Jan 202023
 

Twenty-seven years into a career that continues to grow, Swedish metal band Narnia takes huge steps into an exciting chapter with the new album “Ghost Town”. The seasoned five-some once again shows how to shape a masterpiece with this melodic metal future classic

On the ninth studio album, “Ghost Town”, Narnia has picked the icing on the cake from its vast catalog. You can’t simply label this album a neoclassic metal album or a power metal album, even though these elements are present. There are also parts that are progressive, modern, heavy, or just creatively different. But you can summarize by saying this is well-crafted piece of classic and melodic metal.

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Oct 162022
 

The founder and guitarist of the Swedish metal band Narnia – CJ Grimmark – to release a Christmas-album together with a band of renowned musicians.

CJ Grimmark returns with his second solo album, 15 years after his self-titled solo debut from 2007. Together with the renowned musicians Anders Johansson (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force, ex-Hammerfall, ex-Manowar, Tungsten, etc.), Anders Mossberg (Jerusalem), Andreas “Habo” Johansson (Narnia, Avatarium, Royal Hunt), and Anders Köllerfors (Anette Olzon, Allen/Olzon, Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall, All For The King, etc.), Grimmark creates instrumental interpretations of carefully selected Christmas hymns.

Doing this is something I’ve had in mind for almost two decades, and it finally happened. explains Grimmark and continues: This is a very mellow album in general, and not a metal production with shredding guitars, but the rock elements are present too. Thanks to the artistic freedom we all allowed ourselves to express there’s a great deal of different musical territories explored throughout the record.

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Aug 262022
 

The founder and guitarist of the Swedish metal band Narnia – CJ Grimmark – to release a Christmas-album together with a band of renowned musicians.

CJ Grimmark returns with his second solo album, 15 years after his self-titled solo debut from 2007. Together with the renowned musicians Anders Johansson (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force, ex-Hammerfall, ex-Manowar, Tungsten, etc.), Anders Mossberg (Jerusalem), Andreas “Habo” Johansson (Narnia, Avatarium, Royal Hunt), and Anders Köllerfors (Anette Olzon, Allen/Olzon, Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall, All For The King, etc.), Grimmark creates instrumental interpretations of carefully selected Christmas hymns.

Doing this is something I’ve had in mind for almost two decades, and it finally happened. explains Grimmark and continues: This is a very mellow album in general, and not a metal production with shredding guitars, but the rock elements are present too. Continue reading »

Oct 152021
 

First episode of the new video podcast Jono & Friends is out now. Host is Jonatan Samuelsson (Narnia, Starmen) and first guest is Tjet Robin Gustafsson (Safemode).

The duo has a real good time, sharing laughs, common tour memories, and gives us a WORLD PREMIERE by letting us listen to a snippet from the upcoming Safemode-album “A Golden Horizon,” along with a new recording of the song Another Day Will Haunt You.

This video podcast is maybe some kind of spontaneous sequel to the online music tv-show WahWah, for which Jonatan was host for. But this time, the focus is to promote bands from Jonos roster and also friends, co-workers and other interesting people.

Prepare for a show mainly about music, a bit of humor in Swenglish (Swedish/English) and interesting guests!

We hope you will like it as much as we enjoyed making this!

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Sep 052021
 

Swedish metalcore band Safemode satisfies the fans’ longing for the new album “A Golden Horizon” by releasing two singles from previous repertoire. The favorite songs ‘Guide Me Right’ and ‘Another Day Will Haunt You’ will both be released by JONO Music and Sound Pollution along with music videos in October and November.

Since their start in 2007, Swedish metalcore-band Safemode has managed to win the Swedish national music contest Rockkarusellen with 600 other bands, along with the Red Bull Bedroom Jam’s Competition. The song ”Another Day Will Haunt You” was picked up by several radio stations across America and has currently over 2.5 million streams on Spotify. Along with tours in Europe, the band has also toured in Latin America not less than four times, and another tour is planned in July 2022, if things work out well with the current COVID-19 situation.

While waiting for the upcoming album “A Golden Horizon”, the band has recorded some of their most popular songs live in the studio. First to be released are the songs “Guide Me Right” and “Another Day Will Haunt You”, which will be released along with music videos in October and November.

We don’t want to make fans wait any longer for new music, so we went into the studio and recorded some of their favorites live. says Tjet Gustafsson, lead singer, guitarist and co-founder.

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