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from them along the way, and kind of felt now that
it was time to do it ourselves now. And we had a
blast doing it, just so much fun. The only down-
side is that when you have so much fun, you
don’t really have the ‘Oh you’ve gotta be done.
You only have three weeks to do an album’.
That’s why it took so long. We didn’t have that.
We could spend as much time as we wanted and
it was so much fun, so we didn’t want it to end.
We started recording drums in August, and the
drums were done in two days but then we had fun
with guitar sounds and trying out different
sounds and synthesizers, so we weren’t done… I
think the whole album was finished in February,”
he laughs. “We recorded between August and
February. It’s so much fun being in the studio, we
love it, so that’s why it took so long.”
Martin co-owns the studio with Fredrik Jo-
hansson, who he was in a band with prior to
Hardcore Superstar. Martin and Fredrik built the
studio together after both having their own sepa-
rate studios. Adde tells us that Martin was more
in charge of the recording since he’s the owner
of the studio.
“And that’s another cool thing; we have
roles,” he says. “He has the last say when it
comes to recording, and me and Vic might have
the last say in writing the song and producing the
song. We have our own territory, which, back in
the day, we were all trying to be bosses on all
subjects. We couldn’t really agree on who has the
last say on this type of subject.”

here is a song on the album called ‘The
TOthers’, where Jocke sings ‘trust is what
counts in the end’. Some bands end up splitting
due to a lack of trust. Adde tells us about the trust
that the band have. “There have been a lot of very
private, personal moments in our career and
every once in a while you’re down on your knees
and you fuck up as a person and you do stupid
things and I remember the guys really, really
stood up for me because every once in a while
you act like a fool. I don’t want to go into too
many details, but every now and then we fuck up,
but we will always be there for each other, you
know, no matter what. And that’s when you real-
ize you really have your best friends and you also
work with your best friends. We can argue like
brothers. We’ve known each other since we were
12 years old. Not Vic, but we know each other so
well and we can argue, but when we’re done with
arguing, we’re done with it and we move along
and forget it. A lot of bands didn’t grow up to-
gether, so I think that has a lot to do with that we
actually grew up together. Jocke actually got me
into playing drums, he just thought that I looked
like a drummer and told me when I was 12 years
old and all into skateboarding. He told me, ‘Adde,
you kinda look like a drummer, man. You should
start playing drums!’ ‘Yeah, OK. I’ll buy a drum
kit.’”
Through the good times and the bad times,
the hard times and the easy times, one thing
that’s always been there for him is music.
“Something you can always count on is
music. If you’re down and don’t feel too good,
you can always turn to music and find solitude.
That’s my sanctuary. You go to music when you
don’t feel too good. If you have friends, good
friends, and you have music, that’s all you need,
really. That’s family.”
Make sure you grab Hardcore Superstar’s
new album, ‘You Can’t Kill My Rock ‘N Roll’. Like
family, it WILL be something you can count on.
Visit www.hardcoresuperstar.com for more
info.

Words by Shari Black Velvet
Photos By Julia Cronqvist
HARDCORE SUPERSTAR