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Oscar

Long days and pleasant nights, sai!

About Me

Born of a Swedish mother and Yugoslavian father (divorced when I was three), grew up together with two brothers. Played guitar since I was fourteen in bands like Striker, Ceremonial Oath and Crystal Age. Released albums with the latter two ('93 and '96). Formed HammerFall in 1993, never looked back since. Apart from my life's work (HF), I have a dog called Leo who pretty much makes up my world outside of the band at the moment. And I also train taekwan-do (ITF) three times a week, aiming to get my green belt by summer.

My Interests

Training taekwan-do
UFC
WWE
ice-hockey
animals
stand-up comedy (Eddie Murphy (obviously...), Robin Williams, Eddie Izzard, Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Robert Schimmel, Daniel Tosh)

I also enjoy being outdoors a lot, although I'm not sure that qualifies as an interest.

I'd like to meet:

Stephen King, Dana White, Joe Rogan, Larry David.

Music:

Heavy metal and hard rock bands like:
Judas Priest
Accept
Stormwitch
KISS
Mötley Crüe
Alice Cooper
W.A.S.P.
Pokolgép
U.D.O.
Dio
Twisted Sister
Unrest
King Diamond
Mercyful Fate

But also such various acts as:
Depeche Mode
Scotch
Magnus Uggla
John Williams movie scores
Jävlaranamma
Onkel KÃ¥nkel

Movies:

Star Wars I-VI
Jurassic Park
King Kong
Blood In, Blood Out
War Of The Worlds
Me, Myself & Irene

Television:

Dallas
The Wire
Surface
Threshold
The Shield
Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Arrested Development
Family Guy
American Dad
Lost
The Ultimate Fighter.

DVD boxes of complete seasons is the best thing ever invented!

Books:

George R.R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire (A Game Of Thrones, A Storm Of Swords, A Clash Of Kings, A Feast For Crows)
Stephen King's The Dark Tower I-VII
wrestling autobiographies

Anything that could be described as "based in science but flirting with the supernatural" works in my book.

Heroes:

Svullo, Buddy Rich, Stephen King.

My Blog

Gäst-DJ på Sticky

Fredagen den 18:e april ska jag vara gäst-DJ på Sticky Fingers i Göteborg. Länk:http://www.stickyfingers.nu/kalender_detail.asp?id=1566 Kom och lyssna på lite hårdrock och annat smått och gott!...
Posted by Oscar on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:58:00 PST

Winter wonderland

Day three (or four, if you count the arrival day), and we already have established a pattern: woken up as soon as he hears movement from the bed, a long walk in the woods followed by breakfast and som...
Posted by Oscar on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:56:00 PST

Sälen

I decided it's been far, far, far far too long since I went skiing, so I grabbed the dog and went to Sälen. It's about a seven-hour drive north of Göteborg, and when I got here I wondered why the hell...
Posted by Oscar on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:50:00 PST

PS3 has arrived!

I wasn't really going to buy a PlayStation 3, I'm more of a Nintendo guy a and Wii will definitely keep me occupied for a while although I wouldn't mind more interesting games. But there I was at ten ...
Posted by Oscar on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:30:00 PST

Unicycle Mania

It's the middle of March, and spring is coming! Granted, it's still some ways away, but it IS coming. Since we'll be home for a while, I decided to take up the blogging again, if anyone should be inte...
Posted by Oscar on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:33:00 PST

Night out in London

The majority of our upcoming European tour has now been announced, and the info is on www.hammerfall.net at the moment. I will of course put the dates here as well, but there's no time for that now; w...
Posted by Oscar on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:32:00 PST

Promotion trip

Joacim and I are now on the road, doing interviews with metal journalists all over Europe. Right now we're in France but we're flying to Madrid tomorrow. We're going to London on Friday, and next week...
Posted by Oscar on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:11:00 PST

Midsummer's loss

We all went home over the weekend, it was a Swedish holiday called Midsommar on Friday. That is basically a celebration of the point where the day and night are equally long (or something), and everyo...
Posted by Oscar on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:30:00 PST

SRF recollections

Venom fucking ruled the earth! Half an hour delayed and with a sound that could be likened to those of their first alum - which was recorded and mixed in a only a few days - nothing but Cronos'voice m...
Posted by Oscar on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:56:00 PST

Sweden Rock Festival awaits

We'll have the usual every-other-weekend break starting tomorrow, and I'm doing SRF on the way home. Mainly so I can witness a Venom show for the first time, but I'll also try to at least catch a glim...
Posted by Oscar on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:41:00 PST