Bloodbound
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Bloodbound is a Swedish
heavy metal
band formed in 2004. They released their first album, Nosferatu, in 2005 and their second, Book of the Dead, in May 2007. The brainchild of former Street Talk members Fredrik Bergh and Tomas Olsson, the band has also included Michael Bormann (Jaded Heart), Urban breed
(Tad Morose
) and Pelle Åkerlind
(Morgana Lefay
). Their debut album Nosferatu featured former Tad Morose
singer Urban breed
on vocals. Released on 16 December 2005 (in Japan
; Europe
an release date 24 February 2006), Nosferatu features artwork by Mark Wilkinson
(Iron Maiden
, Judas Priest
, Marillion
) and received an early rave review from the Swedish rock magazine
Power Play. Based solely on the strength of their debut album, the band opened for Evergrey
and headlined day one of the Gothenburg Metal Festival.
After Urban breed
announced his departure from Bloodbound in fall 2006, former Tad Morose
singer Kristian Andrèn briefly joined the band for some live dates. In March 2007, they announced their new singer, German Michael Bormann
, who laid down vocals on the band's second album Book of the Dead
. Bormann, however, played no live shows with Bloodbound: for their first performance after releasing Book of the Dead (9 June 2007 at Sweden Rock Festival
), Urban breed
handled the vocal duties. Urban
also performed with the band at subsequent shows, including Bollnäs Festivalen, 21 July 2007. Bloodbound played two sets, both backed up by a symphony orchestra. For the second set they backed Paul DiAnno of Iron Maiden
fame. In October 2007, they announced that original singer Urban breed
had officially re-joined and would sing during the band's tour in support of HammerFall
. On 13 April 2010, breed announced on his forum that Bloodbound had decided to continue with another singer, ending his second tenure with the band.
Despite the band's apparent black metal
image (the band members have worn make-up in the "corpse paint" style in the promotional photos on their albums and Web site, and during some live shows), Bloodbound's music does not fit into the black metal category. Instead, it is more similar in style to power metal
bands such as Helloween
and Iron Maiden
, although the lyrics sometimes approach darker subjects.
In 2009 the band signed a worldwide deal with the label Blistering Records for their third album release, titled Tabula Rasa
. The album was set for release on 26 April 2009.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band formed in 2004. They released their first album, Nosferatu, in 2005 and their second, Book of the Dead, in May 2007. The brainchild of former Street Talk members Fredrik Bergh and Tomas Olsson, the band has also included Michael Bormann (Jaded Heart), Urban breed
Urban breed
Urban Breed is the current vocalist for Pyramaze and the as-yet-unsigned Trail of Murder, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose....
(Tad Morose
Tad Morose
Tad Morose is a Swedish progressive / power metal band formed in 1991 and led by guitarist Christer 'Krunt' Andersson.-Biography:Their full-length debut was Leaving the Past Behind, a minor hit that established the band within the continental European heavy metal community. Sender of Thoughts was...
) and Pelle Åkerlind
Pelle Åkerlind
Pelle Åkerlind is a Swedish musician, playing drums for various bands and also providing backing vocals.Åkerlind is the drummer of the Swedish metal bands Morgana Lefay and Bloodbound, and is the drummer for the as-yet-unsigned project with Urban breed and Daniel Olsson, Trail of Murder.In 2006,...
(Morgana Lefay
Morgana Lefay
Morgana Lefay is a power/thrash metal band from the town Bollnäs in Sweden. It is named after Morgan Le Fay of the Arthurian cycle....
). Their debut album Nosferatu featured former Tad Morose
Tad Morose
Tad Morose is a Swedish progressive / power metal band formed in 1991 and led by guitarist Christer 'Krunt' Andersson.-Biography:Their full-length debut was Leaving the Past Behind, a minor hit that established the band within the continental European heavy metal community. Sender of Thoughts was...
singer Urban breed
Urban breed
Urban Breed is the current vocalist for Pyramaze and the as-yet-unsigned Trail of Murder, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose....
on vocals. Released on 16 December 2005 (in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
; Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an release date 24 February 2006), Nosferatu features artwork by Mark Wilkinson
Mark Wilkinson
Mark Wilkinson is best known for his detailed cover art that he created for a number of British bands, most prominently the progressive rock band, Marillion...
(Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
, Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...
, Marillion
Marillion
Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, England in 1979. Their recorded studio output comprises sixteen albums generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve...
) and received an early rave review from the Swedish rock magazine
Magazine
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Power Play. Based solely on the strength of their debut album, the band opened for Evergrey
Evergrey
Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1995 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998. Their most recent album Glorious Collision was released in 2011.-Lyrical themes:...
and headlined day one of the Gothenburg Metal Festival.
After Urban breed
Urban breed
Urban Breed is the current vocalist for Pyramaze and the as-yet-unsigned Trail of Murder, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose....
announced his departure from Bloodbound in fall 2006, former Tad Morose
Tad Morose
Tad Morose is a Swedish progressive / power metal band formed in 1991 and led by guitarist Christer 'Krunt' Andersson.-Biography:Their full-length debut was Leaving the Past Behind, a minor hit that established the band within the continental European heavy metal community. Sender of Thoughts was...
singer Kristian Andrèn briefly joined the band for some live dates. In March 2007, they announced their new singer, German Michael Bormann
Michael Bormann
Michael Bormann is a German vocalist. Since the first recording he had made with a band, he has been involved with several groups as their lead vocalist, having accepted contracts to record his vocals on albums rather than being a full time member of the bands...
, who laid down vocals on the band's second album Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead (Bloodbound album)
The second album with metal band Bloodbound. The first with Pelle Åkerlind on drums, and the only one to feature the German vocalist Michael Bormann, who was under a one-time contract to record this album.-Track list:# "Sign of the Devil" - 5:23...
. Bormann, however, played no live shows with Bloodbound: for their first performance after releasing Book of the Dead (9 June 2007 at Sweden Rock Festival
Sweden Rock Festival
Sweden Rock Festival is an annual rock/metal festival held in Sweden since 6 June 1992. While having a clear rock/metal focus, the festival is noted for its diversity across these genres, having featured southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet to death metal legends like Obituary.The first...
), Urban breed
Urban breed
Urban Breed is the current vocalist for Pyramaze and the as-yet-unsigned Trail of Murder, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose....
handled the vocal duties. Urban
Urban breed
Urban Breed is the current vocalist for Pyramaze and the as-yet-unsigned Trail of Murder, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose....
also performed with the band at subsequent shows, including Bollnäs Festivalen, 21 July 2007. Bloodbound played two sets, both backed up by a symphony orchestra. For the second set they backed Paul DiAnno of Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
fame. In October 2007, they announced that original singer Urban breed
Urban breed
Urban Breed is the current vocalist for Pyramaze and the as-yet-unsigned Trail of Murder, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose....
had officially re-joined and would sing during the band's tour in support of HammerFall
HammerFall
HammerFall is a power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath guitarist Oscar Dronjak.- Early days :...
. On 13 April 2010, breed announced on his forum that Bloodbound had decided to continue with another singer, ending his second tenure with the band.
Despite the band's apparent black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
image (the band members have worn make-up in the "corpse paint" style in the promotional photos on their albums and Web site, and during some live shows), Bloodbound's music does not fit into the black metal category. Instead, it is more similar in style to power metal
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
bands such as Helloween
Helloween
Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...
and Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
, although the lyrics sometimes approach darker subjects.
In 2009 the band signed a worldwide deal with the label Blistering Records for their third album release, titled Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa (Bloodbound album)
Tabula Rasa is Swedish heavy metal band Bloodbound's 2009 album. While not a concept album per se, most songs tie in with the concept of tabula rasa, have some connection with a literal translation thereof, or have a lyrical foundation associated with literature mentioning tabula rasa.-Release...
. The album was set for release on 26 April 2009.
Members
- Patrik Johansson - Lead Vocals
- Tomas OlssonTomas OlssonTomas Olsson was a Swedish adventurer and ski mountaineer who attempted to be the first to do a complete ski descent from the summit of Mount Everest down the Norton Couloir in 2006...
- Lead and rhythm guitars - Fredrik Bergh - Keyboards and backing vocals
- Henrik Olsson - Rhythm guitars
- Pelle ÅkerlindPelle ÅkerlindPelle Åkerlind is a Swedish musician, playing drums for various bands and also providing backing vocals.Åkerlind is the drummer of the Swedish metal bands Morgana Lefay and Bloodbound, and is the drummer for the as-yet-unsigned project with Urban breed and Daniel Olsson, Trail of Murder.In 2006,...
- Drums and percussion - Anders Broman - Bass
Former members
- Urban BreedUrban breedUrban Breed is the current vocalist for Pyramaze and the as-yet-unsigned Trail of Murder, and he is the former vocalist for Swedish heavy metal bands Bloodbound and Tad Morose....
- Lead Vocals - Oskar Belin - Drums and percussion
- Jörgen "Poe" Andersson - Bass
- Markus Albertson - Guitars
- Kristian Andrèn - Lead vocals
- Michael BormannMichael BormannMichael Bormann is a German vocalist. Since the first recording he had made with a band, he has been involved with several groups as their lead vocalist, having accepted contracts to record his vocals on albums rather than being a full time member of the bands...
- Lead vocals - Johan Sohlberg - Bass
Discography
- Nosferatu (2005)
- Book of the DeadBook of the Dead (Bloodbound album)The second album with metal band Bloodbound. The first with Pelle Åkerlind on drums, and the only one to feature the German vocalist Michael Bormann, who was under a one-time contract to record this album.-Track list:# "Sign of the Devil" - 5:23...
(2007) - Tabula RasaTabula Rasa (Bloodbound album)Tabula Rasa is Swedish heavy metal band Bloodbound's 2009 album. While not a concept album per se, most songs tie in with the concept of tabula rasa, have some connection with a literal translation thereof, or have a lyrical foundation associated with literature mentioning tabula rasa.-Release...
(2009) - Unholy Cross (2011)