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THE SAIGON SICKNESS

About Me


The driving force behind this band has always been to write provoking stuff, songs that your parents would never understand, songs to slit your wrists by. As if we were still sixteen..’
Voyager (later Voyagerband) was formed in late '96 as a part of the "stoner-rock" movement. We managed to release one Ep in '99 "Four bastards trying to sort things out" which was picked up by Meteor City Records as a part of the old "single of the month club". Later on we got a lousy recorddeal and released an album in '01 "Dead tunes for the unwanted". Then things got slow. Fucked up label, lack of inspiration, moving to different cities, I guess you call it life.
We went into a coma.
Rebirth in '05. As a threepiece we named ourselves The Saigon Sickness and started to write again, all new sounds and emotions. We wanted to make it right this time and after a couple of demos we hooked up with our old friend Mattias Finn (Producer/live guitars), built a studio in my parents house in June '07 and did our best recording to date.
Now we've decided what to do with our lives. The songs we recorded this summer is the first part of what will be a full album. Since the colaboration with Finn worked amazingly well, we simply just want to continue the session. In the best of worlds we will record another two songs during spring and then finish the whole thing up in the summer of '08. This will give us enough time to work on new material, and some great stuff is popping out of our heads already.
Since we don't have a label we'll do everything ourselves, but as you may understand we need tons of support in this project... So you who read this and dig the music... Just spread the word... Please...
Yours truly!
/Makkan (on behalf of the rest of the dudes)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/04/2006
Band Website: saigon-sickness.com
Band Members:
Influences: Life, Birth, Death
Sounds Like: Your emotional breakdown, Anxiety & World war
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

ALBUM RELEASE!!!

Finally the album is finished! It's been in the works since 2007 so it feels pretty good to be able to let it go. Right now we're planning the release of "INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHERS" and it will ...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:36:00 GMT

080921

Long time, no see...We..ve been kind of quiet since we wrapped up the session in July. There was a strong need for us to stay away from eachother, and the recording as well... But the past weekend we ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:10:00 GMT

080712

Finally we've managed to get the equipment to work, thanks to M. Finn who seem to have everything planned in his head! Currently Andy is recording drums for a yet untitled song and ...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:52:00 GMT

The 2008 recording mayhem!

Right now we're building our own studio in my parents house. We'll be here for a week straight, trying to do something creative for a change... No fucking rehearsed shit. Just pure free form recording...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:10:00 GMT

Burn bridges burn...

We played a truly great show at the Seaside Festival in Falun this weekend!! Hadn't rehearsed for a month and just went up to kick some major ass... No big acts played, just the local kids, and u...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:20:00 GMT

The dead will walk the earth...

As you can see we´re about to be pretty busy in April. 4 shows to play. The last time that happened must have been somwhere in the 90´s. We´ll try to document the whole thing so keep checking www...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:36:00 GMT

Track of the god damn day!

Check this out!"As a result of some very enthusiastic reviews from GarageBand.com members, "Dusenberg" will be Track of the Day at GarageBand.com. For 24 hours on Saturday, the 2nd of February, 2008 (...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:08:00 GMT

The Saigon Sickness VS. Mosebacke...

Finally a gig booked in Stockholm! We´ll let it rip at Mosebacke February the 12:th. This will be a nice warm-up to our forthcoming springtour (not an extensive one, but if you have two or more gigs i...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:53:00 GMT

The Saigon Sickness Diaries!

Check out:http://www.saigonsickness.blogspot.comEnjoy!/Makkan
Posted by on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:08:00 GMT

Bow your head, medicate and smile at the crowd...

Finally we´ve decided what to do with our lives. The songs we recorded this summer is the first part of what will be a full album. Since the colaboration with Mattias Finn (producer/live gui...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:44:00 GMT