Babylon Bombs is a hard rock / sleaze rock band from Stockholm, Sweden. The band was formed in 2001 and signed to Smilodon Records.
Babylon Bombs joined forces in late 2001 with Stockholm/Sweden as the base. After recording some demos and playing a bunch of gigs the band has been building up a reputation as a high energy live act that goes from strength to strength, in both material and tightness but also with a vision of a kick ass live show where the band attacks it all.
Their debut album 'Cracked Wide Open And Bruised' was released in 2005 and contains the songs Let's Roll, Superstar, Lady Deny, Crucify, Delirious, Get In The Ring, Every Dog Has It's Day, So Cruel, Low Broke & Pissed, Do You Think About Me? and Something For Nothing.
2006 saw their second album 'Doin' You Nasty' and contains the following tracks: Jaded Heart, Louder, Crack Of Dawn, Let It Loose, Hometown Hero, Slip Away, Starstruck, Drop The Bomb, Gotta Move On, Proud, White Trash Beauty and Moonshine Beat.
Members
Dani
- Vocals & Guitars Jon - Guitars
Marty - Electric Bass
Swaint - Drums & Percussion
Official Website: http://www.babylonbombs.net/
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Beloved Enemy (GER)
Beloved Enemy was formed in 2006 by Peter Kafka. After leaving "Fiddler`s Green", where he played guitar for 15 years, he started writing on instrumental songs. In Nurnberg in a Karaoke-Bar, he met Ski-King "Dead L-vis" and made him to his singer. He also binded Martin "Dog" Kessler as drummer, he played before with the "H-Blockx". The line-up is completed with Ron Rauscher as guitarist and Eddy at the bass.
In 2008 Ron was replaced by Chai Deveraux from "Jesus On Extasy".
The song "Virus Undead" is on the soundtrack of the same-named movie. For another movie, "Ludgers Fall" they recorded the song "The Other Side" and in April 2007 finally their first album "Enemy Mine" was released.
Members
Current MembersPeter Kafka - Guitar
Dead L-Vis - Guitar
Chai Devereaux - Guitar
Dog - Dums
Eddy- Bass
Former Members
Ron Rauscher - Guitar
Discography
2007 - Enemy Mine (Twilight)Official website: http://belovedenemy.com
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BIG BOY (GER/SWE)
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Black Jezus (FIN)
Quote: 'Supergroup from the ruins and decay...guaranteed to blow your brains..catch the madmen if you can!!! you fuckin sicko..you're nuthin but a roach..wellcome to warschool boy!!! or girl..!!!'
(main source: www.myspace.com/bjsaksa- but edited )
In autumn 2007 five crazy and rock'n roll-hearted guys met in a turkish bar in Tampere and the following evenings they spent much time together and during drinking, smoking and joking they made the great decision, to establish a real Rock'n Roll band!!! It took some discussions until an original band name was found, so first they named themselves "Black Jesus" but after a while they came to the conclusion to put a "z" in the middle of "Jesus", so their name is more singular.
They played their first gig before Christmas 2007 in a bar called "Ottopoika" in Tampere. At this time Mr. Madbone MacceusSister Shotgun, but after they broke up, Macceus is completely concentrating on Black Jezus now, doing the vocals and singing his heart out. Sir Christus, who played the guitar in the Band Negative for long years and the bass at his brother's former band Bloodpit has been graduating as Sir General Christus and plays now the guitar and singing the background vocals for Black Jezus. From February 2008 until middle of April he played aswell with his brother's Matthau Mikojan's Gang but then he left and is only concentrating on Black Jezus now. Raffe El Rafaello plays the guitar aswell and besides that he's in the rockband The Bitterlicks, like Macceus he also played a long time with Sister Shotgun. Eero Mr. Epic Maniac, the youngest guy of them with only 20 years, plays the drums and besides he's a long standing drummer in the band Heijaste. In the beginning times of Black Jezus Gärff from the Ardè's Voodoo Nights was their bass-player, but after a short while he left the band and so the guys did their next gig in the Heavy-Metal-Bar "Helevetin portti" in Tampere without him. At their next show in April at the Ottopoika Bar again there was a big surprise for the audience, cause Christus' brother Matthau Mikojan joined the band as bass-player. He seemed to fit damn good into the band and people wanted him to stay, but he said, it was just for fun.
At the end of April the band introduced their new bass-player Mercedes Santiago at the gig in the Teerenpelibari in Tampere. He calls himself that way, cause he's riding a Mercedes, while the other guys prefer to take the bus or taxi or walk... it's even better after having drinks.
On 19th of May Mercedes left the band due to some personal differences but the band announced that they've found a new bass-player already and they soon will tell who it is! Because of the fact, that the guys are all great fans of the Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper, Backyard Babies, Guns'n Roses, etc., they were just doing cover-songs at the beginning, but very soon they decided to work on their own stuff. At the end of April they began with the recording sessions in the studio and soon their first single will be released and the album will follow! In July the first real Black Jezus Tour will start all around Tampere and before that they rock in Kangasala at the Ruutanarock on 14th of June! And so the story will continue and we all will learn about Warschool...
Members
Madbone Macceus - VoxSir General Christus - guitar
El Rafaello - guitar
Mr.Epic Maniac - drums
Jimmie Sosweat - bass
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Blindside (SWE)
10.05.2007
Blindside is a Christian metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. They formed in 1994 as Underfree and kept that name for two years before releasing their debut EP in 1996.
In 1997, Solid State Records got a hold of the EP and signed Blindside. The first album, the self-titled Blindside, was released to American audiences.
In 1996, Tooth & Nail Records issued a new EP, Empty Box.
In 2000, A Thought Crushed My Mind was released. This album explored a harsher, more hardcore side than the band's debut, and vocalist/chief lyricist Christian Lindskog also voiced his pain of missing his wife, Elina, while touring.
2002 saw the release of Blindside's next album, Silence. It generated hits such as "Sleepwalking", "Pitiful," and "Caught a Glimpse." In 2003, they toured with Hoobastank to support the album.
In 2004, About a Burning Fire was released. It generated a minor hit in "All of Us." The album showed the band toying with their diversity, as they threw in techno elements in "Where The Sun Never Dies" and yodeling Swedish vocals in the ethereal "Shekina". "Shekina" was used on WWE DVD, Cheating Death, Stealing Life - The Eddie Guerrero Story.
However, the headlining tour was marred by a couple of incidents. First, their tour bus crashed and was in disrepair, forcing the band to rent a van. Secondly, their last show in Bartlesville, OK had to be canceled. After dining in a restaurant in Dallas, TX, they found everything in their rental van stolen, including passports and money.
In 2005, Blindside re-released their two Solid State LPs with bonus tracks and new cover art. A DVD titled Ten Years Running Blind was released on June 21, 2005, and a new album, The Great Depression, was released August 2, 2005.
Blindside released a new EP, The Black Rose EP, on June 27, 2007 [1] and toured the United States in support of it in late 2007. This album included five new songs and three live songs, and was (and is) only available online.
Members
10.05.2007
Blindside is a Christian metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. They formed in 1994 as Underfree and kept that name for two years before releasing their debut EP in 1996.
In 1997, Solid State Records got a hold of the EP and signed Blindside. The first album, the self-titled Blindside, was released to American audiences.
In 1996, Tooth & Nail Records issued a new EP, Empty Box.
In 2000, A Thought Crushed My Mind was released. This album explored a harsher, more hardcore side than the band's debut, and vocalist/chief lyricist Christian Lindskog also voiced his pain of missing his wife, Elina, while touring.
2002 saw the release of Blindside's next album, Silence. It generated hits such as "Sleepwalking", "Pitiful," and "Caught a Glimpse." In 2003, they toured with Hoobastank to support the album.
In 2004, About a Burning Fire was released. It generated a minor hit in "All of Us." The album showed the band toying with their diversity, as they threw in techno elements in "Where The Sun Never Dies" and yodeling Swedish vocals in the ethereal "Shekina". "Shekina" was used on WWE DVD, Cheating Death, Stealing Life - The Eddie Guerrero Story.
However, the headlining tour was marred by a couple of incidents. First, their tour bus crashed and was in disrepair, forcing the band to rent a van. Secondly, their last show in Bartlesville, OK had to be canceled. After dining in a restaurant in Dallas, TX, they found everything in their rental van stolen, including passports and money.
In 2005, Blindside re-released their two Solid State LPs with bonus tracks and new cover art. A DVD titled Ten Years Running Blind was released on June 21, 2005, and a new album, The Great Depression, was released August 2, 2005.
Blindside released a new EP, The Black Rose EP, on June 27, 2007 [1] and toured the United States in support of it in late 2007. This album included five new songs and three live songs, and was (and is) only available online.
Members
Christian
Lindskog - Vocals
Simon Grenehed - Guitar
Marcus Dahlstrom - Drums
Tomas Naslund - Bass
BLOODPIT (FIN)
Thanks to Lithium Kitten for the Interview Bio!! <3
Bloodpit is a rock band from Tampere, Finland. Bloodpit are Matthau Mikojan (vocals, guitar), Paavo Pekkonen (guitar), Aleksi Keränen (bass) and Alarik Valamo (drums).
Matthau and Paavo have known each other since childhood and have played together with various other people and under different names. Aleksi and Alarik joined the band in 2001.
'The band-thing started in 1994 when Paavo Pekkonen and I met. Soon after we got to know each other we decided to put a band together, a heavy-metal band that would crush your ribs. The band was called RIP and that was the start.
For so very long we tried to search for other members to join our band but didn´t succeed. We changed our name to Turmio and started to record some demo tapes with Paavo´s father´s recording equipment but we were still just the two of us. Not until 1999 we finally were a real band, at first as a trio when Janne Kolehmainen joined the band as a bass player and then later on as a quartet as Arnold T. Kumputie joined us as a drummer. And it was the same year we invented the name Bloodpit. As a matter of fact Paavo did.
We were now a four-soul group ready to meet the audience. We started to arrange these small gigs all around the neighborhood and in the summer we recorded our first demo “Promo –EP”. It shared some opinions, good and bad, but the most liked it. Soon after we made the first demo in 2000 these two managers were interested in Bloodpit but things just didn´t work out the way we wanted and eventually we were alone again.
The first real setback occurred in the end of 2000 when we realized we have to let our bass player Janne Kolehmainen go for musical reasons. So we brought my brother Christian Grigory in.
In the beginning of 2001 we faced the second tragedy and now it was more serious. Our drummer nearly died and he was placed in a hospital immediately. It was very serious and the future of Bloodpit was uncertain until after a few months Arnold got better and actually got out of the hospital. We started to rehearse again.
In the following spring we played in a band contest (Tampere-Ilmiö) and won that thing. Then there was this second contest arranged by Rockperry festival and for our surprise we won that too. By the way that show, the Rockperry gig, was broadcast by 2nd Head, a web site, and was on the internet for everyone to see.
We recorded our second demo-EP “No2” in August 2001 with the same producer (Pirkka Rännäli) we used on our first demo. The purpose was to create as professional thing as possible to impress the record companies. Then we started to promote our band as much as possible with the new cd.
The year changed and again there was a lot of rehearsing, some gigs and plans etc. We wanted to play at Satamarock 2002 again this year (we played there in 2000) but they said we should take part in a band contest, arranged by the arranger of Satamarock, and if we won we would get to play in the festival. “Well, if that´s what it takes… then, lets go and win that thing” -That´s what we thought about it and sure enough it also happened. We won the third contest within a year.
Another setback was to come; our bass player, Christian, left Bloodpit to join another band as a guitarist, which is what he had always been. We began to hold auditions and the first guy to audition made it. His name was Paspartou Hagen and he became our new bass player. His first gig at Satamarock was two days after he joined the band and you gotta appreciate it. In the summer we played a few festival gigs (Puustock, Valkeakosken Musiikkitapahtuma and that already many-time-mentioned Satamarock) among the smaller gigs and we had a great time. But soon we began to realize that there was something wrong with our drummer, Arnold… I mean he behaved very oddly, for example, he started to get drunk every time we had a gig and he behaved like he didn´t care anymore. It got to the point where we had to let him go and that was in October 2002. At around the same time Paspartou Hagen realized he was playing the wrong instrument. He wanted to play the guitar so he left Bloodpit to create his own band and once again we were forced to hold auditions for a new drum´n´bass team. Fortunately we found Alarik Valamo the drummer and Aleksi Keränen the bass player pretty soon and were back on our feet again. The new Bloodpit was born.
After some rehearsing we went to record some new material in the end of the year and in the beginning of the next year 2003 we had a new demo-EP “You Name It” in our hands and once again we started to promote ourselves.
In February this new record company, Grotesque Records, from Helsinki contacted us and soon after that we were getting ready to make our debut album. The schedule of recording the album began to stretch and stretch and we figured out there´s something wrong. Eventually I made a phone call to the company and insisted for an answer and that´s what I got; Grotesque Records didn´t exist anymore… they just didn´t tell that to us until now.
In 2003 we did a couple of TV appearances and about 30 gigs and we made it look good. Platitude-EP was released in January 2004. For now we are looking forward to the future and trying to make it.
Bloodpit quits!! Matthau is working on his Soloalbum that is going to be released in 2008 and he sees no chance to restart with Bloodpit again.
-Matthau Mikojan'
In 2005 Bloodpit have released single the 'Out To Find You' which was #1 in Finnish charts and their debut album called 'Mental Circus'.
In the late summer in 2007, the band cancelled their tour and announced on their site that they will do a pause for an indefinite period of time. In that time, singer Matthau left the band who continues alone in summer 2008. On October 1st, their new album "Recovered" will be released.
Discography
2001No 2 - Demo CD
2003
Platitude - EP
2005
Out To Find You - CDs
Mental Circus - CD
2008 Recovered - CD
Official Website: www.bloodpitband.com
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Bullet Ride (FIN)
Since the formation of Bullet Ride in 2005, they have already have accomplished many feats. In spite of their youth, the band members are very experienced musicians who have played in various projects. In Spring 2006 they were able to sell out their debut single “Wavering and Violent” within one week. The high demand of the single has encouraged Bullet Ride to create a new edition of the single to be released to the public. At this time Bullet Ride is looking for a publisher for its upcoming material. They have proven their success by drawing in impressive audiences at their gigs, and has aroused considerable interest particularly in the Southern-Finland region.
The band members define their music as Led Zeppelin meets Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, and takes a sauna with Black Sabbath. Hence, we are obviously talking about rock music. Bullet Ride fluently combines rock, grunge and stoner sounds by creating a distinctive style in the Finnish music scene. The power of the band is based on catchy songs, strong charisma on stage, and hard-core playing skills. The band does not rely on gimmicks such as leather pants and excessive make-up to draw in the attention of fans. In order to prove their dedication to their music the band has effectively performed several live acoustic sets.
Members
Klaus Wirzenius - Lead
Vocals & BassTuomas Rajamäki - Drums, Percussion & Backing Vocals
Antti Yrtti - Guitars & Backing Vocals
Antti Laurila - Guitars & Backing Vocals
Official website: www.bulletrideband.net
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