rief of emerald was formed back in 90-92. Robert (keys) joined in '95 and we recorded a demo called "The Beginning", which was later released as a limited mini cd (500). Listenable Records offered us a deal and we signed for them for 3 cd's. We released our debut fullength album called "Nightspawn" and it received very good response.
Then we started to work on new material. Fredrik (drums) was kicked out and got replaced by a new drummer named Jonas. He joined a couple of months before the recording of our second cd entitled "Malformed seed".
We did some touring around Europe and got pretty good response. We played at the "Wave Gothic treffen" in Germany (Leipzig) and the "Party San Open Air Festival" (also Germany). Gigs with Immortal, Marduk, Necrophobic etc. were done. We also headlined a festival in Finland by the way. After all this we took a break from touring and focused on new material completely. We were pretty pissed off on the average critics on our "Malformed seed" album and decided to make a really pissed off album which is "Christian Termination".
Jonas is suffering from some shoulder problems (started in the studio when we recorded Christian termination ) he is now replaced by a session drummer untill he gets back. We're entering the studio to record a tribute song to Celtic frost. After a few months we deicided to go on tour whit Bestial Mockery, Sear Bliss, Skyforgir and Obtest. The tour last for half a month because our instruments was total disaster and we didn't get any food or sleep so we refused to play in Helsinki (Sorry guys!) and then we were kicked out of the tour.
Jonas arm has not improved so Karl Karlsson is now our new drummer. Robert Bengtsson has quit Grief of Emerald for personal reasons and Jonas Blom helped us with keybords for a while but leaved quite soon. You will find him in a new band called Azezeron!
The replacement and the new keyboard player is Lena Hjalmarsson from Cyphoria. Anders Tång has also left the band. The sparkle wasn't there anymore. Andreas Hedström from Descending is the replacement on bass guitar. Well thats all for now! |