Swedish metallers DESTINY have released “Beyond All Sense 2005” worldwide as the band’s first digital release ever, through Gothenburg Legacy Records. The album is a rerecording of the band’s first album (from 1985) and was originally released on CD by GMR Music Group in 2005. The plan is to release the entire DESTINY back catalogue for download and streaming in reversed order during the 30th anniversary year 2013. Stefan Björnshög, DESTINY’s founder, main song writer and bass player, explains the story behind “Beyond All Sense 2005”:
“This is not the new Destiny album or even the follow-up to Future Of The Past, released in 2004. This is a re-recorded version of Destiny’s very first album Beyond All Sense, released in March 1985.
The original album was just released in Sweden in a limited number of 2000 copies and only on vinyl. Those of you that have the original album know that it was not a perfect album, but hopefully you will agree with me that the songs were pretty good.
We, Destiny of 2005, felt that it was appropriate to give those songs a new chance with this all new re-recording in time for the 20th anniversary of the original album. We started to record the first drums way back in the year 2000 and then kept recording parts whenever we got some spare time. In the end we re-recorded all parts of the album once again in 2004, except for the drums. We did not set out to purposely rearrange any of the songs, but when an idea presented itself we usually used it.
Even though I wrote some parts on some of the songs, and was very involved with the arrangements, most of the music for this album was written by Magnus Österman, co-founder and original guitarist of Destiny, and John Prodén, also an original guitarist. Håkan Ring, who was the band’s first male singer, wrote most of the lyrics.
Two songs are missing from the original release; the instrumental acoustic piece “Lost To Heaven” performed by John Prodén alone and the intro piece “Destiny” that always starts the Destiny concerts. They are replaced by two previously unreleased bonus tracks from around the same time period.
The oldest piece of music, “Ode To You”, is from 1983. However, the lyrics for this song are new, written by Kristoffer in December 2004 as a tribute to the late Dimebag Darrell. This song was never released on any album and is the first bonus track of “Beyond All Sense 2005”. The second bonus track, “No Way Out”, was a song originally intended to be included on the debut album, but was left out because of the time limit on vinyl’s. Once again Kristoffer wrote new lyrics for an older piece of music. This time it’s about Ozzy Osbourne and reality shows.
I believe that we have kept the original spirit of all the songs in these new versions. The major difference is of course the vocals. Kristoffer has truly given these songs a well-deserved new lease of life. I also feel that the album is full of energy, with a live feeling, even though the music is not as “dark” as later Destiny albums.
This is the members of Destiny of 2004 interpreting more than twenty year old songs by the members of Destiny of 1984. Hopefully you will enjoy the album for what it is, even though the style of the album is quite different from the music that Destiny represents today.”
DESTINY is a Swedish heavy metal band formed in 1982 by bassist Stefan Björnshög. The band have released six studio albums up to now and have changed the line up many times.
I, Mohsen Fayyazi, am really interested about the metal scene in Scandinavia, and I found DESTINY’s music to be great. So I contacted Stefan for an interview about a year ago. As you will find some of these questions out of date, it is because I wrote them about a year ago. Unfortunately as you will read, Stefan faced a tragic event and some problems which resulted in a delay with his answers.
Hello Stefan, How are you doing today? It seems people play METAL so loud in Sweden, don’t they?
Hi Mohsen.
I have not been doing all that good most of the time since you sent me these questions. On the 17:th of January 2012 my fiancé Therese Hanserot, whom also was the original singer in Destiny, passed away. She was my soul mate and we planned to get married, but now she’s gone and I’m devastated. I did not talk to anybody for almost six months since it happened, except through facebook. Being with my kids was my salvation, when they where around I could handle the situation. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, not even if I wanted to go on with Destiny, or even if I wanted to play music at all again. After a couple of months I finally picked up my bass again. It was hard in the beginning, but after a while I realized that playing kept away the most painful thoughts. I tried to play at least a couple of hours a day.
About playing Metal loud in Sweden… I never really thought about that…
Let’s talk about your 30th-anniversary album first, “The Incompatibility Of Philosophical Terminology”, how is the recording process going?
Well, as you probably understand, the recording came to an abrupt halt. I was going to record the bass but I couldn’t handle it. In the beginning of April I finally started to record the bass. All the drums weere already completed. We had to get a session drummer, the very talented Adde Larson (M.A.N and Black Candy Store) to keep the recording schedule. I’m very happy with his work and I highly recommend him to anyone who needs a fast working skilled session drummer.
Anyway, when the bass finally was recorded we continued with the guitars. The plan was to have as many old Destiny members as possible to guest on the album. Therese was going to be on it but that will unfortunately not happen now. So far Janne Ekberg, Anders Fagerstrand (Futureof the past), Knut Hassel (The Undiscovered Country) and John Prodén (Beyond All Sense) have agreed to participate. Magnus Österman (Beyond All Sense) and Gunnar Kindberg (Nothing Left To Fear) have declined as they don’t play guitar any more, but I haven’t given up on them quite yet…
Knut Hassel was actually in the studio with us the second of January and recorded guitar for four songs and it sounds great.
I like the artwork of this album but would you tell me who created it for you?
The name of the album is really great and made me think a lot, would you tell me more about it and also about the album itself? What kind of style will it be and what kind of material will it consist of, new songs or re-recorded? And are you able to give us a certain date for releasing?
Well, as you probably understand the original time schedule completely failed. The plan now is to release a digital single in February 2013 and for the full album to be released in spring of 2013. The album will feature 14 songs. Nine of them are rerecording’s from past albums. Six of them are from “Nothing Left to Fear” and one each from “Atomic Winter”, “The Undiscovered Country” and “Future of the Past.” There will also be new recordings of five old Destiny songs that were never released on any album before, but that have been played live in the past. The earliest song is from 1983 when Therese was still the singer in the band. The other four songs were originally meant for a second album. All these songs are much too good to be forgotten and will fit perfectly on the anniversary album.
Are you recording the songs without a singer? Or do you now have a vocalist with the band?
We have a new vocalist. His name is Jonas Heidgert, he has recorded five albums with Dragonland before he joined Destiny. He is a very nice person and an excellent singer that fits Destiny’s music perfectly. He will sing on all the songs of the Anniversary album. He has already recorded one song, the single, and it sounds amazing. We will record the rest of both the vocals and the guitars track by track during the first months of 2013.
We also have a new drummer, Roger Christiansson, but as all the drums are already recorded, he will probably only rerecord the drums for one of the songs on the album.
Roger and I have been friends for about 25 years but we have never played together before.
Another exiting development for Destiny is that we now have a keyboard player in the band, Carl Dalberg, whom joined Destiny in the beginning of 2013. Originally he was just going to guest on the album, but as we always wanted a keyboard player in the band I asked him to join, which he happily accepted.
Destiny previously announced that the new CD, “Global Warming”, is still under production but is temporarily put on hold and will be made available at a later date. Can you tell us more about this album? Especially who is on vocals and if there was were any guest musicians during the recording process.
The album has been mostly recorded for some time now; all but the vocals and some additional instruments are completed. There are several reasons for the delay but of course the main reason has been that it took so long to find the right vocalist. Jonas Heidgert will of course be singing on all of the songs on the album. As far as any guest musicians goes there are no plans for that at this stage, but you never know. The album consists of nine new songs, that I wrote the music for some years ago. No lyrics are completed at this stage. As always the album doesn’t sound like any of the previous albums, even though it still sounds very much like a Destiny album. I think it’s our strongest album so far. We are all very excited to complete it and release it, not to mention playing the songs live.
And when do you think the album will be ready for release?
The plan is to release it in January 2014, but it could be earlier even though I doubt it…
I’d like to know your opinion about the Global Warming issue, many scientists and people think we have trouble ahead, we seem to be doomed by ourselves – we cut the trees, infect the seas and oceans …. what do you think we can do and what is/ are Destiny’s suggestion(s)?
When we released Atomic Winter, a nuclear war was what most people feared. The atomic winter was what survivors from such a war could expect. Today the Global Warming is an even bigger threat, so we thought that it would be a fitting title for the new album.
I think that most people, including governments and business people, are living in denial. I think that it’s almost too late to act and therefore this is the biggest threat to mankind ever. The Earth will survive but mankind might not. I don’t have any easy solutions other than that we have to stop poisoning the earth, no matter what and to achieve that the richer countries will have to sacrifice a lot more than they are willing. There are scientists that can tell us what to do, but as long as people are unwilling to recognize the threat and listen I’m afraid I don’t see a very bright future for our children. The best we can do is to make as many people as possible aware of the situation.
The band has released several albums, one of which includes a tribute for the legendary Yngwie Malmsteen, “A Guitar Odyssey”. I’d like to know more about this album and can you tell us if you met and had a talk with Yngwie before or after the releasing of that album?
It’s a tribute album which features different bands covering Yngwie songs. It was released by the same label that released The Undiscovered Country. The original reason for us to be on that album was that our then guitarist Knut Hassel was an extremely fast player and he used to be very influenced by Yngwie before he joined Destiny. Unfortunately, he left the band before the recording begun so we decided to do a quite different, heavier, more Destiny version than we had originally planned.
I have never met Yngwie, but I have a lot of friends that know him. One of them told me that he thought that our version of the song “Anguish and Fear” was too slow. This was also our first recording in our own studio, we could probably do a much better job today. Especially the mixing wasn’t as good as I would like it to be. We we also recorded another song, Into the Nightmare, for a Demon tribute album at that same time which was much better.
Me personally and perhaps many of our readers would like to know more about your upcoming shows, would you tell us more details?
We have not planned our new shows in detail yet, but we will have some new stage equipment and we will play songs from every album, as it’s our 30th anniversary. The plan is to film a full concert at the end of 2013 to document the anniversary.
How do you see Destiny in next 10 years, still active and playing loud Metal?
I don’t see an end to Destiny for a long time, but I’m also old enough to know that you can’t predict the future. We are still creative and have lots of good music in us, especially with this new great line up. I’m sure that we will at least do one more studio album after the release of Global Warming. Our best years are still ahead of us and the future of Destiny should be brighter than the past.
Thanks Stefan for giving me your time, as your final word feel free to leave a message here for Destiny’s fans and our readers.
Well, as Destiny might be a new band to some of your readers I invite them to visit our homepage. http://www.destinymetal.com. Apart from lots of information about the band there is also a music player featuring songs from all Destiny albums. At the moment none of the Destiny albums are available as downloads or on Spotify and so on. We are actually about to change that real soon, but until then our homepage is the best place to go if you are curious about the music of Destiny. You can also interact directly with the band via our facebook page. Finally, hope to see you on the road in 2013!
Swedish metallers DESTINY have announced their new complete line up as follows:
In the beginning of 2013 the final piece of the puzzle for the new line up was added when keyboardist Carl Dahlberg joined DESTINY. This is the first time that DESTINY has a permanent keyboard player in the band, even though there have been keyboards on a few songs on all of the albums, except “The Undiscovered Country”, before. With Carl in the band there will be a new exiting dimension added to the music of DESTINY. Carl will be featured on both the anniversary album ”The Incompatibility of Philosophical Terminology” and “Global Warming”.
Drummer Roger Christiansson, a long time friend of Stefan for the last 25 years, even though they had never played together before, joined the band in December 2012. Roger is perfect for DESTINY on every level and already on the first rehearsal, it’s clear that Roger and Stefan will be a dynamic and heavy new rhythm section. It’s now decided that Roger will rerecord the drums for two of tracks of the anniversary album ”The Incompatibility of Philosophical Terminology.”
Vocalist Jonas Heidgert (Dragonland) joined DESTINY in November 2012. He immediately started to record vocals for a planned digital single. Everyone that heard the result so far has been overwhelmed and there is no doubt that Jonas’s vocals and stage presence, as well as his personality will fit DESTINY perfectly both in the studio and on stage. .
Guitarist Michael Åberg has been a member of DESTINY since 2005. After all these years and numerous gigs with the band it’s time for Michael to debut on not just one, but two DESTINY albums, ”The Incompatibility of Philosophical Terminology” and “Global Warming”.
Finally, there is the driving force of the ever present bassist and main composer, Stefan Björnshög, whose visions and music has molded DESTINY since he founded the band way back in 1982.
DESTINY, Swedish metallers, have released the following statement:
Unfortunately the new DESTINY “digital single” that was going to be released this December will be delayed until January 2013.
The single is from the anniversary album ”The Incompatibility of Philosophical Terminology” scheduled for a spring 2013 release.
It will be the first release with new singer Jonas Heidgert (DRAGONLAND).
Interestingly enough it will also be the first release featuring Michael Åberg (NOSTRADAMEUS) on guitar even though he has been with the band since 2005.
Guesting on drums is Adde Larsson (M.A.N. and Black Canyd Store) who recorded the drums about a year ago well before current drummer Roger Christiansson joined the DESTINY a couple of weeks ago.
The bass will as always be handled by Destiny main man Stefan Björnshög.
Long-running Gothenburg, Sweden-based metallers DESTINY have announced the addition of drummer Roger Christiansson to the group’s ranks. According to the band, Roger “is a passionate drummer, singer and multi-instrumentalist. He is also a composer both of music and lyrics. So far he has recorded and performed with bands like SOLID, RAMPAGE, ATTRAPP, SOUTHERN COMFORT BAND, FREAK STATION, GRINGOS and OVERNIGHT SENSATION. As an old HiFi enthusiast and with a keen interest to improve sound quality, he has plans to move into sound engineering. Roger and Stefan Björnshög [bass] have been friends for more than 25 years but this is actually the first time that they will play together. On a personnel level, Roger was the obvious choice and after just one rehearsal it was also quite clear that he will be the prefect drummer for DESTINY!”
DESTINY recently recruited DRAGONLAND vocalist Jonas Heidgert. Jonas has already begun to lay down vocals for DESTINY‘s upcoming anniversary album, “The Incompatibility Of Philosophical Terminology”, for a spring release, as well as the next official full-length CD, “Global Warming”, for which everything but the vocals has already recorded.
Fans will get their first taste of DESTINY with Jonas on vocals later this month when a digital single from “The Incompatibility Of Philosophical Terminology” is released.
Way back in 1982, bassist Stefan Björnshög founded one of Sweden’s first true heavy metal bands, DESTINY. Unlike most other Swedish acts that were active around the same period, DESTINY never broke up. In 2005, DESTINY was joined by guitarist Michael Åberg, who previously played with NOSTRADAMEUS.
Following a tour opening for former BLACK SABBATH vocalist Tony Martin in 2006, DESTINY kept an unusually low profile, partly because the band was unable to find a suitable vocalist and also because of illness and various personal tragedies.
This month, the legendary Gothenburg band DESTINY celebrates 30 years as a band. They will celebrate the anniversary with new music, old music, a number of gigs and some “happenings”, from now until November 2013!
Way back in 1982, bassist Stefan Björnshög founded one of Sweden’s first true heavy metal bands, DESTINY! Unlike most other Swedish bands in the genre that was active around the period, DESTINY never broke up. In 2005 current guitarist Michael Åberg , who previously played with NOSTRADAMEUS, joined Destiny.
DESTINY has released six albums so far, with not just one but two more on the way. Following a tour opening for former BLACK SABBATH vocalist Tony Martin in 2006, DESTINY has had an unusually low profile, partly because of the search for a new good enough vocalist, but also because of illness and some personal tragedies. Now, however, DESTINY is finally back, just in time for their big anniversary.
The band have also announced their new vocalist, Jonas Heidgert. Jonas is a very talented musician and far from a newcomer to the metal scene. In 2000 he released his first of five albums with DRAGON LAND, where he both sang and played drums on the first two albums, before he chose to concentrate on the vocals on the last three. He has also recorded vocals for an album with DIABOLICUS as well as touring with both DRAGON LAND and the cover band METAL MONARCHS.
Now, in November 2012 Jonas became the new singer of DESTINY. He has already begun to record vocals for the upcoming anniversary album “The Incompatibility of Philosophical Terminology” (scheduled for release in spring 2013) and the next album “Global Warming“, where everything but the vocals is already recorded.
In December you will get the first taste of DESTINY with Jonas on vocals as a digital single from the “The Incompatibility of Philosophical Terminology” is released.
DESTINY has also launched its new website. The old site was sadly neglected, but now with a completely new design and regular updates www.destinymetal.comwill be the given location for those wishing to get news of DESTINY and the anniversary year.
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