History & Biography Avantgarde goth band Ram-zet came together as Ram-Zet’s solo project in 1998 and issued an album called Pure Therapy through Finland’s Spikefarm in 2000. Solem had joined in 1999. The band played at the first Inferno Festival in 2001. Escape added Sfinx, Sareeta and Magnus. Ram-Zet toured Europe as support for Theatre Of Tragedy and Entwine in 2002. The band switched to a Norwegian label for Intra. Jon was on bass now. Lanius replaced him for Neutralized. There was a gap between this album and Freaks In Wonderland of three years. This was an independent release. A mini-tour featured a guest drummer Eskil Hakonsen in 2018.
The band has called itself Schizo-metal and the first three albums addressed the disorder in the format of one story.
Reviews RAM-ZET - PURE THERAPY - SPIKEFARM
What possesses individuals to sign/compose/release/ponder/consider/vomit/whatever music that is a mix of drum machine beats, synthesizer overload, Dream Theater and VoiVod rip off riffs and then to add insult to injury have a female open her mouth and do an Alannis Morrisette impression...and think anybody cares what happens after that? Apparently some of the keyboard melodies are catchy and the vocals have some interesting phrasings, but this neo-industrial K&F bullshit makes a metal fan gag. If it's not fast, then the band can FOAD. If it's not heavy, then the band can similarly FOAD. Every metal fan should be insulted by this infiltration of the scene by weak, derivative commercialism perpetuated by commercial magazines, labels which pay and ultimately run these magazines and delusional fans who sheepishly follow every trend hurled at them like dong to a cow. This is not metal, and hence is condemned to die. Next! - Ali "The Metallian"
RAM-ZET - INTRA - CANDLELIGHT 
The first few seconds of Ram-zet's latest album, Intra, sound promising and almost make one take notice. Alas, the band soon shows its hand. As if stuck in a Darwinian time warp, Ram-zet is a sad mixture of polluted elements every metal fan disliked and soon abandoned ten years ago with a passion. The distorted and partly metallic guitar chords are constantly interspersed by the same old K&F (keyboards & Female vocals), violin and silly noises. The female singer does the standard moaning thing, sure, but also sounds like she is being tortured by the band on the song Ballet. A few other elements like whirling Spanish guitars and fast parts really do nothing to resuscitate this idiocy. Fans of Theatre Of Tragedy gone dramatic and fronted by Dani Filth may want to get their heads around Ram-zet, except, by definition, those people don't have heads which leaves Ram-zet stranded, doesn't it? - Ali "The Metallian"
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