Stonetrade is a band originating from the Sala – Fagersta region in Sweden. We play hard rock / heavy metal with influences from the 70s and 80s and we just love to play in front of a live audience. <br>The band was formed in the fall of 2008 by Olle, Magnus and Fredrik. Anders Hultén – vocals and Jens Bakke – bass were recruited to the band. <br>Pretty immediately we started working on our first demo: “Creatures of The Underground – 2009” which became a real hoist for us. The demo was played frequently in our region and at the same time we participated in the music contest “Rockkarusellen – 2010” where we made it to the district final. <br>Now gigs started dropping in. We did some festival, clubs and supporting act to established hard rock bands. <br>During autumn 2010 we started working on some new material which later resulted in our second demo “Dying Soul” which was recorded by Petri Kuusisto in his Sound Peak studio. <br>Sadly enough, Anders and Jens chose to leave us, for personal reasons, and our last gig with them were Fastbo and the Ingbofestival in 2011. <br>The hunt for replacements started giving the result of Jörgen Lindhult on bass, also playing in “Mothers Hope” and Johan Spinord, former “Black Rose”, on vocals. <br>As of January 2012 Stonetrade is now complete again! <br>Since there are many new songs laying around we choose to start up by making a new CD, given the name “In The Middle of The Monster” <br>This being recorded in our own studio Rockersroom engineered by Jon Aitman. Will be released in May 2012. <br>More to follow… <br>