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December 17, 2004- Andromeda
We also welcome progressive metal band ANDROMEDA to our roster. The band have two great releases and demos of their coming third album caught the immediate attention of RoastingHouse who signed the band to their management. -"I've actually kept my eyes and ears on this band since their debut album in 2001 and I look forward to start working with them" says Thomas Wallén, A&R at RoastingHouse. More news about the album to follow...
December 10, 2004- Hard Rocket
We welcome Brasilian hardrock band HARD ROCKET to our roster. The album is currently being mixed by Anders "Theo" Theander and Pontus Lindmark in Studio 1 and will be completed during January 2005. The album is available for the world. More details later...
visit their official website
December 7, 2004- Highlights (ER Records/Mariann)
"Som av eld" written by A.Wrethov/E.Wrethov, is featured on Highlight's coming album to be released in December 2004.
visit their website
December 6 , 2004- Pain of Salvation (Insideout Music/Marquee/Hellion)
Eskilstuna, the bands hometown, awarded PAIN OF SALVATION with the "Music price of Eskilstuna 2004". Excerpts of the jury's motivation: -"PAIN OF SALVATION represents the finest in Progressive rock in all it's glory and their music is filled with contrasts and variations - cool, chaotic, tender and beautiful. The band is the biggest international band from Eskilstuna with 6 critically acclaimed albums !
For further info
November 26, 2004 - GÜNTHER feat. SAMANTHA FOX (Metronome/Warner Music)
CONGRATULATIONS TO YET ANOTHER NUMBER ONE !!! For the third time in a row GÜNTHER is on top of the charts in Sweden, this time with SAMANTHA FOX with the classic popsong "Touch me" produced by our Anderz Wrethov with A.Labaf and R.Uhlmann from Extensive Music.
go to Günther's website
November 22, 2004 - CLARK (Media94)
We are pleased to announce that CLARK's first single "I don't need you", from their debutalbum "Two of a kind", will be released by German company MEDIA94 in Germany/Austria/Switzerland in January 2005 !
November 19, 2004 - CAN DANCE (Tylden)
The song "Stanna hos mig"(A.Wrethov/E.Wrethov) is covered by Norwegian band CAN DANCE on their latest album "Flight CD 8252" with the title "Bli her hos meg".
November 18, 2004 - ANDERS "THEO" THEANDER
Theo just returned from a job at Sun Studios in Copenhagen for Sony Music with ALL INSANE KIDS and is currently mixing in RoastingHouse Studio 1. The music will be used in the new BIONICAL movies and games. Check out some photos here.
Anders "Theo" Theander
November 16, 2004 - EMIL SIGFRIDSSON (Mariann Grammofon)
"Ingen Dag" (Wrethov/Lundgren/Attlerud) recorded and produced by Anderz Wrethov in Studio 2 will be featured on Emil's coming album to be released in 2005.
November 11, 2004 - GÜNTHER (Metronome/Warner Music)
GÜNTHER feat. SAMANTHA FOX with the classic popsong "Touch me" was "Hitpick of the week" at Sweden's Z-TV last week ! It will be released on Nov 17, 2004. The single is produced by our Anderz Wrethov with A.Labaf and R.Uhlmann from Extensive Music.
go to Günther's website
November 3, 2004- SMAXONE
We welcome fantastic Danish metal band SMAXONE to our roster !

November 1 , 2004- MALMÖ FF
Yippiee ! Our city team MFF became CHAMPIONS OF SWEDEN this weekend !!!! The whole city celebrated during the whole weekend with an amazing 20 000 people on the city square STOR TORGET on sunday noon. Congratulations guys !!!! We are also proud to be the publisher of the soccerteam's golden anthem "GULD SKA GLIMMA DÄR DET HÖR HIMMA" ! The song is written by the duo ”Blå Combo” and is mixed and mastered by Anders ”Theo” Theander here at Roastinghouse Studio 1.

Photos of the game as well as the celebration

MFF Official homepage
October 19 , 2004- New photos (popkomm etc)
Go ahead and click the logo to watch a few photos......

October 18 , 2004- LEGRAND (available)
New showdates for rock/pop band LeGrand !

Oct 26 KALMAR NATION, LUND

Nov 6, CAFÉ UFO, MALMÖ

official homepage
October 13, 2004 - The Mobile Mob Freakshow (Punk n Drunk Records/ZYX Music)
Swedens' most terrifying horropunk band The Mobile Mob Freakshow is performing live at the HEPTOWN FESTIVAL (Mejeriet) in Lund on Sat Oct 16 together with EL RAY, THE PUNCH, SCREAMING ERIC and STRY & FLORIN...... be there for the freakshow !
October 8, 2004 - Cloudscape (Marquee/Metal Heaven)
It is now official that CLOUDSCAPE is licensed to Marquee/Avalon for Asia and Metal Heaven for Europe ! Their selftitled debut album, produced by Anders "Theo" Theander and Pontus Lindmark, is due for release in Japan in December and hits Europe in January 2005.
October 7 , 2004 - POPKOMM in Berlin
We just came back from the second largest music fair, Popkomm in Berlin. We had a lot of good meetings with both independent and majors with very good results. The companies comments was very positive and some of the comments about our bands was; -"this is the best I’ve heard at Popkomm this year", -"You always have very high quality on your bands and productions", -"This year we will definitely do something together". We also received a proposal from Europe’s largest Independent record company who wants to sign the whole Roastinghouse catalogue... More about this later.

September 17, 2004 - PAX (Available)
We welcome Stefan Eldevall (git) as a new member in PAX ! The band shot their first video "Why this had to be" with director Rainer Holmgren this week. The video will be presented to interested record companies at POPKOMM in Berlin at the end of September.

Go to PAX artistpage

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September 14 , 2004 - GÜNTHER (Metronome/Warner Music)
GÜNTHER & THE SUNSHINE GIRLS debut album "Pleasure Man " went up to Top 20 in Finland !
go to Gunther website
September 14, 2004- Timeless Miracle (soon available for companies interested)
We are proud to announce the signing of a new metalband called TIMELESS MIRACLE ! We received a lot of positive feedback from several important record companies when playing their demos during the summer. The album will be completed in October-November and will be available for licensing around the world. The music style could be described as power/speed metal.
September 2, 2004- Bamses dunderhits 2 (Egmont Music)
Anderz Wrethov has recently produced 3 songs in Roastinghouse Studio 2 for the very well known cartoon "Bamse" for the new "Bamse hits 2". Previous album sold well over 20.000 copies and was also Grammy nominated. "Bamse Hits 2" is also mastered at Roastinghouse Studio 1 by Anders "Theo" Theander.
Bamses Dunderhits 2
September 1, 2004 - COSMIC BALLROOM (ZYX Music)
The bad boy rock n rollers Cosmic Ballroom is currently recording live in studio with producer Anders "Theo" Theander and Pontus Lindmark.
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August 18, 2004- LEGRAND (available)
LeGrand just completed the video for "One quick look" and it turned out really cool, the video is available for download at the artistspage in a low resolution version, please mail me for a high resolution copy.
official homepage
August 16, 2004- Anderz Wrethov/Maya Singh (RoastingHouse Music/Budde Music Publishing)
Budde Music Publishing in Germany sent their talented songwriter Maya Singh for a co-writing session with our Anderz Wrethov last week. They came up with 2 great pop songs, so any company interested in listening should contact us for samples, publishing@roastinghouse.com.
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August 10, 2004- Pain of Salvation (Insideout Music/Marquee/Hellion)
The band's long awaited 5th studioalbum "BE" is due to be released in Sept-Oct 2004, here's the cover artwork. Stay tuned for additional information on the bands webisite (click on the cover).
For further info
July 22, 2004 - GÜNTHER & The Sunshine Girls (Metronome/Warner Music)
"Teeny Weeny String Bikini"(Wrethov/Söderlund) sold GOLD in Sweden last week ! This is the second gold-selling single from the "Pleasure Man" album by the extravagant artist Günther who's doing really well in several territories around the world. More news to come.....
July 21, 2004 - Cloudscape
We are proud to announce yet another signing to our management, we welcome CLOUDSCAPE to our Metal & Hardrock roster. Their fantastic debut album is produced by Anders "Theo" Theander and Pontus Lindmark. So if You're a fan of melodic power metal with strong vocals and songs...... look no further......

July 19, 2004 - RoastingHouse Music
At present time we are happy to announce the various Swedish compilations where “Günther and the Sunshine Girls” and “Superduper Sofie” appears on among other great artists, with songs written by our in house songwriters /producers Anderz Wrethov and Johan Deltinger:

Eurohits Re-Load: Günther – Ding Dong Song Power Summer Party 2004: Günther - Teeny Weeny String Bikini Mr. Music Hits 6: Günther – Teeny Weeny String Bikini Absolute Music 45: Günther – Ding Dong Song Eva & Adam Sommarlovs Party: Superduper Sofie – Romeo har Rymt, Günther - Teeny Weeny String Bikini Absolute Kidz: Günther – Ding Dong Song Hits for Kids Sommarlov: Superduper Sofie – Du & Jag Hits for Kidz 10 års jubileum: Superduper Sofie – Superduper Kille Hits for Kidz 11: Superduper Sofie – Sim Salabim Eva & Adam Igloo party: Superduper Sofie – Sim Salabim

And there is more to come…………………………….

July 1, 2004 - BLOOM (stil available)
BLOOM has recently finished the video for the song "Everyday", by director Rainer Holmgren, since several record companies are intersted in their "look" after listening to their fantastic debutalbum. We have high expectations from the companies waiting to see it. There will be a clip on our site in a few days...

July 1, 2004 - KARLSSON/LANDE/ALLEN (Frontiers Records)
Later this year we will be finishing a production with Magnus Karlsson (Last Tribe), Jorn Lande (Masterplan) and Russel Allen (Symphony X). Magnus is the guitarist and songwriter with Jorn and Russel on vocals/duet’s. The album will be released by Frontiers Records. Release date is not decided yet but don’t miss out on this great album!

www.frontiers.it

July 1, 2004 - COSMIC BALLROOM (ZYX Music/Kick Music)
In August our great Rock n´Roll band COSMIC BALLROOM will enter the studio to record their 3rd album. – This time I’ll capture the bands “Live sound” in a different way than previous recordings. It will bee a “Live session” with all important elements playing at the same time to capture the energy and nerve you get when you se them performing live, says producer Anders “Theo” Theander. The release is expected early 2005.


July 1, 2004 - COURAGEOUS (Mausoleum)
Currently Anders ”Theo” Theander is mixing the German nu-metal band COURAGEOUS debut album for Belgium record company Mausoleum (a division of Music Avenue). The release is schedule to the end of November 2004.

www.mausoleum-records.com

June 28, 2004 - CLOUDSCAPE
We have the pleasure of producing CLOUDSCAPE's debutalbum. It's top-class melodic powermetal from Helsingborg, Sweden. So keep Your eyes and ears open for it ! Produced by Anders "Theo" Theander together with Pontus Lindmark.

www.cloudscape.just.nu

June 11 , 2004 - GÜNTHER (Metronome/Warner Music)
GÜNTHER & THE SUNSHINE GIRLS debut album "Pleasure Man " enters the Swedish album charts at # 6 !!!
go to Gunther website
May 24, 2004 - GÜNTHER (Metronome/Warner Music)
"Ding dong song" entered the UK single charts at # 14 three weeks ago and is still in the Top 40 !
May 17 , 2004 - CLARK (King Records)
CLARK will perform live at Stortorget in Malmö on May 21 at 13.00 as part of CITY RACE and Radio RIX FM summer tour. Other bands to perform are THE CORRS, RONAN KEETING, JILL JOHNSSON and more....
May 14 , 2004 - GÜNTHER (Metronome/Warner Music)
HE DID IT AGAIN ! We are happy to announce that the second single "Teeny Weeny String Bikini" from extraordinary artist GÜNTHER and the Sunshine Girls, produced and co-written by our in-house producer Anderz Wrethov, entered at No 1 in the Swedish single charts this week !!!!!

May 13, 2004 - SUPERDUPER SOFIE (Egmont Music/BAM)

click to go to her website
May 7, 2004 - AMERICAN DOG (Outlaw Recods)
Anders "Theo" Theander is currently mixing the highly respected biker band AMERICAN DOG for Canadian record company Outlaw Records. The band will tour Europe during this summer and you can also see them at some of the festivals. www.americandog.net
May 6 , 2004 - SUPERDUPER SOFIE (Egmont Music/BAM)
SUPERDUPER SOFIE's second album named "Super Rockstar Girl"(Egmont) will be released on May 26th and is once again produced by Anderz Wrethov. All songs are composed by Anderz Wrethov together with Elin Wrethov and Johan Deltinger as well as Mattias Lundgren. Her single "Sim Salabim" is once again on the singlecharts (8 weeks in total) and the video is still Top 5 in the video chart "TWEBBY'S MUSIK MIX" SVT.
click to go to her website

April 28, 2004 - GÜNTHER (Metronome/Warner Music)
"Ding dong song" is still in the Top 10 of single charts but his new single "Teeny Weeny String Bikini", once again produced and co-written by Anderz Wrethov, is released to the radio and is this weeks SMASH HIT on RADIO NRJ !!!

www.nrj.se

April 19, 2004- Anderz Wrethov (Producer/Songwriter -RoastingHouse Music)
Anderz and Elin Wrethov's song "Som av eld" has been heard several times by singer Andreas Wistrand in the success show FAME FACTORY that just ended last week.
April 13, 2004- Anderz Wrethov (Producer/Songwriter -RoastingHouse Music)
Anderz received his first GOLD single with the GÜNTHER & The Sunshine Girls single "Ding Dong Song" which he produced and co-wrote with the artist. The single is released by Warner Music in Sweden. CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
Ding Dong Song goes GOLD ! in Sweden.

April 6 , 2004- Bloom and Pax (Available)
Finally, our last two priority bands from last year signings have their albums completed and are availalable for any recordcompany interested. Please click the links and there are MP3 files to listen to.

BLOOM (pop/rock)

PAX (rock)

 

March 18, 2004- Landslide (Available)
We welcome rockband LANDSLIDE to our roster. Their debutalbum is produced by Theander/Lindmark of RoastingHouse and is now available for companies interested.

March 18, 2004- Cosmic Ballroom (Kick Music/Punk'n'drunk Recordings/ZYX)
The album is now # 10 on the DAT charts in Germany and their video for "Faster than me" is on rotation on German national music television NBC GIGA. The promotour starts next week together with labelmates THE MOBILE MOB FREAKSHOW. Check out the updated tourdates:

COSMIC BALLROOM (Sweden), THE MOBILE MOB FREAKSHOW (Sweden), Bettie Ford (Germany)

23.03. Bochum / Zwischenfall
24.03. Hamburg / Schlachthof
25.03. Köln / Prime Club
26.03. Berlin / Wild at Heart
27.03. Dresden / Titty Twister Club

THE MOBILE MOB FREAKSHOW "Ready to misguide a new generation" was released March 15 and we will keep You updated with information as soon as we receive it.

March 5 , 2004 - GÜNTHER (Metronome/Warner Music)
"Ding dong song" is still No 1 (3rd week in a row) in the Swedish singlecharts !!! Also note that SOFIE is back in the singlecharts this week on # 55.

March 4 , 2004- Cosmic Ballroom (Kick Music/Punk'n'drunk Recordings)
The album went up a notch this week to # 12 on the DAT charts in Germany !!!! Cool !
February 26, 2004- Cosmic Ballroom (Kick Music/Punk'n'drunk Recordings)
The album "Stoned, broke and ready to rumble" hit the charts at # 17 on the German Alternative charts (DAT 20). Congratulations boys !!!
February 20 , 2004 - GÜNTHER (Metronome/Warner Music)
We are extremely proud to announce that "Ding dong song" is No 1 in the Swedish singlecharts !!! Congratulations to GÜNTHER and producer/co-songwriter Anderz Wrethov.

February 20 , 2004 - PATHOS (Massacre Records/Marquee)
PATHOS Tour up-date:

March 27, 2004 Axe Feast, Kåren, Göteborg (Sweden)
May 29, 2004 Körpehölsfestivalen, Uddevalla (Sweden)
June 10-12, 2004 Sweden Rock Festival, Sölvesborg (Sweden)

February 9 , 2004 - RoastingHouse Studio 2
Today Swedish popartist Emil Sigfridsson (Fame Factory) entered studio 2 to record one of Anderz Wrethov songs for his coming album. The song is co-written with Danne Atlerud and Mattias Lundgren and is produced by Anderz Wrethov.

Emil's homepage: www.emilsigfridsson.se

Photo: Mattias, Emil and Anderz

February 9 , 2004 - SOFIE (Egmont Music/BAM)
SOFIEs video for the single "Sim Salabim" climbed from 3rd to 2nd to 1st place this week on national-TV show TWEBBY'S MUSIK MIX (SVT Barnkanalen) ! It's based on kids voting on the website. www.svt.se/barnkanalen

February 4, 2004- E.M.M.A (Egmont Music/BAM)
Theo Theander and Anderz Wrethov is currently mastering the coming album of Swedish popgroup E.M.M.A in Studio 1. Anderz has produced/written 3 songs on the album. "Det är vi" (A.Wrethov/E.Wrethov), Där regnbågen slutar (A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger/E.Wrethov), Fantasi (A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger).

www.pop-emma.com

February 4, 2004- The Mobile Mob Freakshow (Punk'n'drunk Recordings/ZYX)
We are proud to announce that legendary horrorpunkband THE MOBILE MOB FREAKSHOW is now signed to ZYX MUSIC worldwide ! And now also part of the PUNK 'N DRUNK Label Promotion Tour with the following Line Up:
COSMIC BALLROOM (Sweden), THE MOBILE MOB FREAKSHOW (Sweden), Bettie Ford (Germany)

23.03. Bochum / Zwischenfall
24.03. Hamburg / Schlachthof
25.03. Köln / Prime Club
26.03. Berlin / Wild at Heart
27.03. Stuttgart / Landespavillion

February 3 , 2004 - RoastingHouse at MIDEM in Cannes
For the last 13 years RoastingHouse has attended MIDEM and our expectations for 2004 are very high ! We had numerous meetings during the week with recordcompanies, publishers, managements and lawyers representing all continents of the world. Our artist-catalogue and song-samplers were highly appreciated and we received a lot of good and valuable information from our collegues abroad. We also discussed new signings, received offers and promotion plans from our partners regarding our artists.

The photo to the right features Mr Kaz Nakatsuka (King Records), Ms Motoko Fuji (NTVM) and Theo in our meeting regarding promotion-plans for the release of CLARK's debut album in Japan.

January 30 , 2004 - GÜNTHER (Warner Music)
"Ding dong song" is entering the national singlechart at # 3 !!!

January 15, 2004- Cosmic Ballroom (Kick Music/Punk'n'drunk Recordings)
This is the routing of the PUNK 'N DRUNK Label Promotion Tour with the following Line Up:
COSMIC BALLROOM (Sweden), WillyCranes (Finland), Bettie Ford (Germany)

23.03. Bochum / Zwischenfall
24.03. Hamburg / Schlachthof
25.03. Köln / Prime Club
26.03. Berlin / Wild at Heart
27.03. Stuttgart / Landespavillion

 

January 14, 2004- Sabbtail (Massacre/King Records)
On January 26, 2004 the new album of SABBTAIL called "Night Church" will be released by MASSACRE RECORDS in Europe. Prominent members in the band insures the highquality of the album; Mats Levén, (Abstract Algebra, Southpaw, Yngwie Malmsteen) Fredrik Åkesson Guitars (Talisman, Southpaw) Håkan Rangemo Drums (Necronomicon, Büst) Jan Lund Bass (Fortune, Necronomicon) Jan Bingegård Organ (Astral Dance, Necronomicon). Mixed by Anders "Theo" Theander and produced by Bingegård/Lund.
January 14, 2004- Pain of Salvation (Insideout Music/Marquee/Hellion)
It's soon time for the release of PAIN OF SALVATION's long awaited unplugged release "12:5" (release during Febr 2004) whith fantastic new arrangements by Daniel Gildenlöw and the guys. A real treat !
January , 2004
We hope that You all have had a great Christmas and we wish You all a very successful 2004 !!!
News from 2003
 
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