About Me
Jörgen Sandström, Born 1971, from Visby, Gotland, Sweden!
Previous bands: Grave, Entombed, Leukemia, Putrefaction, Corpse
Bands running today: Vicious Art, Krux, The Project Hate MCMXCIX and Dödsdom. Take a listen to the bands in the music player above!!
My discography can be found HERE . Most of my guest appearances are still to be added, and will be in the very near future!
I started being in a band around 1984 or so when me and some friends in school wanted to become rock stars just like our idols in Kiss, Motley Crue, Ac/Dc, Wasp etc.. We put a band together, Rising Power, and tried to figure out how the hell to we play these instruments!!! So we got some help from the older guys in school who already knew how to play coz they had a band called Special Forces. So, we picked up the rough ideas how to play and within a year we had been narrowed down to a 4 piece and changed our name twice! One of them was Corpse and we recorded one demo tape called Black Dawn. Corpse music was our attempt to sound like German thrash bands like Kreator and Destruction, but we didn't quite nailed it. Instead we had our "own" sound!:-) This line-up lasted for about 3 years or so, then when we were a 3 piece we decided to change name to Grave.
Grave's music is pretty fucking far from those Ac/Dc, Kiss kinda riffs we were starting out with. Grave was pure, raw, primitive Death Metal. 3 demos was recorded between 1987 and 1989. "Sick, Disgust, Eternal", "Sexual Mutilation" and "Anatomia Corporis Humani". Already pretty known in the huge death metal underground scene we got signed to Century Media records in 1990 and recorded our first album, "Into the grave". With Century Media's help and money we got sent out on tours world wide to support the "Into the Grave" album. With this band I recorded 3 albums, "Into the Grave", "You´ll Never See..." and "Soulless" and an EP called "And Here I Die...satisfied". With this band I started to play guitar and vocals and ended up playing bass and vocals. We toured around the world together a few times before I decided to quit the band in 1995.
GRAVE - SOULLESS
So, I got tired of doing Grave and started to play bass with my friend Kenth Philipson and his band Leukemia. And then Entombed called me and asked if I could fill in for Lars on the big Swedish Hultsfreds Festivalen. I got nothing better to do so I accepted, and we had a blast, learned 15 songs or so in only 5 days, got drunk for 2 days and almost completely forgot all the songs, hahah.. Nah, we did just fine for that gig. About 1 month later they called me up again and asked if I was interested in playing bass for the band, so I joined the army of Entombed. We recorded albums and toured the world, saw Great White sharks, played at the Stockholm Royal Operahouse and much much more together until I decided to quit the band on personal problems within the band in 2004.
ENTOMBED - CHIEF REBEL ANGEL (LIVE AT HULTSFRED FESTIVAL 2002)
Entombed was my main band and top priority as it was our living. But as almost every band member in Sweden, you gotta have at least 1 side project.. So I joined 2!
In 1998, my friend and companion in crimes, Kenth Philipson called and asked if I could help him out with some vocals for his new band, The Project Hate MCMXCIX. So after a gig in Västerås, me and L-G Petrov of Entombed went to Örebro over the day and layed down the vocals for a 3 song demo Kentha had recorded with Dan Swanö. In order to that, Kentha continued to write songs for TPH and recruited other members but still with me on vocals. Up to this day we have recorded 4 full length albums, 1 live album and the 5th album is being mixed right fucking now, 2007-04-23. It will be released on StormVox rec. Owned by none other then our friend, Peter Stormare!
In the year 2000, me, Peter Stjärnvind (drums in Entombed at the time) and once again Kenth Philipson started another project called Devil Sun. I wanted to pick up the guitar work again as it had been 8 years ago since I played guitar in a band. Our intention was to blast out some killer Doom Metal in the vein of Candlemass and Trouble. So we did 3 songs together, then we recruited none other than Leif Edling from Candlemass on bass. We rehearsed twice, then Devil Sun got put on ice due to massive touring and recordings from Entombed. But, in the meantime that same year, Leif had plans on reforming Candlemass, but had a whole album of songs that he couldn't use for Candlemass.. So he called me up and asked if me and Peter could help him out recording this album, under the name Krux. And so was another band born. We have now released 2 records together and did a few shows here and there. This summer we will perform at the Sweden Rock Festival and at Mälarrocken in Västerås! We have plans on doing at least one more album with this band when time comes. This is a band with members of many other bands like; Peter Stjärnvind - Nifelheim. Mats Leven- Therion etc. Fredrik Åkesson - ex Arch Enemy. Leif Edling- Candlemass. Carl Westholm - Carptree and then me. So putting a show together with this line up is pretty tough!
KRUX - OMFALOS
So, back to when I quit Entombed.. 2004. I had plans on starting a new Death Metal band, and contacted Matti Mäkelä, who used to play in Dark Funeral. We knew each other more because of hanging out in the same pubs, and we always said, when the day come we will start a band together... So, I told him when I met him that I had left Entombed and now is the time.. That is great he said, we just recorded a demo and need a bass player, join us. Us was Vicious Art. I loved the demo they gave me and I joined them at once. We recorded and released our first album that same year, and now we are working on the second full length album. It will be released this year on Mighty Music Rec, Denmark!!
VICIOUS ART - WEED THE WILD (LIVE IN ÖREBRO 2007)
To be continued...
