Black Ingvars is a Swedish humorist
heavy metal group. Black Ingvars is famous for
cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song. Originally, it referred to a version of a song release ...
s of songs from other musical styles, like
pop,
children's song
A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education. Although children's songs have been recorded and studied ...
(including "
Sjörövar Fabbe" and "Här kommer Pippi Långstrump"),
dansband
(; "dance band"), or in Norwegian and Danish, is a Swedish term for a band that plays ("dance band music"). ' is often danced to in pairs. Jitterbug and foxtrot music are often included in this category. The music is primarily inspired by ...
music,
Christmas songs
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or, in the case of carols or songs, may employ lyrics whose subject ma ...
and
gospel
Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...
. They finished fifth in the Swedish
Melodifestivalen 1998
Sweden was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, held in Birmingham, the United Kingdom.
Before Eurovision
Melodifestivalen 1998
Melodifestivalen 1998 was the selection for the 38th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Cont ...
with the song "Cherie".
Bassist Henrik Ohlin died in May 2021.
Discography
* 1995 - ''
Earcandy Six''
* 1995 - ''Earcandy Five''
* 1997 - ''Sjung Och Var Glad Med Black-Ingvars''
* 1998 - ''
Schlager Metal
''Schlager Metal'' is a 1998 album by Swedish heavy metal band Black Ingvars. On the album, they cover Melodifestivalen songs in heavy metal version. However, the first song, "Cherie", was their own and they performed it at the Swedish Melodifesti ...
''
* 1999 - ''
Heaven Metal''
* 2000 - ''Kids Superhits''
* 2000 - ''
The Very Best of dansbandshårdrock''
* 2002 - ''Sjung Och Var Glad Med Black-Ingvars 2''
References
External links
Band website*
* Television appearance
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Swedish heavy metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1995
1995 establishments in Sweden
Melodifestivalen contestants of 1998