Tony Särkkä (15 December 1972 – 8 February 2017), who went by the stage name It, was a Swedish multi-instrumentalist who has played in many black metal bands. He played guitar, drums and bass guitar as well as doing vocals. He was joined by Jim Berger in many projects. Särkkä's projects included

Abruptum Abruptum is a Swedish black metal and dark ambient solo side-project band. It is run by Evil (Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson) of Marduk, but the band was formed in 1989 by IT (a.k.a. Tony Särkkä). All (a.k.a. Jim Berger), Ext and Evil joined ...

Ophthalamia Ophthalamia was a Swedish black metal band that formed in 1989. History Ophthalamia was formed in 1989 by singer All and guitarist IT, both also active in the musical groups Abruptum and Vondur. The band named themselves Ophthalamia after a fa ...

, Vondur, Incision, Brejn Dedd, War and

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. He also contributed guest vocals to

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's second album '' Storm of the Light's Bane'', and to

Marduk Marduk (Cuneiform: dAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: ''amar utu.k'' "calf of the sun; solar calf"; ) was a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon. When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of ...

's third album ''

Opus Nocturne ''Opus Nocturne'' is the third studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk. It was recorded and mixed at Hellspawn Studios in September 1994 and released on 4 December 1994 by Osmose Productions. In 2004 the album was remastered by the ba ...

''. He was the founder of The True Satanist Horde in Sweden. Särkkä died on 8 February 2017, aged 44, but his death was only officially announced on 14 February by his sister, via her brother's

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page.Ruotsalainen black metal -legenda Tony "It" Särkkä on kuollut 45-vuotiaana

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* * * 1972 births 2017 deaths Black metal musicians Swedish heavy metal guitarists Swedish heavy metal singers Swedish people of Finnish descent Ophthalamia members {{Sweden-singer-stub