Astral Doors is a Swedish Heavy Metal band that was formed back in 2002. This formation however actually began back in 1998 when vocalist Nils Patrik Johansson and drummer Johan Lindstedt were in the band Barfly together. That band was strongly influenced by Black Sabbath and Deep Purple and eventually broke up in 2002. The engineer for their last demo recording happened to be guitarist Joachim Norlund, who Lindstedt began writing with soon after. Those two contacted Johansson who agreed to join them in their new endeavor, which turned out to be Astral Doors. Joakim Roberg, the keyboardist/organist and Martin