Truckfighters

Last updated

Truckfighters
Truckfighters - Wacken Open Air 2015 - 2015212151028 2015-07-31 Wacken - Sven - 5DS R - 0088 - 5DSR1540 mod.jpg
Wacken Open Air, 2015
Background information
Origin Örebro, Sweden
Genres Stoner rock, heavy metal, psychedelic rock [1]
Years active2001–2018, 2019–present
LabelsFuzzorama
MeteorCity
Poison Tree
MembersDango
Ozo
Toro
Past membersEl Danno
Enzo
Franco
Fredo
Frongo
Paco
Pedro
Pezo
Poncho
Website www.truckfighters.com


Oskar "Ozo" Cedermalm at Wacken Open Air 2015 Truckfighters - Wacken Open Air 2015 - 2015212151142 2015-07-31 Wacken - Sven - 1D MK III - 0236 - 1D3 2189 mod.jpg
Oskar "Ozo" Cedermalm at Wacken Open Air 2015

Truckfighters are a Swedish rock band from Örebro, formed in 2001. The band's current lineup comprises founding members Oskar "Ozo" Cedermalm and Niklas "Dango" Källgren, and Johan "Toro" Marberg. Truckfighters have released five studio albums.

Contents

History

Truckfighters was formed in Örebro, Sweden in 2001. After releasing EPs Desert Cruiser and Headed For God's Warehouse in 2001 and 2002 respectively, they recorded the split-EP Truckfighters Vs. Firestone; Fuzzsplit of The Century with local Swedish band Firestone in 2003. [2] In 2005 they released their debut album Gravity X on both Fuzzorama Records and MeteorCity Records. Their follow-up album, Phi , was released in 2007 by Poison Tree Records in the U.S. and on the Fuzzorama label elsewhere. Their sound has been described as classic desert rock, similar to bands like Dozer, Fu Manchu, and Kyuss. They have been featured on the MTV Sweden show "Fuzz". [3] The band has done extensive touring over the years, playing more than 300 live shows, most of them in Europe. Their first US tour, in July 2011, included stops in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.

The film Truckfighters (Fuzzomentary) by Joerg Steineck and Christian Maciejewski portrays the band's life. [4] It was released in December 2011 and features interviews with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. The film provides an ironic, entertaining view of the three "ordinary" guys who transform into Fuzz Monsters onstage. [5] [6]

Their album Universe was released on February 24, 2014. As a teaser, The Chairman EP was released in October 2013.

The band's most recent studio album, V, was released on September 30, 2016. [7] It marks a significant change in style for the trio, as they intermingle their trademark heavy stoner rock sound with lengthy atmospheric sections.

Niklas "Dango" Kallgren at Wacken Open Air 2015 Truckfighters - Wacken Open Air 2015 - 2015212150915 2015-07-31 Wacken - Sven - 1D X - 0330 - DV3P1555 mod.jpg
Niklas "Dango" Källgren at Wacken Open Air 2015

On February 21, 2018, the band announced on their Facebook page that they are going on a "long, long hiatus" and "Might come back stronger than ever (that's the only way) or not at all!"

On March 4, 2019, the band was announced to reconvene to play an exclusive set at Psycho Las Vegas 2019, and took the Pool stage on Aug 28th as a part of a reunion tour.

During the second half of 2019 and early 2020, the band toured the album Gravity X in its entirety from finish to start.

Members

Current members

Former members

Session and touring members

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

EPs

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mudhoney</span> American rock band

Mudhoney is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, on January 1, 1988, following the demise of Green River. Its members are singer and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm, lead guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison and drummer Dan Peters. Original bassist Matt Lukin left the band in 1999, but rejoined the band in December 2000 for a tour that lasted through January 2001.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Gilbert</span> American guitarist and founding member of Mr. Big

Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American hard rock and heavy metal guitarist. He is the co-founder of the band Mr. Big, and was also a member of Racer X, with whom he released several albums. In 1996, Gilbert launched a solo career, for which he has released numerous solo albums, and featured in numerous collaborations and guest appearances on other musicians' albums.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Millencolin</span> Swedish punk rock band

Millencolin is a Swedish punk rock band that was formed on 12 October 1992 by Nikola Šarčević, Mathias Färm, and Erik Ohlsson in Örebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band. The name Millencolin is derived from the skateboard trick "melancholy".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dan Swanö</span> Swedish musician

Dan-Erland Swanö, also known as Dan "The Man" Swanö, is a Swedish musician and record producer who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale, lately vocalist, keyboardist and drummer for the band Witherscape, as well as the owner of Unisound, but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Omnium Gatherum</span> Finnish melodic death metal band

Omnium Gatherum is a six-piece melodic death metal band from Finland, founded in the autumn of 1996. Although the band mainly follows the path of the melodic death metal genre, much of their work shows strong influences from progressive metal, especially their later albums. Their music is influenced by Gothenburg-style bands such as At the Gates, In Flames, Dissection, Dark Tranquillity, but also Iron Maiden, Death, Anathema and Megadeth among others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Asobi Seksu</span> American shoegaze/dream pop band

Asobi Seksu was an American shoegaze/dream pop band based in New York City. Their music used a textured and effects-heavy vocal and guitar sound. The band primarily consisted of Yuki Chikudate and James Hanna.

Dozer is a stoner rock band from Sweden, formed in 1995.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mumiy Troll</span> Russian rock band

Mumiy Troll is a Russian rock group, founded in 1983 in Vladivostok by vocalist and songwriter Ilya Lagutenko. The name is a pun on Mumintroll, the children's books by Tove Jansson, translated into Russian as "Mummi Troll".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Draconian (band)</span> Swedish metal band

Draconian is a Swedish gothic metal/death-doom band formed in Säffle in 1994.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shining (Swedish band)</span> Swedish black metal band

Shining is a Swedish black metal band formed by Niklas Kvarforth in Halmstad in 1996. The band's music contains depressive undertones, which include personal and suicide-themed lyrics. Thought of as the pioneers of depressive suicidal black metal, they have released 11 studio albums to date, their latest being the self-titled "Shining".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mustasch</span> Swedish rock band

Mustasch is a rock band from Sweden. They were formed in the fall of 1998 by Ralf Gyllenhammar, Hannes Hansson, Mats Hansson and Stam Johansson in Gothenburg.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolf (band)</span> Swedish heavy metal band

Wolf is a Swedish heavy metal band from Örebro, not identical to the band Wolf from the United Kingdom. Formed in 1995, the band has since released nine studio albums and toured with Saxon, Evile, Tankard and more recently, Trivium.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Loch Vostok</span>

Loch Vostok is a progressive metal band from Uppsala, Sweden. Named after a subterranean lake in Antarctica, it rose from the collapse of the progressive metal band Mayadome in 2001.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Greenleaf (band)</span>

Greenleaf is a Swedish rock band created as a side project in late 1999 by Tommi Holappa (Dozer), Daniel Lidén and Bengt Bäcke. In 2003, Lidén joined Dozer, making three of the four Dozers members also members of Greenleaf, so the band took a back seat until 2007.

Karl Daniel Lidén is a Swedish drummer and music producer. He was the drummer for rock bands Dozer, Demon Cleaner and Greenleaf. He currently has a solo project called Vaka.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Honor Society (band)</span> American pop rock band

Honor Society was an American pop rock band that formed in New York City in 2006. The band consisted of Michael Bruno (vocals/guitar), Jason Rosen (guitar/keyboard), Andrew Lee Schmidt (bass), and Alexander Noyes (drums); however from late 2012 Rosen was no longer a part of the band. They were previously signed to Jonas Records in affiliation with Hollywood Records but parted ways in 2011. The band released its debut album Fashionably Late on September 15, 2009. The album debuted at No. 18 on the Billboard 200. In October 2011, the band released their second album, A Tale of Risky Business: Part II. It debuted at No. 29 on the Independent Album charts. In September 2013, Bruno, Noyes and Schmidt announced that they would disband.

Deranged is a Swedish death metal band formed in 1991. The band was named after the 1974 movie Deranged.

<i>Gravity X</i> 2005 studio album by Truckfighters

Gravity X is the debut studio album by Swedish rock band Truckfighters, released on 12 July 2005 by Fuzzorama Records. The album was reissued alongside their subsequent album, Phi, in a compilation LP release in June 2013.

<i>Phi</i> (Truckfighters album) 2007 studio album by Truckfighters

Phi is the second studio album by Swedish rock band Truckfighters, released 5 October 2007 on Fuzzorama Records.

<i>Universe</i> (Truckfighters album) 2014 studio album by Truckfighters

Universe is the fourth studio album by Swedish rock band Truckfighters, released on 21 February 2014 on Fuzzorama Records.

References

  1. ↑ "Truckfighters | Biography, Albums, Streaming Links". AllMusic . Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Truckfighters MusicMight Biography". Musicmight.com. 2006-10-31. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
  3. ↑ "MTV | MTV FUZZ". Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Truckfighters Film website". Truckfightersfilm.de. 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
  5. ↑ Pegoraro, John (2005-03-30). "Truckfighters - Gravity X review". Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
  6. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Truckfighters: Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 2008-02-08.
  7. ↑ Koczan, J.J. (July 7, 2016). "Truckfighters Sign to Century Media; New Album V Due Sept. 30". The Obelisk. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  8. ↑ Michaels, Jon (2008-04-02). "Truckfighters Line Up Change". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
  9. ↑ Pegoraro, John (2008-01-15). "Truckfighters Line Up Change". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.