Hugh Mingay

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Hugh Mingay at the 2005 Metalmania Festival
Hugh Mingay at the Party.San 2016

Hugh Steven (or Stephen ) James "Skoll" Mingay is a Norwegian bass player and composer . He is best known for his work with Ulver and Arcturus .

Life and work

He played with Shagrath from around 1992, first in the black metal band Fimbulwinter , which released the album Servants of Sorcery in 1994 and broke up shortly afterwards. Mingay then became a member of Ulver, which he left in 1998 after Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell . He was also the bass player for Ved Buens Ende in the mid-1990s and joined Arcturus around 1995 to record Aspera hiems symfonia . Mingay left the band before The Sham Mirrors , but was involved as a guest musician.

According to Carl-Michael Eide, Mingay has since given up making music and runs a motorcycle shop that specializes in the Italian brand Moto Guzzi . He eventually returned to Arcturus.

Discography

with Fimbulwinter
  • 1994: Servants of Sorcery
with Ved Buens ending
with Ulver
with Arcturus

Individual evidence

  1. Oliver Side: Virus - Of Black Waves And Peacocks Thrash , November 22, 2008, accessed March 11, 2013.

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