Katana (band)

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Katana
General information
Genre (s) Heavy metal
founding 2003
Website www.facebook.com/KatanaOfficial
Founding members
Tobias Karlsson
Current occupation
guitar
 Tobias Karlsson
Susanna Salminen (since 2004)
Johan Bernspång (since 2006)
guitar
 Patrik Essén (since 2008)
Anders Persson (since 2008)

Katana is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg . The band name refers to a Japanese long sword ( katana ). The texts therefore deal primarily with topics from Japanese or Asian culture. Stylistic role models are bands like Iron Maiden , Judas Priest and Accept .

history

Even before the release of their first album, the band was able to gain a certain degree of popularity in the Swedish underground. Her first single Heart of Tokyo was released in 2006 under the Blindfoldead Productions label .

In 2010 the band won the Swedish edition of the Wacken Metal Battle, which earned them an appearance at the Wacken Open Air and the Sweden Rock Festival that same year . As a result, the French label Listenable Records , which until then mainly recorded bands from the extreme metal sector , became aware of Katana. Under this label, the first studio album Heads Will Roll was released in 2011 , which reached number 42 in the Swedish charts. This was followed by a tour with Chris Holmes' (ex WASP ) new band Where Angels Suffer .

The second album Storms of War was released in 2012 and reached number 33 in the Swedish charts.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Heads will roll
  SE 42 04/02/2011 (1 week)
Storms of War
  SE 33 02/25/2012 (1 week)

Albums

  • 2011: Heads Will Roll
  • 2012: Storms of War
  • 2015: The Greatest Victory

Other

  • 2005: Night Avengers (demo)
  • 2006: Heart of Tokyo (single)
  • 2008: Rock 'N' Roll Disaster (EP)
  • 2011: Heart of Tokyo (re-release)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katana / Bio
  2. ^ Metal Battle Sweden
  3. ↑ a b Swedishcharts.com
  4. ↑ Chart sources: SE