The alternative melodic rockband was founded in Linköping, 2004 by Richard Sundström & Cliff Ljung and later same year Daniel Castman joined together with Christian Ljungberg (drums) and Nicklas Brännström (bass). The first demo "Reunification" was recorded 2005 and second up came the Ep "VINDRA" in spring of 2007. Just a while after this the band parted ways with Christian and Nicklas. The remaining members found Andreas Nederfeldt and Sonny Kjellberg who left the band right after the al...
The alternative melodic rockband was founded in Linköping, 2004 by Richard Sundström & Cliff Ljung and later same year Daniel Castman joined together with Christian Ljungberg (drums) and Nicklas Brännström (bass). The first demo "Reunification" was recorded 2005 and second up came the Ep "VINDRA" in spring of 2007. Just a while after this the band parted ways with Christian and Nicklas. The remaining members found Andreas Nederfeldt and Sonny Kjellberg who left the band right after the album release due to studies..
2008 was a good year for the band, VINDRA found sponsors and recorded two tracks which were released both as a single and on two separate Swedish mixed-CDs, Allt ljus på oss (rel. may) and shine on 2 (rel. sept) distributed by Plugged. The earlier recorded track around from 2005 made it to the American, Riot on sunset 13 released in September by 272records. During this time the band also made a name for themselves on the internet, for example by being part of and going to the finals in online competitions such as MTV Nordic-unsigned and
Miller Fresh Sounds were there where thousands of bands from the beginning.
In November 2008 VINDRA signed an indie deal with Blue Topaz Records and the full length debut album: ”Heroes of the unfinished symphony” was released worldwide in june 2009.
The first music-video was released 2010 with the song my old hometown from the debut album, its available on youtube and on the bands myspace page.
VINDRA is a really solid live-act and have gigged a bit of everywhere; on festivals, clubs, bars, restaurants and television, for example at the legendary nightclub Cafe Opera in Stockholm, Sweden.
The band had an iTunes success in sweden in februari 2009 with the song Dreamer as the 6th most downloaded song.
The thing that makes the band standout from other rockbands is the singers voice. Cliffs clean smooth style have resources that actually still haven t been fully tested but together with the playful guitar melodies and in the next years to come, it will!
Cliff Ljung / vocals
Richard Sundström / bass (guitar,strings)
Daniel Castman / guitar (strings) & back vocals
Andreas Nederfeldt / drums
Official VINDRA homes on the net:
www.myspace.com/vindra - blog, lots of pictures and videos & music.
www.reverbnation.com/vindra
http://www.youtube.com/vindratheband
www.vindra.se - Under re-construction due to a scam scandal in Sweden (mubito)
Endorsers: Elixir Strings-great tone long life
Elixir Cables-"it simply sounds better" Manne Guitars-Italian handmade guitars & basses
Woodo Guitars –Swedish high quality neck thru instruments
Agner - Swiss made drumsticks
Bandbutiken.se - printings, backdrops, posters
2 examples on reviews/articles about the band:
4,5 / 6 http://www.rockreport.be/review.asp?id=2501
97 / 100 http://www.melodichardrocktoday.tk/
Most band photos taken by Mikael Syväjärvi / growing art
Contact: the band vindratheband@gmail.com
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