The Sins of Thy Beloved

The Sins Of Thy Beloved乐队是由Morten和Arild 和Stig在1996年11月组成的，不久后又找到了Ola,Anita和Ingfrid。那个时候乐队还叫Purgatory，但必须在发行“All Alone”改名字。这只要是由于还有其他许多叫Purgatory的乐队（美国就有三个），他们不得不改名叫The Sins Of Thy Beloved。乐队名字是乐队成员名字简单组合而成。三个月后也就是在1997年2月乐队到录音棚录制了demo。是由一个著名的挪威乐队的 bassplayer Gullei 制作的，发行量很少。在这之后，The Sins Of Thy Beloved 选择了三首歌发行在 "All Alone"这张迷你CD上,并由意大利品牌Nocturnal Music发行。
1998年1月，The Sins Of Thy Beloved 在Sound Suite Studio录制了"Silent Pain", 由Terje Refsnes 制作. 这些专辑发送到几个唱片公司, 这张专辑在1998为他们赢得了与他们签约的Napalm Records公司。1998年8月，The Sins Of Thy Beloved来到SoundSuite Studio工作室录制了他们的首张专辑"Lake of Sorrow"。其中出自"All Alone" 中的二首歌 - "All Alone" " 和 "Worthy of You"被重新编排录制。
The Sins Of Thy Beloved的每个成员的音乐背景是相当不同的。 他们中的几乎每一个都有在青年时期在乐团中演奏乐器的经验。 Pete 现在仍然在一些乐团中客串演奏, 但是与一个爱尔兰的民谣音乐The Tramps联系最为紧密。 The Sins Of Thy Beloved的风格不仅仅是哥特金属, 也包含那些流行摇滚元素，他们会在CD封套内列出全部的歌词。歌词是由 Morten, Arild 和 Anders 写的，他们把歌词做的很完整,那些歌迷就不会十分注意听歌.这就是为什么有些人发现歌词很类似,他们经常在歌词里描述背叛，憎恨，甚至是爱和死亡。The Sins Of Thy Beloved有很好的团队合作精神，每个成员参与了歌曲的创作，比如说每个人写一首歌，写自己的那部分。这样使它们所表达的音乐思想内容要丰富得多。而由于乐队成员在乐器演奏技巧方面所表现出的天赋，以及他们自身独特的音乐理念，像Tristania一样，他们尝试并变革了一种新的哥特交响毁灭金属，他们获得了空前的成功！
很少有乐团成员间合作得这样完美的.
The band was formed in November 1996 by Glenn Morten Nordbø, Arild Christensen and Stig Johansen. The band was initially called "Purgatory" but they soon decided to change their name to something less common. Anita Auglend and Ola Aarrestad joined the band shortly thereafter, and they recorded their first demo All Alone in January-February 1997. Anders Thue and Ingfrid Stensland then joined before they recorded their second demo Silent Pain in January 1998. Pete Johansen played the violin on that demo though he did not officially joined the band until the recording of their first full-length album Lake of Sorrow later in 1998. They toured across Europe, before recording their second full-length album Perpetual Desolation in 2000. During the following tour, Anita Auglend, Anders Thue and Ingfrid Stensland grew weary of traveling and left the band in 2001. A live performance was released on CD and VHS in 2001, though it was not distributed worldwide and is thus very hard to come by. The band has been dormant since the departure of its three members. Pete Johansen has since left to play the violin on several Tristania albums. In 2007 there were rumours that Anita Auglend returned to the band but so far there are no proof this was true and the band seems to keep in their hiatus.