BONAFIDE Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement

April 12, 2010

Sweden's self-proclaimed masters of "genuine, dirty, in-your-face cock rock" BONAFIDE have parted ways with drummer Sticky Bomb "due to musical and personal differences" and have replaced him with Niklas Mattsson. The band states, "Niklas, who also torments skin in Stockholm heavyweights BACKDRAFT and American groovers RAGING SLAB, will add even more power and dynamics to the BONAFIDE machine.

"Niklas, who joined us for our Spanish tour recently, will, of course, appear when we start up the BONAFIDE monster yet again in early June for some shows in Austria with NAZARETH and THE QUIREBOYS.

"To coincide with the next leg of the tour in support of our latest album, 'Something's Dripping', we will also have a new single, 'Hard Livin' Man', and video out, available for radio stations, through all major download channels, and through YouTube in May."
"Something's Dripping", the second full-length album from BONAFIDE, entered the official chart in the band's home country at position No. 16.

"Something's Dripping" was released in Sweden on September 18, 2009. The CD was recorded at Musicamatic studios (SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, D-A-D) in Gothenburg, Sweden with acclaimed producer Chips Kiesbye (THE HELLACOPTERS, THE NOMADS, MILLENCOLLIN).

According to a press release, "BONAFIDE delivers blues and R&B-based full-throttle rock 'n' roll, no holds barred. Chips Kiesbye has added his brilliant production skills to the formula, and you seldom hear guitars this beefy or vocals with this much pure attitude and bravado. Main songwriter and frontman extraordinarie, Pontus Snibb, shares writing credits with fellow guitarist Mikael Fässberg on two of the album's 11 tracks. This, plus the fact that the whole group nowadays contributes to the creative process, has added a new dimension and a slightly different angle to BONAFIDE's simplistic, yet innovative and fresh take on classic hard rock. Mia Coldheart of Swedish metal queens CRUCIFIED BARBARA also appears on the album, in the duet 'Straight Shooters'."

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