Joakim Thåström

Singing in the main Swedish punk group, Ebba Grön, as well as the most influential alternative rock-band, Imperiet, Thåström was the brightest glowing star of Swedish rock and roll in the ’80s. Musically he began in punk and shifted through hard rock and roll and alternative rock and roll. When Imperiet finally broke through the limitations of substitute music they truly became typically the most popular Swedish group at that time. In the long run from the ’80s Thåström lay out on an effective single profession, and in the ’90s, he shaped the industrial rock-band Peace Like and Pitbulls. Although albums of the group never offered very much, they helped Thåström in reinforcing his status as hard-headed and non-compromising. In 1999, he came back with a single recording that was well-received by both audience as well as the critics. Thåström was created in 1957 in Stockholm. Without very much musical history but influenced by suburban boredom and British punk, he created Ebba Grön as well as Lennart Eriksson and Gunnar Ljungstedt. In mere a couple of years, that they had were able to become pioneers of Swedish punk, teenager idols, also to move from punk towards hard rock and roll and ’80s option rock and roll. After five years, the music group split up, but a lot of the users remained in the brand new music group Imperiet, which began where Ebba Grön experienced ended, with option rock and roll and a far more advanced sound. Imperiet demonstrated even more effective, and by 1985 that they had end up being the biggest rock-band in Sweden. But becoming cherished by such a wide audience appeared to in shape Thåström, the primary creative power in both Ebba Grön and Imperiet. Regardless of the achievement, the group’s last information showed symptoms of declining inspiration. After failing woefully to break overseas, Imperiet split up in 1988 & most of the people lay out on single careers. Thåström performed as well as Eldkvarn and participated on two of their albums. His popularity produced him a pleasant collaborator the arriving years and he documented albums with several performers, including Sator, the experimental string quartet Flesh Quartet, and Stry Terrarie, who was simply an associate of both Imperiet and Ebba Grön. During his years with Imperiet, Thåström got started to present a preference for big gestures and theatrical stage efficiency, so when he released his initial, self-titled single record in 1989, these tendencies had been very apparent. The record included the main strike “Alla Vill Right up until Himlen” and was a industrial achievement, but had not been as embraced with the critics, most of them who discovered it melodramatic and unfocused. The response was the intense record Xplodera Mig 2000, documented in Amsterdam, where Thåström got shifted the same season. One long stage additional into distortion and sound was taken using the music group Peace Appreciate and Pitbulls and their self-titled debut record in 1992. This task ended up being fairly long-living, and the next six years the Amsterdam-based music group explored industrial rock and roll and produced excursions into techno and steel. Three albums had been released, but to small commercial achievement. Thåström moved back again to Sweden and in 1999 he released his 1st single album in a decade. Det Är Ni Som E Dom Konstiga, Det Är Jag Som E Regular was a dark but simple rock and roll recording and didn’t contain any samplings, techno beats, or distorted vocals. It had been hailed as the come back from the “actual” Thåström, and its own achievement demonstrated he hadn’t dropped his legendary position within Sweden.