Ola "The Swede" Englund (born 27 September 1981) is a Swedish guitarist, record producer, YouTuber, and the owner of Solar guitars. He is a founding-member of the band Feared, plays lead guitar in the Swedish

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band The Haunted, and is a former member of the band Six Feet Under. He has also been a part of Scarpoint, Facing Death, Subcyde and Sorcerer. In 2018 and 2019, ''

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'' magazine awarded him as Best Internet Personality. In 2019, he released his first solo-album ''Master of the Universe''. His second solo-album, ''Starzinger'', was released on 26 April 2021. Englund has a

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-channel under his own name where he makes videos about metal-related topics such as gear-demos, news, artist-interviews, Q&A, and behind-the-scenes-footage of his band-gigs and business. As of August 2022, his channel has 750k subscribers.

Influences

Englund cites his biggest influences as Pantera, Dream Theater,

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, Testament,

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, Entombed, and Opeth. He is a big fan of former Pantera-guitarist

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Discography

Singles

* "Pizza Hawaii" (2019) * "Cerberus" (2019) * "Solar Pt. 1" (2019) * "The Sun & the Moon" (2020) * "Stars & Ponies" (2020) * "Cringy AF" (2021) * "Demon(etized)" (2021)

Gear

Englund has had signature-guitar-lines from Strictly 7 (2011–2013) and

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(2013–2017), as well as a signature amplifier from Randall known as the Randall Satan (2014-2019). In November 2017, he announced the launch of his own guitar-brand called Solar Guitars.

GuitarWorld.com, entry: The Haunted, Feared Guitarist Ola Englund launches Solar Guitars Brand''

References

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