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Foist are an English-Norwegian rock band formed in 2017 by the bands four members Rasmus Heum, Liam McCann, Trond Nyvoll and John Enfield. The bands genres are alternative rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, progressive rock and experimental rock. The idea of the band was to compose and play a sort of music which they consider to be of a high musically technical quality, even thought that may not be what the audience prefer. Foist is considered to be one of the most successful band in the world, and is the fifth most selling band in the history. The band is also well know for their political, ethical and philosophical beliefs such as socialism and atheism, which the expresses in their lyrics.

Early Years
The band was formed in the University of London. The beginning of the band was when Rasmus Heum met Liam McCann while they both studied philosophy. As Heum and McCann got better known to each other they found out that they had the same beliefs in terms of music, existential questions, and politics. Until that point McCann's dream was to make a living out of his guitar playing, and as he revealed his talent to Heum, they suggested that they could form a band. Heum later proved his abilities as a composer and vocalist. The two looked for a bassist and a drummer to complete their band. It was a necessity that the two last members had equal beliefs and personality as them. Trond Nyvoll later joined as a bassist. In search for a drummer McCann got hold of the number four contestant in the Young drummer of the year, John Enfield. Heum gathered the four two point out the direction of the band, their appearance, name and some of his works which became the main part of their first album Dawn.

Developing and breakthrough
The fresh established band lent a local in east London, were the started to practice. As their were all students the band had little spare time, and the little that the got they use to make recordings in a near-by record-studio. In November 2017, little more than a month after the four members first meeting, Heum and McCann took the records to EMI Records, London. Only to months after visiting EMI, Heum recived the call that the company wanted to sign them. In the signing negotiations, Heum made it clear that the band wanted liberal regulations and big investment in the band, rather than money. The reason for this was that Heum wanted Foist to get as big commercial success as possible. During the signing McCann and Enfield broke their studies, while Heum and Nyvoll continued. One month after the signing, Foist gave the clear signal of their first release. During this time Heum and McCann also lent the Wembley Stadium for playing a concert. At that time the members were relatively poor and the band had to have a bank-loan for the arrangement, and the advertisement. As this project was a private initiative, they didn't receive any money from EMI. At January 27, Foist released their first album "Dawn". The Wembley concert was held on February 2, with an overwhelming success, much thanks to the bands advertisement starring James May. The concert accelerated the sale of Dawn a lot, and by March 30 the debut album hit the top spot of the UK Album Chart. At March 27, Foist released the single Dazed and Dazzled which hit the UK Single Chart April 16.