BIOGRAPHY

Born in Soviet, raised in English boarding school, lived with elks in the north of Canada, then foreign legion, NASA space program, radio-operator during the cold war, elite gymnastics, learn to play guitar, classical piano, MK-ultra, fencing, pimp-daddy in the USA, studied with Schönberg, member of Scientology, Kabbalah with Madonna, teacher of martial arts, kicked out of Surrealist movement, massage-institute, king of Egypt and now THIS…

VED started as a solo project by Mattias Nihlén taking inspiration from film music, progressive rock and early electronic music. From a more dronebased ambient, the music has developed into a rythmic machinery with elements of horror movie soundtracks, surf rock and found cassettes. VED is now also a fully developed liveband delivering hypnotic instrumental rock music.