The
history of Blue Skies Bring Tears is long and filled with indecision
and confusion. Having started rehearsing as early as the spring of
1999, the band was originally comprised of drummer August Lengquist,
guitarist Niklas Ottosson and then vocalist and bassist Josephine
Kersten. The band at the time played alternative rock not totally
unlike that of the Smashing Pumpkins or Nirvana. Having had a slow
start it was not until mid 2000 that guitarist Christian Ahlsen joined
being lead guitarist, by then the band still attempted to craft
alternative pop/rock anthems to no avail. Shortly after Christian
joined Josephine left the band due to lack of interest and time. The
band then decided that it was time to change musical direction and
started laying the first founding notes for what would be the sound the
band sports today.
Starting rehearsals as 'Threnody' in a basement in
mid Västervik playing some early tracks with the working titles
'Syringe', 'Dirge' and 'Horseflies' the band soon found themselves in
some unfortunate tension between the remaining three of the band. In
the spring of 2002 the band decided to call it quits and spent the
summer working on various projects on their own until Niklas and August
once again gave the band a try, in late summer 2002 it was reformed
again playing alternative rock.
In a twist of events a school project
playing a weird brand of metal Christian and Niklas found themselves
capable of composing tracks together, this formed an understanding
between the two, one that had been absent before. Christian rejoined
the band in early 2003, but this time he chose a less prominent role
not composing that many songs himself, Niklas was made singer. The
results of the schoolproject was songs like 'D', 'B', 'Intro' and 'A',
songs named after their respective key. All songs were later dumped and
the band returned to a clean song slate working on songs Niklas had
composed late in the previous year, finishing touches were made on
'Faded' and 'Incomplete'. Soon followed work on songs like 'Displaced',
'Anomaly' and 'Pain'. In october Andreas Ottosson filled the position
of bassplayer. The band was basically complete, only lacking a keyboard
player...
The band had then since long dumped the name 'Threnody' and tried names
like 'The Institute of Tears' and 'ægrimonia'. Having finished up
numerous songs the band ventured into the studio in an attempt to
record a demo for the first time in the spring of 2004, results told
the band that more work was needed before the process would come with
positive results. Four songs were recorded -- 'Anomaly', 'Displaced',
'Pain' and 'Faded' all without vocals. Later the same year the band
returned into the studio with more confidence and recorded the same
four songs along with six others -- 'Disasterpiece' (instrumental),
'Intro', 'In the Periphery', 'Naive', 'Untitled' and 'Incomplete' this
time with vocals and the gathered experience from the previous studio
session resulted in a much more positive outcome. First the intention
was to release two CDs with 5 songs each, due to somewhat choppy
results on some songs, four songs were cut ('Disasterpiece',
'Incomplete', 'Naive' and 'In the periphery') and suddenly a demo with
six songs seemed more logical. In the summer of 2005 the band gave
recording another try and rerecorded Anomaly, Faded, Displaced, Pain,
Untitled and added two newer tracks; Obsessions and Wound, both of
which followed a more pop influenced structure. The mix was concluded
in late 2005. Results ranged from good to decent, but the demo received
some good reviews.
After encountering a period of slower pace the band, again, picked up
recording and made the fourth demo in mid 2006. Wound was rerecorded
and 5 other 'era 2' songs were picked to accompany it on the new demo -
My Soul's Dissonance, Memories, The Loss That I Feel, Tonight,
Influence. The mixing was completed by the end of 2006 and the band
also managed to perform its first ever public gig (only a few years
late ;)).
The band are currently continuing their songwriting and rehearsing now
aiming for more gigs and a recording deal.