Lucifer
Biography Lucifer
Lucifer
Multinational Heavy Rock Megalith from Stockholm.
Lucifer is defined by their very heavy 1970s Hard Rock sound spiced with a good dose of Proto
Heavy Metal and Doom Rock. Main influences are groups such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple,
Blue Öyster Cult, Lucifer’s Friend, Steppenwolf, 70’s Heart and Fleetwood Mac.
With nearly 200 shows under their belt Lucifer has toured the US, Canada, Japan and Europe
multiple times and played renowned international festivals like The KISS Kruise, Psycho Las
Vegas, Hellfest, MetalDays, Sweden Rock, Desertfest, the long standing German cult TV program
Rockapalast twice, to name only but a few.
Founded in 2014 in Berlin by The Oath front woman Johanna Sadonis, the group first consisted of
Cathedral, Angel Witch and Ladytron members. The first 7” Single ‘Anubis’ and debut album
‘Lucifer I’, penned by Sadonis and Cathedral’s Garry Jennings and released by British label Rise
Above Records, brought Lucifer international recognition.
With a shift of constellation within the band in 2016 and Johanna Sadonis’ move from Berlin to
Stockholm, Lucifer were ready for chapter two. In Nicke Andersson, notable for his groups The
Hellacopters, Entombed, Imperial State Electric, Death Breath among others, Sadonis found a new
renowned writing partner. Together they wrote Lucifer’s second album ‘Lucifer II’ and produced it at
Nicke’s studio The Honk Palace in Stockholm in the summer of 2017.
With the critically acclaimed release of their long awaited second album ‘Lucifer II’ 2018 on Century
Media and the videos for the singles ‘California Son’ and ‘Dreamer’, Lucifer was facing a new
grand chapter. With more than 13.000 physical copies sold, the album jolted into the Swedish,
German, British and American charts, received outstanding worldwide attention and was
applauded by the music press. It came as no surprise ‘Lucifer II’ was nominated Best Hard Rock/Metal
album by renowned Swedish Radio Price P3 and Hard Rock/Metal act of the year by Gaffa Price
Sweden.
In between touring the world relentlessly the group settled back into Nicke Andersson’s Honk Palace
studio in Stockholm this winter to record the new album “Lucifer III” set to be released worldwide on
March 20th 2020 via Century Media Records.
With the powerful new single “Ghosts” freshly released in January 2020 it is evident that this group is
ready to climb higher up the Mount Olympus of Rock. If you haven’t seen the live monster Lucifer has
become, you better get some tickets to the next show near you! Rock and Roll is dead? Long LIVE Rock and Roll!