Nicki Wicked Had the Rhythm in Her Body Since Childhood, and Had Been the Drummer in a Hardcore Band. Ida Evileye and Klara Forc
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Nicki Wicked had the rhythm in her body since childhood, and had been the drummer in a hardcore band. Ida Evileye and Klara Force had met in school and played a bit together whilst Mia Coldheart had also played with Ida in another group. Immediately they realised they fitted perfectly together, both musically and in their way of life. In December 2004 their first single, ’Losing the Game’ was released. It became a Top 10 single in the Swedish charts. Both the single and video were played frequently on national TV and radio stations in Sweden and abroad. Crucified Barbara’s debut album “In Distortion We Trust” was released in January 2005 and excellent reviews followed. The band headed out for some successful touring both supporting bigger acts and on their own. The touring continued during the spring and summer of 2006 and the ‘Barbara’s’ played at some major festivals around Europe including the Sweden Rock festival, Rock Hard, Masters of Rock and more. This hard touring schedule paid dividends and they gained a reputation for being a great live act. The autumn of 2006 continued with them touring Australia and in November they once again packed their cases, this time for a full UK tour supporting Motörhead. Whilst the band were busy touring, the debut album was re-released in October 2006 with a bonus DVD featuring the band on the road. It included both on and off stage material as well as 3 bonus tracks. ‘In Distortion We Trust’ saw the light of day in both North and South America in 2006 and in the summer of 2007 it was Japan's turn to get to know Crucified Barbara. Finally at the end of 2007 the band had time to start working with new material. The recording was made during the first part of 2008 with Jocke Skog from Clawfinger behind the mixing desk and Mats Levén producing with help from the band themselves. Immediately after recording the new album, Crucified Barbara was offered a Special Guest slot on the Backyard Babies UK tour. Of course, these ladies couldn’t refuse such an offer and it also gave them a chance to test their new material, which was received very well. The first single “Sex Action” was released on November 5 2008 and the video for the song was widely shown. On Feb 11 2009, almost exactly four years since Crucified Barbara’s debut, the second album ‘”Til’ death Do Us Party” was released in Scandinavia and on Feb 27th, in the rest of Europe. In October it was released in Japan through Bickee Music/Happinet. Reviews was amazing with quotes such as ‘the best album ever’ and ‘a total metal classic’ summing up what many in the press have had to say. Sales surpassed those for the debut album and the band spent much of the time since the second cds release playing a mixture of festivals and club gigs to bigger and bigger crowds. Their appearance at Sweden Rock Festival in 2009 was one of the highlights of the whole festival. In November-December 2009 the band headed out for their first full European headlining tour. Six weeks of success. This was also documented and was released as a DVD ‘Til Death Do uS Party Tour 2009’ in late 2011. In February 2010 Crucified Barbara performed with a semi hardrock ballad, ‘Heaven Or Hell’ on Swedish National TV in front of half the population in the country. They were in the Eurovision Song Contest and made it through to the semi-final, not bad going for a hardrock band! The single ‘Heaven Or Hell’ since then was most wanted and played at several radiostations, it hit the Swedish Top 40 single Charts, it reached number 7 on Swedish legendary radioshow ‘Svensktoppen’ and Crucified Barbara headlined both weekly and daily papers for weeks. Crucified Barbara have just finished the recordings for their 3rd album to be released in march 2012. .