Founded in 1959 as Metronome Studios, it is the location of early recordings of the members of ABBA prior to the formation of the group, as well as the majority of the group's hit singles and recordings by The Cardigans, Roxette, Opeth, The Hives, and others.
[2] The studio was run by Anders Burman and Börje Ekberg sound engineers Gösta Wiholm and Rune Persson.
[citation needed] Michael B. Tretow began working as an engineer at the studios in January 1968.
[4] The Swedish folk-Schlager group Hootenanny Singers recorded their albums at Metronome, and when band member Björn Ulvaeus started writing songs with Benny Andersson, most of those compositions were recorded at the studio.
[2] Hansson ran the studio from 1983 to May 2020 when a group consisting of Polar Studios veteran Stefan Boman, former Kent guitarist Sami Sirviö, Martin Terefe, Jörgen Ringstrand, Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, and Jonas Kamprad took over the operation.