Yes, actually – I lied – to others – and to myself! There are probably at least 100 different types of alcoholics out there. And everyone has their own way of dealing with it – or just ignore it and move on – and continue to drink. Many people manage to continue drinking their entire

Jo, faktiskt – Jag ljög – för andra – och för mej själv ! Det finns nog säkert minst 100 olika typer av alkoholister. Och alla har sitt eget sätt att förhoppningsvis ta itu med det – eller att bara strunta i det och gå vidare – och fortsätta dricka. Många klarar av att fortsätta

I was only a “party drinker” until 2008. At this time I was 45 years old. But I have often had the tendency to drink too much. I often became too drunk, but I only drank on “special occasions”, when it was a party, weekend or something like that. I never even drank a light

7 ÅR SOM NYKTER Jag hade varit en ”partydrinkare” ända till 2008 då jag var 45 år. Men jag hade ofta en tendens att dricka för mycket. Jag blev ofta för full, men hade inga som helst problem med det och drack bara vid “speciella tillfällen” då det var fest, helg eller så. Jag drack

Summary June 2017:                 THERION ? I´m very happy to announce that Christofer Johnsson´s health is much better now. He went to specialists in Russia for diagnosis and treatment and now he´s recovering and may not need surgery. So far we are only booked for 3 festivals this

Den 2 februari 2017 så har jag varit 100% nykter i 6 år och jag mår bättre än någonsin. Jag har fått nya värderingar och gör helt andra prioriteringar idag än de jag gjorde för drygt 5 år sen. Och jag har även min fulla övertygelse om att dom är mer rätt än om jag då och

Looking back – 12 months…. (oct 26 2016) * THERION: Just finished my recording for the forthcoming Rock Opera containing 3,5 hours of music ! I do not only play bass on this one but also a lot of the rhythm guitars are played by me ! I´ve also written a piece of music that

1. ACES HIGH My thoughts are carried directly into why girls often from their teens and maybe even up over their 30´s want the tough and those “a little bit dangerous” guys instead of someone who is a bit softer and kind !? In the 80´s and 90´s when I was a true visitor of

The tour with Martina Edoff is going really well and we´re having a good time !   We really come, sort of, like, from zero – as a support band for 2 bigger acts, but the audience is very-very enthusiastic and we´re getting so much respons from people telling us we have a really good

Wednesday-Thursday September 16-17 The day started at 08:30 am with Janne Mattsson from Sweden Rock Magazine calling me to do an interview about the release of my album Royal Mess. We had a nice chat for about 30 minutes. Guess it will be published in the next issue (?) Ola Gränshagen will probably do the review

 The Experiment no.QRecording in Torino, Italy June 3-8, 2015 Up at 03:30 am to go to the airport ! First to Munich and then another flight to Torino. Paolo Vallerga picked me up and off we went to the studio.Really nice to come back and meet my friends from this project again !Paolo, Marco, Kevin,

4 YEARS OF SOBRIETY February 2nd 2015 Thinking back, I realize that I’ve probably never felt this good in my entire life before ! It actually feels like I’m free ! I defeated my addiction. I defeated the disease ! “I’m a WINNER !” That’s how it feels sometimes ! But I know I didn’t

  The beach in Jamaica was really nice and beautiful. A local guy took care of us. Thomas & Ernie went out for snorkeling, watching the fish and the coral reef. We were there for about 5 hours. Even though I was mostly in the shade I of course burned my shoulders !!! In the evening

  On january 22nd, we went to enter the big ship “Liberty Of The Seas” to go on the 70.000 Tons Of Metal cruise ! Two years ago when we went on the cruise from here to Cayman Island we were on the ship “Majesty Of The Seas”. This one is even bigger and has

The rehearsals at Villa Adulruna went smoothly ! We now have our new soprano Isa with us now. She´s a great singer and also a very, very nice and humble person. Really easy to work with ! 🙂 Up at 03:30 am to take a shower and check all of my stuff before leaving. We

October 18 – Travel Day to Belgium Lobby Call at 6:30 am. I got about 2,5 hours sleep ! Then the next trip to Belgium and the Metal Female Voices Festival. First flight to Moscow. From there to Helsinki, and then the last flight to Brussels, Belgium. Christian Vidal was so tired at Moscow airport

What are your opinions and perhaps bias (prejudices) when you think of going to China and Russia?I had my thoughts about it…… I thought it would be so different compared to Sweden and many other countries…….but No, it was Not ! CHINA After visting Peking & Shanghai, I now got a totally different opinion about

The last 2 gigs of the Russian Tour ! October 16 Lobby-call at 07:00 am. Flight from Minsk to S:t Petersburg. S.t Petersburg is such a beautiful city ! In some areas it reminds a bit about Stockholm with all the views of water. Very nice hotel and the venue as well ! We had

October 14 – Moscow Arrival at Moscow trainstation at about 09:30 am. I was really looking forward to get to the hotel and get some more sleep and then go out for a bit of sightseeing. – BUT, I had lost my immigration papers for Minsk, Belarus !!! So I had to go with the

October 12 The fans that were hanging in the lobby yesterday are here again wanting to have posters, cd:s and stuff signed. This has also happened at some other hotels along this tour. Really hardcore ones ! Breakfast, and at 1 pm we went to the trainstation for the next long trip – 21 hours

Cancellation in Krasnoyarsk October 9 Writing this to explain some more about it. This day became very strange…..and sad……. Havok and me shared room and he went to the venue with the crew as usual. After some time he came back and said the gig was going to be cancelled !! I just went ”What” ??!!!

October 10 Novosibirsk Had a single room which I didn´t have very much time to spend any time in anyway. Christofer and I went downtown with a girl working for the promoter to buy some clothes and have a haircut. I bought a pair of very regular jeans – ”F*ckin´expensive !!! I thought that they

October 6 Travel Day:   This day we got proper sleep again ! Some of the others went for sightseeing, but I woke up too late for that…. I´d rather have that real proper sleep, cause I don´t even very often get it when I´m at home…. I just spent my time taking it easy.

  I´ve been telling so many others very many times by now, so why don´t I write about it too !?– My big admiration for Linnéa Vikström ! There haven´t been many times during my 30 years in music-business that I´ve been so impressed by someone ! A big talent musically. Her singing and acting

  October 3 Breakfast and then said goodbye to Jesse and our great managing team in China. They did a great job for us ! Then to the airport and off to Hong Kong for connect-flight to Russia.There, at the airport in Hong Kong, we got into deep shit: We have so much and heavy

  THERION – SHANGHAI October 1st We went off from Peking towards Shanghai with the fast-train. It took about 6 hours. But it was a very pleasant trip and I did some work on my laptop and as always we had a good time chatting with each other. We arrived to Shangai about 10 pm

  THERION: PEKING & SHANGHAI   The week before leaving for China was really hectic ! We had the rehearsals at Villa Adulruna, and then I  went straight    back home every day to record for the  forthcoming album of  L.A.D. But I made it in time ! All the 11 songs 🙂 Sami Karppinen

On the way home from the last gig in Mexico City after the Latinamerica-tour I guess we all were in some kind of mixed mood…… Strange to go home and know that this tour was the last one with Lori Lewis. Since 7 years back in time she has been such an important member. But

The day after the last gig we had plenty of time to sleep…… but I was also in a state of shock for a while after reading a message in the morning from my neighbour in Sweden writing something about a window of my apartment being open ! For a while I thought that all my

May 26-27, 2014 Bogota, Colombia This day we had proper sleep ! Really Great. The rest of the day was easy; Soundcheck & dinner, just taking it easy. The gig was really great !! Fantastic Audience ! We were overwhelmed ! About 1000 people in the audience. I filmed them with my Iphone from the

May 22, 2014 Long travel to Quito, Equador ! About 6 hours…… When we finally arrived we stopped outside this big fancy hotel……..but soon it became clear that we were gonna stay at another one just across the street…… It was NOT GOOD !! We are spoiled being used to have very nice hotels, and

Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 19, 2014 Arrived to Buenos Aires and went straight to a restaurant to have a traditional Asado meal ! – Very nice ! 🙂 Had some rest and sleep at the hotel and then away for soundcheck. Stayed there until showtime. For me, personally, this was the best gig so far.

(Writing this on the airplane on our way to Buenos Aires) MAY 17 – 2014 LA PAZ, BOLIVIA This day we had plenty of time to sleep and just take it easy until we had to go to the venue for soundcheck. Thomas, Me, Johan and Linnéa went for a walk again in the city.

After about 24 hours of traveling we finally reached La Paz, Bolivia ! We arrived after midnight local time and I was pretty surprised, or maybe shocked about the temperature – 0 degrees celsius !!!! Much colder than in Sweden ! 😀 The rehearsals went fine. Infor the last one we slept over at Christofers

Dec 22 – Last ConcertFrankfurt, Germany Arrived at noon . The place for the gig was located outside the city so we spent the whole day there.A really nice newbuilt venue.My German friend Uwe Keilhauer came there. He had brought me some gifts; KISS-Stuff of course 🙂Also my friend Dasha from Russia had come all the

Kevin, Me & Johan in London  Dec 20thLondon ! Lovely City !Here we met Thomas´ best friend Richard and his son.Went out for a walk around the city with them.I bought the new dvd from NIGHTWISH containing this documentary I really want to watch !Me, Johan, Linnéa & Sami went for dinner to an Indian

Dec 17th Arrived to Romagnano, Italy We didn´t really know what to expect cause Italy is not the biggest market for Therion.The weather was sunny and pretty warm but inside the venue at soundcheck it wasfreezing cold !!! 😀Here we also had this fantastic toilet; a hole in the floor which seems to be pretty

Dec 14th Eindhoven, Netherlands:Played at this huge venue at a Festival.Before the show I went out to meet my friend Frank Wijers and his girlfriend andtook a walk around the city.The gig was great !                     Dec 15 Lausanne, Switzerland:We just hung around the venue the

Woke up in Brno, Czech Republic ! Johan, Me and Thomas went out to see some of the city……. And here we had the funniest “facerape” of all: Linnéa knew the password for Thomas Iphone !! While he was out we took his phone and wrote on his wall:“My feet are twice as long as

Vienna is such a beautiful city ! The cathedral we saw was the biggest and most fantastic I´ve ever seen ! Me, Johan, Lori and Thomas took a long walk around in the city. Christofer who is a vegetarian accidentally happened to get tuna on his pizza that was delivered to the dressingroom. He almost

Budapest !! 🙂   It was really nice just to have a day off in Budapest. But it was so damn windy and cold outside that I preferred to stay at the hotel the whole day. The only thing I did except for blogging and being out on the Internet was that I took a

Christofer in Warsaw, Poland   Now we´ve reached Budapest in Hungary ! The 3 gigs in Poland were great ! The warmth and enthusiasm from the fans in each of the cities, Krakow, Warsaw and Wroclaw were just fantastic ! Each time we perform I get an extra reminder of that we´re not “just a

 Me & Masha from the Russian band ARKONA backstage in Krakow   The gig in Krakow was great ! The venue was crowded with about a thousand people. Except from some small “f*ckups” we did the performance very well I think. Thinking of that we only had 2 rehearsals for a 2 hour show………and we

The rehearsals were all fine ! We´re gonna play about 4-5 excerpts from the forthcoming Therion Rock Opera, just to sort of “give it a try”. We will also play the entire album “Vovin” and some old stuff…… As usual, everything is done in the last minute……. But after 2 hours of sleep I was

The recording of my ROYAL MESS album is in progress !!!Chris Laney has just finnished the mixing of 3 songs ! Sounds Great ! I´m really pleased and satisfied ! 🙂 The album will contain 11-12 songs and so far the guestplayers have been:Ian Haugland (Europe) Kristian Niemann (Therion) Jamie Borger (L.A.D. Treat) Pontus Norgren

Experiment no.Q by Paolo VallergaTorino, Italy                     At april 7th, 2013 I´m leaving for Torino, Italy for the recording of Paolo Vallergas “Experiment no.Q” The morning the day before I was up at 04:00 (am)…..so the 6th I went to bed already at 20:30…. I had

  2013 !!! This year is, and will be very special to me: 1. I´m working on, and recording for my own album, with my own band. The album will contain my own songs (in english) and in my opinion – It´s Pure Hardrock mixed with some Ballads and Pop ! Stay tuned for more

I was very surprised when I got the news from rocknytt.net !! Of all the bloggers there, mine was the most read during the tour-period with THERION, september 28th until october 29th ! I didn´t expect it…….had actually never thought of it……to compare to others…..but it was true statistics…. 🙂 Feels Great ! – Thanks

                        Thanks to the audience of Kiev, Ukraine, the last gig of this tour ! Now we´re on the way home ! At the airport in Kiev. This whole journey has been all great !It´s really fantastic to see and experience the enthusiasm of

Really great to be in Russia ! 🙂 For some reason I´ve always been fascinated by this country with its history, culture and majestic buildings. The first gig in Rostov was great ! We played at an old theatre. Fans were showing up at the hotel. I told one of them that I wanted a

The gig in Athens, Greece last night was our last on this European tour. Great gig ! Thanks to everyone who was there ! 🙂 In Thessaloniki we did an acoustic gig instead of the regular due to some technical problems. It worked out great too ! This was also the last gig we did

The audience of Budapest, Hungary was fantastic ! – Thank You All !! 🙂 After the show we went out to sign cd:s and take pictures with some fans. Then we started the journey towards Bucharest, Romania – 900 km !! The last two days we have travelled about 1800 km:s !!! I could´t sleep

Here we are at the stop by the border to Hungary…… We´re on the way to Budapest. Me, Richard (tourmanager) and Stefan (lightdesigner) and of course our busdriver Berndt is awake….. All the others are sleeping in their bunks upstairs in this big trailer. Yesterdays gig was in Warsaw, Poland, so this is a loooooong

On the way to Prague, Czech Republic ! Yesterdays gig in Zlin, “Masters of Rock Café”, also in the Czech Republic was absolutely great ! To some of us in the band it was also the best gig so far on this tour from a musical point of view. The audience was wild and enthusiastic

                European Union: Sylvie (France) Me (Sweden) Jasmine (Switzerland) In Pratteln, Switzerland at Z7, october 10, 2012   This tour with Therion is not an ordinary tour. It´s the 25th anniversary. It´s the last tour we will do for a long time. We have just released a “weird

Arrived to Lyon, France this morning. I feel much better now. The fever seems to be gone since the gig last night in Toulouse where I was sweating like a pig on stage !! Went directly towards Lyon afterwards……..couldn´t get any sleep until 07:00……. Me, Sami, Stefan J and Havok has been to the city

The tour is rolling on !! Madrid and Barcelona were both great in Spain, and so was Bilbao. Today we have arrived at Toulouse, France, where we play tonight. The only negative thing is that several of us are sick !! And that´s including myself ! The last two days some of us have had

We´ve now been to Einhoven & Groningen in Holland, Antwerp in Belgium and Paris, France ! It´s all been great ! Especially in Paris ! The audience was almost as wild as in Mexico City ! 🙂 The travelling is going smoothly and I really enjoy being in this company. The new album seems to

September 29, 2012 Sitting in the dressingroom in Groningen, Holland, relaxing and listening to Stefan Jernståhl playing the piano ! 🙂 He´s a fantastic musician and the keyboardplayer for Therion this tour…. The first show of the tour in Eindhoven, Holland was great except for some technical problems with the guitars…. These first two days

Hello Out there ! THERION will soon start the rehearsals infor the “Flowers Of Evil Tour” It will be great to go out and meet the audience of Europe again ! 🙂 25 cities in 30 days ! We start in Holland and will end the tour in Russia. I´ve never been to Russia before

THERION – LATINAMERICA TOUR                         We have now been to: URUGUAY – Montevideo ARGENTINA – Buenos Aires CHILE – Santiago BRAZIL – Sao Paulo COLOMBIA – Bogota COLOMBIA – Medellin EQUADOR – Quito PERU – Lima   The cheering and appreciation of the audience

The travel to Uruguay was loooong and I didn´t sleep anything during all the three flights we had. I was awake for about 33 hours cause we didn´t leave Stockholm until in the evening…….and that morning, I was awake early as always ! Oh God how I slept when we reached the hotel in Montevideo

THERION REHEARSALS Tuesday and wednesday at Villa Adulruna has been great ! Me, Johan, Christofer and Vidal have rehearsed the music before the singers arrive this weekend. Really looking forward to go on this tour ! 🙂 Of all the countries we´re going to I have only been to Mexico before, so this will be

PREPARING FOR THE TOUR ! The last two weeks I´ve been preparing for the Latin-America Tour with THERION ! Some new equipment and clothes, and many other practical things that need to be done. Here are the dates:   Date Country City Venue Status 2012-05-31 Uruguay Montevideo Teatro Galpon Confirmed 2012-06-02 Argentina Buenos Aires El

Yesterday I was very surprised when I saw that I had been chosen as the best Bassplayer 2010 by the site MelodicRock.com ! I´m very happy about it ! 🙂 2010 was a year with lots of recording for me. I played on 7 full-length albums and I also recorded some singles and other stuff

I must be the worst “blogger” ever….. Anyway, today I have some things to tell you about…. – so then I write….. A lot of things are happening right now. Today, september 4th, it´s 7 months ago since I stopped drinking… and it feels really good ! 🙂 Feeling better than ever and I have

(This will follow in english) Hallå ! Har nu varit i Turin, Italien i 5 dagar och spelat in videon för Therions kommande boardgame. Det har som vanligt, när det gäller TV eller video varit en blandning av full stress till ett evigt väntande. Sammanfattningsvis: “Hurry Up and Wait” !! 😀 Som t ex den

Hallå ! Otroligt kul och trivsamt att vara ute med Therion igen !! (This will follow in English) Helt nyktert, lugnt och städat med undantag för ständiga skämt och roliga konversationer med mycket råa och glada skratt ! Bara att lyssna på Snowy och hans sjukt roliga inlägg om allt skulle få vem som helst

Hallåj ! (This will follow in english) Idag börjar repetitionerna inför THERIONs kommande gigs i sommar. Ska bli kul att träffa alla i bandet igen ! 🙂 Kommer att starta i Tjeckien den 9 juni för att sedan åka vidare till Frankrike. Vi kommer även att åka till Italien och vara där i några dagar

(This will follow in english – Scroll down) Hallå ! Jag måste vara världens sämsta bloggare….. ? …men finner mitt vardagsliv ganska ointressant för andra…… Vill ni verkligen veta hur många koppar kaffe etc jag dricker om dagen ? 😀 Tänkte bara föra en rapport över saker som händer just nu: Håller för närvarande på

Hallå Läsare ! Måste här få dela med mej av en liten story: Jag och en före detta granne diskuterade för några år sedan vad den riktiga och sanna kärleken är. Jag sa till honom att min uppfattning om det hela är att det måste väl vara kärleken till sina barn ! “Ja, sa han……

Igår fredag åkte jag och Ian Haugland upp till Borlänge för att repa med coverbandet “Monkey Bizniz” Vi tog min lilla sketna Nissan Micra å styrde mot Dalarna. Både min å Ians käft glappade hela vägen. De e så otroligt kul att snacka med honom. Verkar nästan som om samtalsämnena aldrig kan ta slut när

I´m very glad and proud to be part of the new album with Brian Robertson which will be released march 28th ! The album is built of Robbos demos and recordings from way back in time when he was a member of Thin Lizzy and Motörhead until now. He had a plastic bag full of

Good Morning ! – I just LOVE early mornings when almost noone is awake except me ! 🙂 I´m moving on with the recording of VINDICTIVs new album ! Right now I´m also very inspired by Devin Townsend (ex Strapping Young Lad) He is such a creative musician ! I´m listening very much to his

Hi Folks ! I´m now laying down some basstracks for the forthcoming album from progrockers VINDICTIV. I´m also writing songs and recording demos for L.A.D. I guess we will have loads of songs to choose from when it comes to the recording, and we´ll see which ones of them you will find on the forthcoming

Hi Folks ! This is what´s going on in my  world of music right now: HARDCORE CIRCUS: Doing pre-production for the new album. VINDICTIV: Recording the new album ! THERION: I Will do a few gigs with them during the summer and autumn. Feels good to be back ! 🙂 Check it out at: http://www.megatherion.com

Hi Folks ! This is my new blog ! Here I will keep you updated about what´s happening with my bands and projects I´m involved with. There are loads of things happening right now, so stay tuned for more information ! 🙂 Nalley