Bloodbound

==Biography:==
 2004
 In the summer of 2004 the two long-time friends Tomas Olsson and Fredrik Bergh 
 decided to go back to their musical roots and start a metal band, they formed 
 bloodbound. A demo was made and shipped off to a bunch of record labels around 
 the world in order to get a record-deal. After a couple of weeks the offers 
 started to drop in and the band was overwhelmed by the great response they had 
 gotten. A record-deal was signed with Metal Heaven for the European territory and 
 with Marquee/Avalon for the Asian territory.
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 2005
 In 2005 they started the recordings of their debut album "Nosferatu" which was 
 released in early 2006, and became a big success with top reviews around the 
 world. The album took them on tour playing gigs with bands like Arch Enemy, 
 Dark Tranquillity, Evergrey, Pretty Maids and Sabaton to 
 name a few. The success of the album also gave them a license deal with Rock 
 Machine Records, Brazil and Mystic Empire, Russia later that year.
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 2006
 During the 2006 tour they had some "in and out members" including Kristian Andrén 
 (Wuthering Heights, Memento Mori, Tad Morose), Johan Sohlberg (The Storyteller), 
 Jörgen Andersson (Baltimoore) and Markus Albertson (Seven Sins, now Tad Morose). 
 At the end of the tour Urban breed decided to leave the band to focus a 100% on 
 his long planned solo project.
 After a very turbulent and hectic year they really felt that they needed some 
 stability in the band and asked Tomas' younger brother Henrik Olsson (guitar) and
 Johan Sohlberg (bass) to join the band as permanent members. This was at the end 
 of the summer of 2006. They accepted and the band started to work on their second 
 studio album "Book of the Dead". The spot as 
 Bloodbound's new lead singer was not yet filled and it took the band a while to 
 find a worthy replacement. After a lot of searching and auditioning the band 
 finally decided to go with German born Michael Bormann (Zeno, Bonfire) who joined 
 the band in early January 2007.
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 2007
 The album "Book of the Dead" was recorded during January and February 2007 and 
 was released on May 25th 2007. Book of The Dead was a big success and the band 
 even charted in the official Swedish top 100 album chart at # 66!
 Shortly after the release of "Book of the Dead" the band realized that with 
 Michael's busy schedule it would be impossible to do all the live shows coming 
 up. Urban breed was asked to stand in and ended up doing all the shows for the 
 tour, and eventually got back with the band as a permanent member!
 The word of the band had by now started to spread big time and the new album got 
 them on tour with Hammerfall on their “Nights of Glory” European tour and the 
 HammerFall Ocean Crusade in 2007, which gave them the opportunity to play for a
 bigger crowd. Joacim Cans, the singer of HammerFall was deeply impressed with the 
 band and stated in magazine interviews that if HammerFall ever split up the band 
 he wanted to sing in the most were Bloodbound! 2007 also led to playing bigger 
 festivals such as the Sweden Rock Festival. The band also headlined the big 
 festival “Bollnas festival” where the band performed with a symphony orchestra 
 and had the original Iron Maiden singer Paul Dianno guesting on four Iron Maiden 
 classics. This was the first time Paul had performed Iron Maiden songs with a 
 full symphony orchestra…
 At the end of 2007 the band started to work on their third studio album.
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 2008
 While working on the third album the band played at several big festivals during 
 the summer of 2008, one of the highlights in the career of the band was their gig 
 at Masters of Rock in Czech republic in front of 20 000 crazy metal heads! At the 
 end of 2008 the band signed a worldwide deal with the record label Blistering 
 records and the recordings of the third album “Tabula 
 Rasa” took place during November and December 2008.
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 2011
 The fourth album Unholy Cross was published.
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 2012
 The fifth album In the Name of Metal was published.
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==Line Up:==
 Patrik Johansson - vocals
 Tomas Olsson - guitars
 Fredrik Bergh - keyboards
 Henrik Olsson - guitars
 Pelle Akerlind - drums
 Anders Broman - bass
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Bloodbound - Nosferatu.jpg
Bloodbound - Book of the Dead.jpg
Bloodbound - In the Name of Metal.jpg
Bloodbound - Unholy Cross.jpg
Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa.jpg
Bloodbound bandpic.jpg
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==Discography:==
 Nosferatu (2005)
 Book of the Dead (2007)
 Tabula Rasa (2009)
 Unholy Cross(2011)
 In the Name of Metal (2012)
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Category:Bands