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About Me

The story of Egonaut began in 2005 when guitarist/vocalist Fredrik Jordanius (ex FierceConviction, Rising Faith and Ablaze) decided that hed had enough with tightleatherjeans, double bassdrums and high pitched falsettoscreams and wanted to tryplaying something a bit less complex more grooveoriented for a change.
To make a long story short he immediately started harassing every friend he had thatcould play an instrument to form a band and after a couple of weeks of nagging people hemanaged to persuade long time friend and bassist Kristoffer Drotz (ex the very veryangry hardcoreband Heldback) and drummer Markus Johansson (ex stand-in in swedishpunkband Cosa Nostra) to write some songs. Hence Egonaut was born.
Although having the very best intentions with the band it however took them almost sixmonths before actually making it into the rehearsalroom the first time, but once havinggotten there it didnt take them long to find a solid sound merging contemporary hardrock with that of the seventies and adding a bit of metal and hardcore elements.
A few months later with further exploring the sound and lots of songwriting Egonaut,temporarily backed up by master organist G..ran ..hlfeldt, felt the time was right toput a couple of songs on tape and after an intense week over at Old Crap Recordingstheir debut demo, entitled The First One to Strike Wins, saw the light of day.
The demo was instantly successful and it was dubbed Best demo of the month in swedensbiggest rockmagazine Close Up Magazine, earning them a spot on the compilation CDincluded with each number as well as an interview in the paper.
The next natural step in the bands evolution was taken when the band enlisted RichardOlsson as their full time organist. One month after being a full band Egonaut did theirlivedebut at Cafe Parkaden in Bor..s.
Inbetween rehearsing for the liveshow the band also found the time to once again enterOld Crap Recordings, this time recording three songs that were released to the world onthe "One Down..." demo.
Having allready earned some recognition the band is now in hot pursiut for a record dealas well as all the gigs that they can get their hands on. Consider it a warm up becauseEgonaut is just getting started!
Egonaut playing "Turn" at Swing 11/1-2008.
Us playing "1,2,3 Hate" at Tragarn, Boras, Sweden 12/1-2007.

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Member Since: 5/13/2006
Band Website: egonaut.se
Band Members:
Fredrik - Vocals/Guitars

Kristoffer - Bass

Dennis - Organs

Markus - Drums

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Recording update and new gig added.

Hi friends!I'm just back from a couple of pretty rewarding hours in the studio together with Markus trying out different microphones for the drums.On the past recordings I've always had the same probl...
Posted by Egonaut on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:47:00 PST

Gigreport Swing / Random news

So we've ticked off another gig since the last time I wrote here. This time in our hometown together with Lynn and The Wolf Verine.The gig was pretty okey and in honor of the new Metallica album being...
Posted by Egonaut on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:33:00 PST

Gigreport from the weekend!

Hi friends!I thought I'd write a few lines about the gigs we've done this weekend.We started off at Old Crap on friday afternoon and packed our shit together into Dennis car before embarquing on a one...
Posted by Egonaut on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:23:00 PST

Fancy a blog, do you?

Hi friends! It's been a while since we wrote something now but to be honest we haven't had that much to report, until now that is!The gig in herrljunga was great, probably among the three best ones th...
Posted by Egonaut on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:44:00 PST

Hey! Check out 33 MPH!

Hi friends! I just uploaded a smoking hot track to our player, check out 33 MPH!
Posted by Egonaut on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:54:00 PST

New gigs announced

Hi friends! We've just been confirmed for Herrljungafestivalen as well as Nabben am See music festival, watch out where and when at the booking section of our site.More gigs will hopefully be added in...
Posted by Egonaut on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:55:00 PST

Egonaut @ In Rock på tisdag!

Missa inte In Rock på Lunds Studentradio på tisdag då Fredrik kommer vara med och orera lite över Egonauts framtidsplaner, förhoppningsvis kommer det även spelas en och annan av de nya låtar vi spelad...
Posted by Egonaut on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:50:00 PST

Live DVD

Hey people,Our gig at Swing is now available to download as a torrent from http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3998731/egonaut_live_swing_11jan uari_2008_xvid.avi.And the Egonaut webshop is finally open at htt...
Posted by Egonaut on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:22:00 PST

God damn, Borås!

We're still trying to process the gig at Swing last friday and all I can say is DAMN!All bands were amazing, the crowd were amazing and the response to our gig was beyond belief.We'd like to thank all...
Posted by Egonaut on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:13:00 PST

So it begins!

hi friends, we've just survived day one of the recordings to our upcoming album.This day has mostly been spent setting up and soundchecking the drums and after eight hours of moving shit around we fee...
Posted by Egonaut on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:08:00 PST