In 2025 we were nominated for a Grammy. A Swedish Grammy, that is. We didn’t win. Which is to say that if you are on the hunt for the very best Swedish Hard Rock/Metal of 2025, look elsewhere; we are not it. Perhaps it’s because we are more of a heavy, fuzzy, sci-fi, stoner, doom type of band. Singing in Swedish about sci-fi adventures and monsters and worlds we created ourselves. Or perhaps it’s just because Opeth is too awesome.

Anyway, we have been doing this for 17 years now, starting out in 2009. Since then a lot has changed. And a lot hasn’t. We’re still the same people - apart from changing bass players in 2010 and 2019 - playing the same kind of music, feeling the same kind of love and joy when getting to perform that music. It’s just that the stages and crowds are a bit bigger. And that our instruments and amps and pedals are a bit more expensive. All of which feels like a healthy progression when having done what must be closing in on 1000 live shows. Shows that they themselves have progressed. We have gone from performing on floors in front of a single person, to opening for bands like Red Fang, Kylesa, Orange Goblin, Graveyard and Truckfighters, and playing at festivals like Desertfest, Stoned from the Underground, Sonic Whip, Höstsabbath, Sweden Rock and In Flames’ own Borgolm Brinner.

Although regardless of what stage we are playing on and what band we are playing with, Skraeckoedlan has always been about doing it yourself. From the early days of organizing and booking our own shows, to recording and producing and mixing our own albums, to writing sci-fi novels and creating computer games based on those albums. We like to control as much of the process as we can. And only a little bit of that is because of OCD. Mainly it’s for the love of creating without anyone but ourselves calling the shots; us being able to express ourselves freely. The latest iteration of Skraeckoedlan-DIY adds to this by us having started our own record label. Our coming album - number 5 - will be self-released on Horror Lizard Records, and we will also, for the first time ever, be making all of the album related art ourselves.

Oh, and for those of you who don’t know us - which should be most people - we are a 4-piece, and always have been. Except for a short stint in 2019 when trying our luck as a trio. But after that experiment having run its course, and to this very day, the band consists of Robert Lamu on vocals and guitar, Martin Karlsson Larsson on drums and vocals, Erik Berggren on bass and vocals and Henrik Grüttner on guitar and vocals. That’s another thing that has changed; everyone is doing vocals now.