Mats Levén Fans

This is NOT Mats Leven,it's only a fansite about him.Mats Levén(born and raised in Mölndal, Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden) is one of the greatest singers in the Metal universe.He has worked with big names of the Swedish musical industry during the years,and his most important collaborations have been with Therion and Krux.He has started his career back in 1986 with a band called Capricorn.In 1989,he joined Swedish Erotica. In 1992,Levén collaborated with the Swedish well-known band called Treat,with which he also released an album and a single.In the 1990's,he worked with Abstrakt Algebra and he also joined an AC/DC cover band,AB/CD.In 1997,Mats teamed up with the great guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen,recording the album "Facing the Animal" and doing the promotional world tour for the named album, world tour which led to the release in 1998 of the album and DVD Live!! 1998 also found Levén collaborating with the project band Southpaw.In 1999 came out yet another collaboration, this time with Pontus Norgren. A year later followed another project band called Dogface with which he released two albums.2002 teamed him up again with Edling for a doom metal project entitled Krux. Another prominent collaboration came the following year when German guitarist Olaf Lenk asked Levén to join his band At Vance,as lead vocalist. He released two successful albums with At Vance,The Evil in You(2003) and Chained(2005). He also found time for recording an album with yet another project band,Sabbtail. The end of 2003 brought him his most challenging offer ever, when Europe's biggest symphonic metal band,Therion, asked him to join them for the recording of their double album, Lemuria/Sirius B and also the one-year-and-a-half world tour to follow. Due to the successful collaboration between him and Therion the band has asked him to do lead vocals on their next album and world tour as well. The second half of 2005 has seen Levén working on a collaboration with drummer Snowy Shaw,entitled S&M, which is most likely to be released sometime in 2008, and doing backing vocals for the new album of Swedish neo-classical metallers Narnia.The first months of 2006 brought new perspectives for Levén: a special 5-song appearance on the Reflections of the Obscure album by Essence of Sorrow, lead vocals in another new project entitled Fatal Force (featuring Danish guitarist Torben Enevoldsen and drummer Daniel Flores) with whom he released a self-titled album in April 2006, and backing vocals for Swedish hard rock band The Poodles on their "Night of Passion" song, with which they won 4th place in the Swedish final qualifying round for the Eurovision song contest. He has also finished recording for the new Krux album which was released on October 18th 2006 and the new Therion album, entitled Gothic Kabbalah which was released on January 12th 2007. On December 9th 2006, Levén joined Therion in a special concert in Bucharest, Romania.Starting from 2007,Mats shared vocal duties in Therion with Snowy Shaw,Katarina Lilja and Lori Lewis.After Graspop and Hellfest in June 2007, Mats ceased his collaboration with Therion to focus on his new projects. His place in the band was taken by Thomas Vikström. Mats' latest project has been recording backing vocals for the forthcoming Apocalyptica album,"Worlds Collide".He also appears on the Nuclear Blast 20-year anniversary compilation "Into the Light", singing on the track "Death is Alive". Currently Levén has involved himself in yet another project: lead vocals for the upcoming trilogy based on the Holy Book by Israeli metal band Amaseffer.He is also preparing a solo album that should be released some time in the next couple of years.