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I play everything, I write everything, nobody comes down here telling me what the fuck to do, and that ended up being the first Nightingale record, “The Breathing Shadow”, and it was supposed to be a one off, you know, but it turned out to be quite a success actually, because Edge of Sanity was pretty famous at the time, and I guess I rode in on that wave of popularity, and what happened then was that the label wanted a second one, and I said, “Well, sorry, I don’t care for this gothic rock style from the first album.” “Well do what you want, just give us another Nightingale and it will sell.” Because back in those days, records actually sold copies you couldn’t really download them, you know? Yeah! So I had a bit of writer’s block and I called my brother saying “Hey, I need some help here, I have all these songs and I need to put together an album in this 2 week period write, record, mix, deliver it. I need to work with this cool equipment that I have bought and explore it and really do something which is all me. Monium, and also recorded bands from the beginning of the 90s up until I quit in the late 90s I recorded bands all the time, it was constantly 3, 4, 5, 6 members from countries all over the world, and me in a small room, and there’s always people, people, and I felt, “Fuck! I need to do something alone”. I would say that Nightingale started out as my solo project that I just had I had done so much music together with other people, including bands like Edge of Sanity and Pan. Well, you know, melodic metal actually tends to resonate with me more than other genres anyway.įor those who are unfortunately unaware, would you like to give a little background on Nightingale? So for some people it might be surprising to hear an album like nightingale but people who really know me, they would say “Yeah! It’s like any other record you’ve made in this melodic rock style.” So, yeah I hope that it’s also for the death metal guys, that they have an appreciation for somewhat more melodic music, and I think it will appeal to them cause it’s got kind of a dark, gothic vibe it’s not about driving in your Chevrolet on sunset boulevard and partying with the girls, it’s not that kind of music it’s still got a lot of darkness in it, even though its’ very upbeat and melodic. So for me, I’ve been in and out of death metal but nonstop melodic rock since I was 8 years old.
I mean, actually my progressive rock band unicorn had a record deal with an Italian label because of my involvement with the old death metal underground, because they were sending flyers and stuff, it was always two parallel worlds. And I was just lucky to be a part of that death metal boom, and have a record contract when I was 17, and releasing albums, and being in so much stuff in this death metal, but still, you know, my normal music I’ve done, I play melodic rock and progressive rock all the time but nobody was interested in that. I mean, if you read some of those death metal books, they all say the same the guys from Entombed and Dismember, whatever, “Oh yeah in summer or something ’88 we heard Slayer for the first time on the radio and something. I started really early, you know, and in the early 80’s, and I just played just normal melodic rock all my life, up until one point I was bitten by the thrash metal bug like so many other Swedish musicians. I mean, my career started already in the late 70’s. What facilitated your shift from death metal to this kind of music? I originally knew of you from Maceration, but now you’re well known for performing in Nightingale. Even the time since the time of Witherscape and all this, I think it’s been a really productive time and Nightingale coming out, mixing and producing a lot of stuff it’s been super. It’s been a very, very good year, actually. It’s a pleasure to be talking to you too, mister.
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