Dimension Zero
| Dimension Zero | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Melodic death metal , thrash metal |
| founding | 1995 |
| Website | http://www.dimensionzero.se/ |
| Founding members | |
| Jesper Strömblad (bass: until 2006, guitar: since 2006) | |
guitar |
Glenn Ljungström (until 2003, Live: 2005) |
| Current occupation | |
| Jocke Göthberg (since 1996) | |
guitar |
Daniel Antonsson (guitar: since 2002, studio bass: since 2006) |
Guitar, bass |
Jesper Strömblad (bass: until 2006, guitar: since 2006) |
| Hans Nilsson (since 1996) | |
| former members | |
guitar |
Fredrik Johansson (1996-1998) |
| Live support | |
bass |
Niclas Andersson (live bass: 2007) |
Dimension Zero (founded under the name Agent Orange ) is a melodic death metal band from Sweden .
history
The band was founded in 1995 by Jesper Strömblad and Glenn Ljungström (ex- In Flames ). A demo recording was released under the title Screams from the Forest . In 1996 the line-up was expanded to include Jocke Göthberg (ex- Marduk ), Fredrik Johansson and Hans Nilsson (ex-Liers in Wait, Diabolique, Crystal Age). The EP Penetrations from the Lost World was recorded in the same year in Studio Fredman , it contains the old demo tracks in a newly recorded version. War Music released the work in 1997. Several contributions to the sampler followed.
In 2002 Daniel Antonsson joined and replaced Johansson, who left in 1998. Later that year, the debut album Silent Night Fever was released on Regain Records . The band made their first appearance supporting Sodom in Japan. On the occasion of a festival appearance in Korea, the band was allowed to immortalize their hands in the cement in Busan .
Founding member Glenn Ljungström left the band in 2003. The studio album This Is Hell , largely written by Daniel Antonsson, was created without his involvement, and the subsequent tour was also played as a quartet. That year the EP was also re-released with bonus tracks including a cover by Helter Skelter .
In 2008 the third album He Who Shall Not Bleed was released ; Göthberg described the waiting time until the publication was "so unbearable for all of us this time"; the band had in the meantime not renewed the contract with Regain Records, "because Dimension Zero is a band that does not work on the normal principle and can have an album released every two years". The album was recorded in late 2006, but it took the band “ages to find the right label for Europe. But ultimately you can't expect anything else from a bunch like us. Our main concern is to make music - none of us really have a clue about the whole thing. "
Music style and lyrics
The music moves between Death Metal and Thrash Metal , although according to Göthberg the band “didn't listen to metal at all during the creative phase”. "Otherwise there is a risk of not being creative and original enough, although our predilection for Thrash Metal from the eighties is still very present." He Who Shall Bleed has "the patented Strömblad riffs " according to Robert Müller from Metal Hammer "Not (anymore), as taken from the recycling bag from In Flames"; Nevertheless, the band will "certainly not achieve epochal successes, songs like 'Unto Others' too clearly serve the 'What if In Flames hadn't become so commercial'" line ". Only the title song and Way to Shine are independent . As Göthberg explained, the lyrics that he writes for the band have “actually always been about the same things since the beginning: They are all very personal views about death and the fear that emanates from it. But especially on the new record it has a very misanthrophic [sic!] Touch, it's about the fear and hatred of humanity. It's about us destroying ourselves on this planet. ”The saying at the beginning of He Who Shall Not Bleed , “ The only good human is a dead human ” , reflects“ actually the entire album ”.
Discography
- 1997: Penetrations from the Lost World (EP; re-release 2003)
- 1997: My Demon on Mercyful Fate Tribute
- 1998: Troops of Doom on Sepultural Feast - A Tribute to Sepultura
- 1998: They Are Waiting to Take Us on War Compilation - War Dance 1.
- 2002: Silent Night Fever
- 2003: This Is Hell
- 2008: He Who Shall Not Bleed
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Anzo Sadoni: Dimension Zero . Never get soft . In: Metal Hammer , December 2003, p. 89.
- ↑ Marcel Rudoletzky: Dimension Zero . Thoroughbred musician with no plan . In: Metal Hammer , November 2008, p. 46.
- ^ Robert Müller: Dimension Zero . He Who Shall Bleed . In: Metal Hammer , October 2008, p. 109.
- ↑ Eckart Maronde: Dimension Zero - Interview with Jocke Göthberg on "He Who Shall Not Bleed" ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 15, 2009, accessed March 9, 2013.
