Jorn

Jorn represents the independent project of Norwegian vocalist Jørn Lande, previously known through bands such as Masterplan, Vagabond, the Snakes, and Ark. His exceptional range has enabled him to move fluidly across power metal, blues-inflected hard rock, and pop. Having led several metal and hard rock groups throughout the 1990s, Lande launched the Jorn name with the 2000 album Starfire and went on to issue more than a dozen solo records across subsequent years, among them Spirit Black in 2009, Traveller in 2013, and Life on Death Road in 2017.

His guest work with other ensembles persisted, above all his role as frontman for the German power metal outfit Masterplan, where he contributed to multiple acclaimed releases. After delivering the 2004 Jorn album Out to Every Nation, he established the metal supergroup Allen/Lande alongside American singer Russell Allen of Symphony X and Swedish guitarist Magnus Karlsson, whose credits include Primal Fear and Starbreaker. For the remainder of the decade he balanced commitments to both Masterplan and Allen/Lande while continuing to record solo material for Frontiers, including the studio sets Lonely Are the Brave in 2008 and Spirit Black in 2009, plus several live documents and two retrospective compilations. In 2010 he issued the tribute record Dio in memory of the late Ronnie James Dio.

Coinciding with the 2012 solo album Bring Heavy Rock Back to the Land, Lande announced his departure from Masterplan, allowing greater concentration on his own projects and the next Allen/Lande effort. An orchestral reinterpretation of earlier solo songs titled Symphonic appeared in 2013, the same year he unveiled his eighth studio album, Traveller. The rock opera Dracula: Swing of Death, created with Norwegian guitarist Trond Holter, followed in 2015, succeeded the next year by the covers collection Heavy Rock Radio. Life on Death Road arrived in 2017, tracked with a fresh band drawn partly from the German hard rock group Voodoo Circle. A second covers album, Heavy Rock Radio II: Executing the Classics, surfaced in 2020.