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Band biography

The first line-up was Christer Göransson (vocals), Magnus Danneblad (guitar), Anders Karlsson (guitar), Magnus van Wassenaar (bass) and Tommy Viktorsson (then Johansson, drums). At this time they were called Purple Haze. However, the name was quickly changed to Genocide, which is taken from a Judas Priest song.

Mindless Sinner later debuted in 1981, opening for Axewitch, another hard rock band that had started to make a big name for themselves in the music world. They played and became even more popular in Linköping. The song material was also improved. Magnus van Wassenaar quit the band in 1982. Instead of bringing in a new bass player, Anders Karlsson switched from guitar to bass and now there were only four of them. It was in connection with this that the band changed its name to Mindless Sinner.

In January 1983, Mindless Sinner participated in a band competition and made it to the finals, where they were eliminated. In May 1983, guitarist Jerker Edman joined the band and they won the next band competition in June the same year. The prize money was enough for them to make the album they had wanted to make for so long. They recorded their debut EP “Master Of Evil” in late 1983. It was released in January 1984. The people liked the EP, but somehow the band print had gone wrong. So instead of Mindless Sinner it was Mindless Sinners.

They were touring and had booked time in the studio in October 1984 to record a new album. But just two weeks before the first day of recording, Anders Karlsson had an accident and cut his hand. The injury was so bad that he couldn’t play for a long time. He has never returned to the band again.

Instead of bringing in a new bass player, Christer Göransson played bass on the entire ‘Turn On The Power’ album. When they had started mixing the album, they found their new bass player named Christer Carlson. On the back of the album it says he plays bass, but the only thing he contributes is “the horror voice” on the song “Voice Of The Doomed”.
In 1987, the name was changed to just Mindless and they also started recording new songs. That material was released on the album “Missin’ Pieces” in 1989. They spent most of the time touring around, but in 1990 Tommy couldn’t take it anymore and the band played their farewell show in Stockholm, December 1990.

The rest of the group continued to play with Axewitch’s drummer Mats Johansson, but under the name Skinny Horse. They only made one album called No Pain No Gain in 1993. Since then, Christer Göransson and Magnus Danneblad have done various other things together, including with the punk bands Fluff and Everlone.