Band Members :

Mike Andersson – Lead & Backing Vocals, Björn Eliasson – Guitars

Patrik Svärd – Guitars, Håkan Nyander – Bass

Fredrik Joakimsson – Drums

Cloudscape was formed in 2001 by members Mike Andersson (Vocals), Björn Eliasson (Guitars), Patrik Svärd (Guitars), Haynes Pherson (Bass) and Roger Landin (Drums). After recording several demos ..penned by Mike Andersson and Björn Eliasson during 2001 to 2004 Cloudscape contacted production company Roastinghouse productions in order to ask them for help getting the word out about Cloudscape to the music industry. Roastinghouse liked the music of Cloudscape and a management agreement was signed shortly thereafter.

Cloudscape entered the prestigious Roastinghouse studios in 2004 and recorded their self titled debut album which was produced by Anders “Theo” Theander (Allen/Lande Project, Pain Of Salvation). This album was sent out to various record labels by management company Roastinghouse in order to get attention from record labels. Several record labels showed interest in Cloudscape but, it was German label Metal Heaven that signed Cloudscape to their roster for the European territory since Metal heaven seemed to be the best choice for Cloudscape.

Cloudscape also inked a licensing deal with Japanese label Marquee/Avalon for the Asian territory. The debut album of Cloudscape was released in Asia in December 2004 and all over Europe in January 2005. The feedback from fans, press and media turned out great and many reviewers was very impressed by the high quality debut album of Cloudscape both songwise, by performance and by the top notch production. Cloudscape describes their music to be Melodic metal with progressive touches and their music probably appeals to fans of Evergrey, Symphony X, Dream Theater, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Pagan’s Mind etc etc stylewise. Cloudscapes ambition is to compose songs that are in between the progressive metal genre and also the more straight forward melodic metal genre in order to reach out to a wider audience such as genuine metal fans and also fans into the more progressive side of metal. Cloudscape puts the melodies in the first room and they don’t necessary compose progressive songs for the sake of making them progressive.

Cloudscape also filmed a promotional video for the song Under Fire (directed by Rainer Holmgren) which later on have become a Cloudscape favourite song during their live shows. Cloudscape did several liveshows in their home country (Sweden) to promote their self titled debut album and in late 2005 they did their first live appearance outside of Sweden at Progpower Europe in The Netherlands (baarlo).

Cloudscape went back to the Roastinghouse recording studios in January 2006 to record their second album entitled Crimson skies. Crimson Skies was produced by Pontus Lindmark (Allen/Lande Project, Nostradameus). Cloudscape established their own trademark and style within the melodic metal genre with Crimson skies and once again Cloudscape received fantastic feedback from fans, press and media all over the world (even better than the self titled debut) and Crimson skies ended up in top 10 lists of “best album of the year 2006” in various magazines and webzines. Cloudscape also inked a deal with U.S label Nightmare Records for the U.S and Canadian territories. On June 9, 2006 Cloudscape did a live performance at one of Sweden’s biggest and most popular rock festivals called Sweden Rock Festival. The demands for Cloudscape live shows slowly but surely increased during 2006 and 2007. Cloudscape did several live shows during 2007 both at festivals like Progpower UK, Norway Metal Heart festival etc and single clubshows. The demands for Cloudscape continues to grow day by day. Cloudscape is a genuine live band and the good reputation about Cloudscape being a great live act started to spread more and more. Cloudscape also filmed a promotional video for the song Demon tears directed by Rainer Holmgren. .

On September 3, 2007 Cloudscape entered the Roastinghouse studios again to record their third album entitled Global Drama and once again Pontus Lindmark was hired to handle the producing duties. Global Drama is the most varied album in the Cloudscape discography so far and it includes songs that are among the heaviest and rawest songs they’ve done mixed up with songs that are more dynamic and atmospheric blended with the typical Cloudscape touch that they’ve established with their previous albums. Cloudscape continues their crusade and they keep gaining more and more fans day by day worldwide and performed highly acclaimed shows at the prestigious Bloodstock Open Air festival (UK) and Progpower Scandinavia (DK) + more shows during 2008 and 2009. Global Drama was unleashed on August 18, 2008 through Goldencore (zyx) / Roastinghouse Records (EU) and Nightmare Records (U.S and Canada)!! Unfortunally drummer Roger Landin and bassplayer Haynes Pherson decided to leave Cloudscape in early 2009 due to personal reasons so, long time friend Fredrik Joakimsson joined Cloudscape shortly after Rogers departure and Håkan Nyander replaced Haynes on bass. Cloudscape is here to stay…