Tore Østby
Tore Østby is a founder, guitarist, producer, and songwriter for Norwegian progressive metal band Conception. After the band stopped playing on a permanent basis he, along with John Macaluso and Jørn Lande formed progressive metal band Ark.
Tore is currently working as a senior advisor at, an organization established in 1989 to protect the recording artists’ intellectual property rights, other legal rights, and professional interests.
On 30 April 2018 it was announced that Tore's original band Conception was reunited with new material.
Tore is married to Swedish guitarist Maria Engström Østby and they live with daughter Matilda in Stockholm.
Discography
With Conception
Studio albumsThe Last Sunset Parallel Minds In Your Multitude Flow State of DeceptionEPs
- ''My Dark Symphony''
With Ark
Ark- ''Burn the Sun''
With D.C. Cooper
- ''D.C. Cooper''
With Jørn Lande
- ''Starfire''
With Street Legal
- ''Bite the Bullet''