Björn Tom Fredrik Nordström (born 5 January 1967) is a Swedish musician and record producer, best known as the guitarist of heavy metal band Dream Evil. Nordström is one of the leading melodic death metal and power metal producers in Sweden and has worked with some of said genres' top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy, Nightrage, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Soilwork, Opeth, and Powerwolf.
Fascinated by technology from a young age, Nordström opened a small recording studio in Gothenburg, mainly to record his own music. The studio evolved into Studio Fredman, one of the leading Swedish recording studios where he works with his employee Henrik Udd.
In 1999, Nordström formed the heavy metal band Dream Evil to perform his own music, and as of 2010, Dream Evil has released five albums, one live DVD/CD set, and two EPs. Today, Nordström is considered one of the top metal producers in Europe, and one of the central figures of the Gothenburg style.
Discography with Dream Evil
Dragonslayer (2002) Evilized (2003) Children of the Night (EP, 2003) The First Chapter (EP, 2004) The Book of Heavy Metal (2004) United (2006) Gold Medal in Metal (Alive & Archive) (2008) In the Night (2010) Six (2017)
Production credits
1990
Calcutta Cornflakes (demo)
1993
Ceremonial Oath – The Book of Truth
1994
At the Gates – Terminal Spirit Disease
In Flames – Lunar Strain (mixing, engineering) In Flames – Subterranean (EP) (engineering)
1995
At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
Dark Tranquillity – Of Chaos and Eternal Night (EP) Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery Memory Garden – Forever (EP)
1996
Arch Enemy – Black Earth
Dark Tranquillity – Enter Suicidal Angels (EP) In Flames – The Jester Race LOK – Ord och inga visor Memory Garden – Tides Sacrilege – Lost in the Beauty You Slay Sludge Nation – Wisehead Sludge Nation – Blow Your Speakers with Sludge Nation
1997
Armageddon – Crossing the Rubicon
Dark Tranquillity – The Mind's I
Dimension Zero – Penetrations from the Lost World
HammerFall – Glory to the Brave
In Flames – Black-Ash Inheritance (EP) In Flames – Whoracle Lord Belial – Enter the Moonlight Gate Misanthrope – Visionnaire Sacrilege – The Fifth Season Skitsystem – Levande Lik
1998
Arch Enemy – Stigmata
Exhumation – Dance Across the Past
HammerFall – Legacy of Kings
The Haunted – The Haunted
Misanthrope – Libertine Humiliations
Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
Embraced – Amorous Anathema
Runemagick – The Supreme Force of Eternity
Soilwork – Steelbath Suicide
Spiritual Beggars – Mantra III
1999
Arch Enemy – Burning Bridges
Dark Tranquillity – Projector
Exhumation – Traumaticon
In Flames – Colony
Malevolence – Martyrialized
Opeth – Still Life
Septicflesh – Revolution DNA
Sinergy – Beware the Heavens
2000
Arch Enemy – Burning Japan Live 1999
Buried Dreams – Perceptions
The Crown – Deathrace King
Dark Tranquillity – Haven
In Flames – Clayman
Sludge – Scarecrow Messiah
Soilwork – The Chainheart Machine
Spiritual Beggars – Ad Astra
2001
Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin
Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Godgory – Way Beyond
Opeth – Blackwater Park (mixing) Soilwork – A Predator's Portrait
2002
Arch Enemy – Burning Angel (EP) Dark Tranquillity – Damage Done Dragonland – Holy War Dream Evil – Dragonslayer Eternal Oath – Righteous Firewind – Between Heaven and Hell The Fifth Sun – The Moment of Truth Opeth – Deliverance (engineering) Sinergy – Suicide by My Side Soilwork – Natural Born Chaos
2003
On Thorns I Lay – Egocentric
Evergrey – Recreation Day
Soilwork – Figure Number Five
Darkest Hour – Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation
Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
Dream Evil – Evilized
Firewind – Burning Earth
The Haunted – One Kill Wonder
Nightrage – Sweet Vengeance
Old Man's Child – In Defiance of Existence
Pagan's Mind – Celestial Entrance
Passenger – Passenger
Septicflesh – Sumerian Daemons
Zyklon – Aeon
2004
Ancient – Night Visit (mixing) Dark Tranquillity – Exposures – In Retrospect and Denial Dream Evil – The Book of Heavy Metal The Fifth Sun – The Hunger to Survive The Haunted – Revolver Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolos (mastering) Sludge – Yellow Acid Rain