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Abramis Brama

Abramis Brama

About Me

"Mjolk & honung" performed live at Club Monster/Gavle, 2007-04-13
"Men mitt hjarta ska vara gjort av sten" live at Sticky Fingers/Gothemburg, 2007-03-02
"Mamma talar" live at Debaser/Stockholm, 2005-12-29

Bio (extremely short version);

Started 1997, first album 1999, changed singer, second album 2001, third album 2003, fourth album 2005, live-guitarist added to lineup, drummer leaves at end of 2005, replaced mid-2006, livealbum released in 2007. Plays 70´s type riff-oriented hardrock with lyrics in swedish.
Bio (normal blabla version);
Heavy 70´s riff-oriented hardrock with Swedish lyrics!
Abramis Brama from the south side of Stockholm, Sweden, began as a trio in 1997. Six months later they had turned into a quartet and startet writing original material with lyrics in Swedish, a very odd choice at the time...
The debut album "Dansa tokja.velns vals" (RHCD20) was released in 1999.
In the autumn 1999 original singer Christian Andersen left the band and was replaced by Ulf Torkelsson (ex Sunflower, Pathfinder).
March 5th 2001 saw the release of "Nar tystnaden lagt sig..." (RHCD35), their second album.
In 2003 the band took a step "off track" when an entire album in English was recorded by request from the recordlabel. It´s suitable title was "Nothing changes" (SRR012) and it was a sort of "best of-album" with English lyrics containg re-recordings of songs from the two previous albums with new lyrics on new subjects (working title was "We sold our souls to Record Heaven")...
2004 saw the band once again at Sweden Rock Festival (having played there in 2000) but this time on a bigger stage, doing their appearence inbetween The Haunted and Entombed. The gig was a success and the bands merchendise and albums where all sold out by the end of the festival. Abramis Brama won a great victory over those who previously didnt want to listen, -"since its sung in Swedish, and that cant be done...?..."
-Well...it can!
It´s amongst other things something that can be noticed when one reflects over the number of other hardrockbands that has started to sing in Swedish in the past few years...
On the 31st of January 2005 the bands fourth full-length album entitled "Rubicon" (SRR035) was released with a big old releaseparty that saw the first appearance of live guitarist Robert "Rabbi Rob" Johansson with the band. A man borrowed from Swedish Southern Hardrock heroes "Backdraft" (please check em out in our "friends" section", brilliant band they are).
In February 2005 drummer Jansson announced that he would leave the band by the end of the year. There was a "Janssons final gig" at Debaser i Stockholm, Sweden on the 29th of december that year and most of the following spring were spent trying out new drummers.
Sometime in march 2006 faith had it´s way with us and in the beginning of june Trisse, formerly of Grand Magus claimed the drumthrone in Abramis. First gig with Trisse was on saturday the 1st of july at Malarrocken in Vasteras, a big outdoor event.
Thousands and thousands of miles on the road has paid off and the band is known for their thight and well performed gigs. With the energy that is released on stage it´s impossible NOT to feel "as if one has been run over by a truck", and the fanatical fans are increasing in numbers...
-"If you´ve seen them once, you´d want to do it again, and again, and again..."
Buy an album or three of ours?...
We recommend (for all international buyers);
Record Heaven.net , or
Sweden Rock Shop , or
All Thats Heavy , amongst others...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/8/2006
Band Website: abramisbrama.com
Band Members: Peo Andersson, guitar
Dennis Berg, bass & vocals
Ulf Torkelsson, vocals
Trisse, drums
Robert Johansson, live-guitar

Influences: Mountain, Zeppelin, Sabbath, November, Purple, Ten Years After, The Band, Grand Funk, Sabbath again, Leafhound, May Blitz, Pugh Rogefeldt, Cream, Bloodwyn Pig, some more Sabbath, Howlin Wolf, Skynyrd, Kyuss, Johnny Winter, Mikael Ramel, Blind Faith, Captain Beyond and so on and so forth...
Sounds Like: Heavy 70s riff-oriented hard rock with swedish lyrics.
Record Label: Record Heaven, Sweden Rock Records, Transsubstance
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Recording some new songs!

..> Well i..ll be damned!Starting on friday the 7th of march we will record some three songs entitled (Långsamt", "Kylan kommer inifrån" and "Enkel resa" for our next release!The recordings will t...
Posted by Abramis Brama on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:44:00 PST

Gigs, babies and recordings...

Yup!We´ve got two remaining gig´s before we take a break from playing live for a few months, and the reasons are as noble as they get;-Peo will be a dad for the second time sometime in middle/end of m...
Posted by Abramis Brama on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:35:00 PST

Uploaded songs and a merry X-mas!

As a Very Merry X-Mas thingie we´ve uploaded two more songs (actually had room for two more on our quota!), + we´ve now set it so you can download them! For FREE!!! GADDÄM we´re in a holiday spirit! A...
Posted by Abramis Brama on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:06:00 PST