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About Me

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Im a songwriter, guitarist and singer sometimes tryin my luck on the piano, violin, flute (tvärflöjt) and clarinette. I live in Stockholm/Sweden. On this Myspace page I thought I`d give you some hints about what I do musicaly. Bor du i närheten å vill lira?! Hör av dig!!
These days I write songs for an unnamed, memberless, project dealing with some semi-acustic rock (or however you brand the stuff, some of it is in the player above) and have also taken up writing songs (visor) in swedish again since Mickis asked for some music for a shortmovie. Will record and put something up in a while. Me and Johan Nordh have our "longtime since" band DRAKLÃ…TAR and trying to get together soon to create some more of that childish stuff.
The first real band I played with was GÅNGJÄRN (Hinge), 93-97. I sang, played the guitar and wrote most of the songs. We started out playin oldschool swedish punkrock but the project evolved through some kind of pop/punk to what in the end was metal with swedish lyrics and clean songstyle. We made a couple of demotapes and played some liveshows in our hometown Västerås... Around that time I also played in KOBOLDERS/DREADSTATE, 94-97, we were more in to american punkrock for a start but the music evolved to be kind of metalishhardcorepunk. I played guitar and did some extra vocals. Later on I joined THE GENERALS, 00-02, in Gothenburg. We played old school rocknroll. I was only singing in this constalation and we made an 7" vinyl named "Rocknroll Barricade" and played around at most of the rockclubs in Gothenburg. I have also been doin some guitar licks for the great Swedish Hiphop act LOOPTROOP/THE CASUAL BROTHERS/EMBEE. In 2002 I played with The Casual Brothers at the Swedish summer festival "Hultsfredsfestivalen". I also do some electronic stuff under the name DELICATE SOUND ASSOCIATION. And all along the time I´ve been writing acustic songs in swedish and made a lot of material for different bandless genres... I also have some rock/punk songs to finish in a project with drummer Joakim Jonsson aka Autumn Dweller.

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Member Since: 6/18/2006
Influences: At the moment my main inspiration is the brushy paths of economic history and the public librarys who offers a quiet place and free toilets, the ugly upperclass government with their badly hidden hate against the workinclass, the passive and uninspired leftish movement, life in general and the great relief of quiting postal work for the swedish postal service, and lack of money from cutting down in time and now workin in healthcare. I also put a lot of consideration around the fact that people nowadays, including the undersigned, don´t wanna pay the true price for curdled cheese.

Most important bands in chronologic order since discovered by my ears; ROLLING STONES, KISS, NOICE, LED ZEPELIN, IRON MAIDEN, METALLICA, KREATOR, SLAYER, ENTOMBED, CARCASS, MORBID ANGEL, VIVALDI, CARL ORFF, AT THE GATES, TIAMAT, BATHORY, MAYHEM, BURZUM, STREBERS, ASTA KASK, DLK, NOFX, PROPAGHANDI, RAVI SHANKAR, THE LEMONHEADS, BLACK SABBATH, CORNELIS WREESVIJK, BOB DYLAN, FIELDS OF THE NEPHELIM, DANZIG, LIFE OF AGONY, TYPE O´NEGATIVE, SONIC YOUTH, SIXTEEN HORSEPOWER, SATYRICON, SCOTT WALKER, DAN BERGLUND, JAN JOHANSSON, BILLIE HOLIDAY, HEDNINGARNA, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, BRAHMS, HELLACOPTERS, BOB MARLEY, DEAD PREZ, TURBONEGRO, ROKY ERIKSON, THE DONNAS, MILLENCOLLIN, JOSH WHITE, NINA SIMONE, THE KNIFE, CHRISTIAN KJELLVANDER, ANE BRUN, ANNA TERNHEIM, WOLFMOTHER
Sounds Like: Some of the above...
Type of Label: None