News: Beardfish Call It Quits

Swedish band Beardfish announces end of activities.
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Swedish band Beardfish posted a couple of weeks ago in thei Facebook page that the band is ending its activities, the Swedish band call it quits after over 15 years and eight studio albums.

The full post reads:

After a longer hiatus and some disagreements and various difficulties within the band we have decided to call it quits. This was not an easy choice to make. Beardfish has always been our main musical outlet - a proper garage band - the kind that meet up in the rehearsal studio and try out new material together for long, massive sessions at a time. Some of the best times of our lives have been spent together on the road, in the studio and just hanging out. 

Growing up, having families and all that has made that particular way of working very difficult, leading to long periods where we haven't been able to rehearse... And we LIKE to play. 

We've had a very good run though; eight albums in fifteen years, nine if you include "The early years" (ten if you count "The Sane Day" double album as two!). We've toured with some great bands. We've met amazing people and found friends in places we'd never been before. 

We want to thank everyone who has supported us throughout the years, you guys are fantastic and the prog community is a very special place to be a part of. 

We spent our youth and our early adulthood as Beardfish and we grew up within the band.. Individually we will now venture out into other musical projects. No matter what, Beardfish has been very special and we will all hold it close to our hearts, but right now it's time for new adventures. 

"So real, it's surreal" 

A Love Story - The Sane Day (2005) 

Beardfish 

Rikard, David, Robert & Magnus

The band's last studio album was +4626-COMFORTZONE released in January 2015. Rikard Sjöblom has a serie of projects, including Gungfly, his participation in Big Big Train and his solo carrer that started this year with his first proper solo album called The Unbendable Sleep.

Source: Press release

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