Born in Sweeden
I started playing drums in 1981, pretty soon after i could hold my first beat down me and a friend that played guitar tried to form a band. We tried to be a heavy metal band but it sounded really lame with todays standards, hahhah. The first song we learnt was "I love rock n roll" by Joan Jett. However as we progressed as musicians we got a couple of other guys in and pretty soon after that we were doing covers of bands like Def leppard, Dokken, Twisted sister, Thin lizzy, GBH, The exploited etc. This band went in and out of excistence from 1982-1988, during that time we had a couple of different names... the most outstanding beeing Berits Polisonger (swedish for Berit's sideburns, Berit beeing a girlsname).
In '88 i got in contact with some guys into thrash that looked for a drummer for their band, Penance....i joined and we wrote some classic songs.. Edge of damnation, Visions of insanity etc...However before we got to record our first demo... the band decided to quit... At that time i had already started jammin with a few guys in Gothenburg, that band later took the name At the gates. We got signed straight away after our first demo "Gardens of greif" (which got released by Dolores rec as a ep) in '91. We got signed by Deaf/Peaceville and did 3 albums for them namely "The red in the sky is ours" '92, "With fear i kiss the burning darkness" '93,"Terminal spirit disease" '94.
Then we got signed by earache records and did one album for them called "Slaughter of the soul" '95. After slaughter of the soul we toured extensively for about 7 months. Since we hadn't done that much touring before there was a crack developing in the band.... and when we got back from the last tour in the states we decided to quit in july '96. I formed The Haunted together with Jensen (seance,witchery) the next day....we released one album for earache records in aug '98.
I got approached by Cradle at the dynamo gig '99 where we played with The Haunted, 2 weeks into June i was as filthy as i could possibly be.... bloody hell i really need a bath !
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Favourite films:
Is without a doubt Junior with Arnie Scwarzennegger.
Favourite food/drink:
Any kind of beef, the way i see it: the meal is over when the meat is gone! My favourite meal is Koldolmar, Potato och brown gravy, Jack daniels or Grolsch beer, if alcoholic.
Dislikes:
Things growing inwards, like toenails and narrowminded persons.I hate seafood of any kind.
Musical Background:
Oh yes. There is always music in the background it varies alot from old swedish music like Harry Brandelius, Edward Persson, Evert Taube to 80's thrash Death angel, Forbidden, Slayer, Exodus, Testament to more industrial stuff like G.G.F.H, Death in june, In slaughter natives. I enjoy most music apart from chart music and reagge which i fucking hate !!!
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Web Links
Adrian Erlandsson.com
Damien Storm
Morrigan-hel
Pearl
Sabian
Vic Firth
mikedolbear
At The Gates
The Haunted
Adrian would like to dedicate his work on Nymphetamine:
My precious Celtic wife, Amber Erlandsson for unending love, support,
scratches and love bites beyond death. Daniel Erlandsson for word ups and inspiration.
Teresa and Andreas Erlandsson. Mamma Erlandsson.
Nick Meinken and Lisa Dickinsson. My pets Tasker, Mogatherion, Hella, Slain and Lucifer plisken. To all the companies that support me through this madness, Jerome Marcus @ Sabian, Dave Phillips, Mike Farriss and Kazu Yoshizawa @ Pearl Drums, Marco Soccoli @ Vic Firth. Without you none of this would have been possible.
Skal for fan!
Metal in the night!
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