TIAMAT Frontman Falls In Love With 'Pet Shop Girl'

TIAMAT frontman Johan Edlund, who currently resides in Thessaloniki, Greece, posted the following message on his official MySpace profile earlier today (Thursday, May 10):

"I just got back home from yet another nice evening in my favourite place Evi Evan (means something like Dolce Vita). They serve the best cold sweet red wine in town, plus great pikilia (mezedes)! Problem is, there's a pet shop across the street. I went there before going to the bar and a parrot fell in love with me (see, I got style!). Then, when leaving the bar, the shop had closed but they'd put a young snowhite little Persian lady in the window... Damn, I wanna go there first thing in the morning and rescue her! Will my cat eat her alive or will they accept each other?"

Back in July 2006, Edlund was assaulted by unknown assailants while he was watching "a little band of very young kittens" on a Thessaloniki street at around 3:00 a.m. "All of a sudden a car stopped in front of me and two men of my own (ripe) age stepped out," he wrote at the time. "One of them stayed by the car but the second guy shouted something at me which I couldn't understand. He walked up to me and pushed me on my shoulder while repeating his words which were all Greek to me. Then everything happened very fast. I pushed him and then there's hitting, pulling and pushing and rumbling, probably for less that half a minute and then I felt a much harder hit against my face as if hit by something more than a bare fist and I tried to get out of it while making sure my camera was still with me. The camera bag was destroyed, my shirt was shredded with a bit of blood on it, most of it from my own fists. I went to my girlfriend's place to put ice on my swollen head and face and especially on my destroyed hands. Betadine on the wounds, vodka shots for my nerves. Slept on the sofa and woke up with pain in every limb of my beaten up body."

TIAMAT's "The Church of Tiamat" DVD entered the Swedish Music DVD chart at position No. 5 in May 2006. An e-card for the DVD is available at this location. The e-card contains several features, such as a streamable sample video of the DVD, photos as well as detailed information on TIAMAT itself and the band's first official DVD release. The video teaser gives you the opportunity to check out the following songs: "Vote For Love", "Children Of The Underworld" and "Gaia".

TIAMAT, whose last studio album, "Prey", was released in 2003 through Century Media, is currently unsigned.