In 1986 Rikard Karlsson and Magnus Jönsson started a band called Avanti. Later the same year Fredrik Bergman joined the group, and Etage Neun was formed. After writing a couple of songs Etage Neun were asked to make what would be theire first live performance. The Debut took place at Ågården in August 1987. The band performed 4 songs including a cover of Depeche Mode's song "Photographic". The concert ended with a 45 minute long improvised medly including every synthsong the band knew how to play. The encore ended with Magns sitting on a chair singing while the audience danced on the stage.

In December the same year the performed at Stadt Hamburg in Malmö
At this point in time we had written even more songs and thought it would be a good time to make a demo. The demo titled "War And Emotions" was recorded at NBV studios in Ystad and was released in the late spring 1988. The release coincided with our third live performance at the theatre in Ystad where we performed for the largest audience this far, about 500 persons showed up.

After a couple of successful performances at Ystad theatre the following years and other performances around the region led to an increasing sale of the demotape. During 1989 we continued writing new material and also participated in a talent competition.

The studio in wich we recorded our first demo in closed in the winter -88. This meant that we didn't have the equipment to record a new one, but as the amount of material grew steadily we decided to borrow and rent the equipment we needed. The result became our second demo titled "From The Cradle To The Grave" wich was released in August 1990. Shortly after the release it was time for us to do our compulsory time in the army. After it was finished we started study at diffrent universities in both Sweden and abrod. This meant that Etage Neun was put on a hold for a long time...

In 1997 we had ended our studies and we began talking about getting back together and continue where we left off. We started to write new material and got ourselves a homepage...