Peter Tagtgren was born in 1970, on the third of June, in Sweden, in the most ordinary family. His father was an engineer. He made keyboard musical instruments.
short biography
The parents of our hero were not adherents of religion, they hated everything connected with it. From childhood, a young man was fond of heavy music. He was greatly influenced by such groups as Kiss, Metallica, Possesed and many other groups popular in his childhood and youth.
Peter Tagtgren began practicing drums, being at the age of nine, and a little later on all other instruments that he owns now. When his first project broke up, he decided to move to the United States. It was there that Peter Tagtgren began his active creative life. Its growth almost reaches two meters. We decided to mention this fact, since similar questions often come from fans of the musician.
Many talents
Peter Tagtgren is a very versatile person, he has a wide range of interests: from music to philosophy. He is a vocalist, producer, creator of Pain and Hypocrisy, and also shoots music videos, also plays a lot of instruments. Peter can improvise on both keyboards and drums, as well as on guitar and bass.
Basically, the musician focuses on heavy genres of music, such as grindcore, death metal, black metal and many others. In 1994, Peter had his own recording studio. The musician purchased a room on the outskirts of Sweden, which used to belong to a psychiatric hospital. Tagtgren produced hundreds of albums by young talented and now famous bands at Abyss Studio.
Despite the fact that Peter is constantly engaged in music, he finds time to shoot in Swedish films, and also to write soundtracks for them. The musician gorgeously played a role in one of the episodes of the horror movie “The Lunatic”. He also starred in the 2006 film “Exit”.
Style change
Throughout his life, Peter has been involved in music. He managed to participate and create three groups, as well as to play an important role in the Lindemann project with Rammstein leader Till Lindemann. The very first Hypocrisy group was created in 1990, the collective exists to this day. For all its long and fruitful creative activity, the group has created a great many albums. She plays in the genre of atmospheric death metal, is currently a very popular and successful project in her country. Hypocrisy gave concerts in many parts of Europe, as well as the United States.
Some time after the promotion of the team, Peter decides to do something new and independent. He wants to try writing music in a new genre close to heavy metal. Why not change the concept of the Hypocrisy group? Peter explained this by the fact that he did not want to change the genre, because the group is very good without it.
In 1996, Peter's solo project entitled “Pain” was born. Everything that was in it was done by our hero on his own. He single-handedly recorded instruments, and then mixed them with melodies of songs. This project was not very popular. Pain was liked only by fans of the Hypocrisy group and some critics. Everyone quickly forgot about Peter’s independent project. The musician said that Hypocrisy is just heavy music, and a lot of things are mixed in his project: from melodic lines to electronics.
After some time, Peter Tagtgren released a new album called Rebirth. He received a very high praise now not only from fans, but also from other people, and brought good glory to Peter. “Rebirth” is not at all like the musician’s past work: there is something new and cool sounding here. Peter carried out a very painstaking work on an independent project. After the release of the album, the popularity of the solo album Pain rises.
Success
Already in 2002, the musician recorded the third album of his project Pain. Lyrics of pain and violence. The album conveys very dark energy and a sad atmosphere, the same as in previous works. The disc sounded so masterly that it was very difficult to believe that it was recorded by a single person. The new album, entitled Nothing Remains The Same, contains a very popular song, Shut Your Mouth, which literally everyone has heard. This composition held its position in the twenty best Swedish hits. The music video clip, which gained no less popularity, was shot at Peter’s house.
"Dance with the dead"
In the CIS countries, the solo project Pain became popular in the spring of 2002, just when the album Nothing Remains The Same was released. According to the results of the famous German magazine Metal Hammer, this disc became the best in June of that year. Peter Tagtgren toured with his Hypocrisy band to European countries, including Germany. It was the first series of concerts in Europe, held in the fall. Three years later, there was, so to speak, an addition to the previous album entitled “Dancing With The Dead” (Dancing With The Dead). It is very difficult to single out the best from two albums. It depends on the tastes of each listener of the beautiful solo project Pain.
Tagtgren Peter: personal life
Little can be said about the private space of the producer and musician. At the moment, it is known that he was married three times. Now Peter Tagtgren is married to Vera Stiger. In a previous marriage, he had a son, Sebastian. Forty-six-year-old Peter spends a large amount of time in his favorite music studio, doing creative work.
Now you know who Peter Tagtgren is. Quotes of his increasingly appear in the media. Most often, he talks about the music and the style in which he works. He also speaks about plans for the future.