Grandma's gone

So my grandmother just suddenly died from a blood clot.

Just one single week after a big family party that she was much in charge of (my grandfathers 80 year old birthday).

It has been some strange days.. The day before yesterday I drove across the (little) country to visit my grandfather and be with my mom in the situation. Today I went again (this time with my mom, dad and sister) to see my grandmother in the casket and be with my grandfather.

On Friday the funeral will be. She's a great loss and it came VERY unexpected for the whole family, but we're all talking a lot about it which is the right thing to do. The whole family on my mothers side (mothers 3 siblings, my grandfather, us 13 grandchildren + 2 great grandchildren) believe in God which is so awesome. 

It's some strange days, but things are well considering the circumstances. It makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD (and beyond!) to have God as our loving Father carrying the family through the hard times. Not pass the hard times, but THROUGH it. This is where we learn about life. And love.

Solace the EP

Solace The Day just spend 3 days and 3 nights in a great studio (BMmusic.dk) recording 6 tracks for our first release: "Solace the EP"

Above: The biggest dread head of us all, Jonas in his drum-cage.

Below: I, in the room where we did all guitars, vocals and violins. 
Love this picture below. Pretty spent after working from 9 AM to 2-4 AM everyday, but it was a lot of fun! On the picture you see David (vocals) in front, drummer Jonas on left and bass Mads recording violin in the back. Guitar Levi behind the camera I guess.  
Still need to do the mix and mastering - so it might take a while before the disc is out.

Living with my nephews

My brother just became a doctor and has started working at a hospital a good distance from where they live. 

My brother, his wife and two kids can't move into their new house the first month, so Amy and the kids Jonas (2,5 year old today) and Adam (1 month today) are living at my parents house, where I'm staying as well.

It's very cool being close to my nephews and today Jonas and I went on a two hour gummy bear adventure :-D 

Intense Extreme iPod Radio

We (Sanctuary International) just started a new thing called iPod Radio. Like before you can download all of the great PodCasts and teachings by Pastor Bob, but the new thing is that Intense Extreme Radio and the rock and melodic metal Intense Radio is doing PodCasts as well!

Every two weeks I'll fit together 45 minutes of extreme and awesome metal music for you to download for free! Commercial free as well! 

Vol.1 contains music by Antestor, Extol, Crimson Moonlight, Frost Like Ashes, Underneath The Gun, Becoming The Archetype, A.W.A.S., Arvinger and Vardøger, where several of the songs start out with a song description and introduction by the artist.

Besides that, every PodCast has got a short devotion by Pastor Bob + lots of pictures, album covers and band info that will show up on your iPod while you play it.

To download and subscribe to the iPod Radio PodCast for free:

1) Download iTunes music player for free (if you don't have it)

2) Go to "iTunes Store" and search for "Intense Extreme Radio"

3) Hit "Subscribe" and it will download to Intense Extreme iPod Radio

...all the future coming episodes will now automatic download to your iTunes library!

HOW GREAT IS THAT!!  :O)  ... I like it.

Sommer Oase

The main reason that I only spend 3 weeks in the States this time, was because of this Bible Music Summer Camp in Denmark called SommerOase. During the week long camp more than 4100 people participated.

And what a great week! It was definitely the right decision to be back in Denmark for this camp. Great seeing so many friends again and reestablish connections with other ministries and Danish leaders that I'm working with.

During the camp I did a seminar on "Integrity as a musician", where I showed pictures of my friends around the world. One of them was of 3 of my black metal friends:

Daniel (old growler in Barricades), Ravn (Frosthardr) and Ronni (Antestor), right after the Antestor concert at BobFest'04 in Sweden.

This picture was a bit shocking to many of the people who heard my seminar  B-)

At the camp I also did some punk rock worship for the 10-14 year old kids, and maaan that was fun!! The more wild the songs were, the happier and more excited the kids became :-P

One night it all ended up in a massive celebration where the kids were jumping around all over and we were jumping around on stage trying to keep up with 'em  :O)