Marina Siertis, previously spelled Marina Sirtis, was formed out of the band Innocencia in 1997. At this time, the members were Anders Larsson (programming), André Öberg (vocal, programming) and Martin Löfgren (vocal, programming). Later on, in 2003, Martin Fridegren (Guitar, programming) joined the band. But that is really jumping ahead of time.

Right after the band was started, not much really happened. It was not until in 2000 the first Marina Sirtis release hit the market. Well – maybe not really hitting the market but very devoted fans could get their hands on it after a good struggle. The name of the EP is “View from an Intergalactic Star” and among others, it feature the song Essential Voices. We quickly lost track of the edition, as the EP was homemade and burned in batches of maybe 10 CDs at the time, but we recon maybe 100 EPs or so found their way to music loving fans, or maybe trashcans. Anyway, the songs were put on the internet and soon the world could listen to our music.

The whole deal with the EP made us consider releasing a full-length album. I guess a really enthusiastic audience sparked us to do it. Anyone seeing us do a live show at that time probably remembers the soap bubble guns, the costumes, the masks and all crazy things. Some may even remember the music. So we set of on a two years journey into the making of “Delay and Depression”. And delayed the CD became, just as most songs weren’t too joyful. More good reviews were coming in from underground magazines all over the world and we managed to gather a quite gloomy crowd liking us. The CD was released on our own record company Shadowplay Electronica in 1000 copies, of which we have only a few left. Some songs were also made freely available on the Internet and I guess we peaked at 10,000 downloads per week for a while. The song Pretending also appeared on a German compilation CD with the staggering edition of 50,000 copies! We even got to go to New York for a show.

Again the good response from our now happily gloomy fan crowd and from all underground reviewers triggered us to push forward. I mean, can anyone resist reviews like “The fantastic vocal makes an impression as well as the spectacular music that is delivered with wonderful synthesizer sound”? That would make the heart of every struggling musician melt.

When the Sputnik Festival 2003 in Stockholm was coming up, we thought we needed a live guitarist. And here enters Mr. Fridegren into the plot. A guitarist was exactly what we needed to move into a somewhat less electronic and darker sound. Isn’t it ironic? Here we have been doing electronic music for ages and when we finally have a guitarist, electronic music comes into fashion. Well, we have never been the fashion police and always gone our own way so it suites us right I guess.

Anyway, after the Sputnik festival we embarked on a new journey into the unknown world of being eaten alive by our dark studio, a few stores below ground. A new album was in the making. So that’s where we have been hiding for the last four years. Now our studio has chewed us good and spit us up to the ground again and we have great plans for a brave new album with the name “The much needed second cold war”. The first single “Disease” was released in December 2006 and in September 2007, the second single “The minister is Dead” will be released. Again that’s jumping ahead.

Somewhere in the meantime Marina Siertis’ shows have been performed in Los Angeles, Seattle, Prague, Stockholm, Malmö…Älghult. We have received some air time in radio, just got the playlist from a Polish radio station to where Disease somehow found its way. What more? We played at the Arvika Festivalen/Helgon.net event “Das Boot”, we’ve been again on a German compilation, this time with the The Cure cover “Wailing Wall”, we’ve been on some Swedish compilations…we’ve been doing this and that but mostly improved our skills in making and producing music.  
The next full-length album is only a working week away, meaning a few calendar months. It WILL be released this year (2007) comes hell and high water. Well maybe not if the new single’s a hit and our attention is diverted by hundreds of TV-shows we have to attend … yeah. Anyway, this is our biography in short, at least up to this date. So the world is at our feet, full of music loving trashcans.

Here you can read an old interview with the band.