THE EXPLODING BOY

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In January 2006 Johan and Lars had a couple of beers at Lars apartment in Stockholm. They knew each other since 3 years while DJ-ing together at a Stockholm rock club, but they never thought about making music together They shared a similar taste in music. Early 80´s post-punk like Cure, Chameleons, B-movie and Magazine, and also early 90´s indie music like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Shed Seven. Almost instantly they discovered that their musical ideas, visions and experiences was complementing each other perfectly, and during the next two months they wrote and recorded ten songs in Lars home based studio. Johan got a history as a singer/guitarist in the underground pop band Prune in the late 90s, and since the year 2000 he play the bass in the critical acclaimed Swedish rock group Fake Moss. Lars has been the guitarist in various industrial bands like Seven Trees and Run Level Zero. He has also been making electro-music under the alias of Kodji since the year 2000. The band name, The Exploding Boy, and the new songs spread like wild fire in the Stockholm rock and indie scene. In only a couple of months their music had been played by DJ´s at 15 of the best clubs in Sweden. One of the demos found it´s way to the Swedish electro producer Sophie Rimheden. She liked what she heard and agreed to produce the song "Vampire", a tribute to one of the bands favorite hangouts, the Vampire Lounge. After being approached by a couple of record companies that liked the music and wanted to see The Exploding Boy perform live, Johan and Lars decided to gather some friends from the music scene to form a complete line up. In the beginning of April rehearsals started with Mario, Nicklas, Stefan and Tord, all of them with a musical past from different beloved Swedish bands. Everything fell in to place and the band made their live debut at Fight Club/Stampen Stockholm the 5:th of May, The venue was totally sold out and the band conquered and explode! After several successful gigs during the summer at some of the most popular venues all over Sweden the band entered the top noch studio Big Island Sound, owned by Jakob Hellner (Rammstein, Covenant, Mustasch etc), and recorded four songs together with tech-producers Tom van Heesch. Cold Things, Show You Me, Better Than Fine and Shot Down. In September of 2006 Lars made a half year break to go and study in Japan, The Exploding Boy called in 21 year old guitarrist Maria Vejde from the Stockholm garagerockers Chasing Charlie to guestappear at a couple of gigs. With Lars back in Sweden in february 2007 The Exploding Boy, with the songs recorded in Big Island Studios in the bagage, crawled back to Lars ”Kodji Studio” to finish ten songs who in the april was released on the self titled debut album ”The Exploding Boy”. In the end of 2007 the drummer Tord Karlsson and the bassplayer Mario Gonzalez decided to leave the band, and after a short break the band choose to continue as a quartet. The first single of the future second album is the brand new song "40 days".

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Jun 01 2008, 01:26 AM

"40 days" - NEW FREE DOWNLOAD SINGLE WITH THE EXPLODING BOY available during June 2008 at www.myspace.com/theexplodingboyse First single from the forthcoming new album. Enjoy! /Xboy
Jun 28 2007, 06:29 AM

"what else is new" rocks my face off!! there needs to me more of this artist on here!