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The Colombos

Album in stores June 11!!!

About Me


The Colombos
With love of music as the least common denominator The Colombos is formed by five men in the town of Västerås, Sweden, in 2002. This love is central in the creative process and takes on different forms as the band progresses. In The Colombos infant stages the guitar and the drums bring forth the noisy garage sound with a busy and energetic Farfisa organ that glues it all together. During this time the material is aggressive and the live shows are short and intense, which is also reflected on the releases ”Extended Play” (EP, WY Ljudproduktion, 2003) and ”Bang Bang” (EP, Highlight Music, 2006). Live, the audience will see a band that squeezes every watt out of the amplifiers and every drop of sweat out of themselves. The music delivered is hard, straightforward and structured, despite an atmosphere on and off stage that might seem a bit chaotic to bystanders.
The band manages to do a lot of gigs, including support slots for The Soundtrack Of Our Lives and Division of Laura Lee. With the passing of time and road miles the word about The Colombos live supremacy spreads across the country and the band members form an intense bond, on and off stage. The philosophy is more or less to just go straight ahead and not dwell on the artistic decisions too long. This leads to a period of turmoil and conflict within the band, mostly concerning the musical and creative direction. Out of the disputes The Colombos’ future sound is cemented.
The fall of 2006 the band enters Svenska Grammofonstudion and in nine days they capture ten songs on tape, with Per Stålberg (Division of Laura Lee) and Mattias Nyberg as producers. Together they manage to bring forth what makes The Colombos such an amazing band. Pop and punk is mixed with classic garage rock and a pinch of psychadelia. The keyboards have a more prominent role while the drums and the bass are kept in a close and strong frame. The sound has evolved and is slightly darker and more experimental without losing its characteristic drive and energy. The result of these sessions will be the album ”Thousand Ways To Look Clever” (Regain Records, 2007).

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Member Since: 6/20/2005
Band Website: thecolombos.com
Band Members: Stålhammar, Isberg, Rangstad, Larsson, Ström
Sounds Like: Listen...
Record Label: Regain Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

No church this sunday

We are not going to church to worship our mighty lord up in the sky today. We have already had our prayers heard this weekend since we have rehearsed like crazy (and managed to meet the underdog ...
Posted by The Colombos on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:17:00 PST

Its been a while

It's been a while since anyone wrote anything here, so here it goes: It's been quiet but were still making noise. We are writing new songs and will try to have something new for you to hear befo...
Posted by The Colombos on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:09:00 PST

The new song!

Guest appearance on "Keep the message, kill the messenger" by Simon Ohlsson and Jukka Rintamäki from swedish Silverbullit and Martin McFaul. If you haven´t got your hands on the album "Thousand ways t...
Posted by The Colombos on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:30:00 PST

New photos!

Some new photos are up from the release party! There are also some, not so successful, photos from a way to drunken midsummer party... 
Posted by The Colombos on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:23:00 PST

Love Spells Love

The album "Thousand Ways To Look Clever" will be in stores, June 11th, but we give you all another free sample of what the album sounds like. The song "Love Spells Love" is available for download. Hop...
Posted by The Colombos on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:27:00 PST

Tack!!!

Ett stort tack till alla som var närvarande vid release-kalaset i lördags på La Tapita. Vi hade en grymt trevlig kväll och det såg ut som ni som var där också hade det. Många varma ord sades om oss vi...
Posted by The Colombos on Wed, 30 May 2007 04:24:00 PST

Radio show

Hi there. Today we played live on a radioshow for the first time. There was some nerves at first but we did some great versions of "Love spells love", "Keep the message, Kill the messenger", "Vic...
Posted by The Colombos on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:16:00 PST

Release


Posted by The Colombos on Mon, 21 May 2007 12:06:00 PST

Downloading problems...

As some of you noticed there was a difficulty downloading the new song. That problem is now solved. The downloading meter just doesn´t work for the moment so it doesn´t show the amount of downloads. S...
Posted by The Colombos on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:10:00 PST

Thin Lizzy Vs The Colombos

Well boys and girls. Last Saturday we finally had the chance to see Mille behind a real Heavy Metal drumkit (couldn't help humming to Wilco's "Heavy Metal Drummer" when he sat down behind it). Me and ...
Posted by The Colombos on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:11:00 PST