Mindmare

The style is melodic death nthrash, with fast drums and deep growling vox. The riffs are filled with harmonies and are build up carefully considering every single note.

A decade of doom & mindmare

Almost twelve years has gone since the base of what became Mindmare was founded. Mindmare originally started as a three piece doom metal act first called Unholy Grave, then the name changed to Moribund & was finally named Morfeus. The band found a fourth member on both guitar & vocal, T. Bøjden, which was not working well and a fifth member and guitarist J. Lageri was found in a smoke filled club somewhere in town.

It gave T. Bøjden a chance to concentrate on his lyrical skills and his vocal and the line-up was now ready & working well.

After completing the line up Morfeus began their strive to be recognised and to establish themselves as a doom metal band with a unique and special way of expressing themselves.

The music was primal, a slow but consequent beat all enshrouded in a crude & dark but clear sound completely void of equilibristic show-offs on stage or in the studio which became the special fingerprint of Morfeus. The musical style of Morfeus had clear references to bands like Black Sabbath and St. Vitus.

The musical concept was now clear and Morfeus added a gothic scene show to their act( a hell lot of smoke and skulls, cross-bones and a candelabra on each side of the stage just to mention some of it).

In 1993 the demo “Where no dreams reach” was recorded and the line up then consisted of P. Breinbjerg on drums, K. Fabricious on lead/rhythm guitar, D. Sørensen on bass, J. Lageri on rhythm/lead guitars and the vocals were all done by T. Bøjden.

Later the drummer P. Breinbjerg left Morfeus and a great substitute was found in the young lad J. Radoor on drums who still plays a crucial role in the band.

After doing a lot of rehearsing and playing live in front of a growing number of fans & curious people the band now decided to record their first demo in a minute and badly equipped studio with a dwindling amount of money at hand.

The band was very curious as to how far they could go with their identity as a doom metal act and started experimenting on different instrumental and vocal set-ups combining the female vocal of Lene Christensen with different string arrangements composed by the now famous folk-violinist H. Hauggaard, a great guy but unfortunately to busy to join the band permanently.

The band tried to find a suitable replacement which was quite impossible but ended up playing some gigs now with a female violinist who later left the line-up to concentrate on her studies at the musical academy.

Compelled by the growing number of fans & concert reviews the band continued rehearsing & playing at several concerts as warm up acts and split concerts with bands like Furious Trauma, Konkhra, Illdisposed, Geronimo, Sacrificial, Caustic, Beyond Serenity, Macabra, Pungent Stench, Brutal Truth, Golem, Ceremony, Hypocrisy, Meshuggah, Entombed, Skinlab, Mayhem and others.

The band momentarily ventured on another musical direction as changes in line-up were made again. T. Bøjden left for a period to try new ideas and Morfeus tried replacing his vocal with K. Fabricius who surrendered his instrumental position to a new guitarist M. Olesen and even a keyboard was added.

Morfeus now played a softer and more melodic kind of metal which later seemed to be a direction in which Morfeus never really was meant to go but they did so for quite some time and later again K. Fabricius left for other battlefields so to say.

T. Bøjden came back and found his niche again in Morfeus and a new member, R. Kærsner, who had experience from bands like Abbatoir and Ceremony, joined the band and proved to be a promising and skilled guitarist who even had the guts & instrumental technique to kick Morfeus back on track and make it a metal band again, once and for all!

The new guitarist had a major influence on the musical direction which Morfeus took, inspired by bands from the Gothenburg metal scene, the band started working on material which musically was far away from where it all began.

Morfeus began playing melodic death metal with inspiration from bands like In Flames & At The gates and it now seemed like a new foundation for the band was found. The band went in the studio once again but never really managed to complete another release due to a lot of different problems within the band.

After presenting some of the new material live and creating an intriguing scene show the band once again fell into a period of uncertainty and instability all while the popularity grew as well as the rumours of a deal with a record company persisted.

Once again the band had to face difficulties due to problems among the members of the band and T. Bøjden, D. Sørensen & J. Lageri finally ended all conflicts themselves and left the band in a quite “amputated” state of disorder which later was fixed by (once again) adding new blood to a band which almost had grown into some sort of institution on the danish metal scene. T. Bøjden came back briefly and the 3. track album “Thorned Harlequin & other ballads of the Heretics” were recorded in 1998 at Neverland recordings with J. Pedersen on guitar and R. Kærsner on Guitar and bass.

T. Bøjden left the band again for good and new members joined the band which continued to grow and evolve even without a real vocalist as J. Radooor substituted T. Bøjden for a shorter period of time.

J. Pedersen left the band, the lineup now consisted of R. Kærsner on guitars, J. Radooor on drums & vocals, but soon two new members L. Andersen on bass and M. Hansen on guitars, joined in, and another 3. track album was created on the independent label X-recordings in 2002 called “Fuelling the flames of hate”.

After some unsuccessful sessions with new vocalists, Morfeus also succeeded in getting their hands on a new vocalist J. Asmussen who also had experience from other bands and the circle was now full.

J. Asmussens vocal matched the band perfectly and he enabled the refining of each song and proved to be quite talented in the rehearsal room as well as on the stage and despite all hardships and changes in line-up the band once again manages to write new and exiting material which later would be released on a new album and at a live concert.

It really seemed as if new resources were brought in, and all these “veterans” of the danish metal scene brought new ideas as well as new songs with them in order to feed the furnace of a band, whose will to carry on playing metal never would die.

New blood, new material, it was all major changes that led to the release of Disordered Existence this year as well as the pre-release of the track “We Shall All Fall” and it also made the band take the next giant leap into the future.

A triple concert with the bands Ravishing and Urkraft as warm-up acts was announced in October which really ended up being a huge surprise for the audience and the scene in general.

As a consequence of all the changes in both line-up and musical direction during the last twelve years, the band decides to change its name to Mindmare, which was announced from stage by the vocalist at the concert. The name suited the band well and one could very well think that it is a way of keeping the old & dying greek god of dreams in remembrance, but it also means the dawning of a new and exciting chapter in the long story of a bands struggle to climb the cold & golden ladder of the global metal scene.

Only the future knows how the story continues, but one thing is for sure: these guys dont give up easily!

Yes! We play alot of gigs in our home country.

Swedish metal as: Soilwork, In Flames, The Haunted, At the Gates....

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