-Falconer-

As the band Mithotyn split up in May '99, Stefan Weinerhall stood without a band but not without musical visions. He kept on as before, writing songs. This new stuff was based on a clear vocalist to have the leadposition in the songs. As four songs were written and recorded in December '99 the search for a proper vocalist began. After a while Mathias Blad was discovered and as he had heard the demo he accepted to help out with the vocals on the demo.

This demo was sent to different labels throughout Europe and after some time there was a couple of contracts to choose between. Since the demo was recorded with a drum-machine, Stefan realised that he had to get a real drummer if there would be an album recording to be done in the future. Karsten Larsson (also ex-Mithotyn) was chosen as he is an old friend of Stefan and a skilled drummer. Mathias was also enthusiastic to join the band on a more permanent basis, since his former appearance in the band had resulted in an overwhelming response from people and finally resulted in a recorddeal with Metal Blade Records.

Finally, in November 2000 the band entered the "Los Angered studio" with Andy LaRocque and Jacob Hansen behind the knobs. It was a three-week session for one hour of music, so the schedule was pretty tight.

The album, entitled "Falconer", was released in March 2001 in Europe and in May in the states. The response of the album was better than the band had expected, it got very high ratings in most reviews. The band didn´t had any plans to promote the album live, that's why the 3-piece-line up worked out.

With the success came the wishes from the fans to see FALCONER live, thus the band gave the idea a thought. They decided to hire some additional people to fill the line-up after the recordings of the second album.

As the summer and fall went by, the band rehearsed more material for the upcoming album. The music was pretty much in the same style, but with some progress along the road of course. It seemed like the new album would be heavier than the first.

Exactly one year after the last studiovisit, FALCONER returned to Los Angered. Nine tracks plus one bonus track were recorded and mixed during the 24 days.

The new album called "Chapters From A Vale Forlorn" is to be released on the 7th of February in Japan and on the 11th of March in Europe and probably in May in the US.

FALCONER will play the Wacken Open Air festival 2002 and most probably tour later on this year over Europe.