Piston Damp’s primary spark ignited in the year 2000 while Apoptygma Berzerk was on their Welcome To Earth Tour. With his brother Stephan on the road, Jonas had full access to the House Of APB studio, so he and Truls began experimenting with the equipment and writing songs. One of the tracks recorded, ‘Testimony’, was produced by the band and Seb Komor of Icon Of Coil, Komor Kommando and Zombie Girl. The end result of these recordings was an eight track demo called Eventually Everything Turns Cold. Even though these songs were only burned on CD for a few chosen friends, a track called ‘Runaway’ went on to become song of the week on Norwegian national radio (Urørt) in January 2005. The band also played a live gig at Dis in Fredrikstad, Norway around this time and also had a photo session. And yes, audio and pictures of these events do exist somewhere in Jonas’ vaults.
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The band was dormant for many years due to other commitments, but Jonas and Truls stayed close friends and continued to work on songs together when time allowed. On June 24th 2020, after the pair had shared an enthusiastic phone call about cranking the machine up again, Jonas wrote ‘Noget I Mig’/’Something In Me’ in his Love Studio, setting the wheels in motion the very next day for the next phase of Piston Damp.
On August 16th the band had a photo session with Kine Jensen, and on October 1st the music video for ‘Something In Me’ was recorded at Sarpsborg Scene, with Thomas Andersen of Viken Foto Video.