Astral Doors

Astral Doors is a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Borlänge in 2002. They have released nine studio albums and one EP. Their latest work is Worship or Die, released in 2019. Nils Patrik Johansson, Joachim Nordlund and Martin Haglund all lived in the Swedish town of Borlänge, where they all practiced with their respective bands in a club called Rock House. Nordlund and Johansson barely knew each other and neither of them knew Martin Haglund. Johansson's melodic metal band, Staircase, lost its drummer in 1991, and their search for a replacement led them to Johan Lindstedt, who was a drummer for a techno thrash metal band. Lindstedt played briefly for Staircase before joining a rap metal band, Buckshot OD.