News
Purify has disbanded
29 Aug 2009 | Fuck you all! Purify is no more! Tough shit, huh???
But on a more serious note - we have decided to break up the band!!!!!11 We all decided to go different ways and join other bands. Be sure to check out Arcane and Facekick, our new projects!
And the club Dislocated saga continues...
20 March 2009 | Well, since the first Dislocated club show at Stampen went well, we've decided to continue the relationship by playing another gig at Brother Tuck, the place where it all started! More info will be revealed soon.
I've also uploaded some photos from Stampen for your viewing pleasure. A big thanks to Johanna Lundström for taking those awesome pictures!
New gig! Be there or be square!
23 Feb 2009 | We now have a new gig booked at the 11th mars! This one will take place at Stampen in Gamla stan. Old jazz kind of bar, really cool atmosphere there. Tickets can be bought from us for 50 kronor (60 at the door) and we will share the stage with five other bands. More info in the Shows section as usual...
No another music competetion...
5 Feb 2009 | Due to our singer being ill, we will have to cancel the gig...oh well. Maybe next time!
Not another music competition??
3 Feb 2009 | I'm afraid so...we've entered yet another music competion, starting this saturday! Check out the Shows section for more info.
Purify in Emergenza semifinals!
25 Jan 2009 | We just got the message this morning - we will be playing in the semfinals in Emergenza! We got the wild card that the Emergenza crew themselves choose. They corrected the mistake you guys made. :P
No, but seriously. Without all the tickets you bought and without all the crowd who was there and cheered for us and got us as much as 104 votes, this would have never been possible. So a big thank you, and see ya in the finals!
Succesful Emergenza...well, almost...
18 Jan 2009 | Our Emergenza gig was highly successfull, and we wish to thank everybody that was there for the support that was even better than Brother Tuck. Thanks a lot, guys, you rock! There was a lot of Purify t-shirts out there. Don't you just love reading Purify on a beautiful girl's chest?
While Emergenza was our very best gig yet, we never made it to the semifinal...we do still have one shot though, as the wild card. The Emergenza staff themselves choose a few selected bands that had a big crowd who will make it to the semifinal. Given how many tickets we sold and how much crowd that was there (we even had a mosh pit!) we believe we have still have a big chance. So cross your fingers!
Purify continues with only one guitar player
11 Jan 2009 | We've decided to end our relationship with Ludvig and continue the band with only one guitar player. We wish him the very best in the future!
Emergenza!
6 Dec 2008 | Our next gig is an international festival called Emergenza where we will compete with other bands for fame, money and the goooood life. Read more in the shows section.
BEST...FIRST...GIG...EVER!
22 Nov 2008 | First of all, we want to thank everybody who showed up at the gig, you guys rocked! We never dreamed of getting a crowd of about 50-60 people at our very first gig! Not to mention we played on a thursday! While there were some technical difficulties, people didn't seem to mind but continued to rock the whole night! All the generous words really meant a lot to us, thanks guys!
For those of you who weren't there: we had a very special limited edition demo for sale there. Only 20 copies were made, handwritten with the number and autographed by everybody in the band. Those who attended the show were the only ones who were able to get their hands on it, we will not make another one for sale again!
Also worth mentioning: the guys at 4Sound! We were desperate for a cable that we didn't have, and they helped us out, even though they had closed. Thanks a lot! You saved the gig!
Our first gig booked!
22 Okt 2008 | We're so anxious to go out and play that we've already booked our very first gig! We're going the share the stage with two other band at a place called Broder Tuck. For more information, go to Shows.
That damn drummer!
21 Okt 2008 | So we finally have a drummer! His name is Rami, and I will put out some information about him on the site soon, so stay tuned...What this also means, is that we will finally start looking for gigs!
A new demo!
2 Okt 2008 | Our initial plan to only record our new song Burden has been a little bit expanded...we're right in the middle of recording not only one, but three songs! We were so satisfied with the sound we got by recording in the rehearsal room, we decided that we wanted ALL our songs to sound this good!
Burden - all guitars, bass and keyboards.
Frustrate - all guitars, bass and keyboards.
Into The Mirror - all guitars and keyboards.
So basically, that only leaves us with bass for one song and vocals for all three! Aren't you just as excited as we are??
New rehearsal room!
3 July 2008 | We just moved into a new rehearsal room! There is plenty of advantages to this move. One - it's a lot closer to central Stockholm than before, making it a lot easier for the band members to get there after work. Two - we have our own equipment there, and not lousy ones provided by the people who rent out the rooms. There are other advantages as well that I'm too tired to list right now...
And you can already tell it was a good move! We played better than ever before today, now that you can actually hear all the individual instruments. I will put out some pictures later on!
New lyrics for Grudge are up
1 May 2008 | I?ve written some new lyrics for Grudge. I was never entirely satisfied with the original one, but I think these ones are a lot better, and helps get through the message a lot easier (even if that message perhaps is not very deep? :P ) These are the new lyrics (also available at our Myspace):
Verse 1:
To take great pleasure in other people's pain
is sometimes the only thing keeping a man sane
as he takes his unsteady steps through life
And he fights so hard to survive this strife
Pre-chorus:
Breaking the unbreakable
Taking the untakable
Seeing things you never saw
Staring at yourself in awe
Chorus:
You're laughing me in my face
Laughing behind my back
Taunting me from afar
Never leaving me alone
Pre-chorus:
Being in another zone
Thinking thing?s better left alone
I'm struggling to survive
I've never felt more alive
Chorus:
This is the mask of grudge
Unable to forgive
Will I pull the trigger?
Making my suffering end?
We're not dead...yet!
5 April 2008 | Just a quick news item to let you know that we are, in fact, still living and breathing. Right now, we are playing as crazy, learning new songs and at the same time, testing out drummers. That'r right, we STILL haven't found the right guy yet, even though we have a few guys going on that seem hopeful...
Also, we have found a new rehearsal space that we will move into as soon as we have found ourselves that damn drummer! Why do they keep hiding from us? We're not as scary as we look like, we won't bite you! ...at least not very hard...
One other thing: I bet you've noticed that big, scary e-mail collecting thing on our front page? Well, it's not as mean as it looks like. We only want your e-mail adresses! Why, you might wonder? Well don't worry, it's not spam-related. :P We are planning on starting a newsletter, filled with news items, funny stories and perhaps a special offer or two. Why don't you join up too? By crossing the check box "Join the Street Team", you are agreeing that you will help the band to market themselves.
Purify on the radio!
5 December 2007 | Kristian Klingholm, singer and front man, has just finished an interview with a swedish radio station called Radio Satisfaction. The radio station is located in Vara and has a reach of 50 km and can be heard in Falköping, Lidköping, Borås and more. Radio Satisfaction will also play Grudge. More information on when the interview will be broadcasted will follow.
Several bad news...
29 November 2007 | First, the Viperia gig was cancelled. Secondly, and more important, our drummer has quit the band due to personal reasons. So once again, we are going to have to go out and look for a drummer.
Playing with Viperia
23 November 2007 | I (Micke Hasselqvist) will be playing a gig with Viperia, due to their original lead guitar player being away at the time. For more information on the gig, check out Viperias site.
The line-up is complete!
21 November 2007 | Lo and behold! Purify is now a complete band, thanks to the latest addition of a keyboard player! Now that we're a full band, we will first and foremost concentrate on learning our songs and after that, we will go out and play!
A drummer!
14 November 2007 | We just got ourselves a drummer! And thus, the line-up of the band is nearly complete.
New song up
27 Oktober 2007 | I just finished uploading one new song, Past and Present Bias. This song can be heard from our Myspace as well.
New guitar player
25 Oktober 2007 | We now have a new guitar player in the band! Hooray!
New bass player
15 September 2007 | Precisely one month after our search started, we have now found a bass player! However, please notice that our search is far from over, we still need at least a drummer!
Looking for band members
15 August 2007 | We're currently looking for band members for the band. What we want is a keyboard player, a drummer, a bass player and another guitar player. Visit the contact page for our email adress.
New site is up!
21 June 2007 | Our very first web-site is up! Feel free to browse around and soak in the beauty that is Purify...ahh...