Petter Karlsson

Who is Petter Karlsson?

Petter Karlsson is a multi instrumentalist and singer of Holocoaster and was a member of Swedish symphonic metal band Therion, lead vocalist and guitarist of Argento, member of other several bands: Master Massive, Kajarr, Conspiracy.

He had a big impact on Therion's 13:th album Gothic Kabbalah, and was involved in the writing of 9 of the 15 songs.

In the year 2009 he started the band, Holocoaster. Self-styled as Murder rock/Killer metal, launched a video clip for the song "Another day - Another victim"

Petter also play the drums in his brother's band Distorted Wonderland which will have a debut album in 2011.

On January 18, 2010, Diablo Swing Orchestra announced that Karlsson will be replacing their old drummer, Andreas Halvardsson, who left due to "personal reasons".

In 2010 he co-wrote the music for the song Hellequin and did the lead vocals on 2012 on Therion's Sitra Ahra.

On March 29, 2012, he left the band Diablo Swing Orchestra feeling he couldn't "mobilize that amount of greatness and enthusiasm, without having a bigger share of the artistic creation and in addition to limited financial gain. I just have too much other things going in my life right now. And I really want to continue working on my own projects."