Artist description Outshine is melancholy, beautiful and heavy similar to Paradise Lost, Type O Negative and Kent.

Music Style Gothic melancholy rock/metal

Musical Influences Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Depeche Mode

Similar Artists Paradise Lost, Kent and Type O Negative

Artist History Outshine was formed in December 1995 over a couple of cold beers. In the south of sweden in a town called smålandsstenar, guitarist Jimmy Norberg (from a trash/punk metal band, â€�Dead by dawnâ€�) contacted keyboardist and singer Mattias Claesson. Both were much in to gothic music and they decided to form a band, Outshine., in October ´98, the recordings of â€�Lost in sanityâ€� was complited. It contained four songs and got really good reviews. 4/5 in Finnveden newspaper and 5/5 in the big swedish magazine, Chili. Outshine started to work on more material and in March ´99 basist Fredrik Nilsson (from Skåne, Sweden) arrived. The pace was much higher now and after Augustirocken ´99 keyboardist and singer Mattias Claesson wanted to take a break. During this time guitarist and founder of Outshine, Jimmy Norberg, was playing guitar in Superdice a 70-ties influenced band. This project took all the time and after some fights and internal problems Outshine was put on ice in September ´99. It took almost 2 years before in August ´01 guitarist Jimmy N, keyboardist Mattias C and drummer Anders C was back on track again. Basist Fredrik N was out and Outshine decided not to bring a new bas player on board. During the 2 years Outshine was down guitarist Jimmy N concentrated himself on Superdice instead. But after a move back and forth to Gothenburg, the members of Superdice splitted to other projects, and for Jimmy N, Outshine was taken up again. During the 7 years that Outshine has excisted, there has been many problems and alot of different members., but the founders, Jimmy and Mattias had always a precise thought on how Outshine should sound and feel. In May ´02, after Outshine begun to write alot of new songs, drummer Anders C decided to leave the band. Was that the end of Outshine ? Well, Jimmy and Mattias put the band on ice for a couple of months because of this incident. But in late June´02, they met up with batterist Per Josefsson, o young drummer from ? , Smålandsstenar. After a couple of weeks playing some of the old material, Outshine was set to go back to the studio again. Despite lack of a steady bas player, Outshine is back on track again and hopfully it will stay that way. Outshine

Group Members Jimmy Norberg, guitar, bass and backing vocals Mattias Claesson, keyboards and vocals Per Josefsson, drums

Instruments guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, piano, cello

Albums Lost in sanity - 1998, Revive - 2002

Press Reviews Finnveden newspaper 1999 4/5 Chili magazine 1999 3/5 Varnamo newspaper 2002 - great review Finnveden newspaper 2002 - great review Moving hands magazine 2002 7/10 (www.movinghands.net)

Location sm.stenar, smaland - Sweden

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