BIO
Dim Gray is an alternative folk-rock duo consisting of Oskar Holldorff and Håkon Høiberg.
Based in Oslo, Norway, the duo explore themes of nature, isolation, and self-reflection through richly layered instrumentation and vivid storytelling.
Dim Gray has released three studio albums: Flown (2020), Firmament (2022) and Shards (2025). The band has gone through recent line-up changes, and will release their first single as a duo, Sun In Your Eyes, this June.
OUR STORY
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Dim Gray started out as a quartet, consisting of current members Oskar Holldorff and Håkon Høiberg as well as Tom Ian Klungland and Robin Kirknes Andreassen. Hailing from different parts of Norway, the band members found each other in Oslo in 2012. Fusing contrasting backgrounds, they began moving towards a style uniquely their own, with Håkon and Oskar writing the songs. Dim Gray played a number of gigs in and around Oslo between 2013-2015, and released an EP and a single.
In 2015, the band recorded an album that was never released. The air went out of the project, and a two-year hiatus ensued.
Feeling like the band had unfinished business, wind was returned to the sails as the band properly found its own voice working meticulously behind the scenes to self-produce their debut album Flown 2017-2019. During that process, bassist Robin moved countries and had to leave the band, but not before recording his parts for the album.
The three remaining members self-released Flown in June 2020 to critical acclaim. With intertwining songs structured like one continuous story, the album relates a vivid tale of loss and loneliness that constantly twists and turns, with intimate and spatial moments offset with massive and colourful soundscapes.
The album release coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the band was only able to play a single live show to support the record. Instead, they dove straight into recording their second album.
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Dim Gray returned with their sophomore album Firmament in September 2022. As with its predecessor, Firmament was self-produced, but released on independent label English Electric Recordings. With twelve direct, vivid and melody-driven songs, the album is bursting with life and colour, making for an engaging and constantly surprising journey as it weaves a route from strings-infused chamber pop, through evocative indie folk and lush electronics and into grandiose art rock.
Thematically, Firmament further explores the landscape of loneliness and melancholy that was introduced on Flown, but this time those sensations are contextualised in the depressions of the modern world and juxtaposed against nostalgic ideas of simpler times through childhood memories interspersed with myths and superstition.
In May 2022, Dim Gray supported British art rock giants Marillion in Cirkus Arena in Stockholm. The show was a roaring success and pushed the band further forward. Milad Amouzegar and Kristian Kvaksrud were invited into the fold for this and future gigs, initially on a session basis.
Following the release of Firmament later that year, Dim Gray supported multi-national progressive rock band Big Big Train on three shows in the UK and the Netherlands, as Oskar also joined Big Big Train on keyboards.
In May the following year, the band was again asked to support Marillion, this time in De Montfort Hall in Leicester. Milad and Kristian were asked to join the band on a permanent basis and in the autumn of 2023, Dim Gray joined Big Big Train on their European tour, playing 15 shows across Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the UK.
After this tour, the band began working on their third album, the 2025 release Shards.
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March 2025 saw the release of Dim Gray’s third album, Shards. Yet again self-produced, the band also decided to release and mix the album themselves. Seven of the songs on Shards are about change, upheaval, severance; something shattering to pieces. These seven songs are bookended by two songs that deal with the opposite; a constant stasis, an unending struggle of two opposing kinds.
Shards was met with critical acclaim, and the album’s final single, Myopia (feat. Vaarin), got the band their first editorial Spotify listing.
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In 2026, Tom Ian, Milad and Kristian left the band. Håkon and Oskar, as the band’s creative core, decided to continue the band as a duo. They will release a single in June this year, and are working towards a new studio album.