Artist description Gooseflesh is an intense Swedish Metalband with different sides to every story. Extremely good live-band & with a unique and very personal Metal style.

Music Style Hard-hitting intense crossover Metal with melody and nuances

Musical Influences Testament, Pantera, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Machine Head, Korn, Trouble

Similar Artists Sepultura, Machine Head, COC, Pantera, Testament

Artist History Trollhattan; Sweden - It was the winter of 1996 when 4 one-of-a-kind musicians joined forces to form a bond; an alliance; a sonic thunder-dome of explosive sound. Answering to the name of GOOSEFLESH, the band spews forth power,groove and relentless aggression complete with bombastic off beats and ultratechnical time signatures. Sculpted to the utmost in perfection, Sweden became the homeland of this troop of metal brilliance.Tight, rigorous and destined to destroy all in its path, it took little time for the band to make their mark within the competitive Swedish metal scene. Two soldout demos, The Wraith and Glow, ultimately spread the band’s musical aggression and by September of 1997 GOOSEFLESH’s 5-track cassette Welcome to Suffer Age emerged as the demo of metal superiority. The release earned the band a mini-CD (containing those same 5-tracks) on Spanish Goldtrack Records as well as various other compilation slots including the prestigious Sepultural Feast - A Tribute to Sepultura doing “Slave New World”,the Iron Maiden tribute LP Children of the Damned “Killers” and a cover of Pantera’s “The Becoming” for a tribute LP to be released 2000. But perhaps their most distinguished of band accomplishments is their spot on the “Power From the North - Sweden Rocks the World” compilation. The compilation, to be released in 2000, will promote the Swedish Hard Rock/ Metal circuit. GOOSEFLESH will be featured alongside the likes of Yngwie Malmsteen,Entombed, In Flames, Hammerfall, The Haunted, Meshuggah, Lost Souls, Glory and The Crown.Chemical Garden, the band’s debut for US label Digital Dimension, sees theband mercilessly out brutalizing all armed contenders. Bombastic, mosh worthy and, laden with fiery rage while simultaneously maintaining a distinct, majestic poise, GOOSEFLESH take the classic, Euro-metal edge to a whole new frontier.

Group Members Kristian Lampila - vocals/ guitar Tommy “Scalisi” Svensson - guitars/Backing vocals Lars Berger - Fibes drums Robert Hakemo - bass / Backing vocals

Instruments Vocals, Guitar, Bass & Fibes

Albums "Chemical Garden" - Cd, "Welcome to Suffer Age" MCd

Press Reviews ( HAMMERHEAD WEBZINE, US)Here is a band that I wrote about just a short time back. They were then on Goldtrack Records. Cool to see that they got some new material on a label in the states. Well This Swedish band are going for the gusto now. If those out there liked anything from Entombed to Machine Head, Clutch, Sevendust and the phatter side of life. "Wraith" spew the assault that the band has blended so cool. I also here a bit of a Cathedral side to this in areas. As with Testament… "Burning Soul" has that riff matter that makes you listen up. Cool different soloing factors here. "Godbreed" kicks it in your face. You can't deny that they do possess many hard-core sides that say a Bio hazard fans will dig into it. "Controller" has more twisted heavy riffings. Get it kids, they keep the pit going. "Voices" also hits the skull with a heavy thud. "Absence" is the ending track that hit you goodbye. Also listen to the opening thuds of "Art Of Treachery". WOW! Also a different side of the vocals. The record is for those that to like to melt their minds to sonic blasts. ( BALLBUSTER MAGAZINE, US)"X Wraith" pounds its way through your speakers first and hammers away at your skull with an unrelenting hunger for doing serious damage and before long you, the inevitably weary listener, realizes they're going to be subjected to nothing less than complete obliteration… "Chemical Garden" will break down your senses with an ungodly passion for ferocity with the brazen buzz of a doom-driven guitar grind that acts as an effective numbing agent, scarring the senses, leaving bones for ashes in their place. The Swedish act takes their cue from fellow countrymen and once promising legends Entombed, content to take up the slack where the latter left off and what a convincing job they do of it! There's nothing pretty to pull from this garden and if "Chemical Garden" were to possess any similarities to that of the agricultural variety, there'd be nothing left but dead weeds left in the scorched remains of a barren wasteland! By Vinnie Apicella (ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, US)Most of the music I've heard coming out of Sweden lately has been either Traditional and Progressive Metal. That's why I had to look twice when I read these guys were from Sweden. "Chemical Garden" has a more "American" sound to it. Now, those of you who have read my reviews before know my distaste for the Amercian Metal Scene, (or lack thereof). Don't let that mislead you when I say they are more like the American's than their fellow Swedes. This is a very well-done project with some very tasteful guitar work, and most importantly NO RAP. You might call it a cross between Corrosion Of Conformity and Pantera. It's grooves like C.O.C., but has the intensity of a Pantera style band. What it posseses over most bands is an excellent production mix. It's deep and each instrument and vocal track sticks out, unlike most of the water-down noisy production being done by American Producers. Before I go any further, I am from the states by the way, and I work in radio and hear just about every release that comes out. So when I say the production and sound is superior, it's because I've matched it head to head and "Chemical Garden" stands up strong. There's NO DOUBT by listening to Gooseflesh that they are very accomplished musicians. Tthe music is quite technical but yet brutal at the same time. And it remains intense throughout, there isn't a weak song and the entire CD, in fact, one might argue it gains momentum as it goes along. If Gooseflesh can remain intact, I think you'll see a hear a lot more from this band in the future. (The Plague, US)Well, it is nice to know that Sweden hasn't escaped the encroaching 'modern metal' sound. Amazingly, even in a genre that I have all but written off, they manage to deliver a band that does it well, namely Gooseflesh. Bits of Sepultura, Fear Factory and the like get blended into one big massive wall of sound. "Burning Soul" is a rather inauspicious start, but "Godbreed" sets things in the right direction. Kicking off with a riff reminiscent of Am I Blood (okay, okay, reminiscent of classic Metallica), the song has a really straight-forward arrangement that works in its favor. The vocals on this song also begin to show a little more versatility than the typical and tired hardcore growls so popular these days, opting for more of a thrash approach ala Tom Angelripper. "Cut That Never Heals" sounds very modern, from the dense riff to the little harmonic tweaks. "Thin Skinned Jesus" has a nice, upbeat riff and the song reminds me a lot of a non-electronic version of 16 Volt. "The Syndicate" is a bit like an ultra-heavy version of older Megadeth that breaks into a near-Sabbath riff in the middle. The mighty Sabbath is evoked once again later, on the bluesy, doom-heavy "Voices." There is a definite Bay Area thrash influences going on here that isn't as immediately obvious as some of the more modern elements. Gooseflesh's insistence on making the riffs the star of each song is the real tip-off. Too bad most bands in this genre rely on the sheer force of their songs to carry them, but maybe Gooseflesh will help point the way for some of these misguided folks. Chemical Garden is well-produced, ultra-heavy and a fairly refreshing take on some already established styles.[Daniel Hinds] (Heard, Aus)Formed in 1996, Swedish 4 piece mnetal outfit Gooseflesh from Sweden, have come up with a blistering piece of work that fans of bands like Metallica & Megadeth will go nuts for, with 12 tracks of stunning hard rock / metal that's going to attract more than it's fair share of attention with listeners around the world. Driven mostly by a highly charged set of riffs & an aggressive set of vocals from Kristian Lampila, the tracks are universally energetic & while there's definitely a trace of the band's European heritage, the music here is definitely appealing to any rock fan. Seemingly a problem with the end production of the album has seen the track listing on the album alter from that of the liner notes & we open up with "Burning Soul" rather than "Wraith" as listed, which ends up at about track 4 or 5. The percussion on both these tracks is outstanding. Pick track for me & one I think is a contender for release as a single is the angrily performed "Thin Skinned Jesus", which is as close as the band get to a pop / rock number, huge walls of riffs, bass to die for & the best vocal performances of all. This is most certainly an album that any self respecting metal fan ought to check out, so as to get in before the charge. (CMJ New Music Report, US) Some metal purists think thrash and industrial are opposite, even irreconcilable, extremes. However, on the Loud Rock evolutionary scale, Gooseflesh's Chemical Garden falls somewhere between Fear Factory's Soul Of A New Machine and Testament's The Ritual. The Swedish quartet waves its industrial production wand over throat-shredding growls and staccato, deathy riffs. Chemical Garden walks the tightrope between rivetheads and metalheads, and does it without a net

Location Trollhattan, SE - Sweden

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