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Madam Curie was founded by Christer Andresen (guitars and vocals) and Kjell Vidar Merkesdal (drums) in 1988 in Aurland, Norway. Throughout the 1990s the band made its mark on the Western Norway music scene, and released its first album Soul Insider in 1997. Madam Curie split up during the attempt to make a follow-up album in 1999, but returned in 2025.

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Madam Curie, left to right: Kjell Vidar Merkesdal and Christer Andresen.
Photo: Eili Skaar.

Andresen and Merkesdal subsequently formed Alien Love Gardeners in 2000. Kjell Vidar switched to bass for this project, and the line-up included his brother Inge Andreas Merkesdal (drums) and Christer’s musical partner Arild Aardalen (synthesizers). The band recorded and released the EP Cuts Shape the Man in late 2000. When Alien Love Gardeners ended in 2002, Andresen and Aardalen re-worked some of the material into a studio project called Keld, which would soon morph into the symphonic metal known as Keldian.

Andresen and Merkesdal are now resurrecting Madam Curie with the brand new album Liberate Ignis, available on all digital services worldwide. Visit our Bandcamp site for high quality streams and downloads, and a very limited vinyl edition.

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E-mail Madam Curie at kvmerkesdal@gmail.com
Call Madam Curie at (0047) 413 39 543
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Madam Curie (a Norwegian-ized spelling of our namesake) stands for truth and transformation: the search for truth, the dangerous brilliance of discovery, the alchemy of transformation, the soft intensity of radiation and vibration.