GuilFest 2006. The 3 Day Guildford Music Festival on 14th, 15th and 16th July 2006

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Artist: The Citadel
Genre: Heavy metal with a taste of doom
Performing: 16th July 2005 /BBC Radio 2 Main Stage
Website Address: [www.thecitadel.se]
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Sundsvall, Sweden in 1997: not many people were interested in playing metal-music, and of those that were, their music was less pure rock and more alternative or skimming along the technical extremes of the genre.

This presented a problem for Jonas Radehorn, who wanted to play metal and until then had been part of several bands playing music from a variety of genres.

When Jonas met Patrik Wernekrantz, drummer with local band Bad Experience, on a bus he found a similar soul. Patrik had heard Jonas sing and introduced himself. They started talking about music and personal influences and both seemed to share opinions about the music scene in their town. They also learned that they lived only two minutes from one another.

Time went by and Bad Experience called it a day. Jonas and Patrik agreed to start a new metal band, a band that would blend the blues influenced metal of the 70s with the melodic rock of the 80s and rawness of the 90s.

And so, in late December 1998 a band rose from the ashes of Jonas and Patrik's former band constellations, when Andreas Carlström joined them to play rhythm guitar. Starting as Purgatory, and playing together for about two years they then took a break for two years.

During that time some of the members played with other bands. Through this, they found bassist Nicklas Sundström and also lead guitarist Kenneth Johnsson. Lead guitarists had always come and gone during the two years of Purgatory. After awhile Nicklas had to leave the band because of family matters, so the band decided to bring in a new basplayer Rickard Persson!

Together they recorded their debut album: The Citadel - Diary of Doom, and along the trip they also found Keyboard player Robin East !

The five decided to get together as The Citadel. Today the band is a tight group of four combining the powerful drumming of Patrik with the rythmical bassplaying from Rickard together with Kenneths awesome guitar riffs and solos, Robins melodic keyboard and on top of that Jonas singing with his godsent voice !!!

The band is now complete and aiming at impressing the world....