Eclipse (band)

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Eclipse
Eclipse (2017)
Eclipse (2017)
General information
origin Stockholm , Sweden
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1999
Website www.eclipsemania.com
Current occupation
Erik Mårtensson
Magnus Henriksson (since 1999)
Bass (since 2014) , drums (until 2006)
Magnus Ulfstedt (2000–2006, since 2014)
Philip Crusner (since 2015)
former members
Different Berlin (until 2004)
Fredrik Folkare (2003-2008)
Robban Bäck (2006-2015)

Eclipse is a Swedish rock band that was formed in 1999. The Swedish preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest the Melodifestivalen 2016 , the band with the song reached Runaways the semifinals. In 2019 the band will celebrate their debut at Wacken Open Air .

history

The group was founded in 1999 around singer / guitarist / bassist Erik Mårtensson and drummer / keyboardist Anders Berlin in Stockholm . Together with guitarist Magnus Henriksson they received a recording contract with the English label Z Records, where their debut album The Truth and a Little More was released in 2001 . After switching to the Italian record company Frontiers Records, the albums Second to None (2004) and Are You Ready to Rock (2008) were released. At the same time Erik Mårtensson wrote most of the songs for his side project WET , which consists of members of the bands Work of Art (W), Eclipse (E) and Talisman (T). The self-titled debut was released in 2009 and received a lot of attention from fans of melodic hard rock and in the field of AOR radio format.

In 2012 the band released Bleed & Scream . The title track was also released as a single and with it the band's first music video. The album reached number 44 on the Swedish album chart Sverigetopplistan .

The fifth album was released in February 2015 and was called Armageddonize . It debuted at number 49 on the Swedish album charts. In November 2015 it was announced that Eclipse would take part in the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest Melodifestivalen 2016 . With the song Runaways written by Erik Mårtensson they reached the semi-finals.

In March 2017, the album Monumentum was released , which was presented on the first day of the Frontiers Rock Festival IV in Trezzo (Milano) and was followed by a tour through nine countries.

In August 2019 the band performed for the first time at the Wacken Open Air . Earlier in July, the new single of the band was United have been published.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Paradigm
  SE 38 October 18, 2019 (1 week)
  DE 58 October 18, 2019 (1 week)
  CH 29 October 20, 2019 (1 week)

Albums

  • 2001: The Truth and a Little More
  • 2004: Second to None
  • 2008: Are You Ready to Rock
  • 2012: Bleed & Scream
  • 2014: Are You Ready to Rock MMXIV
  • 2015: Armageddonize
  • 2017: Monumentum
  • 2019: Paradigm

Singles

  • 2012: Bleed & Scream / Come Hell or High Water / Into the Fire
  • 2015: Stand on Your Feet
  • 2016: Runaways
  • 2017: Vertigo
  • 2017: Never Look Back
  • 2019: Viva La Victoria / United

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Femteplats was inte for Eclipse. In: VLT. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Eclipse - Runaways. In: svt.se. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 26 new bands for Wacken Open Air 2019! Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 100 Percent Rock: INTERVIEW - Erik Martensson, WET - February 2013. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; accessed on August 6, 2019 .
  5. ^ "Bleed & Scream" på Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ Victor M. Escudero: Sweden: Who will compete in Melodifestivalen 2016? In: eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union , November 30, 2015, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Emma Petersson: Molly Sandén och Frans är i final i Melodifestivalen 2016. In: svt.se. Sveriges Television , February 27, 2016, accessed August 6, 2019 (Swedish).
  8. ^ Frontiers Rock Festival IV. Frontiers Music Srl, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Eclipse Monumentum 2017 tour dates. Eclipse, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Chart sources: Sweden Germany Switzerland
  11. ↑ Eclipse Monumentum Vertigo - single. frontiers.it, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b Eclipse Monumentum Never Look Back - single. Eclipse Facebook, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Have you heard our new single, "United". Retrieved August 6, 2019 .

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