Adrian Erlandsson

Adrian Erlandsson is a Swedish heavy metal drummer, who played in bands like At the Gates, The Haunted and currently Cradle of Filth

Adrian Erlandsson is a Swedish heavy metal drummer, who played in bands like At the Gates, The Haunted and currently Cradle of Filth.

He was born in Malmö, Sweden on October 27, 1970. At age eleven, he began drumming. After years of trying to tap along to songs, his father took him to the local music store and bought him an Amber Maxtone drum kit: five piece, with one cymbal and one hi-hat. When they got home, he phoned his friend to tell him to come over so they could play together. As Adrian puts it: "He knew i chord... I knew less than one beat!!!". After a few weeks, they could play the Intro-verse-Chorus to Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N' Roll". They also started playing with his music teacher at school, who taught him many valuable lessons. He still keeps them by him today. Eventually they were trying other songs and then started trying to make their own stuff. A band came together, and they went through several changes of name. The most outstanding one was Berits Polisonger (meaning Berits Sideburns, Berit being a female name)....