Mother Misery

Biography

In the break of the millennium, John Hermansen (ex Greyhate), Thomas Piehl, Jens Wide and Örjan Baudin (ex Clench) gave birth to the band Nosedive. Nosedive appeared on several compilations through the early years and in late 2002 the band started to work on what would come to be their debut album "Grandiosity". After changing the name to MOTHER MISERY the album was released in March 2004. Now followed tours around Sweden for a year, then at the end of 2004 Jens Wide (drums) and Örjan Baudin (b...

In the break of the millennium, John Hermansen (ex Greyhate), Thomas Piehl, Jens Wide and Örjan Baudin (ex Clench) gave birth to the band Nosedive. Nosedive appeared on several compilations through the early years and in late 2002 the band started to work on what would come to be their debut album "Grandiosity".

After changing the name to MOTHER MISERY the album was released in March 2004. Now followed tours around Sweden for a year, then at the end of 2004 Jens Wide (drums) and Örjan Baudin (bass) left the band and got replaced with Jimmy Lindbergh (drums) and Marcus Jäderholm (bass).

In 2005 the band got in contact with Daredevil Records (de) and the booking agency Rock This Town (de) who set up tours around Europe. "Grandiosity" got top reviews from all over the world and after some time on the road the work on the follow up album started.

In 2006 the band released the maxi ep "For The Crows" as a teaser of what would come, "For The Crows" would just like grandiosity recieve top reviews from media and fans from all over and now the next full length album was in progress. The band also recorded their first video at this time on the song “Take A Good Look” from the ep “For The Crows”.

In April 2007 the new album "All Eyes On You" saw the light of day and with "All Eyes On You" MOTHER MISERY took a few steps away from the stoner sound of "Grandiosity" and leaned more into the heavy rock sound, a video was recorded on the song “My Soul”.

Now followed tours around Europe and the fanbase grew bigger and bigger, "All Eyes On You" got tons of top reviews from fans and media all over such as Metal Hammer, Rock Hard, Close Up, Sweden Rock etc etc.

In January 2008 Marcus left the band and got replaced with Stiff Hell (Stefan Hellström) on the bass. After touring for some years on "All Eyes On You" the work on the next album would start and in the end of 2009 they had 20 new killer songs written.

In January 2010 MM entered Studio Underground (swe) with producer Pelle Saether to record 11 of these 20 songs and at this point the band is working with everything around the new record and the release is planned in the end of 2010.

"Standing Alone", the new album recently saw the light, and is directing the band to world notoriety.

In the meantime, John,performed in THE AWESOME MACHINE & STONEWALL NOISE ORCHESTRA.
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