Änglagård is a progressive rock band from Sweden formed in 1991 by guitaris… Read Full Bio ↴Änglagård is a progressive rock band from Sweden formed in 1991 by guitarist and vocalist Tord Lindman and bassist Johan Högberg. Their primary influences included bands such as King Crimson, Genesis, Trettioåriga Kriget, Schicke Führs Fröhling, Van Der Graaf Generator, and other bands of the 1970s. They released two albums, Hybris (1992) and Epilog (1994), as well as a live album (Buried Alive (1994), taken from a 1992 festival appearance) before breaking up. Their first two studio albums are among the most highly regarded progressive works of the 1990s by fans of the genre. Their music is entirely instrumental (aside from some sparse vocals in songs such as "Vandringar I Vilsenhet" and the bonus track "Gånglåt från Knapptibble") and features gentle passages for flute, mellotron, and acoustic guitar contrasted with louder passages of complex rhythms, angular melodies, electric guitar and Hammond organ.

Änglagård split up in 1994. They played some reunion concerts in 2002 and 2003, but no new releases.

In 2009 Mattias Olsson confirmed that the band had been recording new material on his MySpace blog, though no release date or title for the new material was announced.

In 2010 Johan Brand annouced that the band has been working over the third album since 2008 on the official Facebook page and that the songs are set to be recorded.

The band's third album, Viljans öga, was released on July 31, 2012.

Full lineup:
Jonas Engdegård (Guitars)
Thomas Johnson (Keyboards, mellotron, Hammond organs and moogs)
Anna Holmgren (Flute)
Johan Brand (Bass)
Mattias Olsson (Drums and percussion)

Tord Lindman (Guitars and vocals)

Jordrök
Änglagård Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Änglagård:

Gånglåt från Knapptibble Vad är det som säger, att allt är rätt, allting som är…
Höstsejd Sol sjunker sakta, likt ett fallande löv i höstens tusen fä…
Ifrån klarhet till klarhet Vad �r ni f�r underligt ting som talar om vilsenhet? e asar…
Kung Bore I ljuset från min lykta Ser jag skuggan utav sorg, Drömmar…
Prolog Det finns en sol som är större än mitt leende Det finns…
Saknadens fullhet Jag ser ner i bäcken djup och ser ett björklöv flyta…
Sista somrar Den oerhörda grönskan dessa sista somrar. Smala björkstam…
Skogsranden Levgossen talar vanskapt språk och tidforsen skriker gällt s…
Snårdom Bakom livets oro vandrar barndomens stigar Knotiga stam…

Sorgmantel I sin mantel dväljs budskap Vinden lättsamt in i vilan…
Ur Vilande Nattens grepp trädens löv till tystnad Mörkret andas r…
Vandringar i vilsenhet Spillror ifrån det förgångna tiden är nu. Ensamhetens värld …

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01Jordrök12:47

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Änglagård

02Vandringar i vilsenhet13:07

03Ifrån klarhet till klarhet14:03

04Kung Bore15:20

05Gånglåt från Knapptibble7:19

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Lucas Oyen

1y↑2

@Flat Whitehave such:
Gösta Berlings saga
Anglagard
Alphataurus
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Wobbler

Just a few of the most underground ones. I have tens more where that came from

EDIT:
My goodness I forgot some very important ones:
Bill Bruford - one of a kind
Isobar
Kaipa
Anyone’s Daughter

All comments from YouTube:

Konstantinos Despotopoulos

9y↑66

This is a masterpiece of Progressive Rock! A great example of Swedish Prog scene!
Excellent in all terms! Great production too. Anglagard thanks for your music!

Chris Kant

Για εμενα ειναο το Νο 1 πλεον

faith betinis

3y↑28

This was my favorite song when I was 16, I'm 30 now. Still love it, and still have never met anyone else who likes this shit. It be like that sometimes

Flat White

Since you're 30 and you listen to this I'm assuming you know some good underground bands, any recommendations sir?

η-Chantreuse

1y↑1

welcome, my friend, to the song that really tipped me into progessive rock

Lucas Oyen

1y↑2

Anibal Lucachi

A mí!!

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halil büyükyıldız

8y↑29

swedish people are very luck to have this superb band and to listen their native language.

Nathaniel Lawrence

1y↑1

And I’m lucky to understand it as a Norwegian!

Lucas Oyen

Sometimes it’s better not to understand the lyrics - like with PFM

Peter G.

2y↑1

This is a PROG MASTERPIECE!

Lexx

5y↑8

A masterpiece.! Headphone on and play it loud with eyes closed. And ... when will Anglagard make a new album??

Samuel Lopes

Gosto bastante dessa banda.

Ursus Minor

12y↑4

Of all the bands of the 90s that I've heard, this has got to be one of the best!

Lucas Mota

11y↑2

Great song from a great band, Sweden does have some incredible music.

Joe Reda

12y↑3

Yes it is, ranking up there with all the excellent 90's prog bands that came right out of your own back yard!

Eternal Pain

13y↑5

Junto com Anekdoten, o melhor do progressivo sueco. Bom demais!!!

GrievousD2

12y↑2

If you guys haven't checked it out yet, they JUST released a brand new album this month, 18 years since their previous release (Epilog). It's called Viljans Oga. The album is 4 tracks, the shortest of them being 12 minutes long.

Jeffery Leet

12y↑4

20 years from the release date and I'm hearing it for the fist time - what the %&#@ !! Well, at least I finally "discovered" this music. I'm a looooong time Genesis & Yes fan, so this is music to my ears !! Thanks for posting.

η-Chantreuse

1y↑1

I like to think that this and Anekdoten ("Vemod") sparked a revival in the 90s that kept classic prog alive while it was being reinvented and combined with postrock.

Frank Camiola

8y↑20

All three of their studio albums are masterpieces IMO. The writing within this group is just so absolutely amazing. The way their compositions develop is on par with some classical masters, and that is the highest compliment a "rock" band could receive. I hope we are lucky enough to hear new music at some point from this band. Please also check out Mattias' amazing band called Necromonkey - very very different from this music - but has that Scandinavian flair and is absolute top shelf as well. Cheers from NY.

Bob Smith

7y↑1

New album coming up they are in the process of making it now. Played a new song when I saw them live earlier this month. Sounded awesome!

A Sammler

3y↑1

All Traps on Earth, A Drop of Light

η-Chantreuse

1y↑1

@A Sammler this right here, All Traps is more from the Anglagard people

幻滅Unknown

Awesome profile picture

Lucas Oyen

You like this you’ll like:
Isobar
Gösta Berlings Saga
Alphataurus
Kaipa
Anyone’s Daughter

Henrique Menezes

6y↑2

I have acquired this album today! My 2nd favorite of all time.

devoscriverecommenti

12y↑5

This is real good prog-music! Greetings from Italy

Martin Litke

12y

Gracias Anglagard por tan bella música

A Sammler

6y↑26

Love that ~~Mellotron~~ ( update : commenters correctly point out it is an organ) surge at 4:45 -- it says, "Prog is BACK!"

Mike Reiss

4y↑1

Back from where?

Eskere

4y↑4

@Mike Reiss from punk

Mike Reiss

4y↑2

@Eskere Prog never got married to punk.They had a brief affair and a few illegitimate children but that's about it.

JR

4y↑4

That's a pipe organ.

Synen

4y↑2

wtf you talking about 4:45 is an organ, not the mellotron lol

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A. Horne

9y↑1

Absolutely brilliant... it's been a while since I looked for this CD. Anyone know if it's in print? It's the kind of music you wish was more prevalent, more available (even among the current prog bands, tracks THIS great are few and far between!)

Doug Maynard

9y↑1

A. Horne Yes, you can find it on Amazon. Great album, as are all the studio albums by Anglagard.

Carla Marin

9y↑12

Maravillosos!

SuperBroman12

11y

Wow, what an incredible song.

Turgut Karahan

7y↑8

Masterpiece! Greetings from Istanbul!

Being_Nirvan

10y

these guys are amazing .. good shit

Tugbars

Probably, It would be very surprising for those Swedish guys to witness how popular this album is among prog rock listeners(which are many) in Turkey.

TheNephilim69

12y

SI PUES CON RAZON ESTAN DENTRO DE LAS MEJORES BANDAS DE ROCK PROGRESIVO DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS... MAMA-LO-DIJO!!!

Francisco José Salmón Goncalvez de Faria

11y

Que hermosa canción *u*

Paolo Cardelli

5y↑1

Adoro

Rons Dad

6y↑2

I'm instantly impressed! This is exactly what I was looking for-something dark, but not too dark.

TheRKae

5y↑2

I've got one for you that fits that description: Try "Goddess of Darkness" by Ars Nova. It's an all-instrumental album that sounds like ELP's "Barbarian" all the way through. Keyboards, bass and drums played by 3 Japanese women. It's "dark" without sounding too sinister. Very cool. You can get it fairly cheap at Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Ars-Nova-The-Goddess-Of-Darkness/release/560603

Kevin Johnson Murillo

11y↑4

This is seriously one of the greatest songs to come out of the prog genre. Damn! do I love this fucking song.

Pedro Bernardo

I've listened to this specific song for years as the Pinnacle of prog. It is incredible even coming back to it after years of not listening to it

etienne paquet

11y↑1

This song is incredible. .

Hector PeaceRock

11y

there's a point where better or worse doesn't exist anymore, it's not a competition you cannot shut yourself down to the new contributions to music, these artists don't and they try to generate something original and beautiful nobody will be like PinkFloyd nor better cause they're unique but there are many bands that are or attempt to be unique as well

Ruido Triste

11y

me gusto! .. me encanto!

kostpoll

8y↑1

Huge art!

MrDrunb

11y

I don't know what makes you say that - I think this band is excellent. They combine elements both new and old to prog. While it's true that compared to the glorious days of Genesis, Jethro Tull, Yes, Gentle Giant and others, they are not very good, comparing pretty much any prog band to the ones mentioned above is stupid. But as a band of its own right, it is excellent. Why look at the negative aspects when there are so many positive ones?

Cayque Sales

12y↑3

as soon as i read "swedish prog band" i knew it would kick ass

leo_1287

Superb progressive song

Lindon Sjolander

11y

Wow! Very intricate piece! Selling Stockholm by the pound...wonderful!

sorrow042014

Très intéressant, j'ai acheté 2 albums et j'aime leur fraîcheur, leur complexité de mise en place, leurs sons............

Greg Murphy

11y↑1

The best prog rock is going to happen in the future.

Matija Mijailovic

2y↑1

8 or 9 years later, prog rock and metal are dropping some of the best records in the genre

Peter Pietro Parisius

Wunderbar. Meraviglioso.

Rock Holiday

What's in the water in Sweden,between these guys and Beardfish,WOW.

Torkan91

11y↑8

Example: Yes, as you know is one of the most recognized prog-bands. I think they sound like they try to hard all the time. Pink Floyd is more mellow and relaxing, I can agree. Änglagård started in the 90s in Sweden when it was extremely unpopular with prog. You think they cared about that? They wanted to play what they loved and they recorded what imo is 2 of the best prog albums ever made. Extremely talented, so much feeling in all their songs, sounds like no other band.

Ruff Stuff

Torkan91 Cathedral :B

A Sammler

I'm not sure if what you call "trying too hard" isn't just that they have a higher tolerance for dissonance and abrupt change. You could call them Nordic savages for this -- they certainly don't have the smooth edges of Floyd or Oldfield.

leonardo giraud

11y↑1

They coming to BajaProg festival next week. Cheers to all of you progs!!!

Drome Dario

4y↑1

I think best prog song 90'years

RoyalArtz

One of the most unique sounding song, all instrumental, but very tight and very good feel. Excellent prog song. All elements are very inspiring, the Hammond organ, the drums, the melletron, the guitar. I am a keyboardist myself having so much problems to learn this masterpiece.
Please let me know if those geniuses are coming to Israel - my home.. This underrated af.

kingcrimson250

7y↑2

I hope this album gets a remaster. Probably the best music to come out of the 90s prog revival but the mixing on it just doesn't do it justice.

double531

Incredible.

Spiritual_Music73

10y↑3

Fuck Yeah, this kicks ass

powck

11y

Yeah this album is brilliant, to bad its so ridiculously overpriced on vinyl :(

Jordon Walsh

Over...priced! Nah!

TheSchmuck2

11y↑2

this reminds me of Mega Man X. it's really cool.

Mogzs Lightdarker

5y↑1

aw shiezuz christ this is the sheit for real, gotta check this band

lesclaypool0727

8y↑1

Awesome!

Torkan91

11y

Nope, I can not agree with you. I think you haven't listened to it enough. How can you say that it's not natural? I can't say that all prog-bands from the 70s sounded "Natural", with most of them you can actually hear that they try really hard... but that doesn't mean that it's not good. Many of them also sound alike, Änglagård has an entirely different sound. The mix of classical, Swedish folk, 70s prog makes it sound like an amazingly mystic and evil mix that I've never heard in my life.

Plop Ploplop

brilliant between 16 and 21 years old then they have do this one....

Boaideiro Boio

11y↑1

This is better than Abba. What an amazing band from an amazing coutnry.Greetings from Brazil!!!

Torkan91

11y

Like with most prog it's not something you usually like when you hear it for the first time. When someone recommends something I always try to listen a whole album, at least 2-3 times before I make any opinion of weather it's good or bad.

caseytailfly

3y↑1

I like that part at 4:48 when Rick Wakeman comes in :P

Ezequiel Theman

9y↑2

Det är ett fint band

Mastela00

8y↑1

brilliant

Greenman Wood

7y↑5

Clearly good players, but this lacks the compositional coherence of Yes or Genesis. We are fortunate to have lived in the time of those two giants.

Joshua Thompson

Coherence, doesn't that simply mean its more accessible? I think their composition is awesome.

mintegral

It's not really less coherent or less accessible. Look up "through-composition"; it's a very intentional choice and how they write all of their songs.

Mer D

12y

amazing

Phils Phindings

Hello, does anyone know if the sequence starting at 6:15 was inspired by another song, maybe a popular swedish folk song? I have heard it somewhere else I swear, but I don't know where.

Jordon Walsh

4y↑1

Sounds like something off ff7 or something

Zak Johansson

11y

This totally reminds me of an endless sporadic. Fuck this is bra

Paulo Morosini

11y↑1

excellent

Varia umanità

💕💞💓

bentnob

11y↑15

this shits on the sex pistols

Daniel Gonzalez

The new Genesis Blood!.. Sounds a little bit like Genesis ( 1972-1977)

César Cárdenas

11y

got my tickets already! Alex Machacek and Virgil Donati are coming too with Eddie Jobson band... Are you coming to Mexicali?

Akarsh Rastogi

5y↑56

Selling Sweden by the krona

Lucas Oyen

I agree that this album is on a similar level to sebtp

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alteliebe

sounds like flower kings another swedish band

RootsRoots

9y↑3

Greetings from Costa Rica!

bonilla997

Linda mae

Tenement Funster.

12y

keep calm and prog on.

nuclearcollapse

9y↑25

Greetings from Turkey...

MrDrunb

11y

Oh, but you must ask yourself - are you trained enough to hear actual prog? While I think the answer is "No", your thoughts may differ.

Tanga26927

11y↑1

this make me feel sick... great soundtrack!

ozgurozk

The keyboard at 5:08

etienne paquet

11y↑1

The key board in the beginning sounds so dark

Robert Stockdale

11y

thats funny like country and western and blues doesnt all sound the same LOL

blacksaboteur

11y

Hey try asia minor - northern lights and nightwind. 1981 album Between flesh and divine. Turkish prog.

Jordon Walsh

Love it

Dmytro Rudenko

10y

Mozart-rock

Jean-François Devilers

11y↑2

Don't waste your time on him, man... He's just one these random internet trollz having nothing better to do of their time than shitting on places where they know it will hurt people, and hoping they will react.

22fret

Reminds me of Schicke Führs Frohling...

Ben Miler

It should, this was borrowed from side two of Symphonic Pictures.

Mike Reiss

9y↑7

4 people are angry guards.

EchoOfHope

11y

Know music, thou doth not.

Cayque Sales

11y↑6

wrong. there is no "pinnacle" of progressive rock. since that is the complete opposite of progression

Catalina L. Ortega

12y

@yugoroth1 *the best.

Francisco José Salmón Goncalvez de Faria

11y

Better keep listening Justin Bieber

PinkFloydrulez

11y

my ears are well trained from a young age trust me pal

Hector PeaceRock

11y

Not trained enough and nobody cares, you don't have to prove anything. You should listen to more music and shut up. This is the first time I listen to this band and the music quality in every single level is terrific. BTW, you're giving a bad name to every Pink Floyd fan using that nickname and acting judgmental and arrogant.

Egi Budiana2

28w

Owew owew

Hector PeaceRock

11y

word

Señor Patroclo

11y

You shouldn't deserve even listening to Floyd.

Orange Mirage

11y

And he calls himself ''Pinkfloydrulez''. Troll.

PinkFloydrulez

11y

thank you sir

u2bbbbbb

12y

@FabioLavanna Hi I'll be there, Toronto Canada.

PinkFloydrulez

11y

excuse me for liking my prog to be progressive

Red Rob

Pink Floyd are too Slow to be Prog,They Lumber along like an Old Tortoise 😂

PinkFloydrulez

11y

oh you're one of those guys

PinkFloydrulez

11y

listen to more 90s prog revival, it's all cheesy nonsense that wishes it was ~one of the greats~

PinkFloydrulez

11y

and, y'know, not sucky

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