Colony 5

This article is about the Swedish electronic music group. "Colony 5" is also the common name for Alpha V Colony, the first human colony referenced in Star Trek: The Original Series, during episode Charlie X.

Colony 5 is a Swedish futurepop/synthpop/EBM band founded in March 1999. P–O Svensson started the band as a hobby with Magnus Löfdahl. The music style has changed with group membership and their sound became more consistent. They have toured through Europe – Denmark, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Poland, Norway, Estonia as well as the United States, and Mexico.

Colony 5
Origin	Sweden
Genres	Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Infacted Recordings (Germany), Memento Materia (Sweden), Underground, Inc. (US)
Members	P–O Svensson, Magnus Kalnins
Past members	Magnus Löfdahl, Johan Nilsson

On 14 December 2007 Colony 5 released the first single from their then-upcoming full-length album, Buried Again. The "Knives" MCD showed off a harder sound as a first taste of what the album would sound like. Buried Again was released in February 2008 on Memento Materia for Scandinavia, Infacted for Germany and ArtOfFact in the USA.

Members

• P-O Svensson (1999–present)
• Magnus Löfdahl (1999–2001)
• Johan Nilsson (2001–2003)
• Magnus Kalnins (2002–present)

Discography

EPs and singles

• "Colony 5" (2002)
• "Follow Your Heart" (2002)
• "Black" (2003)
• "Fate" (2004)
• "Plastic World" (2005)
• "Knives" (2007)

Albums

• Lifeline (2002)
• Structures (2003)
• Colonisation (2004)
• Fixed (2005)
• Buried Again (2008)

External links

• Official website
• Colony 5 discography at MusicBrainz
• Colony 5 discography at Discogs