Fission is a Swedish

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavines ...

band formed in 2002. The band began as Benny Hägglund's personal project, with the hopes of fusing melody and aggression into his music. After writing some material, he decided to seek aid from

Andreas Hedlund Andreas Hedlund (born 17 September 1973), better known by his stage names Vintersorg and Mr. V, is a Swedish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has played in several heavy metal bands. Biography Hedlund's musical career came to be at or aro ...

Vintersorg Vintersorg (; "Winter Sorrow" in English) is a Swedish band from Skellefteå, formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron (Wolfthrone in English). Musically, Vintersorg has covered a wide number of heavy metal genres; while the band is mostly ro ...

, the band in which Hägglund plays live session drums. After recording a two-track demo with Benny handling all instrumentation and Andreas handling vocal duties, they signed on with Austrian label,

Napalm Records Napalm Records is an Austrian independent record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock. Originally, Napalm focused on black metal bands, such as Abigor and Summoning, and folk metal bands, such as Falkenbach and Vintersorg. The label later ...

. Benny continued writing all of the songs for their first album, while Andreas provided all of the lyrics, vocals, keyboards, and sound effects. They released their debut album, ''Crater'', on April 27, 2004.Fission.se - Feb 2005 - Biography
" February 2, 2005.

Discography

* ''Crater'' (2004) *#"Mechanism" – 0:43 *#"Crater" – 4:44 *#"Accelerator" – 5:02 *#"Empty Nimbus" – 3:16 *#"Magnetism" – 5:55 *#"Catastrophe Consumer" – 3:49 *#"The Core: 118 Protons of Insanity" – 0:44 *#"Mind Vortex" – 4:42 *#"The Chaos Algorithm" – 3:34 *#"Eremiten" – 3:26 *#"Syndrome" - 6:50 * ''Pain Parade'' (2008)

References

Swedish melodic death metal musical groups Heavy metal duos Musical groups established in 2002 2002 establishments in Sweden {{metal-music-stub