Claus Weiergang: A Danish Metal Legend, of sorts!! RIP

Claus Weiergang, was one crazy dude. I first met him in 1997 on Pushers Street where he was selling hash and weed and blasting out great music. I would chat with him about all sorts of things related to music. He invited me up to his place and we watched these crazy late night cable TV shows with him and his friends hanging out with strippers and doing bongs on TV while showing HM videos of the era. Wow. You would never see anything like that in the USA, so it was far out for me.

Claus primarily played bass in several bands and cover projects as well as guitar in a Judas Priest tribute band. Centari, Furious Trauma, Gutrix, Jackal (4), Zoser Mez are the bands he is most well know for. I was lucky to get to see Gutrix live one time and that was a really cool band.  One of the projects I loved the most that he played me was Hank´s New Carpet, a really great 70s inspired jam rock band with Hank Shermann from Mercyful Fate!!  Where are those recordings now???

Claus has the rehearsal room for years next door or close by to where ØSC, would have our jam sessions in the early days and he would always pop by with a huge joint and a smile and be curious what we were up to.  He was pretty intense some times and lived life on the edge.

The last time I saw and talked with him for a while was a PIBs wake at Loppen in December.  He lived his life to the fullest no doubt!!!!  Life was a hell of a party..... RIP 

https://www.facebook.com/claus.weiergang

Dr Space and my many projects 2026

 What is happening in the world of Dr Space in 2026?

Hope you are all well.. First release of the year is

Imperfect Pyramid, a collaboration with my friend Rob

Lawson (I used to run a web site for his prolific output)

and Dan Greene. This is a mid eastern inspired hour of

music. Check out the bandcamp Dr Space site. CD-R was

very limited and has sold out now. Vol II is nearly finished. 

https://drspace1.bandcamp.com/album/imperfect-pyramid

Dr Space´s Wicked Sonic Bulls, was a jam session

with members of Sonic Trip Project (Darren), China Bull

Shop (Tom), Wicked Lady (Martin) and myself. We had 5

space rock jams and a blast on a Saturday morning in

Jan 2026. This was the result.. Check it out on

bandcamp!!

https://drspace1.bandcamp.com/album/dr-space-s-

wicked-sonic-bulls

In March or April, a couple of releases will come out on

Echodelick Records. First, a split LP with Øresund

Space Collective and Psychedelic Source Recordings

(Hungary). The ØSC track is one long track from the

2024 studio session, while the PSR side features three

cool tracks. Limited to 150 copies, I believe.

Next is a new project created by Chino and Pepe (both

from La Ira de Dios-Peru). I was asked to add some

spacey layers and I feel like it really works well. The

band is called UMMA and the album is Cosmosvisiones 

and will be released on Echodelik records. 

This is pretty spaced out. Pepe and I have already worked 

on some stuff so I am sure you will hear more from UMMA..

Last year in March I traveled to the USA (Boston) and

made some very interesting music with Dr Joe Paradiso,

who has built one of the worlds largest modular synths.

Together we created around 4 hrs of music. Our first

release is ready but since I can not ship to the USA, we

are waiting but this will come out in 2026 for sure… IT is

called Dr Paradiso meets Dr Space- Liquid

Planetscapes. 100 Copies on CD..

https://drspace1.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-planetscapes

'The Univerzals- Chaos and Ecstasy will finally come out in

2026 but I am not sure in what formats. Anyway, Nicolas Robinson is a great

song writer and guitarist and also plays in ØSC. He has recently been

making music with Dave Evans (the original AC/DC singer) but this is way

better, his own music!!! I am really proud to have played some synths on 3

tracks. The album was mixed by Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, etc..).

Space Rock Productions, our record label, released two albums by Nick 10

and he actually started the label! Glad we are still working together!!

Øresund Space Collective will have another 2LP/2CD

studio album out by the Spaceboat in the summer and

probably Espaço 3 (subscriber CD) as well. Progably

was recorded in 2022 in Portugal with Mattias Olsson on

drums, Jonthan Segel, Hasse Horrigmoe and the rest of

the gang from that session and is mainly 2 long 30+ min

tracks. Espaço 3 was recorded very recently in

November 2025… 2 long spacey tracks (might have 3)..

http://oresundspacecollective.bandcamp.com

Now we get sort of into the uncertain…… A lot of projects have been

started and I am not sure when or if these will come out in 2026 or not… I

have recorded a lot of different stuff with the MOOG synth modules and I am

pretty sure I can piece together a very interesting and totally different solo

album than any of my previoius ones. Doctors of Space recorded many

hours of music in 2025 and we have selected the best tracks from 2025 for a

future release. Might only be a digital album or limited CD-

R. Pity… http://doctorsofspace.bandcamp.com

Dr Space´s Mad Elf Mess will come out on Sound Effect records

later this year. We are working out the vinyl and CD at the 

moment. This really rocks like hell and has some incredible guitar playing from Vasco (It was the Elf) and Sam (Madmess).. Jonathan from ØSC also plays on this album.  A rough mix is up on bandcamp. 

https://drspace1.bandcamp.com/album/dr-space-s-mad-elf-mess

Lamp of the Universe meets Dr Space, tracks have been laid down and

when Craig has time, he will make the mix or he can send me the tracks and

I can mix it but the music exists….https://drspace1.bandcamp.com/album/lamp-of-the-universe-meets-dr-

space

Dr Space’s Alien Planet Trip Vol 9- Space with Bass V is mixed and just

needs some mastering and artwork. Only 3 tracks on this volume. I suspect

Space with Bass VI will get recorded this year when Hasse returns to

Portugal in the new months.. Link to Vol 8 below….

https://drspace1.bandcamp.com/album/alien-planet-trip-vol-8-space-with-

bass-iv

Dr Space´s Alien Planet Trip Vol 10 is well overdue and I am still waiting for

some guitar overdubs from another guitar player but Rich from Carlton

Melton has sent his parts and these two tracks sound awesome…. This

should be finished before summer, I hope..

Thanks for all the support and friendship and look forward to collaborate

with more amazing musicians in the future.. Peace..

http://drspace1.bandcamp.com