Spawn of Possession
| Spawn of Possession | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Technical death metal |
| founding | 1997 |
| Founding members | |
| Dennis Röndum (guttural lead vocals & drums: until 2002/2003, drums: 2002/2003–2006, guttural studio vocals: 2006, guttural vocals: since 2010) | |
| Jonas Bryssling | |
guitar |
Jonas Karlsson (until 2006, studio guitar: 1 solo 2012) |
| Current occupation | |
Guttural singing, drums |
Dennis Röndum (guttural lead vocals & drums: until 2002/2003, drums: 2002 / 2003–2006, guttural studio background vocals: 2006, guttural vocals: since 2010) |
guitar |
Jonas Bryssling |
guitar |
Christian Muenzner (since 2009) |
| Erlend Caspersen (since 2009) | |
Drums |
Henrik Schönstrom (since 2010) |
| former members | |
Guttural singing |
Jonas Renvaktar (2002 / 2003-2009) |
Guttural singing |
Matthew Chalk (2009-2010) |
guitar |
Ben Lawless (2009-2010) |
bass |
Niklas Dewerud (2000-2006/2007) |
Drums |
Richard Schill (2008 / 2009-2010) |
| Live support and session musicians | |
Guttural singing |
Mikael Petersson (studio guttural vocals: 2000, 2001) |
guitar |
Danny Tunker (live guitar: 2012 for Christian Münzner ) |
Spawn of Possession was a technical death metal band from Kalmar , Sweden .
biography
The band was founded in February 1997 by Jonas Bryssling (guitar), Jonas Karlsson (guitar), and Dennis Röndum (guttural vocals and drums).
After three years the band recorded their first demo CD The Forbidden and shortly afterwards found the right bass player in Nick Dewerund. The response to the demo was consistently positive and so the band decided a year later to record the second demo CD Church of Deviance . After unanimously good reviews, the music label Unique Leader Records signed the band.
The band worked on new songs for six months and recorded their debut album Cabinet in June 2002 . For this purpose they went to the Pama Studios and worked with the producer Magnus Sedenberg, who worked on the recording as well as the mixing and mastering.
To promote the new album, the band went on a four-week tour through Europe with Disavowed , Vile , Inhume and Mangled . Shortly thereafter, a six-week tour of North America followed, which the band did with label colleagues from the bands Severed Savior , Pyaemia , and Gorgasm . The tour included 27 concerts, five of them in Canada.
After the band returned from North America, another tour followed through Europe, which included the annual so-called “No Mercy Package” with bands like Cannibal Corpse , Hypocrisy , Kataklysm , Exhumed , Vomitory , and Carpathian Forest . Eight more festivals followed in the summer, including a. “Fuck the Commerce” ( Germany ), “Stonehenge” ( Netherlands ), “Grind Your Mother” ( Italy ), and “Mountains of Death” ( Switzerland ).
During this period, and then into the fall of 2004, Spawn of Possession began to work on new material for the second album. However, the process was interrupted by a tour offer with the scene size Cannibal Corpse through Scandinavia and the Baltic states. The band accepted this with thanks because it was a great challenge, but also an enrichment of experience. The tour included 24 concerts, through which the band was able to expand its ever-growing fan base.
After the tour, the composition process for the second studio album was finished and in 2006 they returned to the Pama Studios. Between May and June of the same year Spawn of Possession went on tour again in Europe with bands like Hate Eternal , Shadows Land and Fall of Serenity . In July 2006, the now finished second studio album Noctambulant was released by the record company Neurotic Records and enjoyed great popularity.
Influences
Spawn of Possession have been influenced by many different artists from different styles, but mostly death metal and classical music . Bands like Death , Morbid Angel , Suffocation , Gorguts and the composers Johann Sebastian Bach , Sylvius Leopold Weiss and Dmitri Shostakovich exerted a great influence .
Discography
Demos
- 2000: The Forbidden ( demo )
- 2001: Church of Deviance (demo)
Studio albums
- 2003: Cabinet ( Unique Leader Records )
- 2006: Noctambulant (Neurotic Records)
- 2012: Incurso (Relapse Records)