Nemhain Official UK Street Team

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Bio
Our tale of whiskey soaked horror began one night early in 2006 when husband Adrian Erlandsson on guitar and wife Morrigan Hel began to sing Leadbellys classic ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’.
Adrian is one of Europes most respected drummers,beginning a career in a string of bands back in 1981 when inspired by Judas Priest’s Dave Holland he formed the ‘Black Nuns’ who evolved into ‘Berits Polisonger’ playing until 1986.There then followed a series of other bands including Thrash band ‘Penance’ in 1987 until becoming a founding member of ‘At The Gates’ in 1990. During his time with them he was part of the punk band ‘Skitsystem’,recording 3 EP’s between 1995/96.Adrian also had another two bands with ATG connections with ‘Terror’ who cut a 3 track demo and ‘Hyperhug’.In 96 Adrian formed ‘The Haunted’ with fellow ATG brothers Jonas and Anders Bjorler,cutting one demo in 97 and releasing one album in 98.Leaving late in 98 Adrian drummed for Swedish Black Metal purists ‘Nifelheim’ and numerous other bands! Adrian was approached by Cradle Of Filth in June 1999 and played drums on one track for the ‘Cradle To Enslave’ EP,before becoming a full time member,playing on no less than 20 albums/singles/dvd’s until May 2006 when he joined ‘Needleye’ playing on their album ‘Ode To None’ and some additional demo’s that were available on their Myspace page.

Morrigan is also well known for her Cradle Of Filth connections,appearing on stage with them as well as being the model on the “Enslave Ep”,in the video for Born In A Burial Gown and the Horror Movie Cradle Of Fear.That aside,a career as a fetish model,TV presenter,stage performer and actress in Nature Morte and some of those classic “Blink or you’ll miss me roles” in Still Crazy,Judge Dredd and Hackers. Her musical projects date back to her teens when she first learned the guitar & along with a friend played and sang along to Black Sabbath,they formed a band called “The Art Of Falling Apart”.Later She joined the band ‘Obsidian’ (not the Cradle related band who released an album in 2000,the band also recorded a version of ‘Girls Like Honey’ a song later ressurected for Nemhain.

Cherry began her music career as bassist with all girl group ‘Desolation Angels’ (Not the NWOBHM band from the 80’s).When their drummer dropped out a young lad by the name of Charlie Simpson stepped in (Yes the same one from Fightstar).Cherry also sang backing vocals for Franz Ferdinand on the track ‘L.Wells’ (On the single The Fallen) in April 06 and numerous tracks on the Demented Scum Cats Lp,which was an all star side project LP from Demented Are Go.Cherry then switched from Bass to Guitar and continued to write songs drawing on her numerous influences.When not making music Cherry was also a Model and made an appearance in the film ‘Nature Morte’.

Music had always been part of Lisa’s life since learning to play the tenor horn at school.When she went to university she and some friends “Messed Around” with some comic songs but nothing came of this.Around 97 lisa decided to learn the Bass and has since mastered the instrument to a very high level.

Liv Fast,a lead guitarist completed the line up.When Liv entered a poker playing competition she became hooked and was soon offered a job presenting poker Tv in Las Vegas,which she accepted.Her replacement was Sam Hain, a multi-talented musician who can play almost any known instrument know to man!Despite the experimentle nature of his solo work,under the name of ‘EWSS’,he is a fan of Slash and Children Of Bodom.He is also one half of ‘The Cry & The Chainsaw’, a small independent film company who have made a number of Music Videos (Including ‘Ana’) and Short Films.Aside from the production and filming he contributes to the soundtracks.

After rehersals and writing sessions a small private gig took place at the Dungeon.By August they were ready to unleash themselves upon the world at an all day music festival at the Bar Monsta in Camden.More gigs followed In October as did a recording session in Eastbourne, resulting in the EP called ‘Blood Runs Free’ (named after a song written by Morrigan but not recorded).Cradle released the ‘Thornography’ album and soon after the official announcement was made about Adrian leaving.

The ‘Blood Runs Free’ demo was released and sounded nothing like ‘Brody/Courtney’ in fact the songs of Sex,Drugs,Love & Fear are in a class of their own.The EP was a limited pressing of 1000 copies only.It went on sale at the Bar Monsta gig on 12.11.06,also they shot the promo video for the song ‘Ana’.The year ended with a mad new years eve gig with King Lizard at the Purple Turtle club in Camden.

In January they played the newly located Intrepid Fox in London wearing cloths designed by ‘Kates clothing’ at a launch party gig.They also recorded a killer version of the Misfits Die Die My Darling for the Misfits tribute album. The band minus Sam then set of to LA for the NAMM convention here much work (!?) was done,like hanging out with Lemmy,they did manage to secure a deal with Orange Amps,Adrian also announced a busy shedule with sessions for ‘Netherbird’,’Tenet’ with former guitarist Jed Simon (Strapping Young Lad) and joining Mexican legends ‘Brujeria’ on their first world tour. When ‘Needleye’ announced that they had taken the band as far as it could go,Duncan Wilkinson and Ray Holoryd began working on some new ideas and demos and formed ’12 Ton Method’ with Adrian acting as session drummer. Two further tracks were cut ,’From The Ashes’and the brilliant ‘Dirty Weekend’ which not only has one of the coolest bass lines ever,is based on the book by Helen Zahavi,A great song of revenge on men who use women.This was recorded at fortress studios and was produced by Greg Brimson (Rammstein) and Russ Russell (Dimmu Borgir).

In March ‘Nemhain’ were given the opportunity to support Australian Boogie merchants ‘Rose Tattoo’ at the Scala in London.As Adrian was touring with ‘Brujeria’ at the time he asked his friend and fellow session drummer Robin Guy to take his place. After two quick rehersals he took to the stage like he had been with them for years!. Not surprsing though when you look at the list of people he has played with...’Faith No More’,’Bruce Dickinson’and far too many to write about here. On the night of the gig ‘Brujeria’ were playing in Chiwawa in Mexico!.

April began with two gigs in Wales & London.With new songs being written and the band getting press attention it came as something of a shock when at the the end of the month Sam left,to be replaced with Dick Limelight also from Sweden, bassist with London rockers ‘King Lizard’ who was on their third EP titled ‘Late Night Dynamite’.The new line up made their debut at Camdens Electric Ballroom on 6th of May,followed by their first mini UK Tour.With new songs being introduced into the set,including a disturbing cover of Nirvana’s ‘Rape Me’.Also in May Cradle released a live Dvd/Cd set from April 2001,and the song ‘Dirty Weekend’ appeared on a cd given away with Devolution Magazine.

At the end of june the band were due to play the River Town Festival in Prague,the band never made it there as both Dick and Rachel suddenly left due to “Personal reasons”.In july the band had to take stock of the situation and decided to regroup and carry on. First to be contacted was Mick Priestley from glam band ‘Nothing To Lose’ who agreed to help out at an upcoming rehersal,also at the rehersal was model/tv presenter/music journalist Samara, the bassist with ‘Spiders Superstars’ as replacement for Rachel.Withing a week Mick had been replaced with Stevie Lee formerly of glam weirdos ‘Spit Like This’.Stevie had made himself known to the band at the Download festival.The new line up made its debut at the Revue bar in SoHo on july 30th and then set off on a tour of Holland.

In November they went to Belgium to record a new ep.Adrian also announced that At The Gates were reforming for a series of one off gigs around the world. After a gig ruined by terrible sound and stevie arriving on stage late & drunk at club SIN it seemed that there was a degree of tension in the band.The Hard Rock Hell gig went ahead but without Samara then Stevie quit and Samara left.

But the year did not end in disaster as a reliable and talented guitarist was found with Lakis.Lakis should be known to many of you as the driving force behind the Metal band ‘Area 54’ formed in the late 90’s their brand of thrash/maiden styled music saw them release 3 excellent albums : ‘No Visable Scars’ in 2000,’Beckoning Of The End’ in 2003 which featured guest vocals from At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg and in 2007 ‘Bring Out Your Dead’.In july however they decided to end the band with lakis putting all his efforts into the glam influenced band ‘Love & Bullets’ who he had formed in september of 2006.

So here we are in 2008,Nemhain set off to NAMM in America again,but this time they play 2 gigs as well.upon return to the uk Adrian set’s off on a massive european tour with swedish glam/goth band Deathstars who are supporting KoRn throughout February.In March/April they recorded their debut album in sweden and are also set to film a second promo video for the new song ‘Jane Doe Number 1’.I am also expecting a few surprises from them this year too.
Aside from that there is a series of At The Gates gigs at various European festivals and Japanese and American tours.
A short tour of Holland is also being planned and hopefully some UK gigs.
Written By Stu 14.04.08

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Band Members
Lisa Witch - Bass / Backing Vocals

Morrigan Hel - Vocals

Adrian Erlandsson - Drums

Music:

Blood Runs Free EP

Check out this video: Nemhain - Speed Queen (Hard Rock Hell)

Check out this video: Nemhain - Die Die My Darling (Live Weert 04.08.07)

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As promised, here is the amazing debut video from Nemhain, Ana!!!!

This video was shot at Bar Monsta, London on the 12th November. Amy Akkonite has been hard at work on this video for a long time, and the end result has definately been worth the wait!

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Hard Rock Hell Interview