Vassago
| Vassago | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Gothenburg , Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Black metal , thrash metal , death metal |
| founding | 1986 as a sadist |
| Current occupation | |
| Niclas "Pepa" "Vassago" "Tormentor" Andersson | |
| Eide Mikael "Sin" "Christfuck" Backelin | |
| former members | |
| "Bloodlord" Backelin is different | |
Electric bass |
Terje Eriksson |
| Sadistic sodomizer | |
Drums |
Janne Rimmerfors |
Electric guitar |
Suckdog |
| KK cranium | |
Electric bass |
Hellfire |
Drums |
aggressor |
Drums |
Petrone |
Drums |
Bifrons |
Drums |
Åsa "Akasha" Pettersson |
Electric guitar |
Ånders Brolycke |
Vassago is a Swedish black , thrash and death metal band from Gothenburg , which was founded in 1986 under the name Sadist .
history
The band was founded in 1986 and was initially a solo project called Sadist by guitarist Niclas "Pepa" "Vassago" "Tormentor" Andersson. With the help of a drum computer he recorded his first demo that same year . A little later the singer Eide Mikael "Sin" "Christfuck" Backelin joined them. In 1987 and 1988 some recordings were made before the project paused. It was only reactivated in 1993. However, since the name was now taken, the name was changed to Vassago. The name denotes a demonic prince of hell. In 1994 the demo Nattflykt appeared , on which the group consists of Andersson and Backelin, the drummer Janne Rimmerfors and the bassist Terje Eriksson. The demo was released on Andersson's Total War Productions label. From 1994 to 1996 further demos were recorded. Songs from this were used for the split release Hail War! used with the German band Antichrist, which also appeared on Total War Productions in 1996. Andersson played the guitar and the bass, Backelin sang and played the drums, with Bifrons another drummer being represented. In 1998 the debut album Knights from Hell was recorded, which was released in November of the following year on No Fashion Records . In the US , the album was released by Mercenary Music in November 2002. On the sound carrier the line-up consists of guitarist Andersson and singer Backelin, bassist Anders "Bloodlord" Backelin, bassist Åsa "Akasha" Pettersson in the song Abysmic Downfall to the Kingdom Where I Will Rule Eternally , guitarist Suckdog, drummer Sadistic Sodomizer and the keyboardist KK Kranium. A drummer named Petrone had previously been in the band, but they split up because they considered him too slow. Runemagick members Emma Karlsson and Nicklas “Terror” Rudolfsson can be heard as guest musicians on the album. After the album was released, the members devoted themselves to other band projects. In 2006 Andersson and Backelin worked with Pettersson, drummer Janne Rimmerfors and guitarist Anders Brolycke on another album, which was to be called Spinecrusher and which was planned to be released by Metal Fortress Entertainment . However, the sound carrier remained unpublished. In an interview with Aris Demirovič from firegoat.com , Eide Mikael Backelin stated that the project does not rehearse together, hold gigs or release records, but it has not ended and always write songs together when you have time.
style
Daniel Ekeroth described the music in his book Swedish Death Metal as a mixture of speed , thrash and black metal. In Joel McIvers Extreme Metal II is described as both Thrash and Death Metal. The vocals alternate between screams and death metal vocals. Paul Schwarz from chroniclesofchaos.com wrote in his review of Knights from Hell that the music is based on simple and traditional death metal riffs and mixed with stereotypical black metal war cries, which also deal with topics from Satanism . This wild metal is comparable to that of Deathwitch .
Discography
- 1994: Nattflykt (Demo, Total War Productions)
- 1996: Hail War! (Split with Antichrist, Total War Productions)
- 1999: Knights from Hell (Album, No Fashion Records )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on May 22, 2016 ; accessed on December 14, 2016 . 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.
- ^ Kai Mathias Stalhammar: Volume: LORD BELIAL. rusmetal.ru, accessed on December 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Janne Stark: The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Premium Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-91-89136-56-4 , pp. 823 .
- ↑ a b c Biography. vassago.se, archived from the original on September 20, 2005 ; accessed on December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Joel McIver: Extreme Metal II . Omnibus Press, 2005, ISBN 1-84449-097-1 , pp. 168 .
- ^ Aris Demirovič: INTERVIEW WITH LORD BELIAL. firegoat.com, accessed December 14, 2016 .
- ^ Daniel Ekeroth : Swedish Death Metal . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936878-18-9 , pp. 423 (English: Swedish Death Metal . Translated by Andreas Diesel).
- ^ Paul Schwarz: Vassago - _Knights From Hell_. chroniclesofchaos.com, accessed December 14, 2016 .
