Dismember (band)
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| Origin | Stockholm |
| Country | Sweden |
| Years active | 1988-present |
| Genres | Death metal Melodic death metal |
| Members | Fred Etsby Matti Kärki David Blomqvist Martin Persson |
| Website(s) | Official Website |
Dismember is a Swedish death metal band, formed in Stockholm in 1988. After a hiatus, the band began recording in earnest in 1991 and released their debut, Like an Ever Flowing Stream in 1991. The album became an early example of Scandinavian death metal and established the band's fanbase, which grew with the release of Pieces (1992). The song "Skin Her Alive" prompted an obscenity charge in the United Kingdom, against which the band successfully defended themselves.
In 1993 Dismember released Indecent & Obscene, their most successful album ever, which featured their most famous theme: "Dreaming in Red" videoclip was shown very frequently in MTV's Headbanger's Ball.
Like many of the other Scandinavian death metal bands, Dismember began softening their sound in the mid-1990s, with 1995's Massive Killing Capacity more melodic approaches, which had a good public response. Nevertheless, they attempted a return to style with 1997's Death Metal, which ultimately became a sales disappointment.
In 2000, attempting to recover some power of their first two albums, and thus the once large fanbase, a much heavier album was released. Musically somewhere between Indecent and Obscene and Massive Killing Capacity, Hate Campaign was deliberately not taken seriously by Nuclear Blast, since this was the last album to edit for Dismember. Instead Nuclear Blast preferred to have Dismember as an icon from the past (symbolised by Like an Ever Flowing Stream and Indecent and Obscene) and kept investing in secure profits, exploiting these first two albums, releasing new special re-editions.
No new contract was negotiated since Nuclear Blast was interested in laying off the traditional death metal bands and Dismember themselves were unsatisfied with Nuclear Blast's deliberate poor job done for Hate Campaign.
Dismember set a new path and signed for Karmageddon Records. In 2004, they released their sole album with that label titled Where Ironcrosses Grow and sounds close to Hate Campaign and is heavily inspired by Iron Maiden and Autopsy.
They switched record companies again in 2005, signing to Regain Records now, who bought the rights to their earlier albums as well and released them as luxury digipak editions. In 2006, Dismember released their seventh album The God That Never Was continuing in the style of its predecessor. The band spent February on the road in Europe. In November 2006, Dismember will tour Europe as part of the Masters of Death tour, with Grave, Unleashed, Entombed and Exterminator.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Demos
- Dismembered (1988)
- Last Blasphemies (1989)
- Rehearsal (1989)
- Reborn in Blasphemy (1990)
[edit] Full-lengths
- Like an Ever Flowing Stream (1991)
- Indecent & Obscene (1993)
- Massive Killing Capacity (1995)
- Death Metal (1998)
- Hate Campaign (2000)
- Where Ironcrosses Grow (2004)
- The God That Never Was (2006)
[edit] Singles and EPs
- Skin Her Alive (Single, 1991)
- Pieces (EP, 1992)
- Casket Garden (EP, 1995)
- Misanthropic (EP, 1997)
[edit] DVDs and videos
- Live Blasphemies (DVD, 2004)
[edit] Line-up
- Fred Estby - Drums
- Matti Kärki - Vocals
- David Blomqvist - Guitars
- Martin Persson - Guitars
- Tobias Christiansson - Bass
[edit] Former members
- Johan Bergebäck - Bass
- Sharlee D'Angelo - Bass
- Richard Cabeza - Bass
- Magnus Sahlgren - Guitar
- Robert Sennebäck - Vocals, Bass, Guitar
- Erik Gustafsson - bass
