Over the years Bärjed has been working as a session or concert guitarist for a whole string of Swedish rock bands and artists, including The Hellacopters and Håkan Hellström. He played guitar on Broder Daniel's last gig on 8 August 2008. Since spring 2015, he plays guitar in the hardcore band Refused's live line-up. In later years Mattias Bärjed has started a solo career as a film score composer. He wrote and performed most of the music to Peter Birro's television series "Upp till kamp" (2007), directed by Michael Marcimain. Bärjed also acted as "Anders", a member of the band featured in the film. In 2012 Bärjed composed the music to Marcimain's feature film debut "Call Girl" (2012). In 2015 Bärjed and Jonas Kullhammar shared the Guldbaggen award for best soundtrack, for their work on "Gentlemen", based upon the novel by Klas Östergren. The soundtrack to the film also got a nomination to the Grammis award (jazz category). Since 2014 Mattias Bärjed lives in Visby. He grew up in the Karlstad suburb Skåre, but later lived for many years in Gothenburg and in Stockholm.       2008 – Gyllene Draken (The Golden Dragon) for his soundtrack to the Upp till kamp tv series  2015 – The Guldbaggen award for best soundtrack, for "Gentlemen". (award shared by Bärjed and Jonas Kullhammar)