From Beneath Billows is a Oslo, Norway-based band, founded in Oslo in 2005 by Øyvind Daaland Lesjø, Lars Kristian Jagtøyen, Lars Petter Strand, Kristian Malterud Moen and Lars Sundsbø.
Bjørnar Børja later joined to replace Kristian Malterud Moen who left the band in 2006 in pursuit of a different kind of leisure.
The founders, with exception of Lars Sundsbø, started out as a stoner band named The Goon Killing, back in 2003. Lots of songs were written, but without a vocalist and a clear vision of what they tried to achieve, the project became stale and got shelved.
 
From Beneath Billows was born out of the desire to advance the band's creative process. The band strove to make their music deeper, slower and more visual, with emphasis on being brutal and laid back at the same time.
 
From Beneath Billows are
Lars Kristian Jagtøyen - Guitars
 Øyvind Daaland Lesjø - Bass
 Lars Sundsbø - Vocals
 Lars-Petter Strand - Drums/Percussions
 Bjørnar Børja - Guitars

Kristian Moen - Guitars (2003-2006)

The idea of musicalizing the thunderous vast oceans, its calmness and its nature of violence, its history and its impact on us, was the major element when the name was dropped back in 2005.
 
Man's inner turmoil and the struggle with the elements is often reflected in the behavior of our vast oceans. Expanding on this notion, From Beneath Billows encapsulates so much more.

The first album - Evolve - focused on the birth of man into a chaotic universe and its journey from beginning to end.

The upcoming album - Monolith - mirrors this picture, and builds upon the colonization, industrialization and the footprints and scars left by man.

Indeed not political, religious or preaching in any way - just an interesting framing for words and tones. The essence lies in the brush strokes and in the layers of the weave, in the delicate details and in the rich ambience that these aspects utter.