The Crusade Effect came from my classical background.

The main instrumental themes was arranged and orchestrated like a string quartet, but distorted and played on a guitar.

The guitar riff consists of 4 polyfonic lines, that sounds quite different when played separately, and only forms the main theme when played together .

The song has been performed live with bands, Ninth and Desert Son.

It was composed at a time when I was fascinated with taking classical themes and punk them up, and distort them.

Visual art by Torje Sæbø