Biography
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Years Active
2000 – present (24 years)
2000:
MMI is formed by J. "Berget" Bergman,
ex Slapdash (Nuclear Blast rec/MNW rec)
and Rosicrucian (Black Mark Rec),
at first as a solo project
2001:
debut CD released in 2001 named one of that years best
releases by M.Larsson in Sweden's leading metal magazine CLOSE-UP
2003:
MMI as J.Bs solo project becomes a band when members
NAIL (bass) and DNA (drums) join
2004:
MMI releases second CD "Be Like The Dog You Are and Enter
The Circle". The sound have now moved away from the
synthetic/electric sound and towards a more traditional industrial
metal sound. The CD got good and better reviews.
Later that year MMI releases a demo CDR "We..re Not Dead Yet" with
some songs from the debut in new versions updated to how they sound now.
2005:
MMI records another demo CDR "To Hell And Back Again"
with new songs and also shoot their first official video with director Alex Frejrud.
Both the video and CDR gets lots of attention on the web and reviews.
2006:
J.B starts building his own studio Killing Machine.
MMI gets more and more live shows booked and at the end of 2006
J.B writes the song The Hunt as his first track to be recorded there.
Also a video for The Hunt is shot. This is J.Bs first try producing and editing a video himself.
2007:
MMI gets to play their forst show at a major festival in
Helsinki, Finland at Findustrial Festival. When thy come home they get
an offer by Starbreeze who is programming a new PS3 / X-Box 360
game to appear with BOTH their videos in the game. The game is
called THE DARKNESS and showed to be a world wide success.
2008:
MMI starts writing new songs for an upcoming album and
more and more live shows are done. MMI appears in a competition on
the radio station Bandit Radio and finish at tenth place among 1000 bands.
Web radio station Metalbox.se starts pushing MMI at their station and
more and more fans are adding streaming MMI at their MySpace.
Rumors are flowing about this upcoming great band called
MAN.MACHINE.INDUSTRY.
2009:
MMI have had a year of small success on the live front.
MMI played Sweden's largest metal/hard rock festival
SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL hosting 36 000 visitors.
They also played at the Sucken festival at their main stage at a main
event time with bands such as Crucified Barbara, Dead By April and Sparzanza.
They also played as support act for RAUBTIER,
the mighty DEATHSTARS, the ultra heavy SPARZANZA and the
brutal Gothenburg metalers M.A.N.
2010:
MMI signes with Stockholm based record label
GMR MUSIC to release the new album
"White Trash Devil In a Jesus Christ Pose"
Two singles/videos was released as "teasers" from the album.
The first one,THE HUNT, has already over 11000 hits and the
second singel/video RUNNING FREE has over 9000 hits at Metalvideo.com.
Both singles are played at almost 100 radio/webradio stations around the world.
The album was released on April 23:rd in Europe and USA on CD
and as MP3 on iTunes, AmazonMP3, MP3.com, Napster and others.
The new album hosts eminent guests such as
Patrik Wirén of Grammy winners Misery Loves Co
Gustav Jorde of Defleshed and Valley Of the dead
Misha Sedini of Come Sleep and Lingua
Ken Stone of The Knockouts and poet Lady M
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