Ondskapt (Swedish for "created of evil") are a Swedish
black metal
Black metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include Tempo#Beats per minute, fast tempos, a Screaming (music)#Black metal, shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted Electric guitar, guitars played with t ...
band. They have previously shared members with other Swedish metal projects such as IXXI and
Shining.
History
Ondskapt were formed in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
in 2000 by vocalist Acerbus and drummer Nabemih, their guitarist at the time Skamfer came up with the band's name. Their EP ''Slave Under His Immortal Will'' was released through
Shining vocalist Kvarforth's label Selbstmord Services in 2001, followed by their début album ''Draco Sit Mihi Dux'' in 2003, Fredric Gråby aka Wredhe was brought to the band to play bass and additional guitars on that album. Their second album ''Dödens Evangelium'' was released through Next Horizon Records and Norma Evangelium Diaboli in 2005. The band completed their lineup with bassist Siavosh Bigonah and guitarist Nattdal.
In 2006 Acerbus joined guitarist Nattdal's band IXXI, which rendered Ondskapt "basically dead" for two years, according to Acerbus, since, around the same time the band's co-founder and drummer Nabemih had moved out of Stockholm and guitarist Wredhe left the band to join
Shining which meant the band was not able to record new music or perform live since the remaining members were not available to do so, however both Acerbus and Nabemih kept writing new music for their next album and by 2008 had assembled a new lineup to record and perform live with members of fellow Swedish bands Valkyrja and
Mortuus
Mortuus are a Swedish black/death metal band.
History
Mortuus recorded their eponymous 7” EP ''Mortuus'' which was released by The Ajna Offensive in 2005. The members “decided to put the project to death after the seven-inch was recorded, ...
, the most notable being current
Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth () is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, formed in 1992. The band takes its name from the Sindarin name of Mount Doom, a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Their lyrics mostly deal with Viking mythology and hi ...
drummer Jocke Wallgren. The band signed to
Osmose Productions
Osmose Productions is a French independent record label created in 1991 by Hervé Herbaut, after he had spent three years running a small mail order company. They specialize mainly in death and black metal bands.
Many of the groups who began wit ...
, who released the band's third album ''Arisen From the Ashes'' in 2010. Nattdal left Ondskapt in 2007 to focus on his bands IXXI and Lifelover but died due to an accidental prescription drug overdose on 9 September 2011.
Co-founder and drummer Nabemih left the band after the recording and release of their third album, since then Acerbus has been the sole constant member and the band has had a rotating line up which delayed recording any new material for a decade, however and in spite of it the band continued to regularly tour and perform live. In 2017 the band posted their new line up on their official Facebook and announced that they would finally start the writing and recording process of their fourth album, however in 2019 guitarist Draugr left the band, leaving the line up as a trio that consisted of frontman Acerbus, bassist Gefandi Ör Andlät and drummer Daemonum Subeunt. The band would later recruit guitarist Megiddo to complete their lineup.
On 17 May 2019 the band announced that they would "enter the studio" in mid June to start working for seven weeks on their long-awaited fourth full-length album for a tentative 2020 release, recording was completed in mid October after a five month process, and received the master in November. In March 2020, Gefandi Ör Andlät left the band "for personal reasons" which delayed the album's release. Ondskapt's fourth studio album ''Grimoire Ordo Devus'' was released on 27 November 2020 through Osmose Productions.
On 24 August 2021, the band announced that guitarist D.I.E. and bassist J. from the band Anguish had joined Ondskapt as full time members.
Style and ideology
Ondskapt are supposedly inspired by
Ofermod
Ofermod is a Swedish black/death metal band, formed in Sweden in 1996 by Michayah Belfagor.
History
Ofermod were formed in 1996''Ofermod''. In: ''Funeral Maelstrom Of Hate'', no. 6, 2004. by Nefandus drummer, backing vocalist and lyricist Mika ...
.
[Nathan T. Birk]
''OFERMOD''
accessed on 2 November 2012.[''Ofermod – Tiamtü'']
1 October 2008, accessed on 2 November 2012. Their lyrical themes deal mostly with
Theistic Satanism
Theistic Satanism, otherwise referred to as religious Satanism, spiritual Satanism, or traditional Satanism, is an umbrella term for religious groups that consider Satan, the Devil, or Lucifer to objectively exist as a deity, supernatural ent ...
and
Death Worship
Many have incorporated a god of death into their mythology or religion. As death, along with birth, is among the major parts of human life, these deities may often be one of the most important deities of a religion. In some religions in which a ...
. Ondskapt are, according to their first release ''Slave Under His Immortal Will'', ″merely an instrument of religious Devilworship, thus, the music and lyrics never would exist without the doctrinal as well as spiritual inversion of orthodox faith″. They released a manifesto referring to their Devil worship on their first album and their homepage. They are a part of a newer generation of Swedish Satanic bands like
Watain
Watain is a Swedish black metal band, formed in 1998.Eduardo Rivadavia: ''Watain Biography'' Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation. The band's name is taken from an early recording by the American black metal group Von.Ronald Ziegler''Merchandise w ...
, also supposedly inspired by Ofermod,
who put this scene "into a new light"
[''Black Metal Satanica'', 2008.] and became the leaders of the Swedish scene.
[Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: ''Under the Sign of the Black Mark''. ''Die zweite Generation des Black Metal''. In: ''Rock Hard'', no. 269, October 2009, p. 84.] Kvarforth said, "
seems like people actually
otafraid again".
Discography
* ''Slave Under His Immortal Will'' (EP, 2001)
* ''Draco Sit Mihi Dux'' (2003)
* ''Dödens Evangelium'' (2005)
* ''Arisen from the Ashes'' (2010)
* ''Grimoire Ordo Devus'' (2020)
References
External links
Ondskapt's official webpage
Swedish black metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2000
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