Spawn of Possession is a brutal technical death metal band from Kalmar, Sweden, which was founded in 1997.
Biography
Spawn of Possession is a technical death metal band which formed in February 1997, consisting of Jonas Bryssling (guitar), Jonas Karlsson (guitar) and Dennis Röndum (drums). The band's idea was to create "brutal and sick music that went beyond all that had been done before in death metal history"
After three years the band went to record their first demo, The Forbidden. Right after the release of "The Forbidden" the band found bass guitar player Nick Dewerud to fill the empty bass spot the band had suffered from since the start. A year later the band went to the studio to record their second demo, Church of Deviance and in December 2001 Spawn of Possession signed a deal with Unique Leader Records.
Spawn of Possession worked on new material for the next six months and in June 2002 the recording of the debut album, Cabinet, commenced. The band ended up in the Pama Studios together with the highly acclaimed producer and engineer Magnus Sedenberg with whom they had worked on previous recordings. The recording, mixing and mastering of Cabinet went smooth and the final result followed up the band's expectations for a complete satisfaction.[1]
With nothing but great press and a rapidly growing name, it was now time to start supporting their release live. First off was a four week European tour together with Disavowed, Vile, Inhume and Mangled. Shortly after returning home, the next tour offer was a six week North American tour together with Unique Leader label mates, Severed Savior, Pyaemia and Gorgasm. Travelling coast to coast including a five gigs ride to Canada, Spawn of Possession played no less than 27 shows on this tour
After coming back from the US-tour Spawn of Possession was fortunate enough to be able to do another tour, this time as a part of the annual No Mercy package in Europe, with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Hypocrisy, Kataklysm, Exhumed, Vomitory and Carpathian Forest.[1] The tour consisted of fourteen shows, playing in front of 600 to 1500 people a night at some of the biggest club venues in Europe. After this spring-tour summerfestival offers kept pouring in, having the band perform at eight festivals including Fuck the Commerce (Germany), Stonehenge (The Netherlands), Grind You Mother (Italy) and Mountains of Death (Switzerland).
During this period and the beginning of fall 2004, Spawn of Possession also started to work on new material. In mid-September the writing however got interrupted as the band joined Cannibal Corpse as direct support on a 24 show tour throughout Scandinavia and the Baltic/Eastern European states.[1][2]
The successor to the debut album is titled Noctambulant and was released in July 2006 by Neurotic Records.
Influences
Spawn of Possession have been influenced by many different artists from various subgenres, mainly from death metal and classical music. They have been influenced by artists such as Death, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Gorguts and by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Sylvius Leopold Weiss and Dmitri Shostakovich.[3]
Members
* Jonas Bryssling - guitar
* Erlend Caspersen – bass guitar
* Jonas Renvaktar - vocals
* Richard Schill - drums
Former Members
* Jonas Karlsson - Lead guitar
* Niklas Dewerud – bass guitar
* Dennis Röndum - Drums (Strangulation, ex-Visceral Bleeding)
* Mikael Petersson - Session vocals (Dawn of the Obscene, Dream Obscene)
Discography
* The Forbidden (demo, 2000)
* Church of Deviance (demo, 2001)
* Cabinet (2002)
* Noctambulant (2006)
