Ola Sven Halén is a Swedish

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....

 metal

Heavy metal music

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 vocalist, currently with the melodic 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...

 band Shadows Past. Between 2002 and 2010, he was the lead singer of the Stockholm based power metal band Insania.

He has written four solo records under the Shadows Past moniker, on which he plays all guitars, bass and keyboards himself, apart from singing. As of 2004/2005 his Shadows Past project is also an active band. Additionally, he has also written and recorded an album of pop songs, called Kind Of Weird.

He cites his main vocal influences as Michael Kiske

Michael Kiske

Michael Kiske is a singer best known as the lead vocalist for the German power metal band Helloween, from 1986 to 1993. From 1996 up to 2009, Kiske recorded four solo albums, participated on various metal and rock related projects, while he also performed with numerous bands as a guest vocalist...

 (ex-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...

), Oliver Hartmann (ex-At Vance

At Vance

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) and former band mate Dimitri Keiski.

Discography

Shadows Past

Idleness, pt. I (2000)

Agony (2001)

Idleness, pt. II (2002)

Idleness, pt. III (2004)

Blown Away (demo, 2006)

Perfect Chapter (demo, 2009)


Insania

Fantasy - A New Dimension (2003)

Agony - Gift Of Life (2007)


Solo

Kind Of Weird (2004)

Links

• http://www.shadowspast.com
• http://www.myspace.com/shadowspastofficial
• http://www.myspace.com/olahalen