Sacramentum (band)

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Sacramentum
General information
origin Falköping , Sweden
Genre (s) Black metal , death metal
founding 1990 as Tumulus, 2001
resolution 1999, 2001
Last occupation
Vocals , initially electric guitar , later electric bass
Nisse Karlén
E-bass, initially drums
Nicklas Rudolfsson
Drums
 Tobias Kjellgren
former members
Electric guitar, initially also electric bass
 Brolycke is different
Electric guitar
 Niclas "Pepa" Andersson
Electric bass
 Freddy Andersson
Drums
 Mikael Rydén
Electric guitar
 Johan Norman
Electric guitar (live)
 Emil "Nightmare" Nödtveidt
Electric guitar (live)
 Thomas Backelin

Sacramentum was a Swedish black and death metal band from Falköping , which was founded in 1990 under the name Tumulus and disbanded in 1999. In 2001 the group got back together for a short time, but it was dissolved that same year.

history

The band was founded in the summer of 1990 by Nisse Karlén under the name Tumulus. After some line-up changes, the name was changed to Sacramentum in 1992. Towards the end of the year, a first demo was recorded, whereupon the line-up consists of the guitarist and singer Karlén, the guitarist and bassist Anders Brolycke (before Johan Norman was briefly active as a guitarist in the band) and the drummer Mikael Rydén, and in 1993 was published under the name Sedes Imporium . Then Freddy Andersson joined as bassist. In February 1994 the band went to the Unisound Studio to record their first self-financed EP . The sound carrier was released in the same year under the name Finis Malorum . The sound carrier contains five songs and led to a recording contract with Adipocere Records , about which the EP was re-released about a year later. After the recordings, the bassist Freddy Andersson left the cast, whereupon the singer Karlén also took over this position. In June 1995 the band went back to the Unisound Studio with producer Dan Swanö to record their debut album Far Away from the Sun , which was released in June of the following year. Karlén can now be heard as singer and bassist, while Brolycke takes over the electric guitar and Nicklas Rudolfsson takes over the drums. In 1995 the band also worked with the live guitarist Emil "Nightmare" Nödtveidt for a time. After a European tour with Ancient Rites , Bewitched and Enthroned , the Group signed in the spring of 1997, a record deal with Century Media , what in September 1997, the second album The Coming of Chaos appeared, which was also the first album of the band in the United States published has been. The former live guitarist Emil "Nightmare" Nödtveidt is represented as a guest musician. The recordings for this took place with producer Andy LaRocque at Los Angeles Recordings . After the release it went on tour through Europe with Rotting Christ and Old Man's Child . At that time, the band also contributed cover versions to various tribute samplers: For example, their version of Black Masses for the Mercyful Fate sampler A Tribute to Mercyful Fate , which was released in 1997 by Listenable Records , The Curse / Antichrist for the Sepultura Tribute Sepulchral Feast: A Tribute to Sepultura , which was released in 1998 on Black Sun Records , and the Bathory cover 13 Candles for In Conspiracy with Satan - A Tribute to Bathory , which was released in 1998 on Hellspawn Records and No Fashion Records . After further tours through Europe and the USA, the third album followed in January 1999 with Thy Black Destiny . Niclas “Pepa” Andersson is represented as the second guitarist. The recordings for this had taken place in September 1998, again with Andy LaRocque at Los Angeles Recordings. In 1999 the band split up. In 2001 the band got back together for a short time. The line-up had changed again: Karlén only took over the vocals, the drummer Rudolfsson played the bass and Tobias Kjellgren took over the drums instead. The band broke up in the same year.

style

Joel McIver wrote in his book Extreme Metal that the group plays classic Black Metal, avoiding mixing it with Gothic Metal or subjects like vampires . Instead, they process some brutal death metal influences. In the following book Extreme Metal II he summarized the music as a mixture of Melodic Death Metal and Black Metal. In the book Swedish Death Metal, Daniel Ekeroth described the music as a mixture of Black and Death Metal, which he found unaggressive and unfocused. According to Janne Stark in The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Finis Malorum offers fast and wild old school black metal with guitar harmonies and without choirs or keyboard sounds. Robert Müller of the Metal Hammer wrote in his review to Thy Black Destiny that in the first song Iron Winds "a few nuclei and discreet misplaced Slayer - Soli packed" were. With the album, the group tries to continue the style of its predecessor by trying “ to create hardness somewhere in the border area between Thrash , Death and Black Metal, without attuning to the emotional undertones of the individual genres”. The songs are well structured and technically a bit demanding, but seem a bit dispassionate. Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties that the band used black metal for The Coming of Chaos , but also processed other influences such as punk- influenced Thrash Metal. The vocals combine black metal, death metal and retro-thrash metal. Thy Black Destiny sounds like a mix of Black Metal and Speed ​​Metal in the style of Kreator . The music is somewhat comparable to that of Necrophobic .

Discography

  • 1993: Sedes Impiorum (demo, self- publication )
  • 1994: Finis Malorum (EP, Northern Productions )
  • 1996: Far Away from the Sun (Album, Adipocere Records )
  • 1997: The Coming of Chaos (Album, Century Media )
  • 1999: Thy Black Destiny (Album, Century Media)
  • 2008: Abyss of Time (compilation, Century Media)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Sacramentum - Biography. metalstorm.net, accessed May 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Janne Stark: The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Premium Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-91-89136-56-4 , pp. 663 .
  3. ^ A b Daniel Ekeroth : Swedish Death Metal . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936878-18-9 , pp. 401 (English: Swedish Death Metal . Translated by Andreas Diesel).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on May 22, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Mike DaRonco: Sacramentum. Allmusic , accessed April 30, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Joel McIver: Extreme Metal . Omnibus Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7119-8040-3 , p. 132 .
  7. ↑ Sacramentum. metalstorm.net, accessed May 2, 2017 .
  8. ^ Joel McIver: Extreme Metal II . Omnibus Press, 2005, ISBN 1-84449-097-1 , pp. 140 .
  9. ↑ Robert Müller: Sacramentum . Thy Black Destiny. In: Metal Hammer . February 1999, p. 84 .
  10. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 375 .