Terje Eide (lead & background vocals, guitars)
is the founder and only member of ON THE RISE.
Terje first captured the public ear at age 16,
as singer, guitarist and songwriter. His musical career began in earnest
a year later, through winning a local talent contest. He later enjoyed a
stint with the band Heaven & Hell, a rock institution in Bergen in the
80s. In 1986 he won the Norwegian National Rock Championship on national
TV with the band The Heat. He started his own band a few years later.
Terje has spent several years exploring various
musical genres, as well as playing with local artists as a guitarist,
singer and backup singer. This capacity landed him a variety of
large-scale shows and concerts, backing acclaimed Norwegian artists.
Terje went back to his Melodic Rock roots in 2000 starting a project who
later on became ON THE RISE. A demo was made in early 2001 which
immediately raised the interest of Frontiers Records who signed the
project in June 2002.
Several rock magazines wrote that ON THE RISE
created the melodic rock ultimate debut album, boasting influences from
the likes of Toto, Nelson and Boston with elements of the typical
Scandinavian melodic rock.
A few years later, Terje managed to put
together the songs that are now on the long awaited follow up album
entitled "Dream Zone". In Terje's words "I'm very happy with the new
album. The songs are catchy, groovy and they've got the strong choruses
and melody lines that I always want them to have. It's been a joyful
musical journey. It's an album I can support 110%. It's got the typical
ON THE RISE sound, but at some point it's a little rougher than what has
been written and produced before".
ON THE RISE New Album - "DREAM ZONE"
is OUT NOW in EUROPE, USA & JAPAN
Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the
release of the long awaited ON THE RISE second album
“Dream Zone”
ON THE RISE debut album caused
a stir among the Melodic Rock fans community in 2003. Several
magazines stated that ON THE RISE created the Melodic Rock ultimate
debut album, boasting influences from the likes of Toto, Nelson and
Boston with elements of the typical Scandinavian melodic rock.
Thanks to the amazing songwriting and vocal abilities of founding
member Terje Eide, ON THE RISE were catapulted in a few weeks on the
headlines of all the Melodic Rock press.
Hailing from Bergen, Norway, Terje Eide is now
the only member of ON THE RISE. His musical career started at 17
when he won a local talent contest. He later enjoyed a stint with
the band Heaven & Hell, a rock institution in Bergen in the 80s. In
1986 he won the Norwegian National Rock Championship on national TV
with the band The Heat. Terje went back to his Melodic Rock roots in
2000 starting a project who later on became ON THE RISE. A demo was
made in early 2001 which immediately raised the interest of
Frontiers Records who signed the project in June 2002.
"I'm very happy with the new
album” says Terje, “The songs are catchy, groovy and they've got the
strong choruses and melody lines that I always want them to have.
It's been a joyful musical journey. It's an album I can support
110%. It's got the typical ON THE RISE sound, but at some point it's
a little rougher than what has been written and produced before".
Some songs have been written by Terje in collaboration with
Christian Wolff (who also appears playing keyboards and some bass
and guitars on the record). Christian appeared already as songwriter
in the Ambition album (featuring vocals by Thom Griffin of Trillion)
and is currently collaborating with Joe Vana on the second Mecca
record. Other musicians include Erik Engebretsen on drums and Eric
Ragno on keyboards, while Terje took care of the vast majority of
the guitar parts and all vocals, together with some keyboards and
bass
ON THE RISE - DREAM ZONE - Written &
Produced by TERJE EIDE
TERJE EIDE - Lead Vocals, All Guitars,
Keyboards, Bass & All Background Vocals
ERIK ENGEBRETSEN - Drums
CHRISTIAN WOLFF - Keyboards & Bass on Lost Your Track, Why Wait Another
Day, Get Out Of Here, Lifeline & Howling At The Moon.
Lead Guitars on Why Wait Another Day & Lost Your Track. Acoustic Guitars
on Why Wait Another Day.
ERIC RAGNO - Piano & Keyboards on Edellyn, Lifeline, Tomorrow Never Dies
& Dream Zone
“Dream Zone” final tracklisting includes:
Lifeline; Lost Your Track; Dream Zone; Edellyn;
Alive; In the Line of Fire; Get Out of Here; Fly Away; No Time To Lose;
Why Wait Another Day;
Tomorrow Never Dies; Howling at The Moon, Find a Way (bonus track).
Here's a summary of a few
reviews from the net of the new ON THE RISE album - "DREAM ZONE"
!
Westcoast/AOR Music - 10/10 Review by
Bengt Isaksson
Rockreport.de - 6/6 Review by Chris Lambert
glorydayzemusic - 9/10
Metalfan.nl - 86/100 Review by Hans
Burrn Magazine - 85/100 Review Masao Fujiki
Rock it Magazine - 8/10 Review by Jochen Bauer
Metal Integral Webzine - 4,5/5 Review by Rémifm
melodicrock.com - 85/100 Review by Andrew McNeice
Rockrealms - 80/100 Review by Jon Wilde
Heavysound.fr - 9/10 Review by Florent
melodic.net - 4/5 Review by Juha Harluja
Lordsofmetal - 81/100
Melodic Rock Fanzine - 90/100 Review by Duncan Jamieason
Planetaor.com - 7/10 Review by Johan Nylen
Rockmeeting.com - 4/5 Review by Fab
themetalfields.de - 7/10 Review by Kerb
getreadytorock.com - 4,5/5 Review by Jason Ritchie
ytsejam.com - 4/5 Review by Tommy Hash
myglobalmind.info - 4/5 Review by Denys
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