Sällskapet is the self-titled debut album by Swedish

Sweden

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 electronic

Electronic music

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 post-industrial rock

Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused...

 band Sällskapet

Sällskapet

Sällskapet is a Swedish rock band formed by Pelle Ossler, Joakim Thåström and Niklas Hellberg.-History:Sällskapet is a Swedish electronic post-industrial rock band that appeared in 2007 and is headed by the rock legend Thåström. Other band members include Pelle Ossler and Niklas Hellberg...

. The band existed as a secret hobby band for three years before the album was released in 2007. The album contained ten songs and a bonus DVD

DVD

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 with music video

Music video

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s for five songs and the bonus track "Nattportiern". Jan Gradvall of Dagens Industri described the bands sound as what blues would have sounded like if it would have its roots in Ruhr

Ruhr

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 instead of Memphis

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Track listing

CD

1. 482 mHz
2. Spår överallt
3. Le Havre
4. Nordlicht
5. Rum 212
6. Honungsgatan
7. Ravic
8. Järnstaden
9. ...den dan
10. Hauptbahnhof

DVD

1. Hauptbahnhof
2. Järnstaden
3. Ravic
4. Honungsgatan
5. Nattportiern
6. Nordlicht

Personnel

• Joakim Thåström
  Joakim Thåström
  Sven Joachim Eriksson Thåström , as an artist known as Thåström, is one of Sweden's best known rock musicians, he is mostly known for the bands Ebba Grön and Imperiet...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• Pelle Ossler
  Pelle Ossler
  Pelle Ossler is a Swedish rock musician and singer, most known for his collaboration with Joakim Thåström, both on Thåström's solo releases and their industrial project Sällskapet.- Recording career :...
  
   - guitar, bass
  Bass guitar
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  , piano
  Piano
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• Niklas Hellberg
  Niklas Hellberg
  Niklas Hellberg is a Swedish musician and producer, most known for his collaborations with punk rocker Thåström.-Biography:Hellberg was during the late 1980s a member of the post-punk band All That Jazz until its breakup in 1990...
  
   - keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
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  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  , programming
  Programming (music)
  Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock...
  
  

External links

• Sällskapet on MySpace