Daniel Erlandsson
Encyclopedia
Daniel John Erlandsson is the drummer in the melodic death metal
band Arch Enemy
.
His early work includes drumming on the In Flames
album Subterranean
. He has also played for other bands, most notably Eucharist
, Liers in Wait
, Diabolique
, Armageddon
(featuring Christopher Amott
of Arch Enemy), Revengia and The End.
Daniel's older brother is Adrian Erlandsson
, the drummer of Brujeria
and Paradise Lost
and the former drummer of At the Gates
and Cradle of Filth
. They both grew up together in Sweden and started playing drums at a very young age. Daniel writes on the Arch Enemy website: "We grew up together and used to jam on a little kit in our parents basement, he started first and after some years I started too... He’s been a great influence over the years, and if it wasn't for him I probably wouldn’t be playing today."
Currently, he is playing reunion shows with legendary grindcore band Carcass
as their original drummer Ken Owen
cannot play due to complications from a brain haemorrhage he had in 1999. The Carcass reunion show schedule continues in 2009, a new North American tour is announced for March 2009. Fellow Arch Enemy member Michael Amott
(who was a member of Carcass during 1990-93) is playing with them also.
Pearl Masterworks Carbonply
Cymbals:
Sabian
Hardware:
Pearl
Sticks:
wincent
Electronics:
Heads:
Evans
Melodic death metal
Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...
band Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy (band)
Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band, originally a supergroup, from Halmstad, formed in 1996. Its members were in bands such as Carcass, Armageddon, Carnage, Mercyful Fate, Spiritual Beggars, and Eucharist to name a few. It was founded by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan...
.
His early work includes drumming on the In Flames
In Flames
In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. Since the band's inception in 1993, they have released ten studio albums and one live DVD...
album Subterranean
Subterranean (album)
Subterranean is an MCD released by the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames in 1995. This is the only release with vocalist Henke Forss. It was remastered and re-released in 2003 by Regain Records...
. He has also played for other bands, most notably Eucharist
Eucharist (band)
Eucharist was a Swedish melodic death metal band which released two albums in the 1990s.-History:Eucharist's first album, A Velvet Creation , featured Markus Johnsson , Thomas Einarsson , Tobias Gustafsson , and Daniel Erlandsson , while for the second, Mirrorworlds , they were reduced to the trio...
, Liers in Wait
Liers in Wait
Liers in Wait were a Gothenburg, Sweden-based death metal band active between 1990 and 1995.The group was formed by Kristian Wåhlin after the dissolution of Grotesque, a precursor to At the Gates, and for a very brief time featured the band's core members...
, Diabolique
Diabolique (band)
Diabolique is a Swedish gothic metal band, formed in 1995 after the dissolution of Liers in Wait. The group is heavily influenced by The Sisters of Mercy, Black Sabbath, and Fields of the Nephilim, and in sound are similar to the styles of Charon, Tiamat, Moonspell, and Type O Negative.The band's...
, Armageddon
Armageddon (band)
Armageddon was a Swedish heavy metal band, led by Christopher Amott of Arch Enemy. Originally conceived as a melodic death metal band with metalcore influences, the group's later efforts fall into the power metal category...
(featuring Christopher Amott
Christopher Amott
Christopher Amott is a Swedish guitarist and vocalist, younger brother of Michael Amott and founding member of the Swedish metal bands Arch Enemy and Armageddon.-Biography:...
of Arch Enemy), Revengia and The End.
Daniel's older brother is Adrian Erlandsson
Adrian Erlandsson
Adrian Erlandsson is a prolific Swedish heavy metal drummer, who currently plays in Brujeria, Netherbird, with his wife in Nemhain and in Yorkshire doom metal band Paradise Lost...
, the drummer of Brujeria
Brujeria (band)
Brujeria is an extreme metal band formed in Tijuana, Mexico in 1989. Their name comes from the Spanish word for "witchcraft". Their songs, which are sung in Spanish, are focused on Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex, immigration, narcotics smuggling, politics....
and Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost (band)
Paradise Lost are a heavy metal band that formed in 1988 in Halifax, England.-History:Their first three full-length albums are examples of the death/doom style, although the latter two incorporated some melodic and gothic elements...
and the former drummer of At the Gates
At the Gates
At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...
and Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
. They both grew up together in Sweden and started playing drums at a very young age. Daniel writes on the Arch Enemy website: "We grew up together and used to jam on a little kit in our parents basement, he started first and after some years I started too... He’s been a great influence over the years, and if it wasn't for him I probably wouldn’t be playing today."
Currently, he is playing reunion shows with legendary grindcore band Carcass
Carcass (band)
Carcass are an extreme metal band from England, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1995. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons....
as their original drummer Ken Owen
Ken Owen
Ken Owen is an English drummer. He was born in Billinge, and grew up in Gayton, Merseyside. He is best known as one of the founding members of Carcass, for which he also handled some of the vocals. After the band broke up in 1995, he started Blackstar, along with two other Carcass members...
cannot play due to complications from a brain haemorrhage he had in 1999. The Carcass reunion show schedule continues in 2009, a new North American tour is announced for March 2009. Fellow Arch Enemy member Michael Amott
Michael Amott
Michael Amott is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the death metal band Carcass. He is the older brother of Christopher Amott...
(who was a member of Carcass during 1990-93) is playing with them also.
Equipment
Drums:Pearl Masterworks Carbonply
- 24"x18" Bass Drum x 2
- 10"x8" tom
- 12"x9" tom
- 13"x10" tom
- 16"x14" Floor Tom
- 18"x16" Floor Tom
- 14"x5.5" Carbon Ply snare
- 14"x5" Ultracast snare
- 14"x6.5" Eric SingerEric SingerEric Doyle Mensinger , better known as Eric Singer, is a hard rock and heavy metal drummer for the rock band Kiss and formerly for singer Alice Cooper...
snare
Cymbals:
Sabian
- 18" HHX Evolution Ozone Crash
- 14" HHX Power Hats
- 17" AAX treme Chinese
- 18" HHX Stage Crash
- 12" HHX Splash
- 10" HHX Splash
- 19" HHX treme Crash
- 22" HH Power Bell Ride
- 18" HHX Chinese
- 14" HHX X-Celerator Hats
- 18" HHX plosion Crash
- 11" Ice Bell
Hardware:
Pearl
- DR503 ICON rack
- DR501 front rack
- RJ-50 mini-extension bar
- PCX200 clamp x 4
- PCX100 clamp x 11
- CH2000 cymbal holder x 11
- H2000 hi-hat
- Demon Drive pedal x 2
- S2000 snare stand
- TH2000I tom holder x 4
- CLH1000 closed hi-hat
- D2000 throne
Sticks:
wincent
- Daniel Erlandsson Signature Hickory
Electronics:
- DdrumDdrumddrum is a division of Armadillo Enterprises, Inc. that manufactures drums, percussion, and electronic drum triggers.-Acoustic drums:ddrum is a sister company to Dean guitars and produces drums that fall into one of several series, each following a motif of beginning with the letter "d" and grouped...
Kick Drum Triggers - Ddrum4 SE module
- RolandRolandRoland was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. Historically, Roland was military governor of the Breton March, with responsibility for defending the frontier of Francia against the Bretons...
TD20 Drum Module
Heads:
Evans
D'Addario
D'Addario is a manufacturer of musical instrument strings, primarily guitar strings, currently headquartered in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York...
- Snare: EC Reverse Dot on batter side and Hazy 300 on resonant side
- Toms: EC2 Clear on batter side and Resonant Black on resonant side
- Bass Drums: EQ3 Clear on batter side and EQ3 Resonant Black on resonant side