Calmus sadly disbanded for good in 2005 after several attempts to reform in one guise or another, but the band formed in a musical explosion in Swansea in 1997 when two college friends, Marc Lockwood (now drummer in Swansea filthy-grooved rockers, Uberchop) and Damian Harris (later bass in Bean(0), and now beat powerhouse at World Vs. World along with being founder member and drummer at King Goon), teamed up with multi-talented Swansea legend (when he was just a rumour, not a legend!), John Sandberg (Changerface, Horses Riding Humans, and many other bands since!) on guitar and vocals, and Alex Lewis (Casio Party) on bass.

Initially, Damian also played guitar and took lead vocals for half a set, with John on drums, and then they'd swap halfway through, but with John being a leftie and Damian being a rightie, along with John being a stronger live performer as frontman, it was decided for John to take on frontman duties and Damian drum on a full-time basis.

Between 1997 and 2000, they played everywhere and anywhere that would put them on, on the South Wales scene, delivering powerful live sets filled with short, sharp, grungy, punky, poppy outbursts of licks, grooves and riffs, accompanying John Sandbergs bitterly delivered cynical outlook on the world!

In the short time together, they made a massive impact on their local scene around Swansea Bay and recorded 4 E.P.'s at the now defunct Ocean Recording Studios on Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff, (the final one mysteriously disappearing within weeks of recording), before Damian quit the band in the summer of 1999.

In 2000, the band attempted to reform. but things were not quite right, so they recorded a 5th E.P. without Damian at Tim Hamill's Sonic Studios (when it was still in Kidwelly) and called it a day shortly after.

The original members still kept close comtact over the years, and Damian and John worked together on a few projects in the fledgeling years of the 21st Century, though due to not being able to settle with other musicians involved in the projects, nothing other than a few demos came to fruition.

In 2005, John, Marc, Alex and Damian started to work together on new Calmus material, but after a few sessions together and a few new demos recorded at Rock-A-Doodle Farm in Llanboidy, West Wales, they finally decided to go their seperate ways, forming their current individual projects/bands that they are still working today.

On this profile, you can stream tracks from their first 3 E.P.'s recorded in Cardiff - Where Shunks Have Trod (1998), Lunar Pervert (1998) and their 3rd and most successful E.P.. Monofloss (1999)

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