"Summoned Tide - one of the hottest band from North Sweden on the metalstage today!!

"Artist Summary

Genres: Metal / new-season-epic metal

Label: unsigned

Manager: Michael Noren

Artist Bio

Hard facts:
Started 2004 with this constellation
Members:
Rickard Thelin Vocal / Lead Guitar
Jennifer Sikström Vocal / Bass
Nicklas Åström Drums
Mikael Thelin 2nd Guitar
Jimi Toivanen Synth / Piano

Their own description about them self
“In the year of 2004, a band called Summoned Tide washed ashore, and a new-season-epicmetal band was born. From the northern woods of Sweden they came...bla bla bla.Enough of this fancy intro, Summoned Tide consists of 5 members and our musicstyle varies from progressive metal/ rock to erotic nature beats. Our goal isto spread our music all over the entire world/ universe...and to play atoversized stadiums of course!”

And now we have got ourselvesa manager, which supports and helps us towards success. We feel ready to take on the world!

More About Summoned Tide

And we know that all of ournew fans are dying for some personal information from us, so here it comes:

Rickard Thelin
Born 1987 in June, I was beautiful. I've been into music since I was a boy.Early I could play guitar and was into music with feelings. I started to listento Jazz, Rock and Blues and I really felt dragged into the rhythms and notes.My first song I wrote was about my life when I was about 12 years old. Thereafter my interest for music expanded when I listened to my first Power Metalalbum "Renegade" by Hammerfall. I got enlightened and dove deeper intogenre and discovered bands like Metallica and my all-time favorite IRON MAIDEN.My life had now changed and I walked upon a more interesting and alive path.I've now learnt how to live by and contribute to the road. I've discovered somuch from walking upon. And am now ready to lend my experiences and guidancealong with many other great artists out there...enough! My goals and ambitionsare to spread our music the world and that at least one song that will foreverecho through time. I want to be remembered since my greatest fear is to beforever forgotten.

Jennifer Sikström
Born in January 1989. I discovered my interest in music through piano lessonswhen I was about 10 years old. Like many other young girls I liked singing andin 2004 I went with the guys to the rehearsal... But very soon it became clearto me that I wasn't comfortable with filling the spot as lead singer. I noticedthat they didn't have a bass player, so the next day I bought my first bass ;)Since then my ambition has grown with my improved interest in music and theyare now shaping my way of living. My music of choice includes Opeth, SymphonyX, Black Sabbath and other rock bands from the 70's...and black metal :) BrandsI use are Ibanez and Schecter.

Nicklas Åström
Music has been around me since I was born in 1988. My family really influencedme by their music. Especially from my mother and sisFrom my mother I got bandslike Rush, King Crimson, Genesis, Dream Theater, Metallica, Guns N' Roses andPink Floyd. My sister got me on a bit different road; Deftones, Tool, A PerfectCircle, Textures, Opeth, Radiohead, Fear Factory and Foo Fighters. The firstband that I found out on my own was Nirvana. I've also discovered more chaoticbands like The Dillinger Escape Plan, they're nuts :P A band I "recently"started enjoying is Porcupine Tree. The drummer Gavin Harrison is truly epic,the way he plays, the licks, everything is so well thought. So all of thesebands and many more have come to shape the way I approach drumming. It's likeall their combined semen...I'm their child...yeah, you get it! So I'm thedrummer, yeah. I've played for roughly 10 years and I got a Yamaha drum kitthat's about the same age. But I got some new hardware too, like my Sabian21" AAX stage ride or my Tama 13" Artwood snare. Everything else islike really beaten up and trashed. It's expensive to be drummer, so please sendme some cash to: "I'm Broke and I need it" 666 915 31 Robertsfors,Sweden. Cheers /Nicklas

Mikael Thelin
I was born in 1988 and picked up the guitar when I was in high school. Startedplaying because of my bro, he went pro and I wanted a taste of that as well!When I’m not stuck at work or rehearsing with the band I enjoy grabbing a beerplaying videogames, fishing and just chill in' Music is my life and it has beenfor a really long time. During my inspirational years I've listened to a lot ofdifferent styles but the bands that are closest to my heart are Symphony X,Dream Theater, Maiden and the composer Hans Zimmer. Over and out!

Jimi Toivanen
I'm born in 1987 and started playing synth in the early years. I and Rickardstarted a band together that later on became Summoned Tide. When I'm notplaying music I enjoy fishing and also taking a few beers with my friends.




Band biography of Summoned Tide

Musicians are hard to find in a small community. In a village of 6000inhabitants the amount of talented musicians are not that great, and when itcomes to seeking musicians for a local hobby band the range is extremely small.Summoned Tide has its roots a few years before they became Summoned Tide.

Front man Rickard Thelin, singer and lead guitarist of Summoned Tide says:
We began 2002 with only two members. Me and Jimi Toivanen (keyboards) met andplayed together and felt that we should get a band! We gathered a number ofmembers and drove my first homebrew song, 'A walk into a dark wood'. Sooner wedrifted into the wrong direction and I and Jimi was not quite broadly with theother members what kind of music we would play. Band names were also absurd aslame as 'Rawonam' and 'Stupid Brats'. We put the band on hold and insteadplayed along with each other instead until we once again would build up a band.
Lots of weeks later we took along my brother, Mikael Thelin, to rehearsal oneday and we decided that we liked him as a second guitarist. Mikael in turnintroduced his classmate Nicklas Åström as a drummer. It was here that we beganto take music to higher levels. I began to write my own material with more"weight" in the lyrics and the songs became more sophisticated since.It was in the beginning that I wrote songs like 'The Way Through thebattlefield' and 'Claimer' that only a few knows about, and the band nameSummoned Tide washed ashore 2004.
We rehearsed together until the music began to sound like we wanted to.However, there was something missing and it was a bass. A band without a bassis a band without a bass. Jennifer Sikström, who knew us by me, heard ourconcerns, temped,  and decided that she would get a bass to fill the emptyspot in our band as our first bassist. She bought a bass without muchexperience on stringed instruments in general and would start playing. Wethought it was a good idea because Robertsfors had no bass players who wereinto the same genre and we knew her musical background from before. Jenniferwas my responsibility and I saw it as a project to teach her from scratch,which was not always easy, but eventually hardened her small poor-musclefingers to fairly-advanced-bass-functional fingers ready to slappin' the bas.
We subsequently trained us in a cover of Insania's 'Lost In Time' and got ourfirst live gig at our local school. I have been on stage many times in my lifebefore when I went to elementary music school, but I had never beforeexperienced the great feeling of performing music with my own band, and thatfeeling caught the others as well. We all knew that this, this is somethingthat we want to do!

Time passed by. Lots of new materials were created and songs like 'ALD','Father Isac' and 'A Demon's Confession' captured attention around us. We begancuriously with the minor scenes and were not afraid to climb upwards towardsthe larger ones. At the best at that time, we were on a two-day festival inSikeå a bit outside Robertsfors and performed as a warm-up band for moreestablished bands. The most famous at the festival at that time were NocturnalRites, power metal from Umeå, and Sahara Hotnigths, punk rock also fromRobertsfors.

Then we came to a point where it was not possible to work with Jennifer anymoredue to personal matters. We kicked her off the team and we kept ourselves abouta year without a bass player. After awhile we came to the point that we wouldrecord a demo in 2007. We called Jennifer because we did not have a bass playerand wanted her to play the bass strands on our demo. I knew I could play thebass myself but it didn't feel quite right to do both. Jennifer happily put upon our offer and we put together saved money and was sponsored by relatives andfamily to do our first demo 'Editio Principes'. This was our biggest landmarkin the band so far and it tied us together into a tighter group and brought uscloser to our goal that we all aim for.

Today we've played at many different locations in northern Sweden. Went toNorway to record a demo with sound technicians from a school in the UK calledLIPA (Liverpool institute of Performing Arts) which is founded by PaulMcCartney and perform at a local festival. We helped to organize and headlineat an international festival with the Baltic countries. We've won theVästerbotten district finals for new bands and went on to the national final.Played live on local radio in Umeå. Landed on Spotify.