Andreas Hedlund
| Andreas Hedlund | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Andreas Hedlund |
| Also known as | Vintersorg, Mr. V |
| Born | 17 November 1973 |
| Origin | Skellefteå, Sweden |
| Genres | Black metal, folk metal, progressive metal, progressive rock, melodic death metal, death metal, thrash metal, avant-garde metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, record producer, audio engineer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, lute, programming, piano, organ |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Labels | Century Media, Lion Music, Napalm |
| Associated acts | Borknagar, Cronian, Fission, Gravisphere, Havayoth, Otyg, Vintersorg, Waterclime |
Andreas Hedlund (born 17 November 1973), better known by his stage names Vintersorg and Mr. V, is a Swedish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has played in several heavy metal bands.
Hedlund's musical career came to be in 1994 when he and a few other musicians formed "Vargatron". The original style was meant to be rooted in black metal but using mostly clean vocals and only a few moments of the traditional grim screaming. After a few line-up changes, the group broke up in 1996, but Hedlund still wanted to work with the songs he wrote for Vargatron and decided to record them by himself. As a result, he revived the act as a solo project and changed its name to "Vintersorg", a project he continues to this day.
As the year 2000 arose, so did a new project for Hedlund. This new band, Havayoth, was a gothic metal band formed by Marcus "Vargher" E. Norman from Ancient Wisdom, Bewitched, Naglfar, and Throne of Ahaz and Morgan Hansson, also from Naglfar. Hedlund sang on the 2000 album, His Creation Reversed, but left the band a few years later before he participated with them on anything else. The band continues on today without Hedlund.
Following the departure of ICS Vortex as vocalist, Borknagar was in need of a new singer. Having been friends for some time, Øystein G. Brun asked Hedlund to take the reins for their forthcoming album, Empiricism. Hedlund joined the band in 2001, and is still their vocalist to this day, having now recorded three albums on Century Media Records, as well as their forthcoming album on Indie Recordings and playing live on many occasions.
In 2002, Benny Hägglund, long time friend of Hedlund, and live drummer for Vintersorg, began working on music for a project that would combine melody and aggression into energetic songs. He eventually felt compelled to ask Hedlund for support in this project, thus Fission was born. With Benny playing drums, guitar, and bass, and Hedlund singing and adding his experimental edge to their melodic thrash metal with his unique synths, the band recorded their first full-length, entitled Crater, released in 2004 through Napalm Records.
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