I picked up the guitar at age thirteen and started a punk band by the name of Lokets Lakejer with a couple of school friends. Lokets Lakejer eventually became Svår Defekt och we played some punk concerts in the outskirts of Stockholm. Around this time, I also became the guitarist of mongometal band Koprofagerna (Coprophiliacs in english). Due to the lack of interest of certain band members and us being thrown out of our rehearsal room because some punk nearly burned it down, Svår Defekt and Koprofagerna kind of died out...
Henrik (the drummer from Svår Defekt) and I eventually found a new rehearsal room and kept playing. Later on we recruited Adam (from Koprofagerna) on bass, David on guitar/vocals and later Captain Spliff on guitar and formed Stash, playing classic rock. We played a couple of gigs around town, blending original material with some covers. We were a real party band that I felt had potential. But due to people getting busy with studies, girlfriends and that kind of shit, Stash soon also disappeared from the scene.
Around this time ('98-'99) I started composing my first soundtrack-influenced songs. Being a big horror movie fan combined with my newly found love for prog rock, I got totally hooked by the italian horror movie soundtracks which had a more progressive rock feel to them than the average horror movie soundtracks. But I didn't feel I had enough musical knowledge to write this kind of stuff, so I moved to Karlskoga where I studied composing and sound engineering for a year. While in Karlskoga, I started a punkrock group called Steff & The Sixpacks which later on released an EP called "They Talk With Their Eyes". I played all the instruments, exept drums, and sang on the record myself. I was also the guitar player in a short-lived prog-rock outfit called Granarna.
When back in Stockholm I set myself up a little home recording studio and started working on some experimental music. These songs were released under the name of Intrepid Travellers and also featured Captain Spliff on some of the songs. I also composed a couple of songs for a short movie project made by students at Stockholm Film School. This went on and I had no plans of releasing anything seriously, I was so tired of the whole business, Till one day in '05 when I met Fredrik (Loch Vostok, Flagellation, Rising Shadows etc. etc.) at a crazy party. He asked me if I was interested in starting a band playing music in the vein of Goblin, Fabio Frizzi and the likes. This was definately an offer I couldn't refuse and that's how Anima Morte was born. Daniel Cannerfelt (In Grey, Flagellation etc.) was recruited and later on Teddy Möller (Loch Vostok, F.K.Ü. etc.). We've so far released an EP called "Viva Morte" on Last Entertainment and our debut album "Face The Sea Of Darkness" on Dead Beat Media .
Well, before these records were released, I moved to Örebro for further studies. I started getting seriously involved in music again. First, I was a member of the student theater group Örebrospexet , where I played guitar in the show "I Churchill's hemliga tjänst, eller man krigar bara två gånger". The show got great reviews. I also joined the blues rock group Nicholas Subraian & Blueskalaset as a guitarist and grindcore band Burning Sausages as a basist. That's about it! Peace!
Some projects I'm involved in at the moment:
Anima Morte
Intrepid Travellers
Alissa Isakovic
Burning Sausages
REVIEWS - ANIMA MORTE / Face the Sea of Darkness
* 4/5 - Ergo.nu
* 4/5 - Seaoftranquility.org
* 5/5 - Unboundzine.com
* 9/10 - Unholycult.com
* 7/10 - Sweden Rock Magazine
* 7,5/10 - Darkroom Magazine
UNHOLYCULT.COM
"Anima Morte is band whose music is layered with enough complexity that it never grows tiresome to hear. Despite its late 2007 release date, ‘Face the Sea of Darkness’ is certainly one of the best recordings of the year past, but the reality is that its sheer brilliance is timeless."
METAL MANIACS
"Face the Sea of Darkness gets better with each listen; a mandatory album of 2008."
FEARNET
"Chock full of warm vintage sounds – including Hammond organ riffs, Mellotron choirs & strings, swirly, filter-sweeping Moog synth leads, and of course the requisite funk-style bass and moody acoustic guitar – this CD is an eerie blast from the past and an exercise in atmosphere sure to entice fans of classic European horror/thriller cinema – from the lusty giallos of the ‘60s and ‘70s to the zombie/cannibal gorefests of the ‘80s – as well as devotees of early-era progressive rock (ELP, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Hawkwind, etc.) in equal measure."