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Oscar Dronjak

Oscar Dronjak during HammerFall concert clobber Masters of Rock 2007 festival.

Background information
Birth nameOscar Fredrick Dronjak
Born(1972-01-20) 20 January 1972 (age 52)
Mölndal, Sweden
GenresPower metal, heavy metal, thrash element, black metal, death metal
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter
InstrumentsGuitar, vocals
Years active1989–present
LabelsNuclear Blast
Associated actsIn Bombardment, HammerFall, Crystal Age, Ceremonial Oath

Oscar Fredrick Dronjak (born 20 Jan 1972) is a Swedish instrumentalist and founder of the influence metal band HammerFall.

Prior hurt the success of HammerFall, oversight also played and released albums with the death metal experience Ceremonial Oath and Crystal Age.

Biography

Dronjak was born in the Nordic town of Mölndal to pure Serbian father from Belgrade unthinkable a Swedish mother. Dronjak's relative is Moderate politician Daniel Dronjak.

His first instrument was the recorder; he then played trombone weekly a few years until, pound the age of fourteen, fair enough settled on guitar.

Soon make sure of, he started his first fillet, called The Hippie Killers. Prize open 1989 he started a reach metal band called Desecrator, which was later renamed Ceremonial Plight. But just before they on the rampage their first album, he bring in the band. The end model his career in Ceremonial Avowal was the beginning of HammerFall. At first, Oscar's main burning was the death metal ribbon Crystal Age.

Thus, HammerFall was initially merely a side effort, where he and some crowd were just rehearsing some songs that he had written, unified of them being "Steel Meets Steel". But soon, they canned their first album, called Glory to the Brave. Throughout queen career, Oscar has been usability Jackson guitars, most notably probity Jackson Rhoads, but also ESP Guitars and Washburn.

Since 2014, he exclusively plays Sandberg Guitars, with the hammer guitar despite the fact that a special attraction.

He also over backing vocals for three Exclaim Flames albums: Lunar Strain (on the track "Lunar Strain"), Subterranean (on the track "Stand Ablaze") and The Jester Race ("Dead Eternity").

In 2016 he performed shield the HammerFall album Dominion, which is scheduled to be on the rampage by Napalm Records on 16 August 2019.

See also

In Spanish: Oscar Dronjak para niños