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Monday 7th, January 2008

SKELLINGTON @ NO 1 - FOR 4 WEEKS IN A ROW!!!

Hell-oh folks! Without any big PR-machinery at all to back up the band, the Skellington debut album "LAST HUMAN STANDING" has surprisingly been charted as No 1 as "Most Bought Heavy Metal Album" right before Hardcore Superstar, Nightwish, Helloween, Soilwork and many other great bands at the big, fameous Megastores website (in Scandinavia) - for 4 whole weeks in a row!!! By the power of the fans only!

Gosh...that was "unexpected" just five or six weeks ago:) We also were directly No 12 at their "ordinary" Top 20 List, right behind legendary Bruce Springsteen and loads of fameous swedish house hold names and international artists for over two weeks in a row in December - so one might wonder what the fukk is wrong here huh?;)

But now, in the last few days we´ve dropped down to No 6 or No 10 or No 15 or whatever...but who really cares!?;) YOU MADE IT HAPPEN! Every one of you fans out there all over Sweden!!! We fukking love you all...THANK YOU!

Although, it is now, during 2008 and the upcoming 18 months that the album will try to reach out as much as possible in as many countries as possible. It is now it all starts for real! And we don´t know how or where it will take us. But whatever happens we will always remember how it started: right here, right now!

HAPPY NEW (Y)EAR FOLKS!!!;)

Ps.

Don´t forget our other, rather "new" website at: www.myspace.com/skellingtontheband

(And...of course, please keep on asking for Skellington at your local record store wherever in Sweden or just order the album at: www.ginza.se, www.cdon.com or of course www.megastore.se for god´s sake...;)

Sunday 23rd, December 2007

GREAT FUN GIG LAST NIGHT!

Aaaaalright folks! Last night Skellington performed live for the first time in two years (!) and it was a blast for everyone on stage, off stage and everywhere in between!:)

Surprisingly there was people coming all the long, long way from Dalarna, Norrköping and Södertälje just to see the band play at the (Sold-Out) HELL-BAR in Sundbyberg, Stockholm! The band had lots of fun with the wild audience and there was headbanging and screaming and shouting and ATTITUDE all over the place!!!

Skellington also played 3 never-performed-live-before songs from their just released debut album "Last Human Standing" (which is STILL No 1 at Megastore websites "Most Bought Heavy Metal Album" for almost three weeks in a row by now!) and the wild audience showed their wildly appreciation for sure!;) The final extra number was - as a tradition of the band - their highly acclaimed cult cover of KISS classic "Love Gun" (re-named "Stor Kuk"/Big Cock in Swedish!)...and...well...let´s just say there was some kind of PORNOGRAPHIC DIRTY FUN SING-A-LONG at the end of the evening!;)

The "buzz" about Skellington has been around for a few years in the deepest underground metal scene, but now everyone knows it´s time to Spread The Word Around! The band is gonna go full tilt for the next up-coming 18 months and see where the debut album will take them...

The band want to thank Micke, Hanna, Benny (and everyone in the audience!) at the warm, warm..."HOTTER THAN" HELL-BAR, Sundbyberg for a Historic Skellington Evening (so to speak ha ha;)...

But, of course, most of all: THE FANS! Thank You All - You Kick Ass!!!;)

Now, the band is ready to enter any stage and totally EXPLODE in 2008!

So...CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!!!;)

Oh...and...Merry Metal Christ-mas & Heavy New Year folks!;)

Friday 7th, December 2007

HELL YEAH! THE SKELLINGTON DEBUT ALBUM IS NOW UNLEASHED!!!

Hell-oh Friends!;) Our (fukking great;) debut album "Last Human Standing" is finally out - NOW!!!

It only took us 7 years in a small and smelly and sweaty rehearsal room (with only one air condition hole!) and over a year in the actual making of the debut album - but it´s been worth it...YEAH, YOU BET!!!;)

We now really hope You All Out There will appreciate our efforts and like the album. It´s made BY metalheads FOR metalheads - with a lot of heart, sweat and love for the metal genre...

We have tried to find the actual heart and core of heavy metal through the history of time. Inspired by everything good the past 40 years Skellington has created a style of our own - or so people always tell us anyway...;)

So, well, one thing is for sure: If you don´t like the album you´re obviously into pop or quite insane...;) Ha ha, just kidding...;)

Ps.

We really want to THANK OUR FANS ALL OVER SWEDEN who yesterday made us No 12 at the Megastore website Toppselling Hit List and No 1 at "Most Bought Heavy Metal Album"...and this without PR - just the power of underground metal and pre-orders from Skellington fans & Metalheads!

Now - That is kick ass folks!!!;)

Friday 30th, November 2007

HOLY SHIT! Skellington among TOP ARTISTS @ Megastore!!!!

Last night Skellington was confirmed as one of the most pre-booked CD´s Top Artists in the big fameous Swedish Megastore-stores! We were at No 4!!! No fukking 4!!!

This is of course not like as if a UFO came down landing and ET came out with a beer and said "Hello earthlings, I´m for real and now I´m gonna fucking thrash this planet"...but anyways, to be pre-booked ahead of every non-swedish act (U2 fuck u!;) and only after Marie Fredriksson (of Roxette fame) and Sweden´s absolutly biggest rock band KENT (who just released a new album) and at least for a day or a few hours be The Most Pre-Booked Heavy Metal Band at all in Sweden (actaully every metal act on earth were after us at that moment! Sweden is Weird huh?;) is...quite amazing!;)

Although, as we write this in the morning, we´ve slipped down to No 8...shit!;)

Does it matter? HELL NO!!!:)

If somebody responsible who delivers that Top 20-prebookings-list at Megastores website were drunk last night or something...well, KEEP ON drinking we say!!! hee hee...;)

This is although a SALUTE to all you fans out there in Sweden (and other countries) - A Big Thank You ALL from the band! We applaude everyone who actually considers to buy our debut album on Dec 5th!!!

Ps.

You can now hear 4 whole tracks from the debut album "Last Human Standing" right here at: www.myspace.com/skellingtontheband because this website is still under construction...;)

(Please keep on asking for Skellington at your local record store wherever in Sweden or pre-order the album at: www.ginza.se, www.cdon.com or of course www.megastore.se for god´s sake...;)

Friday 9th, November 2007

Alright folks! The official release date (in Sweden) for Skellington´s long awaited debut album "Last Human Standing" is: Wednesday 5th December 2007!!!

Yeah, so now you know Christmas comes early this year...and that Santa Claus is a metalhead too!;) Meanwhile the new upcoming Skellington website is still under construction and will be finished the same week. Perhaps also with a little surprise or two as well...(This good old "cult-website" is actually becoming more and more popular so we really feel we need to update this old shit;)

The full adds in the latest (November) issues of Close-Up Magazine and Sweden Rock Magazine as well as our album tracks on their CD-records for their readers seem to make a nice impact too. In December we´ll also have a release party somewhere in Stockholm and also play LIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO FUCKING YEARS!!!. More info later...

To all our fans out there in Sweden (and other countries) - trust us, the whole album is one big gigantic celebration of Heavy Metal Music in it´s purest, most primitive style and form. We´ve tried to find the actual heart and core of the whole history of metal. It´s a cross between 1972 and 2007 at the same time and we never appologize for loving Heavy Metal all the way. We´re in it for life! And sure...Not everyone will understand what the fuck we´re doing, but then again not everyone is a fucking genious either huh?;) A couple of beers and this CD-record on full tilt blast will make any dull party much more fun...AND YOU DON´T EVEN HAVE TO TUNE YOUR AIR GUITAR!;)

Please also visit our other official website at: www.myspace.com/skellingtontheband where we actually have a couple of tracks from the album right now...(But you just wait and see - this website will kick ass later on and offer stuff like competitions, events and official merchandise like never before...;)

Friday 28th, September 2007

Hello folks! The new Skellington website is under construction and will be finished later on this fall. Meanwhile here is some information confirmations about the forthcoming Skellington debut album. The title of the album will be "LAST HUMAN STANDING" and it includes 16 original tracks:

1) Purgatorium (Intro)

2) Devil´s Playground

3) Angry Man

4) Days Of Our Lives

5) Days...Remembered (Reprise)

6) Shoot

7) Killer Agony

8) Vicious Circle

9) The Unholy

10) Ghost

11) Legions Of Hate

12) The Promise Of A Better Day

13) Last Human Standing

14) Open The Gate

15) Street

16) Freak Of The Day (Special Bonus Track)

Produced By Jac Rytterholm. Engineered & Mixed By Rickard Nilsson. Mastered By Björn Engelmann.

The album "LAST HUMAN STANDING" will get it´s release date within soon. There´s many things that shall fall into the right places before we know the exact release date...but it´s worth the wait! It´s an album where rules are bended back and forth. Where streamlined musical trends are shattered into tiny little pieces. Where the actual heart and core of Metal Music has been found once and for all. It´s where raw old-school metal becomes up-dated with the modern 21st century grooves. In short: "LAST HUMAN STANDING" is hard to describe - it must be heard!!!

But more than anything it´s blasting honest Metal at it´s finest - made by true metalheads for true metalheads...

Friday 10th, August 2007

THE ALBUM IS FINISHED!!!

Hello everyone out there! You might have been wondering...and yes, now the band´s (smashing!) debut album is almost ready. The recordings and mixing process is now over and all that is left is the mastering process, soon to take place within two weeks. Almost 10 months in the making, the band has created a timeless piece of metal music that will live a long life far beyond 2007! The first CD-single picked from this killer debut album has already been chosen: "Days Of Our Lives" - the band´s latest brand new song that is without any doubt well worth to represent the album. An epic, blast beating fast and furious, yet melodic "super metal" anthem that has impressed A LOT during recordings!

A full track list will be published later on and followed by more information about where and when the single and the album will be released in Sweden. (The international release is expected to take place during the winter...).

Right now, the working plan is to release the album in October - SO YOU JUST STAY TUNED METALHEADS!!!

Monday 4th, June 2007

NEW PLANS FOR ALBUM RELEASE!

Hello fans & everyone else out there! Many of you keep mailing and asking, so here is (finally;) an up-date:

*Yes, Skellington is still working in the studio. So far everything´s been great and the mixing will take place during the summer. And yes, the album is really really shaping up to become a...MONSTER!!!;) The result will be well worth the wait for all of you fans of the band who keep asking about the release date. There´s actually been about 250% more unique visitors for this website this Spring and we thank you all for the interest! Some new ideas and highly interesting plans is now in the making for the forthcoming Skellington debut album. And all that can be said at this, still quite early, stage is that a release date is planned for the fall 2007...

The whole band is very eager to show you all what we´ve done. But...patience friends...patience;)

Tuesday 6th, February 2007

A brand new design of this "good old cult-website" (?;) is in the making! The new, more "professional" Skellington website will be revealed in the spring, just in time for the forthcoming Skellington debut album (probably) in May 2007...

The album will contain a total of 14 original songs and some of the demos can be heard on the "Music" section. The difference though will be...SPECTACULAR!!! The album will show a broad range of pure metal music, where influences from the whole history of hard rock/heavy metal can be found here and there in the arrangements. From the late 60´s through the 70´s, 80´s, 90´s and up to date with modern day 21st century metal. As always adding "The Touch Of The Skellington Hand" of course...;)

In short: Anyone claiming to be a "true" metalhead will have a blast for sure!!!

Ps.

Many people all over Sweden, both up-north and down-south, have obviously heard the band´s "Demo Diablo" somehow during 2006 - and been very positive about it! Therefor the band would like to thank each and every one of you out there for your interest and appreciation! Not only in Sweden but also in other countries there is people liking the band, so Skellington thank you all wherever you are: THANX!!!

Sunday 17th, December 2006

Yo friends! The recordings of our forthcoming debut album is doing great so far.

It WILL kick your ass - far faaar away!!!;) We will now take a break over the holidays and continue in January. We are not really in a hurry so we got time to do the material justice. The quality of the production is more important than just "putting it out there". After all, in the end, all that really does matter is that you´ll like it, right!?;)

And, right now it seems like we´re gonna play some festivals in the summer, right after the album´s released (probably) in May 2007. Nothing is 100% confirmed yet, but it looks interesting...

Oh, and of course, MERRY X-MAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS!!!

Monday 6th, November 2006

Hello everyone! It´s been a (long) while, but now the wait is over - Skellington entered the studio this Halloween-weekend on 30th October!!!

Recording sessions will probably last through November-December-January. The band´s singer Jac Rytterholm is - as usual - the producer/dick-tator of rock & roll and expect to mix the album in February. The long awaited album will contain 14 songs of finest piece of first rate metal music, and it will most likely be released sometime in the late Spring of 2007...

Here´s a little message from Jac about the "album vision":

- I want people to fucking explode when they hear our album. Ears melting, eyes popping, throats bleeding...you know, all that kind of stuff. Expect us to present a wide metal album made for true metal heads. I believe in our songs and I know it´s strong material all the way. We´re not following any fucking "trends", so this will not be the usual modern stereotype crap. This band knows how to WRITE SONGS and we´re gonna prove it. The approach is simple on the surface but beneath it all there´s a few nice touches here and there. In a time when there´s very few metal bands of today that truely sounds original rather than copy cats, Skellington already have found an identity of our own. We are inspired by the WHOLE history of hard rock/heavy metal music and that´s exactly what you hear from us. No alternative shit!

- In short: I want this album to sound BIG AND FAT - AND SHAKE YOUR FUCKING HOUSE DOWN TO THE GROUND!!!;) Tons of guitars, guitars and more guitars, breathtaking bass and thunderous drums with screaming vocals blowing up your pity little stereo system...yeah, that´s the ambition anyways!;)

I hope You will like the result later on...

/Jac

Ps.

We are nowadays also having an extra website on: www.MySpace.com/skellingtontheband

Friday 2nd, June 2006

SKELLINGTON GETS RECORD-DEAL!!! Now it´s "official" that the band have started an highly interesting and most exciting collaboration with Syce Enterprises Ltd. based in London, England. (More information and details about these great news will be revealed later on...).

Meanwhile a very, very (yeah, very!;) goodlooking Limited Edition-version of the new "Demo Diablo" has been made in one thousand copies only. It looks "killer" and Skellington wants to express gratitude and thanks to Syce Enterprises Ltd. for believing in the band right away and printing this demo as a kind of "teaser" before the forthcoming full length debut album in 2007...Thanx!!!

You can either buy it (signed of course if you want to - ha ha;) from this website - or maybe you feel lucky to get it somehow somewhere else...?;) Look for it at Sweden Rock Festival!

Wednesday 10th, May 2006

A new Skellington-t-shirt has arrived! This is the band´s third one and by far the coolest looking!!! It features the "Demo Diablo"-cover, an original artwork handpainted by Krister Röst and designed by singer Jac Rytterholm with a little help of bass player Tommy Jee. Awesome painter Krister Röst and Jac is already working on new ideas and later in the summer more Skellington-t-shirts will be offered to buy from this website. These are all original artworks and Skellington is very happy with the collaboration - and you better believe there´s some wicked shit coming up in a future not far away...;)

If interested, please take a look at the "T-Shirts"-section and see all the stuff and sizes etc...

Ps. Ask yourself exactly how many faces you see on the picture...;)

Thursday 9th, March 2006

NEW SKELLINGTON-DEMO UNLEASHED!!! Finally, the long awaited "Demo Diablo" is ready to explode in your face - and melt your ears!;) It includes 3 songs: "Ghost", "The Unholy" and "Open The Gate" and you can hear some extracts of it if you click to "Music". The new material has developed in a way the band has always intended: Darker, Heavier and Crunchier. The arrangements are fresh and exciting, bold and dramatic - and as always with great melodic inlays! Skellington-fans will not be dissapointed. A new blasting chapter of Heavy Metal Music for the 21th century has been made...uh, yeah, you bet!;)

Down below you see the original cover artwork by Krister Röst and Jac Rytterholm...

"Demo Diablo"...only to be played LOUD!!!

Wednesday 15th, February 2006

People seem a bit curious and keep asking about the new upcoming "DEMO DIABLO". Reports from singer/producer Jac and engineer Johan Lundh says that the mixing process is now almost finished.

The result from making a cheap recording in a simple rehearsal room is "quite stunning" according to Jac and he hopes "DEMO DIABLO" will see the light of day at the end of February/early March...

Meanwhile Skellington lead guitarist Jocke is now doing "Lumpen" (Swedish military education) and reports from unknown deadly parts of Sweden that "it´s frickin´fuckin´COLD everyfuckingwhere and it really sucks big camel dicks"...and hrm, yes, it´s safe to say we got the hint out of those words;)

Also, the highly interesting plans for 2006 is now getting into serious shape. More info in the spring!

Thursday 5th, January 2006

The band will enter the studio tomorrow and start the recordings of the new (long awaited) demo.

It´s called "Demo Diablo" and includes 3 brand new songs: "The Unholy", "Ghost" and "Open The Gate". The recording process will take all weekend and hopefully the mixing won´t take too long after that. "Demo Diablo" will feature a darker, heavier and crunchier sound. The melodies will be mightier than ever, and the band is full of confidence that this new material will be well recieved by the fans and other metalheads out there. (Well, according to people´s reaction when performing some of the new songs live recently, it seems like Skellington has something REALLY FUCKING WICKED going on...hee hee hee;)

And later in this new year 2006 A.D. (ey, Happy new year y´all by the way!;) the band has very Very VERY interesting stuff going on...but more of that later as we said;)

Saturday 26th, November 2005

Last night at RAM´s release-party our performance was a success and we had a great time on stage. We want to thank all the people coming up afterwards and showing their appreciation. Thanks, it means a lot for us to hear your nice words and praising the whole fucking night. WE LOVE YOU ALL!!! And we also want to thank RAM for this opportunity and "neckbreaking party"!;) We wish you guys luck on your way to "Total Metal Tyranny" and we are sure true metalfans all over Europe will love your new album "Forced Entry". In short, it was sweaty and hotter than hell - but we had a blast!;)

Yesterday we also got confirmed that Skellington´s "Vicious Circle" is included on a new special DVD-documentary from TV 4 about world champion car builders and monster cars and so on. It´s called "Mera Motor: Garage Classes" and includes all the shit you ever dreamed of if you like cars, cars, cars...;) It will be released by TV 4 (one of Sweden´s biggest TV-channels) just in time for your Christmas-shopping in December! So now you know what you want from Santa, huh?;)

Thursday 10th, November 2005

Our friends in Defueld and Skellington has decided to cancel their gig 7th January at Tantogården.

Both bands are busy with recording processes this winter - and Defueld are actually recording their full length debut album, so it´s a bit tricky especially for them to get it all together timewise.

Meanwhile Skellington has decided to perform at least 2 brand new songs from the forthcoming "Demo Diablo" at the RAM-release-party 25th November. (And hey, that alone is worth every cent, folks!;)

Wednesday 26th, October 2005

New t-shirts for all our female fans has arrived! Black, tight so called "girl-sizes" with a special little red devil-logotype. See "Merchandise" for more info + picture...

Skellington has also been selected to play at a rock-contest together with 40 bands in Stockholm the

up-coming 8 weeks. We play at the legendary Tantogården (once again!;) on 17th November and will perform with 4 other bands that night. We will represent the metal-genre - and we will KICK ASS!;) See "Livegigs" for info of how to support your favorite band...(yeah, that´s us damnit!;)

Friday 14th, October 2005

Skellington will be playing as special guests at RAM´s release-party Friday 25th November!

This exciting and critically acclaimed heavy metal act from Gothenburg will release their brand new album "Forced Entry" the very same day, so expect nothing but total metal tyranny...;)

Also playing are Defueld. See more info at "Livegigs"...

Skellington will also be playing with Defueld + 2 other bands (TBA) at Tantogården, Stockholm Saturday 7th January 2006! (More info about that later...)

Sunday 2nd, October 2005

Good news for everyone who´s kept telling us to put up songs from our "Live In The Studio"-sessions! Now you can listen to a couple of full length-tracks from these "secret recordings" from last year on the updated "Music"-segment. We are not really satisfied with it, but we still hope you enjoy it...

And, for the past few days we´ve also listened to the "loud commands" from all our female fans who wants Skellington-T-shirts in girls sizes. So, yes girls, we ARE gonna make extra special T-shirts for YOU too!;) "Girlie-tops" are coming within´soon - and we actually enjoy the whole idea, come to think of it...;)

Thursday 29th, September 2005

Yo fans! Hell-elujah - they are here now: yes, the very first SKELLINGTON T-shirts in world history has arrived!!!

This is a magic moment for human kind of course, and without doubt extremely beautiful to watch;) Check out "Merchandise" - and soon, there will be more. We plan different kinds of pictures so it won´t bore you, we want all our beautiful fans to look even more beautiful with these lovely T-shirts on...

Thursday 25th, August 2005

Ok folks, TA DA - the band has now taken the very first photos with the new line-up!

Yesterday evening SKELLINGTON had to fight a lot of cars (from fucking everywhere) and a lot of evil mosquitos (from fucking HELL!?;) to shoot the damn photos - which you can see under "Pictures".

The band laughed too much sometimes (and Jac invented the new expression "Mygga-deth";) so most of this fast, stressful photosession will never see the light of day (hopefully;) because in the world of heavy metal no laughing is allowed - or is it?;)

Anyways, SKELLINGTON is "reborn", the band has definetly shifted gear - and is accelerating fast!!!

The new axe grinder Jocke is a quick learner, and he and Jac has already written a new great track called "Open The Gate" which will be included on the forthcoming new, heeeeeavy demo later this fall...

And, SKELLINGTON has also been invited to play as Special Guests to a very interesting act from Gothenburg this upcoming fall/winter...but that´s not "official" yet. More info later on...Take Care!

Friday 1st, July 2005

Alright: Good News folks! SKELLINGTON HAS NOW (FINALLY!) FOUND A NEW LEAD GUITARIST!!!

The axe grinder replacing our friend Bo Karlsson, nowadays playing with black metal masters DARK FUNERAL (and his own project MORDICHRIST), is named Joakim Norlander and the Skellington crew gives him A Big Welcome To The Band!

(More info and brand new photos later on this summer...right now Joakim has A LOT OF SONGS TO LEARN!;).

Monday 13th, June 2005

Hello again fans! It´s been a long, long time since we wrote something here on the website.

We (especially Jac) has gone through stuff on a private level (about the loss of his father etc) but now the band seem to get into shape again. Skellington is invited to play with 2 other bands, Defueld and Nocturnal Domination, at the fameous Moonshine Motor Club now on Saturday 18 June in Farsta, Stockholm. See more info on "Livegigs".

The upcoming recording of the new demo, including 3 brand new (heavy!) songs and an earthshaking cover of Lenny Kravitz "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" is on it´s way as we say. Plans for the recording are set in July. Probably the long exspected video shoot will happen too later this summer...

Whatever. Skellington is back!!! We´ll keep you posted! C ya!

Friday 11th, February 2005

This upcoming weekend the band was supposed to go in the studio to record a brand new, fresh and incredibly heavy 4-track-demo. A studio was booked and ready, but, sadly enough, the recordings has to be postponed due to a tragic death in Jac´s family, when his father suddenly died 29 January.

Besides losing a big supporter and fan of the band, Jac will now of course take some time off for his grief and to fix things that must be fixed concerning the funeral etc. (Arne Rytterholm, R.I.P.)...

* The upcoming video shoot of "Legions of Hate" in March will now also have to move on to the future. (Yeah, this was also - finally! - booked for 12-13 March...but, now it has to simply wait until later this spring).

But, a good thing though, is that the ongoing search for a new lead guitarist now seems to reach the end. The band has met several interesting guitarists since October and soon the band will decide and announce their new member!

Monday 6th, December 2004

Yo folks! SKELLINGTON will be a part of the soundtrack to a new "monster car"-documentary. We don´t know much about the project yet, but it seems to be quite fun. The filmmakers liked our songs and asked us, and we agreed. Cool. And, in january the band will enter the studio and record the 3 new, fresh songs.

(These songs are gonna be heavier than a truckload of sh*t, that´s for sure!;)

Thursday 23rd, September 2004

Hello folks! The band has now started serious recording sessions with a brand new mini-studio. The work goes pretty slow because we engineer it ourselves and it´s hard to understand what the f--k we´re doing;) But the new songs are breathtakingly heavy, dark - and "beautiful" at the same time. The songs are a bit hard to describe, but we have changed our style slightly getting meaner and yet even more melodic. It´s raw - and elegant!

We are also slowly looking for a new lead guitarist, but right now we´re mostly into that "engineering" shit;) And by the way, the video shoot for "Legions of Hate" is getting closer. We want to shoot it during the fall when the weather is dark, windy and got a "very metal look" over here in Scandinavia...;)

Sunday 22nd, August 2004

Last night SKELLINGTON "headlined" Storvreten Summer Festival in Tumba, Stockholm and it was quite a fun place to play at. It was our first gig in several months, so we were a bit "rusty";)

But it actually turned out alright and the band had a fun time with little wild people (ha ha) on stage and some drunken folks here and there...yeah, it was maybe a bit "odd" gig BUT IT WAS FUN!;)

(Thanx once again for all the great response, all you rockers out there!)

Wednesday 7th, July 2004

Hi again, the summer is here and SKELLINGTON will enter the studio once again within soon.

Besides being on vacation, we´ve also shot some new "PR-photos" that will appear on the site in the near future. We have also decided to finally look for a new lead guitarist (to replace Bo Karlsson, who is nowadays a member of Dark Funeral) and perhaps even also a keyboard-player! Who knows...?;)

We have written about 7-8 new songs in a very short, creative time - and at least 3 of these new songs will be recorded in a studio here in Stockholm later this summer. These 3 new songs we´ve chosen to try out are DEFINETLY HEAVIER, slower and darker although the melodies are almost even more powerful than ever before...Hmm, you´ll see how it turns out to be;)

This new demo will probably not feature any new member, we will just go ahead and do it live as we did with "Live In The Studio" this spring. By the way, that album demo has gotten nice reviews and is still "out there" to be..."analysed" by people in the record industry. So far, so good though.

(And yes, we still cross our fingers...it almost hurts by now;)

Monday 19th, April 2004

Hello everybody! Good news - SKELLINGTON has just come back from the studio where we´ve recorded a whole fucking album actually!;) Yep, that´s correct - we started recording two days ago and the mix was finished today. Totally we´ve spent 25 hours (including mix!) recording 13 songs (!) this weekend. And, since we´re no magicians we did it LIVE (!!!) - so, now "business people" in Japan, Germany, Italy, England, USA (and Sweden) can hear how we sound live as well as hear our "vision" of an entire debut album. Hopefully this "Live In The Studio (Album Demo)" will result in a big fat record deal later on this year - so, cross your fingers, folks! Because we certainly do!...;)

(Please notice: SKELLINGTON has not been signed yet - but there is some interested parts that will listen through this live recording of the "Album Demo" and if they like it...="hubba hubba";)

Thursday 12th, February 2004

SKELLINGTON´S NEW GIG IN KALLHÄLL HAS BEEN STOPPED - BY THE GOVERMENT!!!

Well, ok, it´s really about us playing "too loud" according to some nutty neighbours close to Crazy Eagle in Kallhäll. So, they complained to the goverment (kommunen) and now we have to cancel the gig 28 February - actually, NO BAND will be allowed to play there anymore it seems...shit, that kinda sucks!:(

Because Crazy Eagle was a really fun place to play at last month - so "hat´s off" to the audience there because you knew how to appreciate true ROCK & ROLL! ;)

Monday 2nd, February 2004

We had a real good time at Crazy Eagle in "Burn In Kallhäll" (ha ha) this weekend and it was a surprisingly positive audience after a slow start of the show! They actually "demanded" more songs over and over, although we hadn´t planned it at all.

Shit, we hadn´t expected people to care at all, so it was a nice surprice and we had to improvice and did a whole six extra numbers!!! The show became almost a good 30 minutes longer than planned due to the "demands";) Damn, what a fun audience! IT WAS A GREAT PLACE TO PLAY AT!!!:)

So, we were asked to play there again on Saturday 28 February...Be there! ;D

Tuesday 23rd, December 2003

Skellington will also play at Crazy Eagle, Kallhäll, at Saturday 31 January 2004...

(More info = see "tour dates" as usual...:-)

Oh, and by the way: SKELLINGTON WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Now, bang your heads off to Santa´s jingle bells music u all...:-)

The whole band want to, once again, thank everyone who actually seem to really like our metal music - MANY BIG BIG THANX!!! We hope to see more of you out in the country during 2004, we really appreciate all the fucking great response we´ve got, especially from the cool North of Sweden..:-)

Wednesday 17th, December 2003

Skellington will perform live at H62 (Pornbars place), Hornsgatan 62 at Mariatorget,

on Saturday 17 January 2004...It will be a SPECIAL PARTY NIGHT, a birthday bash and masquerade at the same time - with over 100 invited people, but it´s also "allowed" for others to come by and rock & roll all nite...:-)

Monday 1st , December 2003

Although our guitarist Göran "Guru" Lundgren had fever, the ABF-night was real fun.

The gig was recorded and will hopefully be something worth hearing on a CD...???

Anyways, the night resulted in that we have now been asked to do some new gigs in december/january - but it´s not confirmed yet...so we´ll see.

Hmm, our band is somewhat "happily confused" right now after this weekend because it now actually seems like Skellington is considered a pretty good live act! Gosh...and this despite the fact that we are still very much indeed "fresh" (gröngölingar) and slowly working on getting MUCH better...

So, here we want to take the opportunity to thank EVERYONE that has been coming up to us, shaken hands and telling us we´re "kicking ass"! It´s an incredible feeling to hear both friends and a lot of (complete) strangers coming up and say they really liked us - A BIG THANX TO U ALL!!!:-)

Wednesday 12th, November 2003

Skellington have been invited to (once again in a short time) play live again at the fameous TANTOGÅRDEN in Stockholm at the ABF-night for "up n´coming" local acts.

This special occation to see five (5!) new, interesting bands from Stockholm is happening Saturday 29th November at TANTOGÅRDEN between 19.00-01.00...

The "theme" of this music feast is "heavy, heavier, heaviest"...and the bands included too are: Grandmal, Happy Trash Culture, Distorted Nation, Zebulon.

Be there and "swing a beer"...(no, not a bear damnit...:-)

Friday 26th, September 2003

Skellington will perform live at TANTOGÅRDEN in Stockholm, Saturday 18th Rocktober! It will be a "three band-stand" also including Titanic Toys & Ratpack for the price of only 60 bucks (!). Doors open at 20.00. Showtime 22.00 (Be there!). Skellington will perform as #1 because bass player Tommy Jee also has his birthday (hurrah!) - and after the show we will celebrate his head off! All Beerdrinkers and Rockers invited!!!

Saturday 13th, September 2003

Yo everybody! Pretty big changes is around the corner for this website...

After a slow summer, well, we did add some photos in July, we´re now about to shoot a video for the song "Legions of Hate". More about this later. Stay hungry! :-)

Monday 16th, June 2003

Hi there! Some of you keep asking about the upcoming pictures and everything...

Well, it´s "on it´s way"...(there´s plenty to do, it´ll take a while - sorry:-)...

And, nope, there´s no updates about our song "Vicious Circle" for the upcoming

canadian horror/thriller "Three Shades of Black"-soundtrack. All we know is that

they´ve re-shot the whole movie it seems, to make it better with bigger budget...

Tuesday 27th, May 2003

We did a nice gig at Stockholm Musikfest, and pictures from this will follow shortly at the upcoming "pictures"-page...

Friday 16th, May 2003

The website is under construction - and within soon it will be ready to be "officially launched"...

AND, we are gonna play live at Stockholm Musikfest Saturday 24th! (See tour dates...)

Monday 12th, May 2003

The official website of SKELLINGTON is finally on the internet!!!

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