock Festival / www.denmarkrockfestival.dk October 29th, 2011 Skien / Norway - Parkbiografen + Pagans Mind Webmaster September 18, 2011 Interested in reading a few interviews with the LEPROUS guys? Check these out: - Bloody Disgusting - webzine, USA - About.com - webzine, USA - Ytse Jam - webzine, USA - Guitar World - webzine, USA - Power of Metal - webzine, Denmark - Alternative Matter - webzine, International Webmaster September 11, 2011 The up-and-coming Norwegian progressive avant-garde metal sensation LEPROUS will release their much anticipated third album (and InsideOut Music debut) "Bilateral" tomorrow North America. Starting today GuitarWorld.com, the online home of Guitar World Magazine is hosting a full album stream of "Bilateral". Check it out at: www.guitarworld.com/exclusive-leprous-streaming-new-album-bilateral. The complete tracklisting for "Bilateral" reads as follows: 1. Bilateral 2. Forced Entry 3. Restless 4. Thorn 5. Mb. Indifferentia 6. Waste Of Air 7. Mediocrity Wins 8. Cryptogenic Desires 9. Acquired Taste 10. Painful Detour "Bilateral" features outstanding cover artwork by American surrealist Jeff Jordan (www.jeffjordanart.com), known best for his stunning work for THE MARS VOLTA. The album was also skillfully mixed and mastered at Fascination Street by Jens Bogren (OPETH, PAIN OF SALVATION, DEVIN TOWNSEND, SYMPHONY X, etc.), and is set to musically re-define what it means to be a progressive rock/metal band-both for the devotees of the genre and the fans looking on from a safe distance. For fans that would like to know even more about LEPROUS' "Bilateral" and how it came to be, a few entertaining studio webisodes are now online. Please click the links below to watch the webisodes! Part 1 / Drums: www.youtube.com/watch?&v=C-aVBhaCtKc Part 2 / Guitars: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsR1QrOCBkI Part 3 / Vocals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83QbqZ0UAo Orders for the "Bilateral" CD or the CD/t-shirt bundle are now available online, so head to CM Distro to reserve your copy of the new LEPROUS! http://www.cmdistro.com/Search/leprous Webmaster August 01, 2011 And now the European fans - time to pre-order the new album, "Bilateral": Album + Shirt - 19.99 Euro - HERE Webmaster July 29, 2011 US / Canada fans of Leprous! It's time for you to pre-order the new album, "Bilateral": Album - $10.00 - HERE Album + Shirt - $18.00/$20.00 - HERE Webmaster July 14, 2011 LEPROUS, the up 'n' coming Norwegian progressive/avantgarde metal sensation, are soon to release their much anticipated third album and InsideOutMusic debut release "Bilateral" on August 22nd, 2011 in Europe and August 23rd, 2011 in North America. In order to introduce this breathtakingly intense new album step by step, the band have now launched a first song via their Facebook profile: Just visit www.facebook.com/leprousband and click on the "like" button to be able to check out the song "Restless". The band's vocalist/keyboardist Einar Solberg comments on the track as follows: "Restless represent "Bilateral" in many ways. It's complex, but at the same time catchy and plain. Even though it's one of the shortest songs on the album, I feel it's flavored with all the things that make LEPROUS special. It has the catchy chorus, it has the groove, it has prog'ish feel and last but not least it has the heaviness" Webmaster July 10, 2011 LEPROUS will have their release party for the new album ("Bilateral" - to be released on Inside Out Music / Century Media worldwide on August 22, 2011) at the venue Blå in Oslo, Norway on September 14, 2011. Webmaster June 29, 2011 LEPROUS, the Norwegian progressive/avantgarde metal band that recently signed a worldwide deal with InsideOutMusic can proudly reveal that it has chosen surrealistic American artist Jeff Jordan to create the artwork for their upcoming album, "Bilateral". See the stunning artwork below: Commented vocalist/keyboardist Einar Solberg: "We are proud to announce that we're collaborating with the surrealistic American painter Jeff Jordan and the Spanish designer Ritxi Ostariz for the artwork on our upcoming album. Jeff Jordan (www.jeffjordanart.com) is probably best known from his work with The Mars Volta, and his paintings are highly rated all over the world. Ritxi Ostariz (www.ritxiostariz.xom) did the artwork for our previous album "Tall Poppy Syndrome" (released 2009 through Sensory Records) and of course we want him to be part of this new album - Ritxi too is a critically acclaimed designer, and in our opinion one of the very best in his field." The band's new album "Bilateral", which was skillfully mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street (Opeth, Pain Of Salvation, Devin Townsend, Symphony X, etc.), will be released on August 22nd, 2011 in Europe and August 23rd, 2011 in North America via InsideOutMusic. "Bilateral" is set to musically re-define what it means to be progressive rock and / or metal, both for the devotees of the genre and the metal fans looking on from a safe distance. Webmaster June 10, 2011 Here are the second and third video clip from the recording sessions of the new album: Webmaster June 06, 2011 Leprous has been confirmed for the Southern Discomfort Festival, taking place in Kristiansand, Norway September 8-10. Webmaster May 19, 2011 Leprous will be performing at Arno in Notodden, Norway on June 17th. Webmaster May 16, 2011 Leprous will be performing at Gamle Posten in Porsgrunn, Norway on the 3rd of June together with Onymf and Flaming Fury. Webmaster May 03, 2011 In November 2010 we were the lucky recipients of 25.000 NOK, which one local band receives every year from Willy Strandli's Memorial Fund. Willy Strandli was a local musician who was quite significant for the local music scene in Notodden. Willy died in 1992 and 15 years later some local enthusiasts from Notodden came up with the idea to found this wonderful Memorial Fund. On Saturday the 14th of May we'll headline the memorial fund concert for Willy Strandli in Notodden Theater, which we of course are looking very much forward to! If you are close to Notodden the 14th of May, don't hesitate to take a visit! Leprous May 02, 2011 We're returning to ProgPower USA on Friday 16th of September, this time as Ihsahn's backing band. Last year we had a great time in Atlanta played there with Leprous, and we're not expecting anything less from the US crowd this year! Leprous April 26, 2011 Unfortunately the Kabuto Metal Festivals in Japan May 21st and 22nd have been cancelled due to the earthquake tragedy. We wish all the best for everyone in Japan, and hope to be able to come over there soon to perform. Leprous April 19, 2011 Leprous has been confirmed for the Denmark Rock Festival taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 7 and 8, 2011 (Leprous will be performing on the 8th). Other bands confirmed to perform includes Manticora, Redemption, Kingcrow and Loch Vostok - more to come. Webmaster March 22, 2011 We will perform as Ihsahn's band on Vagos OpenAir in Portugal August 6th and on Bloodstock Festival in the UK August 13th! Leprous March 09, 2011 Here's the first video clip from the recording sessions of the new album: Webmaster February 28, 2011 InsideOutMusic, the leading label for progressive music, is proud to announce a new worldwide deal with one of the most interesting and talented young progressive outfits in today’s scene: LEPROUS from Norway. "We’re all very happy ... no, delighted ... no, enthusiastic ... no, THRILLED to be a part of the InsideOut / Century Media family! InsideOut has always been the label we’ve considered the most suitable for our music, so this is really a dream come true for us! We're ready to take LEPROUS to new heights in 2011, and the signing with InsideOut / Century Media is just the first step." LEPROUS are currently busy with studio work for their upcoming, still untitled next album, to be released via InsideOutMusic (Worldwide distribution through Century Media) after the summer of 2011. Stay tuned for more details to drop soon about an extremely interesting listening-experience coming your way soon ... Here's the first official picture of the new line-up: Webmaster January 27, 2011 Leprous will be performing at the Kabuto Metal Festival first in Osaka, Japan on May 21st 2011 and then the following day in Tokyo, Japan. Also on the same two days, Leprous will be performing at the same festival as the backing band for Ihsahn. Webmaster January 20, 2011 We would like to congratulate our good friend and bandmate Ihsahn with the nomination for the Norwegian grammy awards "Spellemansprisen". We can't think of a person who deserves it more! Leprous January 18, 2011 The recording of our new album is now in progress! Tobias did an unbelievably good job with recording all the drums in only two days. The first eight (out of ten) tracks he managed to do in only one day. We will of course post a blog entry about the drum recording, which took place in Juke Joint studio in Notodden. Next up is the guitars! Leprous January 07, 2011 We're proud to announce that both Einar and Tobias from Leprous are contributing on the latest album by Star of Ash; Lakhesis. Tobias are doing all the acoustic drums, while Einar are doing both lead vocals, backing vocals or vocal harmonies on "Panther in the Glove", "Nona", "A thief in the night" and "The fooling of the fates". The album is in our opinion a masterpiece, and we are really glad to be a part of it. Also contributing on the album is the german musician and composer Marcus Reuter, who plays bass and touch guitars. We would like you all to support Heidi (Star of Ash) by buying her album here: http://store.mnemosyne.no/product/lakhesis-cd, or here: http://www.theomegaorder.com/STAR-OF-ASH-Lakhesis_3 if you live in the States. Don't hesitate, it's money well spent! Webmaster December 21, 2010 Big news Part 1 - Halvor Strand parts with Leprous: It's with sadness we announce that our bass player and good friend through many years Halvor Strand has chosen to quit Leprous. His decision to quit the band is completely undramatic, and is not based on any sort of conflict. We're all very sorry about this, but we respect his decision and wish him the best of luck in the future. Thanks for everything Halvor! We wish you all the best for the future, and we will follow your projects very closely! "I'm currently getting busier and busier with other projects apart from Leprous. This means that it came to a point where I had to make a decision. I could no longer "have my cake and eat it too" with all these different creative wheels in motion. Something had to go. Leprous deserves and requires that all members offers their 110 percent. My 110 percent started to get spread around in different projects. I had to follow my heart on this one - and I decided to pursue my own projects. An extremely difficult decision to make, since the option I chose means that I'm leaving an extremely good band made up of close friends and excellent musicians. I wish to thank Tor Oddmund, Einar, Tobias and Øystein for all the great times, and also the trying times that made us stronger! I know this band is destined for great things and I look forward to be an eager follower. I also wish to thank all our fans for being so great and supportive all along the way! This is it for me in Leprous, but it is definitely not it for Leprous! Go show them, guys! Signing off with hopes for the future and gratitude for the past, Halvor Strand" Big news Part 2 - Rein Blomquist joins Leprous: Leprous are very happy to announce that we've already got ourselves a new bassplayer! We would like to welcome Rein Blomquist to the Leprous-family! Rein is known from the progressive metal band Aspera (now called Above Symmetry), which released their debut album on Inside Out last year. When we first got the news that Halvor wanted to leave Leprous, the first person we thought about as a replacement was Rein. Rein is a really solid bassplayer with lots of feeling and groove, and he is also a really nice person. Luckily Rein wanted to join the forces without to much hesitation, and he is now a full member of both Leprous and Ihsahn's liveband. Rein will handle the bass on our upcoming album, which we will start recording in January. Leprous December 20, 2010 Chapter thirty-two of the tour blog is online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 32 Webmaster December 16, 2010 With a bit of delay, here are the next chapters of the tour blog (Chapters twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty and thirty-one): www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 28 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 29 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 30 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 31 Webmaster November 29, 2010 Chapters twenty-six and twenty-seven of the tour blog are online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 26 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 27 Webmaster November 28, 2010 Chapters twenty-four and twenty-five of the tour blog are online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 24 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 25 Webmaster November 26, 2010 Chapters twenty-two A, twenty-two B and twenty-three of the tour blog are online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 22A www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 22B www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 23 Webmaster November 21, 2010 Chapters twenty and twenty-one of the tour blog are online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 20 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 21 Webmaster November 19, 2010 Chapter nineteen of the tour blog is online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 19 Webmaster November 18, 2010 Chapter eighteen of the tour blog is online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 18 Webmaster November 15, 2010 Chapters thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and seventhteen of the tour blog are now online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 13 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 14 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 15 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 16 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 17 Webmaster November 12, 2010 Chapter twelve of the tour blog is now online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 12 Webmaster November 10, 2010 Eleventh chapter of the tour blog is now online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 11 Webmaster November 09, 2010 Ninth and tenth chapter of the tour blog is now online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 9 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 10 Webmaster November 06, 2010 Eight chapter of the tour blog is now online: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 8 Webmaster November 05, 2010 Sixth and seventh chapter of the tour blog can be found here: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 6 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 7 French photographer Emilie Cøltrane has posted pictures from the Paris show 3.11.2010 - the pictures can be found here: Pictures from Elyssee Montmartre, Paris, France - November 03, 2010 Webmaster November 04, 2010 Fourth and fifth chapter of the tour blog can be found here: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 4 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 5 Also, a new 2-part interview with the band, from ProgPower Europe, can be found here: MetalDiscovery Interview Part I MetalDiscovery Interview Part II Webmaster November 01, 2010 Second and third chapter of the tour blog can be found here: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 2 www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 3 Webmaster October 29, 2010 The band is right now on their European tour as support to Therion. Each day they will try to find time to update their blog with a little "tour diary". Please check out first chapter here: www.leprousband.blogspot.com - 1 Webmaster October 27, 2010 We are now leaving for the big Therion Tour. This is a very big event in our career so far. Hope to see you somewhere in Europe! Meanwhile, here is a video from our show at Prog Power USA, Atlanta - September 2010: Leprous October 04, 2010 If you're interested in reading more about our gigs, know how to read Norwegian (or know how to use google translate), halvorstrand.blogg.no is the place to be. Leprous September 30, 2010 We've decided to do a concert at Skuret in Oslo Saturday 23rd of Oktober as a final warm up before the European tour. We hope to see you guys there! Leprous September 27, 2010 We're sorry that we haven't been able to start shipping of the new t-shirts and the re-print of "Aeolia". We will start shipping today. Leprous September 20, 2010 Please notice that a few of the venues on the European tour has now either been announced/confirmed (the Greek dates) or upgraded (the show in Budapest has been moved to a larger venue called the Petofi Hall - www.pecsa.hu). Leprous September 07, 2010 Another show has been confirmed for the Therion European tour: November 22nd 2010, Arenele Romane, Bucharest, Romania. Leprous August 27, 2010 First of all; sorry for the horribly long delay in updating this page. You probably all thought we were dead-and-buried, right? Well, we're very much alive and kicking, have enjoyed a nice summer, and now we're back in action and we've got some great big news to announce very soon. For now, we can announce the implementation on this site of our WEB STORE !!! Yes, if you take a look up at the top menu, you'll see a menu button saying "store" - click on that one and you'll get right in there to order our new shirts and the brand new re-issue of our debut album "Aeolia". We're offering it in two different versions - the regular album - and the special edition, which is a hand numbered (only 100 copies) album signed by all members of the band. Leprous July 09, 2010 Ihsahn will be headlining this years Southern Discomfort Festival in Kristiansand, Norway on September 17, 2010. Leprous will, as always, be the backing band for Ihsahn. We're very much looking forward to this show. Leprous July 02, 2010 We're very much looking forward to tonights show with Ihsahn at Tuska Festival in Finland. Leprous June 28, 2010 We're happy to announce that Leprous will be performing at this years 1001 Watt Festival in Skien, Norway on Friday October 8th 2010. Leprous June 21, 2010 We had a really good time at Hellfest in France this weekend with Ihsahn and the crew. Here's a picture (courtesy of Håkon Grav) of the entire band and the crowd. Leprous June 10, 2010 Today we have some good news regarding our visa application for playing in the US this fall - according to THIS posting by Glenn Harveston, organizer of ProgPower USA festival, the visa has been approved by the US homeland security and US immigration services, and the last steps left to take are us going for an interview with the US embassy here in Norway and get the stamp of approval in our passports. Atlanta, here we come! Leprous June 03, 2010 Leprous will be printing up a limited edition of the debut CD "Aeolia" as well as a very limited number of copies of the old demo "Silent Waters". The discs will be numbered and signed by all the members, and available only on our upcoming shows and through online order on www.leprous.net Leprous May 25, 2010 We've started making guitar tablatures and lead sheets for one of the songs on "Tall Poppy Syndrome". Within a couple of weeks we'll start posting one section every week, until you have the full song. Leprous May 20, 2010 We've decided to ask YOU for help in choosing some of the songs from "Tall Poppy Syndrome" that we will be performing live on our October/November tour with Therion. Please vote below for your favorite song, thanks.  Which songs from "Tall Poppy Syndrome" should we perform live on our 2010 European tour? Passing Phantom Pain Dare You Fate He Will Kill Again Not Even A Name Tall Poppy Syndrome White view results Free vote poll Leprous May 13, 2010 Here is a clip of "Passing" performed live in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 06 2010. We had a blast although there weren't that many people in the audience. Special thanks to Divided Multitude and Jacob for being so enthusiastic!! Leprous May 10, 2010 Today we have a little fun video clip for you; Leprous May 06, 2010 Don't forget about our show at The Rock in Copenhagen, Denmark tonight!!!! Leprous May 03, 2010 In true fashion of us trying to keep up with the latest inventions in the internet world, we have integrated the new Facebook "like"/"recommend" buttons onto our news page and tour page, so that you can easily spread the information to all your Facebook friends. Leprous April 29, 2010 As a kick-off to the Therion-tour, we will be performing a "double concert" at Arno in our hometown of Notodden, Norway, on Friday the 22nd of October. The first concert will be a non-alcohol/under-18 concert, and the second one will be a normal over-18 concert. If everything goes as planned, both of the shows will be free of charge, and both will have local young and upcoming bands supporting us. Leprous April 26, 2010 We just got the word that the visa application process for our first US show (ProgPower USA, September 2010) is currently underway. Alll papers have been submitted. We are very excited about this and are really looking forward to coming over and play for our fans and to make a lot of new friends. Leprous April 23, 2010 Norwegian avantgarde progressive metal band LEPROUS have launched what is believed to be the world's very first mobile website for a metal band. The site, www.leprous.net/mobile, is specifically created for use on modern day smartphones, such as the iPhone, the Blackberry and iPod Touch. With four times as many mobile phones with internet connection than stationary home computers, many businesses worldwide has found the need for updating their homepages to work well on the mobile platform. However, the music business has been lacking in this field and we're very proud to say that LEPROUS (to our knowledge at least) is the first metal/hard rock band ever to enter the mobile world with a homepage specifically designed for iPhone/iPodTouch/Blackberry. Leprous April 19, 2010 We really enjoyed playing on the intimate stage on Skuret in Oslo in February, so we've decided to return to Skuret on Wednesday the 5th of May (the day before our concert in Copenhagen). The support band of the evening will be the side project of our drummer Tobias called "(...) minutes of death and back". We hope to see you there!! Leprous April 15, 2010 A brand-new interview has been posted at the Romanian website StudioRock.ro. Check it out. Leprous April 12, 2010 Friday 27th of August, we'll play together with Ihsahn at the Hole in the Sky festival in Bergen, Norway. Leprous April 07, 2010 A "handy-cam" filmed video of the Leprous-guys performing live as backing band to ex-Emperor frontman Ihsahn at Inferno Festival in Norway this past weekend is available at YouTube. Leprous April 05, 2010 Currently we're working on the next Leprous album. We've written six songs so far, and we have two more in progress. The names of the songs we've made so far are: "Forced Entry", "Waste of Air", "Indifference", "Solitude", "Thorn" and "Bilateral". We've recorded a demo of three of the songs in our home studio, and we might release some short samples from it within the next weeks to give you all a little hint of the direction we're heading. When and where we will enter the studio is still to be decided, as some important things needs to be sorted out, but we hope to be able to enter the studio in the not to distant future. Leprous March 29, 2010 If you ever wanted to know how much work, hardship ... AND FUN! ... goes into a photoshoot, check out the "Behind The Scenes" pictures at: www.bjorntoremoen.no/blog/ and www.maritafoto.blogg.no Leprous March 25, 2010 To celebrate the launch of Apple's new iPad next week, we've decided to upload two new iPad wallpapers to our media section, which you're more than welcome to download and use on your brandnew iPad :) We also made two iPhone wallpapers, so get those two, for all you "gadget-freaks" out there. Leprous March 22, 2010 Today we've added a lot of new pictures to the site. All pitures were taken by Bjørn Tore Moen. You can find the pictures in the media section of this site - we hope you like them! Leprous March 18, 2010 On August 19th LEPROUS will be performing two shows in Camden, London, UK at the Electric Ballroom. First show of the night will be a regular Leprous show, whereas the other show will be as Ihsahn's backing band. Leprous March 16, 2010 We're happy to announce that we will be performing at Slottsskogen Goes Progressive Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden on August 21st. Leprous March 15, 2010 We'll be performing at Tuska Festival in Finland on July 2nd 2010 as backing band for Ihsahn! Also, we have uploaded a LEPROUS FireFox "persona", which can be downloaded at this location. (Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that changes the look of your Firefox web browser. Personas work with any type of computer that has Firefox installed. This includes Mac, Linux and Windows platforms.) Leprous March 11, 2010 Here's a clip of Leprous performing "Dare you" at Garage in Bergen, Norway: Enjoy, Leprous March 08, 2010 Welcome to the new LEPROUS website. We're thrilled to show you our new home on the world wide web :) Over the course of the next weeks, the homepage will be updated with more pictures, sound samples and much more. For now, have a look around the site to read about the band and our releases. Today we're also very proud to announce that we have been chosen as main-support band on the upcoming "Sitra Ahra Live 2010" European tour for Swedish metal masters THERION. Tour dates can be found in the "TOURS" section of this site. The tour will be presented by www.METAL.de and RockHard. We're very much looking forward to this tour, where we'll also be joined by openers Loch Vostok from Sweden. We hope to see as many of you as possible out there! Leprous