Swedish House Mafia Reunited: In Stockholm With the Dance Legends

Table Of Content

• Sebastian Ingrosso
• Victoria Justice Shimmers in Sequins at Latin American Music Awards in Dazzling Cutout Dress
• Compilation albums
• Steve Angello
• Essential Albums
• The History of Swedish House Mafia: A Timeline
• Inhaler: “We’re not here to be a mid-bill festival band – you have to keep pushing to the very top”

While Swedish House Mafia’s remix of this Coldplay smash isn’t an SHM song per se, we couldn’t stand leaving it off our list completely. Swedish House Mafia take the dance leanings of “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” — particularly, the euphoric keys underneath the chorus — one step further, layering on shattering synths, ample percussion and a blissful new hook. Swedish House Mafia promptly decided to split up in 2012 as they arguably were enjoying the peak of their commercial success, which is likely also what sparked the decision to bring the SHM wheels to a halt and focus on their individual careers instead. The members have all described the period leading up to the split as “draining”, and the break as something they all needed.

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Sebastian Ingrosso

The track was the first taster of ‘Paradise Again’, Swedish House Mafia’s first proper album. While 2010’s ‘Until One’ and 2012’s ‘Until Now’ were both singles collections, ‘Paradise Again’ is “a whole body of work”, according to Angello. Well, according to Ingrosso, Swedish House Mafia actually made four albums that became one after writing 45 songs. “They might become something else someday,” he starts, explaining that the vibe of some of those tracks just wasn’t right for the record. That summer of 2018, Thomson resigned, and she and the Swedes amicably parted ways.

Victoria Justice Shimmers in Sequins at Latin American Music Awards in Dazzling Cutout Dress

The trio first reunited in 2018 for a surprise show at Miami’s Ultra Music Festival, and began working on music once again. The dramatic and electrifying single ‘It Gets Better’ eventually arrived in July of this year, the group’s first new release in nearly a decade, to preview their upcoming new album ‘Paradise Again’ and world tour. Despite the dizzying fame and fortune that comes with dance music success, the three friends insist that “Swedish House Mafia was never a business” and they “never gave a fuck about the money”, says Angello. Apparently, their farewell tour grossed $200million but cost them $210million, but it was cool because they were “running after our dreams”. In that spirit, the band decided that “the most exciting thing to do was to quit”.

Compilation albums

The track hit No. 3 on the Dance Club Songs charts with its smoldering, hypnotic dance beat and shimmery, metallic drop. Following their recent GRAMMY nomination and continued multi-platinum success, this exclusive show marks a welcome return for Swedish House Mafia to the New York City stage since their sold out MSG performance in 2022. Furthermore, it serves as an exciting early kick-off to the Brooklyn Mirage’s 2024 season, a week ahead of its originally scheduled launch. Fans can anticipate a captivating live set bursting with the group’s signature energy. This special event also coincides with the release of their brand new single, ‘Lioness.‘ Be sure to pre-save the track here. The 52-date arena world tour would begin November 16 in Dubai and then travel to India, parts of Europe and Europe before arriving in North America in February 2013.

It’s kind of attached to his face.” The company’s experience with large-scale touring should help, too, with a planned 2022 global outing that will mostly hit Live Nation-affiliated or -aligned arenas and stadiums. A loose plan emerged to get back in the studio and tour, but the months after Ultra proved messy. Thomson, who had steered the act since its inception, sensed that Angello might want Braun to co-manage the reunited group, according to a source familiar with the matter. Swedish House Mafia has never done anything less than full throttle, and even its last goodbye was outsized. In January 2024, Tomorrowland announced Swedish House Mafia will be performing at the 20 year anniversary festival called Life. In 2022, the group also received credit for co-writing and co-producing "Sacrifice" and "How Do I Make You Love Me?" off of the Weeknd's fifth studio album Dawn FM, on which 'Moth to a Flame' was featured on the Alternate World edition of the album.

Essential Albums

Either way, two months after closing out Coachella’s mainstage after headliners The Black Keys, they announced their farewell tour. As dinner draws to a close, Angello and Ingrosso return from their second smoking break. Paradise Again, says Angello, is “just the beginning,” adding that they have enough music for a couple more albums yet. “You always want people to like your music, otherwise you wouldn’t play it to them,” says Ingrosso. “But the vision of the album, for me, it’s not really important if it sells 400 million [copies] or 10.” As Angello points out, they’ve already achieved something that, for so long, was more elusive. “With [Slaiby] always being available and his team always chasing us, it works really well,” says Axwell.

The History of Swedish House Mafia: A Timeline

The group reunited in March 2018 on dance music’s biggest stage in the U.S., Ultra Music Festival in Miami, where they closed out the main stage with a fiery performance. While it’s not exactly clear as to what Swedish House Mafia has planned next, their trailblazing past hints that they’ve only just begun. Iconic super-trio Swedish House Mafia has a remarkable history; one that’s filled with triumphant firsts and game-changing moves that have not only inspired future generations of producers, but paved the way for countless dance artists to come. Moreover, they did it all with less than a dozen records to show and only one true radio hit.

He has been very successful on his own—both commercially and in the “underground” scene—albeit not quite with the same commercial success as SHM. The group’s website listed their final show being November 24, 2012 at the Friends Arena in Sweden. Prior to that, they would headline Tomorrowland in Belgium and finish up their residency at Ushuaia in Ibiza.

“They defined a genre in such a specific way.” The marquee acts of their era — Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Skrillex and deadmau5 — survived by evolving their sounds and thus, well, never really going away. More than any other act in modern dance music, Swedish House Mafia set the tone for the EDM boom of the early 2010s, taking the massive “big room” house sound cultivated in Europe to the United States. All this made it a major heartbreak for the dance community when the group announced their intentions to split in 2012, officially signing off after the last concert of their “One Last Tour” at the 2013 edition of Miami’s Ultra Music Festival.

And I got to say, the smaller gigs in a dark club at 4am have definitely been my favourite ones, whereas the big main act festival gigs tend to be a bit too predictable, commercial, and choreographed for my taste. You can refer to their music in more simple terms as Swedish or European House Music, walking in the footsteps of European EDM artists such as Daft Punk and Tiesto. The group split up in 2013 during what you could definitely call the height of their popularity, a decision they’ve said was based on feeling lost as individual artists and not dealing with the increased pressure that came with this popularity. Since bursting onto the global scene, DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia has spearheaded the Swedish EDM wave. Fellow Stockholm DJ Eric Prydz was initially part of the loosely defined “Swedish House Mafia” of the mid-2000s, but ultimately went his own ways as a solo artist under the aliases Pryda, Cirez D and of course Eric Prydz.

The track bolted to No. 3 on the Dance Club Songs charts, thanks to its thudding, descending synth line, trance-like wooshes and Pharrell’s soulful vocal interjections. As if Swedish House Mafia weren’t enough of a super-group already, the trio united with Dutch DJ Laidback Luke and vocal powerhouse Deborah Cox for this progressive house treat. On June 23, 2012, Swedish House Mafia announced their split and revealed that their remaining shows listed on their website would be their last. “Today we want to share with you that the tour we are about to go on will be our last, they said. We came, we raved, we loved.” The news caught much of the dance world by surprise, but behind the magical curtain, things were not as glossy as they seemed.

Thankfully, though, the Swedish beatsmiths left behind enough material for fans to feed off of long after the group’s final set. I always try to remind people that genres and sub-genres under the overall Electronic Dance Music umbrella are notoriously hard to properly define for a large number of artists and songs, so try to not get too hung up on specifics here. Because of the impact these guys have had on the music scene, people are naturally curious about who Swedish House Mafia are, what type of music they make, and what their best stuff is. So I figured I’d share my take on it as someone who has grown up with their music and followed their progress closely over the years as a fellow house music nerd.

They embraced the name eventually, and teamed up officially for the first time to release Leave the World Behind along with Dutch DJ/producer Laidback Luke in 2009. Steve was born in Athens, Greece, but grew up in Stockholm, Sweden with his brother (who performs as AN21). He released his own and other artists’ music on his record company Size Recordings before focusing on SHM in 2010. While they were already confirmed on the lineup, Swedish House Mafia reunited with their “Moth to a Flame” collaborator The Weeknd on Sunday night to take over the Coachella headlining slot vacated by Ye. Before the performance, the group also made history with the first-ever Spotify livestream to celebrate the release of Paradise Again. Days after Knife Party dropped their famed dubstep banger “Internet Friends,” they teamed with Swedish House Mafia to drop “Antidote,” a high-octane record that quickly became a festival favorite.