On The Rise: A band well and truly rising in the AOR world. The duo that is On The Rise - Terje and Bennech talk about the construction of their debut album, which I hope will be acclaimed by many in 2003. First of all - congratulations on this fine album of yours. It's hard to believe it's your debut album. Thanks a lot Andrew. We appreciate your compliments. How did you achieve such a great production sound for this album? I used a lot of time developing my guitar sound to the songs and completed the arrangements at home before we started to record the album. Eirik Gronner came up with solutions to reinforce it and made a brilliant result by amplifying my guitars once more in the studio (Ravnaberg Studio). I was recording my own guitars at Bennech's place on a 16 tracks recorder and dropped in and out by the time I was finishing three or four songs. It all ended well and we completed the album with a mix where Eirik did the final adjustments that was needed to make it all sound really good. Naturally, the production is pointless if the songs stink - which thankfully is ...