Colony 5

{{Short description|Swedish futurepop/synthpop/EBM band}}

{{About|the Swedish electronic music group|text = "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}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

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| origin = Sweden

| genre = Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM

| years_active = 1999–present

| label = Infacted Recordings (Germany), Memento Materia (Sweden), Underground, Inc. (US)

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| current_members = P–O Svensson, Magnus Kalnins

| past_members = Magnus Löfdahl, Johan Nilsson

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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.

On 14 December 2007 Colony 5 released the first single from their then-upcoming full-length album, Buried Again.[http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=27803_0_2_0_C Colony 5 releases "Knives" MCD], Side-line.com 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.