Mathias Färm (born September 9, 1974, in

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, Sweden) is a guitar player, best known as a member of the Swedish punk rock band

Millencolin Millencolin is a Swedish punk rock band that was formed on 12 October 1992 by Nikola Šarčević, Mathias Färm, and Erik Ohlsson in Örebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band. The name Millencolin is derived from t ...

. He is also the frontman of a punk band named Franky Lee, a side-project of Millencolin. He started

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in 1987 and started listening to

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, Mc Rad,

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because of the skate videos. Early in 1992 he and

Nikola Šarčević Nikola Šarčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Шарчевић; born 9 July 1974, Örebro) is a Swedish musician of Serbian origin. He is the bassist, vocalist, and primary songwriter for the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin and also has ...

were members of a band named Seigmen, which was a punk rock band singing in

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. Färm runs a studio named

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, which he started with the help of

Mieszko Talarczyk Mieszko Talarczyk (December 23, 1974 – December 26, 2004) was the lead singer and guitarist of the Swedish grindcore band Nasum, Genocide Superstars, Krigshot and Charles Harfager. Known for his engineering and production abilities, he co-f ...

the former lead singer of Swedish

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band

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. He was the inaugural

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for Millencolin but soon switched to guitar when Millencolin's current drummer

Fredrik Larzon Fredrik Larzon (born April 25, 1973) is the drummer of the Swedish punk band Millencolin. He was born and lives in Örebro, Sweden. He runs another project named Kvoteringen. Before joining Millencolin in 1993, Larzon was a member of the band Ku ...

joined the band in 1993. This change was made because most of Millencolin's songs required two guitars on stage to duplicate the studio recorded sounds. Färm was also a more proficient guitarist than drummer. Currently, he lives in Örebro, Sweden. He's a

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Mathias plays most rhythm guitars on the first three Millencolin albums, but in the more recent albums, he performs most of the lead guitars, notably octave-style riffs and some solos.

References

1974 births Living people Swedish punk rock musicians English-language singers from Sweden {{Sweden-musician-stub