Pride and Fall

Pride And Fall is a futurepop act from Stavanger, Norway, formed in 2000 by Sigve Monsen, Per Waagen and Svein Joar A. Johnsen.

History

The band came about when Sigve and Svein wanted to pursue a more electronic and club-oriented sound than what they were doing in their goth/dark wave project, An Evening With Kisses. As a result, Pride and Fall started up in 2000-2001 together with Per Waagen. Per had worked with Sigve in the 90s in a doom-metal band from Stavanger called Vidvandre where Sigve did vocals and Per the drums. Vidvandre also featured Frank Claussen who later joined the successful Theatre of Tragedy.

Pride and Fall released a demo shortly after, and released their debut album, Nephesh in 2003, and debut single "Paragon" on dependent in Europe, Metropolis Records in the United States, and Memento Materia in Scandinavia. Pride And Fall performed their first shows outside of Norway in 2004, including Cyberia/X-Club in the Netherlands, the Invitation Festival in Belgium and the Dark City Festival in Scotland.