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Death metal Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, feat ...

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Tristitia Tristitia is a Swedish doom metal band formed in Halmstad in 1992. History The band was founded by Chilean / Swedish guitarist Luis Beethoven Galvez. His devotion for doom metal and sorrowful melodies brought him to form the band with deat ...

Devil Lee Rot
Pagan Rites
Lords of the Grief
Tormentorium
Scyphian Dreams , website = , current_members = The Demon
Thomas Karlsson
Daniel Nilssen , past_members = Karl Vincent (Sexual Goat Licker)
Onkel
Thomas Hedlund
Daniel Nilsen
Jimi "The Demon" Autopsy Torment is a Swedish death metal band, formed in 1989. The band was started by Thomas Karlsson, Autopsy Torment's frontman and singer, with Onkel on guitars. In 1991, the band became a trio with Karl Vincent (Sexual Goatlicker) on drums and Daniel Nilsen on guitar who wrote and recorded the demo ''Darkest Rituals'' that same year. Then followed a period of constant personnel changes, with Thomas Karlsson and Karl Vincent as the core members. In 1992, the band split up and Karlsson started

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band Pagan Rites, later becoming the vocalist for the doom band

. In 1999, the 1991 line-up re-formed with the addition of The Demon on bass as a result of Daniel and The Demon writing some new songs and after talking with Karlsson they decided to reform Autopsy Torment to work on and release new material. The band released the album ''Orgy with the Dead'' on Miriquidi Productions in 2002 and the follow-up album ''Tormentorium'' on Painkiller Records in 2003. Karlsson is still actively working with his own project, Devil Lee Rot, and with Pagan Rites. Pulverized Records released an Autopsy Torment compilation album named 7th Ritual for the Darkest Soul of Hell in 2008 containing the demos Darkest Rituals, The Seventh Soul of Hell and Moonfog EP-sessions, all originally released in 1992. The Compilation album 7th Ritual for the Darkest Soul of Hell was mastered in Unisound Studio by

Dan Swanö Dan-Erland Swanö (born 10 March 1973), also known as Dan "The Man" Swanö, is a Swedish musician and record producer who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale, lately vocalist, keyboardist and ...

, most known for being the founding member of the Swedish progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity as well as playing in a long list of other bands. The cover design for the album was created by the well respected artist Chris Moyen.

Members

Current lineup

*Thomas Karlsson – vocals :(The rest of the line-up is currently unknown)

Former members

*The Demon – bass *Daniel Nilsen – guitar *David "Slaughter" Stranderud – guitar *Karl Vincent (Sexual Goat Licker) – drums *Onkel – guitars (first demo) *Thomas Hedlund – drums :Thomas Hedlund is not the same person that plays in

Cult of Luna Cult of Luna is a Swedish heavy metal band from Umeå founded in 1998. They are known for post-metal music similar to the contemporary bands Neurosis and Isis. The band was signed to Earache Records in the early 2000s and released five albums, i ...

Discography

* ''Jason Lives'' (Demo, 1989) * ''Splattered'' (Demo, 1990) * ''Darkest Rituals'' (Demo, 1991) * ''Moon Fog'' (EP, 1992) * ''Advanced Tape'' (Demo, 1992) * ''Nocturnal Blasphemy'' (Demo, 1992) * ''The Seventh Soul Of Hell'' (Demo, 1992) * ''Orgy with the Dead'' (LP, 2001) * ''Darkest Rituals'' (EP, 2002) * ''Premature Torment/Pagan From The Heat'' (Split with Devil Lee Rot, 2003) * ''Tormentorium'' (LP/CD, 2003) * ''Graveyard Creatures'' (LP, 2005) * ''7th Ritual for the Darkest Soul Of Hell'' (Digi-CD, 2008)

External links

Official website
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