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Hi!
My name is Carl Månstrand and I’m bandleader for the new Swedish band ManStrand.
Manstrand band history is this!
Carl Månstrand – leadsinger and guitar
Richard Hoerberg – guitar
Fredrik Appelgren – bassguitar
Håkan Hansson – drums
(John Sempill – drums on stage and in music-videos)
In the end of 2008 I got an idea to start a band with my songs . I had already played four years with another band Freedom who played very soft popmusic and had a voman as a leadsinger!
I asked our bassplayer Fredrik Appelgren if he wanted to join my new band and he said yes.
After that I contacted Richard Hoerberg cause I wanted a good and fast sologuitar player.
Then I had to fix a new drummer. I contacted a studio-drummer Håkan Hansson after a several of choices and delays!
Then my cd-project was running.
I started recording the cd in feb 2009 on my homestudio.
At first I thought my project would be completed by May. I was wrong. When you have multiple people involved in a project the more time takes it all. Incidentally, I had three girls and a man to sing backgound vocals.
Well , five of my twelve songs on the cd were old songs I made some years ago, but the were brandnew.
Richard came with some ideas, specially on these songs Come on and Classica. I liked the ideas and added them!
To be honest, first I didnt know what ManStrand’s genre belong to, so I just for fun adoped anew genre Whiplash Metal!
Then when radios start to call our music classic hardrock I knewed!
My idea was to fix a label, but then I was thinking that it can be a good idea to wait a while.
If I can get this music out to the eter, specially via radios maby ManStrand dont need a label to be wellknown.
And there is ManStrand right now.
Since January 2010 many lyrical radiostations (20-25) over the world have written to us and want our cd to play On air. Half of them called us first! To be totally unknown I believe it’s great!
We was the number one choice at European Klassik Rock (E.K.R) radiostation in February with our song Classica, voted by the listener. Won over Europe, Tokio Hotel and other 50 famous band.
And Heavy Metal Mayhem Radio Show wrote.
“First Sweden Gave Us Viking's And Now They Give Us ManStrand. Harking Back To The Glory Days Of Hard Rock And Metal, This Three Piece Powerhouse Bring To Mind The Sound Created Years Ago By Deep Purple,Rainbow,Hendrix And Black Sabbath. Their Music I Thought Was A perfect Fit To Be Featured With Tonights Guest Joe Lynn Turner.”
I think our music-style are inspired by Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Jimi Hendrix, Rainbow, The Sweet, Rainbow, UFO etc.
We are now recording our next CD which will be classic hardrock style 1970-80!
And together with Mr Bryan from USA (lastname I dont know, didnt asked him yet) , a sound-ingeneer who had worked with Michael Jackson, Rising Force (Yngwie Malmsteen) etc, the sound will be perfect!!
Best regards
Carl Månstrand
Here are some links
www.manstrand.com
www.myspace.com/manstrand
www.cdbaby.com/cd/ManStrand
Email: manstrand@hotmail.com
-Carl ManStrand (guitar and vocal ) history:
“My background as a musican started early when I was 16. I bought my first guitar and after 2 months I had composed my first song, a blues. Mike Bygdemark, Kenth Bostrom and I started a band named The Duke, later we called us Moonrock. We had some gigs in Stockholm.
Two years later Mike and I started a band called Stormwarning (Count Raven, today) with Dan Fondelius. And we had lot of fun. I quit the band 3 years later.
Instead I started recording songs with the drummer Jens Bock a couple of years!
I think I composed 250 songs in different genre. At least 20 of them were very good! Then I quit all composing, I was tired of it. About 10 years after quiting (only played little in my home) Then one day Jens Bocks brother Jimmy called me at the phone, he wanted a bassplayer. I thought it could be cool to give the music a new chanse ! And it was! Since then I had been involved with the music again!
- I realy love fast riff, and nice powerful songs. One style i like to compose is also crazy punk, "just let it out" sound. " I have a goal and that is to make the absolute greatest song ever, I have it in me, I can feel it !!! But I believe that is on every true musicans heart! - I dont feel any purpose to do music that doesnt touch me! I have to admit that writing lyrics is not what I like to do, Im more a tuner, loves to compose music thats not boring me . And if anyone present a song for me and I dont like song in let us say 15 first seconds, I drop off . Thats why I almost start a song with powerfull riff!"
- Fredrik Appelgren (bass-guitar) history:
Fredrik have been involved in many bands over the years, with Swedish music celebrities in all sort of genre etc. And performed in Globen - one of the famous musicplace in Stockholm. And on TV a several times in the program “Söndagsöppet” etc ! He started his carrier at the age of 15. He can play various of instrument like, piano, horns, viola, guitarr etc! Feffe is also a composer!
- Rick (Rille) Hoerberg (guitar, his speciale is fast guitarsolos) history:
Rille started playing guitar at age 12. After a year or so he started to put a band together with some friends. That band was the foundation for the Trash-speed metal band Appendix, who teared together a couple of demos and a split EP during some busy years in the eighties and early ninties. The band broke up and a time of coverband and troubador playing started. After some time he decided to try his luck in the great land in the west together with one of the Appendix guys. After a couple of years there he finally moved back home. Rille is also a composer!
John Sempill - Our new drummer on stage and in the music video!
- Håkan Hansson (drumplayer on our first cd Hell with the king) :
He got a lot of merits, he has played with artists such as - Lutricia Mc Neal, Swingfly, Paradisio, Bo Kasper, Paolo Mendonca, Zemya Hamilton, Scrappy G etc. Håkan is also a composer! And he even had a number one hit in USA with his and his friends song in a contest check it out. Also a number one on the radioplaylist in Japan with DeDe with the song Masterplan!!!
Hell (with) the King
I can give you everything
I can give you what you want
I can give you a better life
I can make you satisfied
Just let me hear you yell
You’r the king of hell
I make you feel so well
Get down get down
Hell with the King – of Betrayal
Dont Kiss the ring – He wear
Hell with the king – of all the graveyards
Every one – feel fear
I can make you rich and great
Dont ever lose your faith
Believe just what I say
And I will lead your way
Look at my fire eyes
I make you hypnotized
get down, get down
Hell the king – If you want to
But beware, he’s Death
Hell the king – let him close you
But prepare, for the end
Im the king of demolution
Im the king of black and dark
I will put you in a cell
Cause Im the king of hell
Im a reader of your mind
And I know you feeling blind
Its time for you to scream
Yes we are a hell of (a) team
I will tell you what to do
-show them lies and not the truth
Sign your name in blood my friend
I be with you til the End
Hell the King – like a soldier
Its war, in your head
Hell the king-it feels colder
Like ice- in the sun
Im the master of dark and split
Im sure you will admit
Its no time for love and peace
And I hate all the priests
I will give you a second chance
Before I set you in a trance
I want your heart and soul
It fits good in my hole
Hell the king... hell with the king...hell the king ..hell with the king.
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