Started out in 2001 playing relentless retro hardrock music with a metal touch to it. Founding members; Teo Dahnberg - vocals, percussion, Henrik Allbjer - drums, percussion, Joakim Widén, guitars and his brother Dennis Widén - bassguitar. The band released the self-financed, self-produced "The Goddamned" in 2002 in 500 copies. It contained 8 songs and caught some great reviews worlwide. Kind of hard to get hold of nowadays. In 2004 the second release "Damned" came out and it's 4 songs showed a natural progress for the band. The reviews were damn good to. But it is mainly as a live band that The Goddamned made the full value since the live reviews were brilliant and it resulted in a long line of livegigs throughout sweden but also a couple in Germany and Holland. Along the line of gigs, we've played together with bands such as; Svarte Pan, Abramis Brama, Numbah Ten, By Night, Transport League, Generous Maria and many many others, playing festivals such as 2000 Decibel Festival, Fuzzfest and Pildammsrock 2004 to mention a few.
In december of 2005 Joakim and Dennis Widén left the band, there was some issues mainly concerning "getting the shit together" and we had not produced many a song in a year or so... the creative process sort of got hurt in a way. There are absolutely no hard feelings whatsoever between the 4 of us, were still very good friends...
In early 2006 me and Henrik sat down and talked about what to do next. Should we put the band to sleep or keep the shit up? We were also without a rehearsing room at the moment. Then we got an opportunity to build our own room in an old storage in Falkenberg. That's when we made the final desicion to go on just the 2 of us and see what happened. The room was ready in the spring 2006 when we stumbled across an ad leading us to the new bassplayer Fredrik Johansson. With his fingerpickin style and dedication to the bassguitar as an instrument he was an easy pick for us to the band. At this moment we were 3 people and I started playing the guitars more than ever before, leading me to try to sing at the same time. Still we were a good "sologuitarist" short, and thats when Henke thought of a bloke in Halmstad who had said he wanted to jam with us when he heard that the other guys were away from the band. So we tried Kim Gustafsson from the next town Halmstad out and got fond of his bluesy approach to guitarsoloing wich suited us fine since the new songs that we made were even more retro and dynamic than earlier songs. But still keeping the energy of good hard riffs in the centre.
So, here we are now early 2007 with a couple of nice gigs with the new line-up behind us and a new release "It Takes A Good Horse" containing 5 songs some new, some dealing with the past, some good, some better and some different than you've heard The Goddamned before.
And the creativity is now in a good flow, we come up with new things all the time that sounds stranger and weirder and also better than at least we played before... but that is for releases to come!
Stay Tuned!!!
Teo Dahnberg January in the year of 2007
