Genre: Progressive Metalcore Hometown: Drammen, Norway Members: Jakob Skogli Fredrik Kåsin Vebjørn Iversen Simen Kjeksrud Ulrik Linstad Atena has kept the machinery running entirely off their own efforts, without help from booking or label since 2010. In 2013 ICS Vortex (ex dimmu borgir) picked them out in a bandbattle to play on the Hostile TerrorTory festival. At the start of 2014, Atena became one of the finalists in the annual competition "Wacken Metal Battle" in Norway. That same year they headed out to Europe to Co-headline their first tour with "Turn the Tables", then a second European tour in August 2014 with support from "Oslo Faenskap" . In november 2014 they got the honor of touring throughout Europe with the Norwegian black metal-band "1349" as "special guests". Later that month they headed to finland to support "Borknagar" in Helsinki. Atena`s sophomore album, "Shades of Black Won`t Bring Her Back", will be released through Negative Vibe Records on the 24th of October.