Category: The new band

Here's a little report on what's going on in the Coldworker camp at the moment. We're still writing a lot of stuff and have started to add lyrics and vocals to a few of the songs. We can reveal the first song title from Coldworker: "Waiting for buildings to collapse".

We've also added a few solos to our tracks. It so appeared that André is gifted with fast fingers, as you can see in this little video clip of track #9, shot by Joel on the digital camera (slightly out of sync as always):

Roughly played version of track #9

We have also started revisiting our earliest material (which in this case mean stuff we wrote 2-3 months ago...) and made some slight changes as the earliest stuff sounds pretty different from the latest songs we've done that seems to be more "together". The changes includes less of the hardcore edge and more death metal as that is the sound we're going for.

The spirit is very good in the band and we are working hard with our stuff. We will do our first proper recording in June, but more details will come later regarding this.

We also have a MySpace page. We're not really doing anything with it yet, but if you have a MySpace account go there and add us.

myspace.com/coldworker

So with that little report our of the way, it's time for us to beg for help. We are in need of a good logo for the band. We have some people working for us with the design but we think that the more designs we have to choose between the better. So we are open for any suggestions really.

Some "rules":

1. You can submit your suggestion (or suggestions if you are really creative) as a 800px wide JPG, but the final logo - if we chose to use it - must be a vectorized EPS.
2. The logo should work in both small sizes (like the spine of a CD cover) and very large sizes (think a really huge backdrop), i.e. the letters can't be too thick or too thin.
3. The songs in this blog and the descriptions regarding the lyrical theme and such should be enough to give you a picture of what we want, i.e. not the average metal logo. There are some detailed descriptions of what we sort of want for those who need it, but we rather see that you do your designs without any further instructions.
4. We are into the idea of having some sort of symbol in our graphic approach (like Opeth's ”O”). However you don't have to do both a logo and a symbol, only a logo is fine.
5. There are NO MONEY involved in this. Your only reward is that it will be used. However, once the logo is used on CD covers, t-shirts and so on you will get some free stuff for sure.

Logos can be mailed to coldworker@gmail.com.

Good luck!

Category: Weirdness of the day

Yes, it's Monday again and everyone is sad and bored because the weekend is over and the next one is as far away as it can be right now, but what the hell - time flies anyway.

My past weekend included a Bolt Thrower show. Yes, Bolt Thrower came to my town and played... a lot of new stuff. If they had played something more from their classic catalogue than 33% of "World eater" and "Cenotaph" I would have enjoyed it a lot more...

Next weekend might include a Cannibal Corpse show in Stockholm... haven't decided on that one yet.

Anyway - my mission right now it to provide you with something fun to help you to survive the dreary Monday.

First of - and this is for the Swedes mostly - a blast from the past: A video of Barney talking Swedish. I shot this with my digital camera on the morning of the last day together in Japan 2004 and edited the best parts to one short but sweet movie. Barney is basically saying a lot of animal names along with some odd phrases that he has picked up from all the Swedish bands he's hung out with during the years.

Last time I posted this someone asked "Who is Barney?" and if you don't know who Barney is you should probably withdraw from all things brutal...

Barney speaks...

Second - here's a funny sound clip with a really good prankcall. Some kid has placed an add looking for members for his black metal band. Well, he probably didn't expect this specific caller... Listen closely when the kid names all his sources of inspiration.

True black metal...

Alright - this should help you make it through the day. Enjoy!

Category: Merch mailings

Packages sent to:
Damien Puyau, Soorts Hossegor, France
Fabio Bier, Krommenie, The Netherlands
Audrey Andrews, New York, USA

Category: The new band

A couple of weeks ago Coldworker became a five piece band with the addition of Joel Fornbrant as the singer of the band. Originally the plan was to have Anders B as a combined guitarist and singer, but after some consideration we realised that we would need to have a separate singer to sound as good as possible.



Joel has not played with any of the members before and is known locally for his singing in among others Phobos, now defunct. Joel has a strong, good, dark voice in the sort of articulate style that we want. He's now working on getting the song rhythms right. As soon as we're getting some vocal stuff finished we will record another rehearsal with vocals.

Having a separate singer is a very good development for the band musically as we can now use all those "great but impossible to sing and play at the same time"-riffs for verses and choruses. This may already be noticeble in the last new songs we've written. We completed song #9 today and got a long way on #10, both in a more death metalish style, which is what we're heading for. Full blasting death metal.



We are talking to several record labels already and aim to do our first proper recording this summer. We have lots of ideas for the sound and production, so hopefully we'll have something real this coming fall. We are also hoping to get some more shows done, right now it's only two booked but it might be some more.

Category: Krigshot news

Tomorrow will be the first time in about 16 months that I perform on stage. Nervous? Not really. Excited? A lot!

As you probably know it's the release party for the new Krigshot album "Till vilket pris som helst". The album came from the printers earlier this week and I am excited to see the final result since this is an album where I've done most of the stuff myself (apart from the music of course!). I recorded it and I did the layout for the cover. I wasn't trying to be all egoistic, it just happened because we wanted to do things fast and cheap.

Anyway enough about that. The show! Last Sunday, Jallo and I went to Nyköping to do the first rehearsal ever with this line up of Krigshot. We went to the Disfear HQ's obviously and went through the setlist three times. It felt really good. Jallo and I have done two rehearsals on our own during the last couple of weeks but it was nice to get together the whole band and realise that things worked out fine. I feel confident in the band as an unit and can now focus on doing my thing as good as possible not worrying about the overall appearence.

I can tell you that the last months of Coldworker rehearsals has improved my playing quite a lot. It wasn't as hard to go through a complete set without any longer pauses as I had imagined due to my 16 month abscence from the stage, so that feels good too.

I hope to do some sort of report when we return. There will be cameras and videocameras present so hopefully there will be something visual aswell.

Right now I'm just very excited about going to Stockholm and meet up with a lot of friends and hopefully do a killer show.

The real version of krigshot.com will be online very soon, so check it out.