Vomitory is a Swedish death metal band formed in 1989 by guitarist Urban Gustafsson and bassist Ronnie Olsson. Influenced by bands such as Sodom, Napalm Death, Slayer, and Venom, the band has released a total of seven albums (as of 2009), and are currently signed to Metal Blade Records. *Current members * Erik Rundqvist - bass, vocals
* Tobias Gustafsson - drums
* Peter Östlund - guitar
* Urban Gustafsson - guitar
Brus is the one man project of Andreas Wallgren. He began writing and performing songs on keyboard and drum machine at the age of 7, and released and sold demo tapes in local stores in 1991 when being 11. Later on Brus was featured on Joy Electric's label Plastiq Musiq, and from there things started to happen. At the moment Brus has released a CD ("Rest of man"), an EP ("Slow emotions") and participated on 8 indie- and electronic compilation Cd's.
Cheshire Cat is a Gothenburg-band consisting of four members. Martin Trygg on vocal, Patrik Eriksson and Martin Söderberg on the electric guitars, and Oskar Clase on the synthesizer and programming. They have released two official EP's. The first 'Souls EP' on the indielabel Six more miles records (aka 6mm). Their second 'Welcome to our town EP' was released free of charge on the internet by the end of Novmber 2006.
Bombshell Rocks are a punk band from Sweden signed to the country's biggest punk label, Burning Heart. The band has existed, with changing line-ups, since 1996. Before playing under this name, the group was called Down and Out. They did not waste much time and in early 1996 they came up with their first output Who's the Real Bastard, a mini album with six tracks on it and in 1997 with an EP called Going Up Going Down which were both released on their own label Noiseline. 1998 Sidekicks Records signed them and in 1999 it was time for Bombshell Rocks debut album Street Art Gallery.
Facebreaker is a death metal-band formed in the summer of 1999 in Finspång, Sweden. The band consists of vocalist Roberth Karlsson, guitarists Mika Lagrén and Janne Ivarsson, basist and backing vocalist Jonas Magnusson and drummer Mikael Wassholm. Facebreaker started as an idea of a straight-forward metal act and in the autumn of 1999 the band began rehearsing. Jonas came to join the band after stopping by a rehearsal-session.
Moonlit Sailor is a young band from a city in Sweden called Borås. The band started out as an indie rock band in 2006 but later developed into an instrumental indie-postrock band. The band released their new album entitled 'A Footprint Of Feelings' in May-2008 and they also did a two week european tour in june 2008. Reviwers have been blown away with Moonlit Sailor's melodic, emotional and captivating sound and a lot of good reviews of the album have been written with strong words like; "Success!" and "One of 2008's best post-rock releases!"
Andi Almqvist is a multi talented Swedish musician and artist. He was born in Vienna and due to his father's work lived in many different places in his childhood, like the US, the Soviet Union and several eastern- and western European countries. Influenced by "the raw energy of Pixies, Nirvana and 16 Horsepower, the poetry of Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, and the angst of Depeche Mode and Skip James" Andi has over the last years created his own musical voice.
Eight artists go by the name Wax:
1. An American creative/experimental Hip Hop/Rap/Acoustic artist.
2. A pop group active in between 1985 and 1988 consisting of American singer-songwriter Andrew Gold and British singer Graham Gouldman of 10cc fame.
3. An American Pop Punk band known for the 1995 song California
4. A female South Korean singer active in the 2000s (see: 왁스)
5. An alias of Dutch dance producer Robert Meijer
6. A short lived Swedish punk band active in the early 1980s
7. A Japanese rapper from the group SD JUNKSTA
Andreas Tyrone Svensson (born 12 June 1973 in Nässjö, Sweden), is best known as the former guitarist The Hellacopters and current guitarist of Backyard Babies and the newest member of Michael Monroe's band, replacing Ginger as guitarist.
He is still a member of Backyard Babies, claiming in an interview with Rocksverige.se that the band will come together later and be stronger than ever.
Dregen formed the Backyard Babies with his childhood friends Nicke Borg, Peder Carlsson and Johan Blomqvist in their own town of Nässjö, Sweden.
There are (at least) three bands with this name: a Canadian classic rock band; a Swedish punk band; and a Medieval/Folk band from Tasmania. Canadian rock band: Harlequin was a Canadian rock band that formed in Winnipeg in 1975 and lasted until the mid-1980s. The original members of Harlequin were vocalist George Belanger, guitarist Glen Willows, keyboard player Gary Golden, drummer David Budzak and bassist Ralph James. Harlequin signed with Epic Records in 1979 and had a string of hit singles in Canada. Their biggest hit single is "Innocence" which topped Canada's charts.