Sanctum is a band from

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formed in 1994. Their music is often classified as

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, and combines elements of orchestral and contemporary music. Lately experimental music has become a dominant influence. Sanctum originally consisted of four members, Jan Carleklev, Marika Kante, Håkan Paulsson and Lena Robért. The singer Lena Robért and the cellist Marika Kante left the band in 2001. Nowadays Jan Carleklev and Håkan Paulsson continue with the help of guest vocalists. Sanctum has played shows in Europé and the US, for example at

Maschinenfest Maschinenfest was an annual three-day underground music festival in Germany, featuring industrial, power electronics, noise and other alternative electronic performers. It included both independent and signed bands as well as many vendors for mus ...

Cornerstone Festival Cornerstone Festival was a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA and held annually around July 4 near Bushnell, Illinois, drawing some 20,000 attendees each year. In a given year, many artists that played at Cornerstone also playe ...

and

Wave-Gotik-Treffen The Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT; ) is an annual world festival for "dark" music and "dark culture" in Leipzig, Germany. 150+ bands and artists from various backgrounds (gothic rock, gothic metal, EBM, industrial, noise, darkwave, neo-folk, neo-cl ...

. During Sanctum shows a video live-mix is provided by the video artist Ulrika Carlsson. Paulsson and Carleklev also spend their time in

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Discography

Albums

*''Lupus in Fabula'' ( CMI) — released 1996 *''New York City Bluster'' (CMI) — released 2000 *''Let's Eat'' (CMI) — released 2004

External links

* Swedish electronic music groups {{Sweden-band-stub