Blood Tsunami is a Norwegian thrash metal band from Oslo, formed by Peter Michael Kolstad Vegem in 2004 and currently signed to Indie Recordings.

[2] Blood Tsunami's debut live performance took place on 24 August 2004, at a small club in Oslo called Last Train, supporting for Swedish death metal band Entombed.

Frode Sørskaar didn't feel comfortable with playing metal, so Pete contacted his former bandmate from Hellride, Peter Boström (a.k.a.

Bosse was into metal and the two had shared many drunken nights listening to Slayer and Judas Priest in the back of the Hellride van.

Pete only played one concert with this band, but as Necrodevil decided to quit the Bomberos, little Bjørn Hinkel soon hired a new drummer.

The new Blood Tsunami line up recorded a five-song demo at Lion Heart Studios in Oslo with engineer Øyvind Voldmo Larsen.

[4] Now, with Faust on drums, the band was suddenly a well oiled machine and an old song like "Killing Spree" sounded quite different and very improved compared to the 2004 version.

New songs on this demo included "Evil Unleashed", "Infernal Final Carnage", "Suicide Anthem", "Stabbed To Death" and a new version of "Let Blood Rain".

He started skipping rehearsals and rather quickly it became obvious that the guy wasn't too keen on playing with Blood Tsunami.

The good news in the middle of the bass player-mess was that the 2005 demo secured Blood Tsunami a deal with Nocturnal Art Productions and Candlelight Recordings.

Once again the band entered Lion Heart studios with Øyvind Voldmo Larsen and embarked on the recording sessions with high spirits.

"Killing Spree" was recorded for the third time in two years and other demo songs like "Evil Unleashed", "Infernal Final Carnage" and "Stabbed To Death" also made it onto the album.

[citation needed] The track was born when Pete compiled a bunch of old riffs he had never used and soon it grew into this long grandiose instrumental.

[2] This turned out to be a bad idea as the music itself wasn't strictly "thrash" but also contained Death Metal and rock 'n roll influences.

That would have been a much better title and it would've given the album its own identity and saved us from all the slagging and nagging by reporters and metalheads who thought we were pissing all over the heritage of thrash metal.

"[4] Blood Tsunami's debut album "Thrash Metal" was released by Nocturnal Art Productions and Candlelight Records on 19 March 2007.

[6][7] Blood Tsunami soon went on a UK tour with their friends in Zyklon and the British Death Metal band Dead Beyond Buried.

During the fall of 2008 Blood Tsunami entered Lion Heart Studios with Øyvind Voldmo Larsen for the third time inthree years and began working on the album that later would be known as "Grand Feast For Vultures", which was released by Nocturnal Art Productions and Candlelight Records on 27 April 2009.

Once again Alex Horley made the artwork and by suggestions from Pete he came up with a grotesque painting of a rotten corpse hanging in the middle of a battlefield.

Pete had penned down his problems with alcohol and depression and all this was being screamed out in songs like "Personal Exorcism", "Laid To Waste" and "One Step Closer To The Grave".

The big difference compared to the previous instrumental "Godbeater" was the introduction of NWOBHM influences and the Iron Maiden-esque main themes.

[9] The new instrumental was first entitled "Enceladus Rising" and this title even made it on the first promotional copies that was shipped off to the US press and radio stations.

It is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest east on Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger 'Orion molecular cloud complex'.

The latter is of course bigger, but to use that as a title would have linked our instrumental up to Metallica's 'Orion' and it also sounds like something an industrial band would have called their album, so that option was quickly ditched."

Horsehead Nebula is the most challenging piece of music ever composed by Pete and it is being hailed as the masterpiece in the Blood Tsunami catalogue by both fans and press.

[10][11] Unfortunately, but for some unknown reason, Candlelight turned down Blood Tsunami's request for an economical advance so they could embark on an extensive European tour together with two American bands.

Blood Tsunami entered Midrange Studios in January 2012 and together with engineer Anders Henningsen they recorded a new 6 track demo.

The quartet started playing live again and the first show for the new line up took place at Revolver in Oslo on 25 February 2012, as support for the British thrash band Virus.

[13] One month later Blood Tsunami entered Unholy Pub in Oslo and supported Grave Desecrator from Brazil.

[14] In June 2012 they started the recording sessions at Sverre Dæhli's Fias Co Prod Studios where Faust nailed the drums within a few hours.