Rolv

Rolv is a Ostlandic band formed in Nordostat, in 2009, by musical producer Jan Martesen as part of Jukebox Records. The group is composed of five members: Max Rittsem, Lukas Bjernen, Diego Steen, Alan Kaarr, and Mario Halle.

Rolv debuted on September 12, 2009 with their debut single "Hear My Song" and later their debut album "On My Way", released on November 1, 2009.

Pre-Debut and Reality show
On June 2008, musical producer, songwriter and instrumentalist Jan Martesen sent to Jukebox Record a project of a Talent show to form a brand new music group based on Teenage boy members between 16-18 age range. In August 2008, Jukebox Records approved the project and set on first quarter of 2009 the date to start the auditions. The auditions were set to start on February 20, 2009. On January 15, Ostlandic television channel Os1 confirmed the channel were going to record and broadcast the auditions for an upcoming reality show. The name for the reality show was unveiled days later: Teenage Revelation: The Group.

On March 5, Os1 revealed via Os1 Entertainment Section that auditions ended on March 3 and 100 outstanding contestants from differents cities of Ostland were selected. The show began airing on March 10, 2009, with the Pilot episode "Outstanding Revelation" which served as a short introduction to all 25 members.

The final episode of Teenage Reveleation was broadcasted on July 7, 2009, with Diego Steen winning the last Vocal Duel against runner-up contestant Anton Tronnes, and joining Max, Lukas, Alan, and Mario as final members of the upcoming group. On July 20, Jukebox revealed group names as 'Rolv ', Ostlandic slang that can be translated as 'lonely wolf', or 'a shy person'.

Debut and first album "On My Way"
Rolv members started recording their debut album on August 2009. Then, Mario Halle returned to Timsgrat due to school reasons, so he recorded his vocals at a local studio and did not attended to first group rehearsals. During recording and writting sessions, members wrote and recorded 40 songs. Max Rittsem gave an interview to Full Entertainment Ostland: "... This album is about us being newcomers in the music industry, because we're still learning about the music, but we want to make this dream much bigger and spread Ostland's music around the world. This is the beggining, of something much bigger"

Lukas Bjernen later revealed to ONL 2 that they were prepparing their debut showcase, and that it will be premiered some weeks after the album's release. Rolv officially debuted on November 1, 2009 with their debut album On My Way. Their debut showcase "Dett er møg: It's Rolv!" was premiered on November 16, 2009.

Members
During their first years, they used to perform shows alone in the stage, featuring only band members performing dance scores and very clean choreographies. Later, starting with 'No Love' era and 'Nobody's Traspassing This Road Tour', they started to perform with instruments played by themselves, but keeping dance scores in specific acts and songs.
 * Max Rittsem: Leader. Main vocalist. songwriter. producer.
 * Lukas Bjernen: Main vocalist. bassist, songwriter
 * Diego Steen: Vocalist. songwriter. producer, guitarist
 * Alan Kaarr: Vocalist, songwriter, guitarist
 * Mario Halle: Vocalist

On My Way - Get Rolv!
On October 20, Jukebox announced Rolv's debut album called On My Way, consisting of 13 songs in its standard edition. Finally the album was released on November 1. The next charted week, November 9, the album debuted at #1 with over 214k copies sold, being their first album to hit number 1 in Ostlandic charts. The same day as the album, Jukebox released album's second single called 'Don't Be Off', which debuted and peaked at #4.

On January 8, 2010, during their second showcase in ONL TV, Alan revealed that the track 'Right for You' will be released the next day as albums third single. The song peaked at #11 on chart issued in February 8, 2010.

The group started recording their second album in February 2010. Jan Martesen revealed to OK Tenäre: " Boys are really excited for their second musical era. They have a lot of plans on recording and performing new songs. We also have some good pieces unreleased from their first, we got to think about it. "

Over three months later, in July 2010, Rolv Facebook page updated their profile photo unveiling group's new logo for their new album, but they didn't revealed any other information until August 1, when they announced that the title of the new lead single: "Walk The City", an uptempo, funky dance-pop song, will be released on August 20. The song's music video was uploaded to group's YouTube channel on September 3. The song became their second single to hit number 1 on Ostlandic singles charts and also charted Top 20 in UK Official Singles Chart.

Mission for L.O.V.E. - No L.O.V.E
In March 2013, it was reported Rolv had " 'never-heard-before' songs waiting to be released", according to All Infos leak. They described the songs as "dark, full of temptation, sad, and R&B vibes". Jukebox Records denied that Rolv were going to release any new albums during 2013.

Studio albums

 * English
 * On My Way (2009)
 * Get Rolv! (2010)
 * Mission For L.O.V.E. (2012)
 * No Love (2013, EP)
 * Blind Fantasy (2015)
 * Moments (2017)
 * Ostlandic: Their albums were release in Ostland in 2 editions, National and International editions, the first one including another CD with most of the songs translated to Ostlandic language, and the second being the same sold at the rest of the world. Their only exclusive album released in Ostlandic was Meningen med møg, released on April 12, 2014.

Tours and concerts

 * Musikk, sämmen! Tour (2010)
 * Rolling Rolv Tour (2011)
 * Nobody's Traspassing This Road Tour (2013)
 * Den Fantastisk Ostland Consjierttur (2014)
 * Fantastic World Tour (2015 - 2016)