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In the year 1994 SIEBENBURGEN was formed by Marcus Ehlin (guitar, vocals) and Anders Rosdahl (drums). A couple of months later, Fredrik Brockert (bass) joined the band. Following the release of their first and self-titled demo tape in 1996, Linus Ekstrom joined the band. During the Halloween weekend of 1996, SIEBENBURGEN recorded their second demo, "UNGENTUM PHARELIS". With this demo they landed a contract with NAPALM RECORDS, and recorded their first Album, in April -97, entitled "LOREIA". In January/February 1998, SIEBENBURGEN recorded their second album, "GRIMJAUR", which was released in May of the same year. Both demos and the two first full-length releases featured Lovisa Hallstedt's vocals and violin playing skills. But in 1999 a new female vocalist Kicki Hoijertz replaced Lovisa. The following February, SIEBENBURGEN entered Six String Studio and recorded their third full-legnth release, DELICTUM. "LOREIA" and "GRIMJAUR" had made use of Swedish lyrics, but with "DELICTUM", SIEBENBURGEN broke out of their self-imposed mold by writing most of the lyrics appearing on DELICTUM in English. In the year 2000, Marcus Ehlin decided to relinquish his guitar playing to focus solely on his vocals. As a re I am big text sult, Richard Bryngelsson joined the line-up. Soon thereafter, SIEBENBURGEN began work on new material for their fourth album PLAGUED BE THY ANGEL, their best release to date. After the release of PLAGUED BE THY ANGEL, Ekstrom and Hojiertz left the band and was replaced by Fredrik Folkare and Turid Walderhaug. Turid was later replaced by Erika Roos. In the year 2005 SIEBENBURGEN is back with ''DARKER DESIGNS & IMAGES'' and puts an end to a whole line of line-up changes, which resulted in a new female singer (Erika Roos), a new bassist (Niklas Sandin) and the return of Ehlin to the guitar. During the years, SIEBENBURGEN has played more than 60 live shows throughout Europe together with the likes of TRISTANIA, GRAVEWORM, BEWITCHED, ANCIENT, TRAIL OF TEARS, THE SINS OF THY BELOVED, HOLLENTHON, and AGATHODIAMON to mention but a few.
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SIEBENBURGEN DISBAND
I am hereby sad to inform you all that Siebenbürgen is no more.
On the 1st of February 2006 we had a band meeting and came to the conclusion that we have to bury Siebenbürgen. After 12 years we sadly dont have the energy and inspiration to take the band any further and it would be wrong to us and to our fans to continue without the passion that Siebenbürgen deserve.
During these years we have struggled and bled to keep Siebenbürgen alive and well, we have published five albums that we are very proud of we got to see the world and we met a lot of great people in the process, and our fans fucking rule! But now it is over and we will lay Siebenbürgen to rest. It has been a great experience that we would not trade for anything in the world.
We would like to thank Ed and Karen of No Cross Management, Sabine at IDB booking, Eva and the staff at Napalm Records and all the bands we have toured with during the years, and last but not least, all of our devoted fans that believed in us and kept us going through all this time.
Thanks for everything and may the gods of metal be with you!
- Marcus Ehlin and Siebenbürgen -
Posted by Richard Bryngelsson on Friday, February 03 @ 16:16:26 CET