What can I do for you?
Stipen – Trummor
Jocke – Bas
Misha – Sång & gitarr
Åfysatan är ett musikaliskt bastardbarn som skapats i ren spontanitet. Efter en lyckad insats i Bollnäs Trail Race 2014 firade Jocke Skog (Clawfinger) och Misha Sedini (ex-Rövfitta) segerns sötma hemma i den senares stuga och avnjöt punk och humlesaft.
Jocke fick feeling och ville prompt att han och Misha skulle start egen punkkonstellation. Misha hävdade dock att han lagt musiken på hyllan. Det fanns helt enkelt inte tid till rep, harvande och dyra studiohyror. – Äh, musik ska ju vara kul! sa Jocke och konstaterade samtidigt som han lade ut en förfrågan om lediga trummisar på ett välkänt socialt forum att man visst inte alls behövde repa, harva eller bekosta inspelningar med mer än lite tid.
Ett genidrag kan man säga för snabbt så hoppade Stipen Karlsson (Dia Psalma/Strebers) på projektet (efter att ha läst att Adrian Erlandsson visat intresse) och då kunde inte Misha göra annat än tacka ja till att leka och ha skoj med två så kompetenta och begåvade människor.
På andra mötet spelades bandets första EP in. Under en helg i en typisk rephåla i anrika Hökarängen riggade bandet upp en minimalistisk studio och började improvisera riff och plöja idéer. Så fort en låt var klar spelades den in. Var låten inte klar fort nog ratades den. Det skulle vara spontant eller inte alls. Resultatet blev fem låtar utan finlir och inget finstilt, bara rakt och spontant ös. Misha skrev några texter som han tog med sig upp till sitt landställe ihop med en ännu mindre studio och la sedan sången på tre timmar varpå saken var biff. Jocke mixade och Stipens fru gjorde omslaget: klart!
Tonen för bandet var satt: musik ska vara kul! Som den var när man började spela med sina kompisar i högstadiet. Enkelt! Minimal insats för maximalt nöje. Entusiasmen ska vara på ännu högre nivå än den i barnprogram för de riktigt små.
I tider då alla tar allt på lite för stort allvar, är alldeles för rädda för varandra och snarare skriker ikapp än diskuterar vill Åfysatan sprida lite ren jädra punkglädje för att lätta på trycket, dra på några smilband och bjuda på lite kärlek och eftertanke i 180 knyck.
Guitars – Ola Englund (THE HAUNTED, ex SIX FEET UNDER)
Bass – Jocke Skog (CLAWFINGER, Åfysatan)
Drums – Kevin Talley (SUFFOCATION, ex DYING FEETUS ex BLACK DAHLIA MURDER)
Vocals – Mario Santos Ramos (DEMONOID)
Feared is the musical child of producer, musician, songwriter, and guitarist Ola Englund. With close to 30 million views on youtube and 90 000+ subscribers, he’s become one of the amp testing giants in the industry. When Feared is playing live, Jocke’s handling the bass duties.
Jocke – keyboards, vocals
Zak Tell – Vocals
Bård Torstensen – Guitars
Micke Dahlén – Drums
André Skaug – Bass
Clawfinger is a rap metal band from Sweden and they are known for their aggressive but melodic music and for tackling political and anti-racist themes in their songs.
The band’s origin dates back to the summer of 1989 when Zak Tell, Bård Torstensen, Erlend ottem and Jocke Skog met while working together at the Rosenlund Hospital somewhere in the vicinity of Stockholm. Soon the four realized their similar interests in music and decided to make something together, just for fun.
Their original demo comprising three tracks (Waste of Time, Nigger and Profit Preacher) quickly secured them local radio airplay and consequently brought them to the attention of the MVG label. “Nigger” is an anti-racism statement that caused quite a stir and was a massive success; it was also released as a single. By the beginning of the 1990s, Clawfinger released their debut Deaf Dumb Blind on MVG Records. This sold in over 680,000 copies worldwide and was critically acclaimed in Swedish press. With the addition of André Skaug and drummer Morten Skaug, Clawfinger went on tour and played at countless European festivals including major support slots with Anthrax and Alice in Chains.
The band received many awards, including two home Grammies at the Swedish Grammy Awards in 1994 for best hard rock band and best music video. After touring, they went straight back in the studio to record their second album, Use Your Brain. After the release of this album they went on yet another touring campaign, most notably participating at Ozzy Osbourne’s Monsters of Rock Festival in Brazil and Chile, rocking alongside American metal counterparts like Megadeth, Faith No More, and Alice Cooper. Back in Europe they continued their touring campaign by participating at festivals and countless gigs.
Since then they have released five further albums and continued to carve out a path that is very much their own and for each album they have taken more and more control over the entire procedure from beginning to end. They are one of the original founding groups of the style that has now become known around the world as rapmetal, crossover, industrial metal, nu-metal etc…we have many names for the things we love! 🙂 Last but not least they are considered to be an extremely tight and hard hitting live band who never disappoint on stage and always deliver the goods no matter the conditions, satisfaction is gaurenteed when it comes to Clawfinger!
So, who the hell is Jocke Skog?
Producer, engineer, and a musician with a burning desire in everything that has to do with music and can totally forget about time and space when he’s in a studio environment. Can program drums so brilliantly that he puts real drummers to shame on a daily basis and he can make a band that originally sounds like pure donkeyshit sound like “the hot shit”! Not always completely logical but always with an opinion and then some. Loves music as hard as it comes and is a running enthusiast, run Jocke run!
Jocke’s been producing and mixing bands since the mid-90s but went all-in 2001 when his band Clawfinger bought a studio together with the Swedish math-metal godfathers in the band Meshuggah. Jocke’s currently working close with Valve software doing Music Packs for the highly acclaimed game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and the rest of the time he’s recording, mixing and mastering all sorts of brutal metal music. He has also done several production demos and preset packs for Toontrack.
This is the songs included in the “Skog, II – headshot” music kit for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Featuring a Solo from the most excellent Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry).
http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2014/10/10432/
Played the guitars, played the bass, programmed the drums, engineered, mixed and mastered it. *phew* 🙂
Engineered, reamped guitars and bass and mixed the album
This one’s a little special since I made the backing tracks (except the full orchestra on Vinter, made by Jan Michael Höglund) and recorded the bass too. Besides reamping, mixing and mastering of course. 🙂
Engineered the guitar sound, mixed and mastered. First real production where I used Drumatom on the drums. Worked! 🙂
Engineered, mixed and mastered