Artist description The everlasting journey to find dark atmospheres and moods through sad & dark soundscapes. A journey into a world where darkness is all and nothing, where there's no light. Like a vast land of tall desolate mountains, caves and thick, dark forests shielding us from the light of day...The darkness is all around us or inside each and everyone of us. It's not the fear of it, it's merely where we want to be, prosper in darkness....

Music Style Sad & Dark Ambient/industrial

Musical Influences All I can say is, there is beauty in darkness...and see

Similar Artists Very few, perhaps Yen Pox, Stalker (Robert Rich, Lustmord) Thomas Köner, Raison d'ętre, Amon, Northaunt.

Artist History Svartsinn is a musical project spawned from my yearning to create sad & dark atmospheric soundscapes that could satisfy the sombre chambers of my soul, to create moods and states of mind for myself. I ended up with something I like to define as dark ambient with drones and melodic composistions. The name Svartsinn is of dark, dark origin...

Group Members Svartsinn (Jan Roger Pettersen) - all sound creations

Instruments Computer, Field recordings, synth, guitar, sound manipulation

Albums Devouring Consciousness (Eibon Records), Of Darkness And Re-Creation (Cyclic Law)

Press Reviews Svartsinn - Devouring Consciousness Eibon Records, 2002. Gloomy subterranean ambience is the recipe of Norway's Svartsinn. Although 'Devouring Consciousness' is my first experience with this artist, the name strikes me as very familiar. I know that they have ties to Northaunt, which is an excellent project also from Norway, and share a similar aesthetic goal. This is one person, as far as I understand, Jan Roger Pettersen, and like most one-man outfits, there is a definite originality and obsessiveness to the music. Svartsinn's compositions are gray, dismal drones that roll and swish around in your mind, intent on penetrating to a hidden inner layer. Listening to this is like crawling through an underground cavern with only a pack of matches to illuminate your surroundings, and as you go deeper and deeper into the tunnel, you steadily run out of matches, until, finally, there is nothing but pitch darkness, and you don't know where the hell you are. That is how I felt upon hearing this for the first time, and I find it remarkable just how convincing these atmospheres are. Pettersen has an uncanny ability of creating intensely provocative ambient music. It never bores or makes one tired, and it constantly shifts around without losing its original aim. There is almost no structure to the sound as a whole, but I do find a certain rhythm that runs through it if the entire thing is to measured as a whole. There are some spots where a creeping melody oozes to the surface, and then falls back down from whence it came. Another thing that makes me draw comparisons to Northaunt. But really, the whole package is delightfully dark and obscure, and I strongly believe that anyone with an ear for dark ambience will be captivated upon hearing these cold drones. Pettersen understands how to manipulate stark drifting drones in a provocative way so as to create a potent end [or] outcome, neither alienating the listener completely, nor sending him into an emotionless stupor with dull, placating repetitions. As of now, it is difficult for me to single any one track out from another, as they all follow a similar concept emotionally and thematically, but every track is exceptional in its own way. The mood for such brooding dark ambience does not come very often for me, but when it does, I know Svartsinn will be one of my first choices for listening in the days to come. One to savor in the twilight hours, no doubt. A shame it does not come with candles! Y. Arkadin - Erebus Magazine March 17, 2002.

Location Trondheim, Trondheim - Norway

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