I started my career back in the late 80's as vocalist and guitarrist in a local band called Erina. The keyboardplayer in that band was no other than Jocke Roberg, now in Astral Doors. From the beginning we played melodic hardrock but as we got better and better on our instruments and we started to listen to bands like Dream Theater and Yes, our music started to get more complexed. We made a bunch of cool demos but nothing happened and we parted ways 1996.
Then a guy called Stefan Gustavsson called me and asked if I wanted to join a new project he was setting up. I accepted and Universal Puppies was born. A melodic pop/rock-band influenced by bands like Foo Fighters, King's X and Jellyfish. The band still exists under the name Pound.
In the same time me and guitarrist Martin Haglund (in Astral Doors now), a guy I had worked with earlier, talked about starting a new band. He was very in to stonerrock at that time with lowtuned guitars and stuff. And together with drummer Gabriel Frölin we started the trio Earflog. I was leadsinger and bassplayer in that band and we made a couple of cool demos.
But nothing happened with those two bands and a couple of years later I found my self without a band for the first time since I started to play. The year was 1999.
I bought myself some recording gear and started to recording songs on my own just for the fun of it. Everything between pop and metal.
And then in early 2002 me and Johan Lindstedt, a drummer I had known a little before, started to talk about writing some songs together.....the seed of Astral Doors was planted!
For more information about the band, me and our music, click one of the Astral links below!
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