Magnus Karlsson (guitarist)
| Magnus Karlsson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 26, 1973 (age 43) Sweden |
| Genres | Heavy metal, hard rock, power metal, symphonic metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, keyboards, banjo, accordion, vocals |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels | Frontiers Records |
| Associated acts |
Primal Fear Starbreaker Allen/Lande Kiske/Somerville Bob Catley Last Tribe Midnight Sun Place Vendome |
Magnus Karlsson (born November 26, 1973) is a Swedish heavy metal songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is currently a session musician and songwriter of the band Primal Fear, as well as for other projects like his own Free Fall.
Magnus attended school to study classical guitar when he was 10 years old. Later on he was very much into "The New Wave of British Heavy Metal" of bands such as Iron Maiden, Dio, Judas Priest and Black Sabbath. His influences as a guitarist were Steve Morse, Steve Vai and Allan Holdsworth. He has played in various metal and fusion bands early on and developed a style which mixes metal and folk music.
His first critically acclaimed musical project was with the band Last Tribe, which has released three full-length albums.
In 2004, Magnus started to work as a session musician in a project put together by Frontiers Records, which had the intention to have two acclaimed heavy metal vocalists singing together as a duet. The project ended up featuring powerhouse vocalists Russell Allen (Symphony X) and Jørn Lande (ex-Masterplan) and was simply called Allen/Lande. The project released its first three albums with all music and the majority of lyrics written by Magnus Karlsson, featuring a variety of hard rock and heavy metal songs with a progressive metal touch.
In the same year he also started to write music for a project with singer Tony Harnell (TNT), drummer John Macaluso (Ark, TNT, Yngwie Malmsteen) and bassist Fabrizio Grossi (Steve Vai) that would later on become the band Starbreaker.
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