Quick Facts

PERSONAL DATA



Name:
Anders Jacobsson

Date of Birth:
12th of April 1975

Zodiac sign:
Aries

Lives:
Säffle, Sweden

Civil status:
Single and confused

Occupation/Studies:
Sicklisted, but otherwise filmstudies and screenwriting.

DRACONIAN



Position in Draconian:
Vocalist

Music equipment:
Just a microphone

Personal goal as member of the band:
To grow artistically and individually

Best Draconian demo/promo song(s):
The Amaranth
The Gothic Embrace
Serenade of Sorrow
Death, Come Near Me
The Midwinter Sleep
Away

Best "Where Lovers Mourn" song(s):
The Cry of Silence
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

Best "Arcane Rain Fell" song(s):
A Scenery of Loss
Daylight Misery
Expostulation

Best "The Burning Halo" song(s):
The Dying

Other bands/projects than Draconian:
Not at the moment, no

Former band(s):
Measureless
Azazel Rites
Rektum
Misanthropiah
Midnight Masquerade
etc.

ALL TIME BEST OF



All time favorite album(s):
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness ...
King Crimson - In the Court of the...
Anathema – Serenades
The 3’rd and the Mortal - Tears Laid in...
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Celestial Season - Forever Scarlet Passion
Katatonia - The Dance of December Souls
Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Buring upon...
Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
Summoning – Nightshade Forests
Elend - Les Ténèbres du Duhors
Elend – The Umbersun
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Saviour Machine - Legend II
etc...

All time favorite movie(s):
Manhattan [Woody Allen]
Casino [Martin Scorsese]
Snow Falling on Cedars [Scott Hicks]
Magnolia [Paul Thomas Anderson]
Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf [Mike Nichols]
La Pianiste [Michael Haneke]
Ladri di Biciclette [Vittorio de Sica]
Umberto D [Vittorio de Sica]
L’Année dernière à Marienbad [Alain Resnais]
Hiroshima Mon Amour [Alain Resnais]
Raging Bull [Martin Scorsese]
Germania Anno Zero [Roberto Rosselini]
Goodfellas [Martin Scorsese]
Viskningar och Rop [Ingmar Bergman]
Det Sjunde Inseglet [Ingmar Bergman]
8 1/2 [Federico Fellini]
Rear Window [Alfred Hitchcock]
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari [Robert Wiene]
Barry Lyndon [Stanley Kubrick]
Happiness [Todd Solondz]
Rope [Alfred Hitchcock]
Mulholland Drive [David Lynch]
The Notebook [Nick Cassavetes]
Sleepless in Seattle [Nora Ephron]
Lost in Translation [Sofia Coppola]
Napoleon Dynamite [Jared Hess]
etc...

All time favorite book(s):
A Man of Honor [by Joseph Bonanno]
Bound by Honor [by Bill Bonanno]
Poems and Prophecies [by William Blake]
The Sorrows of Young Werther [by Goethe]
Paradise Lost [by John Milton]
Mörk Magi [by Tommie Erikson]
The Necronomicon-inspired short-stories [by H.P. Lovecraft]


INFLUENCES AND FAVORITES



Music influences:
Wagner, Debussy, Elend

Influences other than music:
The past, dreams, fantasies, the night and the essence of darkness, love and purity, the soul, life, death and beyond.

Interests other than music:
Movies, poetry, cooking, the mafia, friends, spirituality and occultism (mostly the dark path)

Favorite band(s):
Elend
Porcupine Tree
My Dying Bride
Anathema (old)
Saviour Machine
Bal-Sagoth
Summoning
Opeth
Riverside
Fields of the Nephilim
Arena
Raison d’être
Nevermore
The Mission (old)
Debussy
Wagner
etc...

Favorite album-cover(s):
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene

Favorite male vocalist(s):
Tony Martin (known from Black Sabbath)
Eric Clayton (Saviour Machine)
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)


Favorite female vocalist(s):
Kari Rueslååten (from her The 3rd and the Mortal period)

Favorite actor(s):
Robert de Niro
Al Pacino
James Stewart


Favorite actress(es):
Mia Farrow
Jean Arthur
Greta Garbo
Lena Endre
Liv Ullman

Favorite author(s):
P.B. Shelley
William Blake
John Keats
Erik Johan Stagnelius
H.P. Lovecraft
August Strindberg
Rousseau
Charles Baudelaire
John Milton...

Favorite artist(s):
[no answer]

Favorite website(s):
www.allmovie.com
The best info-resource of movies.
www.helgon.net
A great community for metal-heads, goths and similar.
www.dragonrouge.net
Take the dark path and find your inner self!

Favorite food:
Very hot and spicy... mostly meat dishes. Generally no vegetables. I like to cook with red wine, cognac, garlic, thyme and hot chili’s as piri-piri and habanero. I like Mexican, Italian and Lebanese food a lot as well.

Favorite alcoholic drink(s):
Murphy’s Red, red wines of Merlot and Pinot Noir, White Russian, Whiskey (not bourbon) or Cognac with Coke and a twist of lemon, Absinth (the favourite is Absinthium 1792. I really recommend this one).

Favorite non-alcoholic drink(s):
Icewater, Sodas as Pepsi twist/light, Trocadero, Champis, herbal tea and lemon juice.

Favorite animal(s):
Cats (certain breeds like Siamese, Turkish Angora and Sphynx)
I would like a Borzoi or a Saluki dog later in life.

Favorite travel destination(s):
Prague… and I really would like to go to Sicily.

Favorite color(s):
Black, purple, crimson

ABOUT LIFE



Main goals/aspirations in life:
To grow within the areas of my interests.

Life philosophy/motto:
“Long better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.” /John Milton

Your viewpoint regarding death:
Death is just a new beginning. It’s also a release from physical bondage.

What achievement in life are you most proud of:
Nothing really. I do think I have more spiritual insight than most people though. For that I feel kinda "proud".

What do you regret most in life:
I regret I don’t practice more magic than I do these days. I also regret that I spend more money than I can afford.

What are your main fears in life:
Achieving nothing of worth in life and die a loser.

Despite/dislike:
The human race in general, bright sunlight and light’s divinity.

If you could live your life as another person for one day - who would that be:
Even if it hurts a lot, I only want to be me. My soul is my own.

If you had to choose to live in another era/age/time than the present - which one:
The Romantic Age (the beginning of the 1800’s). Or as a poetic absintheur in the Parisian turn of the century, where I’ll be hanging around as a bohemian in the Montmartre quarters. Honestly.