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Norwegian solo metal artist Anniken releaed her debut solo album in summer of 2022. Anniken has been a part of the Norwegian heavy metal scene for years with her band Darkest Sins, the studio project Ana – Metal for Charity, as well as being a part of her husband Marius Danielsen’s trilogy Legend Of Valley Doom, both in the studio and with the live band. While in Darkest Sins she opened for bands such as Anthrax, Jorn, TNT, and UDO along with Legend of Valley Doom she has worked with legendary musicians such as Ralf Scheepers, Amanda Somerville, Roland Grapow, Matt Barlow, Doogie White, Jennifer Batten, and also actor John Rhys-Davies from the Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones movies. Writing her own songs and having a profound love of lyrics, Anniken is now progressing into her solo endeavours. Anniken‘s debut album Climb Out Of Hell features nine tracks, a few of them co-written with her husband Marius Danielsen. It is a varied metal album that is melodic, raw, and catchy with different types of songs for every kind of metal fan. Some slow, some fast, most of them heavy. Some of the songs have a deeper meaning to them, while others are just exactly what you think they are.

Anniken adds:
One of the main reasons behind starting my solo project is that I wanted to show what I could do, without the guys in the bands I’ve played with. It is, unfortunately, easy to underestimate female artists in metal. At least, that is my experience. There aren’t as many women within the genre as there are men. Very often I experienced that people just assumed everything was written by the men in the group. I don’t mind being just the singer, but I would love to show the world that I am, in fact, more.

Track list:
1. Spotlight
2. Climb Out Of Hell
3. Back Then
4. Just Walk
5. Keep The Light
6. Star
7. No Name
8. Save Us
9. Amplified