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Lizard Eye

About Me


the S T O R Y
It all started in December 1999 when Lasse Gudmundsson (lead vocals, guitars) decided to start a solo-project LGB (Lasse Gudmundsson Band), with the intention from the beginning to later on, when the right people were found turn it into a real band. He had earlier played with Perra (Per Ahlberg - drums) in the band Whimzy and since they worked well together back then Lasse gave him a call to check if he was interested in joining the project, which he most certainly was, and did. Later, one day Lasse heard Conny Käll (bass) rehearsing with another band, and liked his bass-playing and simply called him up and asked him to join and so he did. Lasse had found what was needed for now and the writing and rehearsing started. LGB did some gigs and recorded some tunes and to temporarily complete the setup they had different guitarists temporarily filling the lead guitar-spot live and in the studio, among others the marvelous guitarist JJ March (now playing with Glen Hughes).
Since everything now felt all right and LGB had really started to feel like a band they changed the name to Lizard Eye and really became a band, but still without a permanent second guitarist, in March 2001. Around the same time they recorded the first actual Lizard Eye-demo "Whiskey for snakebites" with Erik Bonecrüsher from the band Iron Bird temporarily on lead guitars, he also performed some gigs with Lizard Eye. Then later, in June 2001, a second demo, "Diamond in the night" was recorded with the guitarist Sören Cederberg from the band Solid Blue.
In July 2001 Lasse got in contact with PM Saari (guitars) through an add in a musicians mag who after a couple of phone calls and rehearsals (..and a couple of beers) joined the band as guitarist in August 2001.
In February 2004 Perra parted ways with the band. After some months of auditioning and meetings with different possible drummers the spot was filled by Elin Eriksson who both personally and musically well completed the band.
In the spring 2007 Elin and Conny left the band, both due to lack of the time Lizard Eye demands. Lasse and PM decided to only go on when (and only if) the absolute right persons were found to fill the two empty spots.
In September 2008 bassist Johan Klevenskog and drummer Ralph Rydén officially joined the band to complete the line-up and making the band a tighter metal unit than ever. The important long-lost feeling of being a real "band" was again in the Lizard Eye atmosphere.

the M U S I C
The style of Lizard Eye music could shortly be described as classic 80s heavy metal, with heavy roots in the British and German metal through the 70-90s. The style and timing definitely makes Lizard Eye part of the new rising: the New Wave of Swedish Heavy Metal (NWSHM). The songs are mainly written by Lasse and PM, but rehearsed into shape with the rest of the band.
Besides presenting high-quality, heavy, hitting, melodic material, performing live is a very important part of Lizard Eye and it's clearly shown in their stage performance that it's what they do best and a Lizard Eye-gig shouldn't be missed if given opportunity.


"Out of nowhere" (2005)
Produced by Lasse Gudmundsson, PM Saari and Michael Hahne
Recorded 2004 at Promille Studios by Michael Hahne
Drums recorded at Dog-out studios by Daniel Bergstrand and Michael Hahne
Mixed at Promille Studios by Michael Hahne and Lasse Gudmundsson
Mastered by Emil Kristensen
Reviews:
Metal Recensionen (in Swedish)
Metal Heart (in Swedish)
Rock eyes
Metal Central (in Swedish)
Hard Rock Info
Sweden Rock Magazine (in Swedish)
Rockeweb (in Norwegian)
Deepdive Magazine (in Swedish)


"Afterlife" (2003)
Recorded and mixed at BeyondDimensionsStudio, Stockholm/Uppsala, 2002-2003. Engineered and mixed by PM Saari
Reviews:
Metal Heart (in Swedish)
Monster Magazine (in Swedish)
Rockeweb (in Norwegian)
Stockholmrock (in Swedish)
First Play's (in Swedish)


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/28/2006
Band Website: http://www.lizardeye.se
Band Members:

Influences: Accept, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Helloween, Judas Priest, Saxon, Gamma Ray, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Motorhead
Sounds Like: Judas Priest, Accept, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Helloween, Wasp, Black Sabbath
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

www.lizardeye.se

For news, reports and... well, everything that goes on with Lizard Eye from now an on please visit the official Lizard Eye web site at: http://www.lizardeye.se
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:02:00 GMT

..and on it rolls

The first two gigs with the new line-up is now done and me and the band want to send a huge THANKS! to everyone who showed up. You rule! Special thanks to Robban at Mental Nights and David at ROQ. We ...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:08:00 GMT

The ball is rolling

Ok. So the Lizard Eye ball has started to roll. We've got the first gigs booked now and more will be added shortly. The official launch of the new band will happen at ROQ (Stockholm, Sweden), a sort o...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:19:00 GMT

...soon the ball will begin to roll

The official Lizard Eye website is now up and running again with the new address: www.lizardeye.se. It will grow as the new band grows into place.We've started to rehearse some new material and it all...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:03:00 GMT

LIZARD EYE IS REBORN!

We're proud to announce that Lizard Eye is a complete band and breathing and kicking again. After some weeks of jamming, rehearsing, discussions and a couple of bar-rounds Lasse and I have been joined...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:20:00 GMT