Petter Karlsson
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| Petter Karlsson "The Duke of Drums" | |
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| Origin |  Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genre(s) | Symphonic metal |
| Occupation(s) | Drummer, composer, multi instrumentalist, singer, producer, sound engineer... |
| Associated acts | Therion Master Massivel, Eddie Meduza, Argento, Kajarr |
| Website | http://www.myspace.com/petterkarlsson |
| Notable instrument(s) | |
| Drums, guitar, vocals | |
Karl Petter Karlsson was born in the small swedish town of Karlsborg, on 31 May 1977. Coming from a family of fidlers, he developed his music skills since early age.
By the age of nine, he got his first drum kit. It was 1987 when he started his first band, together with his brother (Axel, also a musician) and a friend (Exo, now Beyond Twilight), called Fuzz Box.
In 1988 Petter started playing military music in the municipal school orchestra and by 1989 his sight of hard rock and drum playing really changed when he heard King Diamond’s ”Them”, with Mickey Dee on drums.
In 1991 Petter’s band got thru a guitar contest called ”Guitar Battle” the opportunity to contribute on the CD Guitar Heroes of Sweden. They changed the band name to Conspiracy and played on a local festival called ”Ungt forum”. Petter was only 14 years-old and was pointed ”The musician of the year” by the local media.
In 1993 he joined Master Massive, some sort of a cult band in the area of Skövde. The music was generally considered advanced metal, performed by highly skilled musicians.
Around 1994 Petter started working as a teacher at TBV Skövde. Both drums and guitar, and also had an open class drum clinic at TBV and joined the Västerhöjd School Big Band.
In 1995 Petter’s brother was awarded on second place in TV4’s “Sikta mot Stjärnorna” as Gene Simmons and his cover band called PUSS. He joined the band and we toured for about two years, with full make up, in Sweden.
During the same period he worked as a freelance drummer and contribute on records together with Swedish cult rocker Eddie Meduza and the metal dance band “Flintstens med Stanley”.
In 1996, he and some friends (Exo among others) started the band Kajarr. It was in the beginning just as a ploy band, but competed in a contest for young talents, Musik Direkt, and ended up in the finale, playing live on Swedish national TV twice. This was the first project in which Petter sang and composed songs.
In 2001 he hooked up with Exo and Kalle Nyhlin and formed the band Argento. But as time went by it became more and more as a one man’s project as Petter made all the songs and played all the instruments, and later on the project was left on hold.
In 2004 Petter was asked to join Therion as a session drummer for their world tour. He accepted and shortly after became a permanent member. Petter toured in South and Latin America, USA, Canada and Europe, all together in 35 counties, 110 shows and later on the DVD Celebrators of Becoming was released.
In the spring/summer 2006 Therion recorded the album Gothic Kabbalah. On that record Petter got the honor to compose not less then 40% of the music. He also play rhythm and melody guitar on five songs, lead vocals on two songs and contribute to the choir on all of the songs. The album was release worldwide on January 10th 2007.
In September 2006 Therion performed a show with a full symphonic orchestra and choir in Bucharest, Romenia. they repeated this great event in Miscolc, Hungary 2007. This show was recorded and is planned to be released on DVD. Jan-Feb 2007 the Gothic Kabbalah world tour started with 30 shows all around Europe. The one in Warsaw was recorded and will be released on DVD as well.
Later 2007 the band also played in Russia, Greece, Graspop Festival (Belgium), Hellfest (France) and Wacken (Germany), Turkey, Norway, Ireland, Israel, South America, Canada, USA, and Japan, and did another European tour.
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| Therion |
| Members |
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| Christofer Johnsson |
| Discography |
| Albums: Of Darkness... | Beyond Sanctorum | Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas | Lepaca Kliffoth | Theli | A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming | Vovin | Crowning of Atlantis | Deggial | Secret of the Runes | Live in Midgård | Sirius B | Lemuria | Gothic Kabbalah | Live Gothic |
| Compilations and box-sets: Bells of Doom | The Early Chapters of Revelation | Atlantis Lucid Dreaming | Celebrators of Becoming |
| Singles: "The Beauty in Black" | "The Siren of the Woods" | "Eye of Shiva" | "Wand of Abaris" | "The Wand of Abaris / Path to Arcady" |
| Demos: Paroxysmal Holocaust | Beyond the Darkest Veils of Inner Wickedness | Time Shall Tell |
