The Flower Kings

Sweden's gift to Progressive Rock. Originally a solo album The Flower King by Roine Stolt, which grew into a band that has been going strong for 15 years.

Band Members

 * Roine Stolt - Guitars and vocals, additional bass and keyboards
 * Hasse Fröberg - Vocals and guitars, additional percussion
 * Tomas Bodin - Keyboards
 * Jonas Reingold - Bass
 * Ola Heden - Vocals, keyboards and guitars
 * Erik Hammarström - Drums

Former band members are:
 * Michael Stolt - Bass
 * Jamie Salazar - Drums
 * Zoltan Csorsz - Dums
 * Marcus Lillequist - Drums
 * Daniel Gildenlöw - Vocals, guitars and percussion

Other Flower Kings collaborators include:
 * Ulf Wallander - Alto Saxophone
 * Hasse Brunuisson - Percussion
 * Pat Mastelotto - Drums

Studio albums:

 * The Flower King 1994 - recorded by the eventual band and counted as part of their discography despite being Stolt's solo album.
 * Back In The World of Adventures 1995
 * Retropolis 1996
 * Stardust We Are 1997 - 2-Disc release
 * Flower Power 1999 - 2-Disc release
 * Space Revolver 2000
 * The Rainmaker 2001
 * Unfold The Future 2002 - 2-Disc release
 * Adam & Eve 2004
 * Paradox Hotel 2006 - 2-Disc release
 * Sum Of No Evil 2007 (originally called Love)
 * Banks Of Eden 2012

Tropes present:

 * Album Filler: Sadly, most of their stuff that isn't Epic Rocking is this.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Roine Stolt, the Flower King himself, sometimes comes off as this.
 * Epic Rocking: Of epic proportions. It's basically their raison d'être.
 * Genre Shift: Roine Stolt's Wall Street Voodoo, a blues album
 * Large Ham: Hasse Froberg, in stark contrast tot the rest of the band.
 * Lighter and Softer: Definitely on the bright and sunny side of Progressive Rock. As they put it: The Sum of No Evil.
 * Nice Hat: Jonas Reingold
 * Not Christian Rock: Debatable. While the band's lyrics are often spiritual and even moralizing, Roine does not identify himself or his band as Christian.
 * Our Vampires Are Different: "A Vampire's View", a Villain Song featuring Daniel Gildenlöw as an Anne Rice-style vampire.
 * The Other Darrin: They went through a fair share of bassists, drummers and miscellaneous band members before arriving at the current line-up. Roine jokingly referred to his band as the Spinal Tap of Progressive Rock.
 * The Power of Love: Their main recurring lyrical theme.
 * Vocal Tag Team
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: Roine
 * Wolverine Publicity: Roine again. He's one of the biggest names in prog, and has made guest appearances on more prog records than you can shake a Slipperman at.