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History

Few friends had several speed/thrash metal bands and after getting into death metal and grindcore, they decided to start a new band. Guitarist, Tomi Koivusaari left Violent Solution to do so and other guitarist, Kalle Mattsson along with Jukka Kolehmainen on vocals and bassist Jussi Ahlroth had a band called Disaster, while drummer Kimmo Heikkinen had just bought drums. Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Tomi Koivusaari is the guitarist of Finnish heavy metal/death metal band Amorphis. ...

The band was formed in early 1989 playing some time under several different names, until settling for Abhorrence. They played dozens of concerts alongside bands like Xysma, Funebre, Disgrace. After recording and releasing one demo tape, titled Vulgar Necrolatry they received a suggestion to do a 7" EP. The 7" EP was released by Seraphic Decay Records (later found out to be a rip-off label) which was managed by Steve O'Bannon. Without a written contract of anykind the band lost all of the mastertapes and possible future revenues. Funebre were a death metal band formed in Turku, Finland in 1988. ... Disgrace (1999) is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; the book itself won the Booker Prize in 1999, the year in which it was published. ... To copy or imitate blatantly or unscrupulously This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ...

After several more gigs around Finland, a short visit to Norway (one gig and a party/sleepover at Black Metal band Mayhem's house) with their second drummer Mika Arnkil (who was on leave from Antidote), the band broke up in 1990. Black metal is a sub-genre of extreme metal, which started in the early 1980s with bands such as Venom, Bathory, and Celtic Frost. ... Mayhem (also known as The True Mayhem) is a seminal black metal band formed in 1983, based in Oslo, Norway. ... An antidote is a substance which can counteract a form of poisoning. ...

Shortly after this Relapse Records contacted the band for a recording contract, which eventually helped Amorphis get in touch with the label. Relapse Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based independent metal record label. ... A recording contract (also commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote. ... Amorphis is a Finnish metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in 1990. ...

Members

• Jussi 'Juice' Ahlroth - bass (1989-1990), other bands: Spiha (guitar)
• Tomi Koivusaari - guitar (1989-1990), other bands: Amorphis, Ajattara, Verenpisara, Jam-Bore
• Kalle Mattsson - guitar (1989-1990)
• Kimmo Heikkinen - drums (1989-1990)
• Jukka Kolehmainen - vocals (1989-1990)
• Mika 'Arkki' Arnkil - drums (1990-1990), other bands: Antidote, Sinisthra (then Nevergreen), Impaled Nazarene (bass)

Tomi Koivusaari is the guitarist of Finnish heavy metal/death metal band Amorphis. ... Amorphis is a Finnish metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in 1990. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Impaled Nazarene is a Finnish black metal band with thrash metal influences founded in 1990. ...

Discography

• Vulgar Necrolatry demo 1989
• Abhorrence 7" EP 1990

Additionally some rehearsal tapes and live footage is still making the rounds.

External links

• Abhorrence - Old school Death Metal from Finland, official homepage
• Abhorrence at MusicBrainz
• Abhorrence at Discogs.com