Photo: Karrock · CC BY-SA 3.0 · credits
Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Peter Iwers
Person · male · Sweden · Gothenburg · born 1975
Swedish bassist
official homepagesocialdatabasedatabasedatabase
Also known as ピーター・イワース
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1970s
Biography
English biography176 words · 4 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1365656310
Biography
Peter Iwers (born on 15 May 1975) is a Swedish musician and the current bass player of the melodic death metal band the Halo Effect. He was a member of the heavy metal band In Flames from their 1999 album Colony up until their 2016 album Battles, originally replacing Johan Larsson who departed after 1997's Whoracle. He was also the bassist for the band Cyhra with former In Flames bandmate Jesper Strömblad from 2017 to 2018. Before he joined in Flames, Iwers played in a band called Chameleon.
Personal life
Iwers has two daughters and one son. His brother Anders is also a bass player, who plays for Tiamat and played for Avatarium (2014–2015) & Dark Tranquillity (2015–2021). Peter now brews beer at his brewery outside Gothenburg, Odd Island Brewing, together with founder and co-owner Daniel Svensson, also of In Flames and the Halo Effect bandmate.
Musical style and influences
Iwers' bass playing style has been influenced by Mike Porcaro from Toto, Geddy Lee from Rush and John Myung from Dream Theater.
Guest bassist
Psalms of Extinction by Pain (2007)
Immersion by Pendulum (2010)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 19 | 79.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
MusicBrainz enrichment for this artist is still pending. Release groups appear here once it runs.
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Peter Iwers head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 19 | 79.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Halo Effect(band) | — | present | electric bass guitar,original |
| In Flames(band) | 1997 | 2016 | bass guitar |
| CyHra(band) | 2016 | 2018 | electric bass guitar |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Iwers2006.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8b26e32e-0409-4961-89f1-97724146b177discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8b26e32e-0409-4961-89f1-97724146b177core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360781genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360781seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Iwersbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Iwers
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Swedish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Karrock · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q360781 · MusicBrainz: 8b26e32e-0409-4961-89f1-97724146b177
Similar artists
Browse every Tier 3 artist →Ranked from this record's own data: shared genre tags (rarer tags weigh more), era, home country and comparable fame. Every card lists the signals that placed it — no editorial picks.
Daniel Erlandsson
Sweden · Person
melodic death metal
1 shared genre tag · from Sweden
19 wikis
Björn Gelotte
Sweden · Person
melodic death metal
1 shared genre tag · from Sweden
20 wikis
Mikael Stanne
Sweden · Person
melodic death metal
1 shared genre tag · debut 2019 · from Sweden
20 wikis
Daniel Svensson
Sweden · Person
melodic death metal
1 shared genre tag · from Sweden
18 wikis
Niklas Sundin
Sweden · Person
melodic death metal
1 shared genre tag · debut 2024 · from Sweden
17 wikis
Tomas Lindberg
Sweden · Person
melodic death metal
1 shared genre tag · debut 2018 · from Sweden
17 wikis
Adrian Erlandsson
Sweden · Person
melodic death metal
1 shared genre tag · from Sweden
16 wikis
Niclas Engelin
Sweden · Person
melodic death metal
1 shared genre tag · from Sweden
14 wikis