Falconer

FALCONER is Stefan Weinerhall's (the former guitarist of Mithotyn) Swedish Power Metal project with strong folk influences aimed at being similar to Mithotyn, but with clean singing.
Created in May 1999 the project started unnamed. Their (first) self-titled album was released in March 2001.
Since then, they've released 4 other albums: "Chapters from a Vale Forlorn" (2002), "The Sceptre of Deception" (2003), "Grime vs. Grandeur" (2005) and "Northwind" (2006).
Singer Mathias Blad, who performed on the 1st two albums and also on the third album as a guest vocalist on few songs, returned for the recording process of the 5th album, "Northwind".
On albums "The Sceptre of Deception" and "Grime vs. Grandeur" vocals were performed by Karl Kristoffer Göbel.
With the addition of the new singer FALCONER`s music also changed and became faster and more aggressive.
Many fans thought that with these two albums and a new singer`s style FALCONER moved too far away from their folk influences, which was their trademark from the very beginning, so eventually the decision was made to have Mathias Blad back on the vocals.
Mathias` unique, melancholic, mid-range voice, untipical for Metal music, was also one of the FALCONER`s trademarks that most fans considered to be irreplacable.
With Mathias back on vocals, their latest album, "Northwind" (2007), also marked the return to more folk influenced music, in the vein of the first two albums.

Current line-up:

Mathias Blad - vocals, keyboards
Stefan Weinerhall - guitars, keyboards
Jimmy Hedlund - lead guitar
Magnus Linhardt - bass
Karsten Larsson - drums