Maninnya Blade

Among Sweden’s initial homegrown rock bands, Maninnya Knife emerged from the little northern city of Boden in 1980 and featured Leif Eriksson handling vocals and acoustic guitar, Nicke Johansson on business lead acoustic guitar, Jan “Blomman” Blomqvist on bass, and Ingemar Lundberg on drums. Long term Hexenhaus and Ruler Gemstone guitarist Mikael Vikström (aka Mike Wead) was briefly associated with the group before relocating to Stockholm, and his alternative, Jerry Rutström, found its way to time to take part in Maninnya Blade’s self-financed and released debut solitary, “Barbarian” (b/w “Ripper Assault”), in 1984. By nov 1985, the music group felt prepared to try their fortune in the Swedish capital and, once there, had been soon documenting their debut recording, Merchants in Metallic, for launch through Killerwatt Information in 1986. The disk received some reviews that are positive for its natural, aggressive make of rock, but naturally demonstrated much too abrasive for mainstream likes; constant touring throughout Sweden helped to improve Maninnya Blade’s profile relatively, but didn’t place much dough within their pockets; so when the bandmates produced the ill-fated decision to cram right into a communal home, inner tensions and musical variations (if not quarrels over house-cleaning responsibilities) quickly resulted in their break up. Some members eventually teamed up with previous friend Mike Wead to discovered thrash metal music group Hexenhaus, however the Maninnya Edge name would also sometimes end up being resurrected in a long time, for the discharge of the chances ‘n’ sods collection A Demonic Mistress from days gone by in 2001 and a reunion gig or two.