The Few Against Many is a Swedish

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 ...

band. The band members are Christian Älvestam (lead singer and rhythm guitarist), Patrik Gardberg (lead guitarist), Anders Edlund (bass guitar), Pär Johansson (backup vocals) and

Jani Stefanovic Jani Stefanovic (born 23 May 1979) is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist that primarily plays Swedish death metal. Jani started playing around the age of 13–14 years old. Personal life Jani was born in Gothenburg, Sweden to a Finnish mother and a ...

(drum kit). The band's first album is ''Sot''. The album was released in 2009 on the Pulverised Records label. ''Allmusic'' reviewed ''Sot'', giving it a 3/5 score. The review stated that the debut album contains "...particularly aggressive and frenetic death metal (lots of

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s), either streaked with scattershot symphonic embellishments...or densely integrated

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s and

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s". The review states that the lead singer does not use his "...accomplished clean singing voice and goes strictly Cookie Monster eath growlthroughout." The review criticized the "...synthetic, rather cheap-sounding" sound of some songs and the "...limited amount of material... n the album;just eight songs lasting 36 minutes".

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