Nick Royale

Nicke Andersson
Nicke Andersson performing with the Hellacopters in 2008.
Background information
Birth name	Anders Niklas Andersson
Also known as	Nick Royale, Nicke Hellacopter, David Lee Hellacopter, Punk Andersson
Born	(1972-08-01) 1 August 1972 (age 45) Sweden
Genres	Garage rock, rock, hard rock, garage rock revival, punk rock, garage punk, soul, death metal, death 'n' roll, heavy metal, thrash metal, psychedelic rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums, clavinet, percussion
Years active	1981–present
Labels	Psychout, Earache, BMG, National, White Jazz, Bad Afro, CBR, Nuclear Blast, polar Music International, Lookout!, Musikexpress, Music for nations, Wild Kingdom, Liquor and Poker Music, Universal, Moon, Easy Action
Associated acts	The Hellacopters, Entombed, The Solution, Death Breath, Imperial State Electric, The Hydromatics, Supershit 666, Nihilist, MC5, Stefan Sundström, Dismember, Neil Leyton, Cold Ethyl
Notable instruments
TYM Guitars – The Royale Nickes signature guitar Mosrite Ventures model reissue Daguet Epiphone Crestwood replica Berg Electric Guitars- The Goblin & The Imperial

Nicke Andersson (also known as Nick Royale), born 1 August 1972, is a Swedish singer, guitarist, drummer, songwriter and composer most known for his work as the singer and guitarist of the successful Grammy award winning rock band The Hellacopters and drummer for Swedish death metal band Entombed. He has also done work as a producer as well as artwork for most the bands he has been involved with. Besides his work with the Hellacopters, Andersson is currently the drummer and songwriter in the soul band The Solution with Scott Morgan as well as the drummer, guitarist and songwriter in the death metal band Death Breath. Andersson has been involved in well over a hundred different official releases with different bands. He is currently touring with his new project, Imperial State Electric. Andersson was also the drummer of Tiamat in 1989, who were under the name of Treblinka, but he was no longer in the group by that year and he did not record any material with them.

Andersson's interest began early in life with KISS as his favorite band and soon discovered his childhood friend and future band mate Kenny Håkanssons father's record collection and bands such as The Ramones and Sex Pistols. His interest soon turned towards heavier music, trading cassettes and vinyl and writing for fanzines. It wasn't long before Andersson started playing music and was soon playing drums and guitars in rock and metal bands such as Brain Dead Bodies, The Breaking, Belsen Barnen, Parodi, Maximal Skandal, Sons of Satan, Blasphemy, Nihilist and a number of other bands.

Andersson formed Nihilist after answering an ad in Heavy Sound, a record store in Stockholm When Nihilist broke up in 1989, the same musicians formed Entombed with a different bass player. Andersson was predominantly the drummer in the band but also contributed with bass, guitars and vocals as well. Entombed took influences from many different genres but mostly from death metal in the band's first two albums Left Hand Path and Clandestine. With their third album the group started incorporating more traditional influences from hard rock and heavy metal and the album Wolverine Blues is widely considered to be the origin of Death 'n' roll.