Ram-Zet started as a one-man project in 1998 by Zet, who had been playing in many different metal bands in Norway before starting to realize his own vision of how music should be done. He also has worked with the former Artch-singer Eric Hawk in a band called MFM.

In the beginning Zet did everything by himself, from writing the songs to recording his own demos. It was in the summer of 1999, when Solem joined the band on bass. At first, he was only a hired studio musician, but got so excited about the stuff Zet was writing that he joined the band as a fulltime member soon after the first demo was released in autumn 1999. After trying out several drummers, Zet and Solem ended up with Küth just before the recording of the band’s debut, “Pure Therapy” (released in Sept. 2000). Both Küth and Solem come from various backgrounds, Solem has been playing with for example Ronnie Le Tekro (T.N.T. and Vagabond) and Jorn Lande (Vagabond) whereas Küth is the drummer for the Norwegian power metal outfit Mustang. Zet sees the variety in the musicians’ backgrounds as one of the strongest assets of Ram-Zet’s sound. Combining various elements such as the rage of black metal to the mechanized rhythms of industrial (and a lot of other things, like progressive elements), the band creates a flawless hybrid that not only amazes with it’s ability to maintain a stylistic integrity but also by it’s genre-bending ingeniousity. Ram-Zet’s way of using different noises and loops adds a weird, psychotic atmosphere to the proceedings… The band has not been content with using only synthesizers as they also have a violinist and have used a real choir in the recording of “Pure Therapy”.

After the release of “Pure Therapy”, Ram-Zet began playing shows in and around Norway and writing new material. The band once again recorded the album at their own Space Valley Studio by themselves. It was mixed by Mikko Karmila at Finnvox and mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox. “Escape” is even deeper a trip to the deep, psychotic realm of Ram-Zet’s world. Everything they did on the first album, has been taken one logical step further. The fact that Zet has had a complete line-up around him playing shows and rehearsing the material shines through as the output on “Escape” is even tighter than before. This is far from the dull monotony a lot of other bands using industrial flavourings usually end up. Zet’s psychotic vocals are more imposing than ever before, Sfinx’s and Sareeta’s beautiful vocals + the violin gracefully colour the guitar melodies while the rhythm-section blasts incredibly juicy rhythmics, complemented by the occasional sample-loop or some other weird noise, adding to the overall intriguing musical hybrid that is Ram-Zet. Intricate, unique and with a hint of pure extremity.