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FAITH BAND PAGE
 FAITH
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CURRENT NAME
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Faith | |
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FORMER NAMES
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ORIGIN
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Sweden | |
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STATUS
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Active | |
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FORMED IN
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LABEL
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Currently unsigned | |
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GENRE
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Doom metal | |
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STYLE
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2005-09-01, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2008-09-16, 06:55 | |
| Band biography |
The idea with the music was not to beat any speedrecord whatsoever but to make extremly heavy songs. The first compositions were based on Roger´s dark chord-changes and Christer´s lyrics that mainly were taken from Swedish history and lore. These first songs were recorded two cold days in January -85.
Quite soon after the first demo the band started the hard work of experimenting with weird beats and even more crazy chord-changes. After a tremendous amount of rehersals the "Faith"-demo was recorded. However, the first day was in the abcence of Jorgen who had to rest since he broke his nose the night before at a graduation party (!). The result of this demo was pretty close to symphonic rock, however, yet very heavy.
During the summer of -85 Jorgen left the band and the music became a bit more back to basics. The tempo increased and the songs were simplified. After Jorgen left, Roger Berntsson joined the band and took over the microphone and after some "serious saving" Faith had the financial possibility of producing their own first record. The result was a two-track single that was named "Hymn of the Sinner", a guitar-based production somewhat close to the first demo in style. After just few months Roger Berntsson left the band due family reasons and Zenny Hansson took over. Zenny was a wonderful singer with really amaizing voice-resources. Unfortunately, other bands agreed with this and the richest of them - Destiny - gave Zenny an offer he couldn´t refuse. He therefore packed his things and moved to Gothenburg to join them.
Christer had to "dust off" his throat once again and do the vocals on the nextcoming production that was recorded in the hometown of Faith: Karlshamn. This demo - "Insanity" - did not really come out the way the band expected but it was also in a period of trying new band members and different material.
Around new year 86/87 a new re-organisation was implemented and a guitarist named Peter Zweiniger joined. A few cover songs were put in between "the oldies" and Faith made quite a few gigs around southern Sweden. Faith also went east and made a successful tour in Finland that was called "Faith Fighting Finland" - not much of a name but you have to print something on the tour T-shirts...
In the summer of -87 the band locked themselves up in a cottage deep in the dark forest in oder to decide what the next step would be. Due to different ideas on how to proceed the desicion was taken to let the band rest for a while. This minor rest became seven years!
Peter Svensson moved to Gothenburg, Roger and Christer stayed in the south but were busy with work and parties. However, the three all the time had different projects going on probably also with the idea and dream of getting their band back together again.
So, therefore it was a natural step to take when Peter moved back to Karlshamn to meet and let the E minor scream out of the Marshall speakers. The E minor was of course immediately followed by some other chords and very soon a pretty nice bunch of new songs were finalized. In the exitement of getting back together Faith was re-united in July -95 the band went to the same studio as they recorded "Hymn of the Sinner" in to put the new ones on tape. This turned out well and "In the twelfth hour", as it called, contains the old energy and ideas but maybe it´s a little bit matured.
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