1992: A performance at Umeå Folkmusic Festival leads to a gig at Hultsfreds-festivalen, the biggest rockfestival in Sweden. Jens Höglin on drums joins the band just before the gig. In the autumn the recording of the first album starts, and Emma Härdelin is invited to make a guest appearance on vocals.

1993: In the spring the debut CD-EP "Garmarna" is released. The enthusiastic press makes it possible for the band to start touring on a more regular basis. Emma joins the band as a constant member, which gives new dimensions to the bands sound. Suddenly the band has access to the rich material of medieval ballads. In the autumn the recordings of the full-length album "Vittrad" (meaning "Crumbling Away", or "Weathered") begins. The band decides to develop their sound by using samples and sequensers to be able to get close to the power and output provided on stage; still without loosing track of tradition.

1994: On the 18th of April "Vittrad" is released. Yet again Garmarna becomes one of the favourite folkmusicbands of the press. The album is later nominated for a Swedish Grammy for best folk music album 1995. During the rest of the year Garmarna tours a lot, which renders them a reputation as a excellent live act.

1995: "Vittrad" is released in North America and in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux-countries.

1996: A 14 gig long German tour preceded the release of their new album "Guds Spelemän" (Fiddlers of God) in late February. The Swedish press went wild over the new album and it even made it to the Swedish sales chart. Produced by Sank (Clawfinger, Killing Joke, Paradise Lost, Peace Love & Pitbulls) it shows a new band with strong confidence. It also puts more focus on the beautiful voice of Emma Härdelin as only one song is instrumental. "Guds Spelemän" shows that she now has developed beyond "promising" to one of the best. As before they have gathered some great lyrics filled with blood, guts and nobel maidens and blended it with their special brew of ancient and new. An album which already have been called a Classic. Another successful Scandinavian summer tour was followed by a five week tour covering Germany, Switzerland and USA. Altogether about 70 gigs which made the group an even more dazzling live act.

1997: In January Garmarna returned briefly to Germany to receive the jury's prize for their appearance in the autumn 1996 at the Malzhaus Festival in Germany. In the US Garmarna entered the College radio stations special "CMJ New World Music" chart, as well as placing on the Top Ten playlist of the French National radio. Joining the only previous Swedish groups ABBA, Roxette and Ace of Base on the Top Ten playlist it is worth noting that Garmarna is the first group ever on the playlist to perform in a non-French or English language.

At the gala presentation of The Swedish Grammy Awards, held in Stockholm on February 17th, Garmarna was presented with a Grammy for the best folk music record of 1996 for their album "Guds Spelemän". - The next big thing to happen for the band was the participation in the Swedish part of the Eurovision Song Contest. This event is by far the biggest yearly media happening in Sweden. Garmarna appeared with a song written by Mats Wester and Py Bäckman, which also is the team behind the multi-platinum-selling group Nordman. Although Garmarnas appearance in this kind of commercial pseudo-event was widely questioned by certain branches of the media, the benefit of being in focus of Sweden's entire population can not. Furthermore Garmarna presented the song with their own special touch, without reducing their patented heavy sound.

1998 was characterized by the work on the new album, originally scheduled for release late spring the same year. Yet again with Sank as producer, the band strived to take their music another step further, to do what not yet had been done. Still, April and May was spent touring in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium and the summer included gigs at the Falun Folk Festival in Sweden and at festivals in Finland. They also managed to squeeze in a tour with a set of songs based on the medieval works of Hildegard von Bingen between the recordingsessions.

1999: Finally however, the final mixes of the album was made on New Years Day 1999. Released in Scandinavia on the 5th of March 1999 , the new album - Vedergällningen (Vengeance) - is the foundation for Garmarna for many years to come as it takes them yet ahead of anything within the genre and beyond. The first months of 1999 was spent promoting the album, doing two new videos and singles, TV shows and also some gigs. Vedergällningen reached number 8 on the European World Music Chart, Garmarnas highest position ever. The Euchari video also got rotation on MTV.

The millennium was closed with the beautiful voice of Emma Härdelin. Emma sang a tune by Benny Andersson from ABBA in the mastodont-transmission that took place on new years eve. It was broadcasted by 50 TV-stations all over the world, with an audience of one billion! - On the 14 of January the band was nominated for the third time for a Swedish Grammy but did not win it this time. The spring was spend doing demos for the new album as well as touring all over Sweden and USA, Germany and Holland. As if it wasn't enough Emma was touring a lot with Triakel and Gotte and Jens was out playing with The $1000 Playboys as well. During the summer the recordings finally started for the Hildegard von Bingen album. But this time it was different. In the producer-chair was not Sank, but Eric S - somewhat of a houseking in Sweden with several songs on high rotation on the national radio playlists.