David Sandström


David Sandström is the drummer for hardcore punk group Refused. After Refused broke up David and the other members of Refused worked on a project entitled TEXT and released one album. Then David went on to do solo work. In 2008 he formed the hardcore punk band AC4 with Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzén, playing bass guitar.
Sandström states that before Refused formed he was a "glue-sniffing death metal kid" but eventually a fan of Step Forward, the embryo of Refused. As Step Forward called it quits and the friendship between Sandström and Dennis Lyxzén grew stronger, Lyxzén took him home and made him listen to Youth of Today's We're Not in This Alone album over and over again in a room alone.

David Sandström Overdrive

After Refused's demise, Sandström formed his own band, David Sandström Overdrive. His first release under his own name was called Om det inte händer nåt innan imorgon så kommer jag... Om det is about David's grandfather, and was sung in Swedish. The second album, The Dominant Need of Needy Soul Is to Be Needed was released in 2004. His third album is Go Down! and was released in May 2005 under the name David Sandström Overdrive. In October 2008 the fourth album was released, titled Pigs Lose on Razzia Records.

Albums

''The Faint Sounds of Shovelled Earth''

Under the alias The Faint Sounds of Shovelled Earth

1998, Simba recordings
  1. Jack
  2. Endnotes
  3. The Colour of his Shoes
  4. Gods and Punks
  5. Detours
  6. The Fires of the Town
  7. Precursor
  8. The Boxer's Son
  9. Promise
  10. Shroud

    ''Text – ST''

as Member

2000, Demon Box Recording

2000, Desperate Fight Records

2001, Buddyhead
  1. Requiem For Ernst-Hugo
  2. Sound Is Compressed; Words Rebel And Hiss
  3. Collages Désertes, 1ère Tableau Du Sable
  4. We Have Explosives! – Schmexplosives
  5. Those Kids Are Gone
  6. Collages Désertes, 2ème Tableau Du Soleil
  7. The Huntsville Treaty
  8. Collages Désertes, 3ème Tableau Du Chemin

    ''Om det inte händer nåt innan imorgon så kommer jag''

2000, Demonbox Recordings
  1. Apropå Det Här Med Att Finnas Till
  2. Stämning
  3. 1968
  4. Degernäs
  5. När Hjärtat Svider
  6. Oväsen
  7. Det Du Vill Mest
  8. Kurragömma

    ''The Dominant Need of the Needy Soul Is to Be Needed''

2004, Mofab Teg Recordings
  1. Cocaine in Your Cola
  2. Shakey Heart
  3. Cockroaches
  4. Let The Song Begin
  5. Counting The Ties
  6. Frojden Eder Med Bavan
  7. Rock in Motion
  8. Kill Your Boyfriend
  9. You Can't Prepare Your Pianos For This, There's No Grammar, There's Just Us
  10. TJ Queen
  11. Sixties, The

    ''Go Down!''

With David Sandström Overdrive.
2005, Mofab Teg Recordings
  1. Buckle Up
  2. The Fatville Treaty
  3. The Crotch Of Saturday Night
  4. Move Along
  5. Gather Round
  6. Here's For Summer
  7. How The Story Feels
  8. Get On With Your Life
  9. Puppet Arms
  10. Fetch Your Invectives
  11. A Greater Sum
  12. Sunday Coffee
  13. Leni Leni

    ''Pigs Lose''

With David Sandström Overdrive.
2008, Razzia Records
  1. Mortal Man Is A Broomstick
  2. Listen
  3. Not A Good Boy
  4. Happy Home
  5. These Are The Days
  6. Lisa, Lisa
  7. Tearing Through The Decades
  8. The Zigzag Years
  9. The God Thing
  10. Allstar Team
  11. Songs That Maybe Won't Be Forgotten
  12. Dead Alive
  13. Too Late, But Still
  14. Stop Talk
  15. Thou Shalt Get Lost
  16. Göran William Frii

    ''You're The Lotion On Darkness Knuckles As It Punches Light in the Face''

2011, Razzia Records
  1. The Wrong Animal
  2. Sylvia Plath
  3. Trouble
  4. Doomsday Afternoon
  5. Caitlin Mooney
  6. Palimpsest
  7. Rot in the Guilt Gene
  8. Iosif Brodskij
  9. Goodnight Bad Things
  10. Problem

    Singles

Tillflykt

2007, Folkets Bio

Directors: Alberto Herskovits, Mikael Wiström

Månharen Film & TV AB
A documentary about musician David Sandström, the Swedish photographer Sune Jonsson
and writer Sara Lidman.
Based on context of recorded audio in Om det inte händer nåt innan imorgon så kommer jag
this motion picture deals with searching origin and identity;
the scene is set in Norrbotten, Sweden
David has also contributed vocals on the Addeboy vs Cliff track "Beep My Beep" in 2009.