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Spawn of Possession
Background information
Origin	Kalmar, Sweden
Genre(s)	Technical death metal
Years active	1997-present
Label(s)	Neurotic Records
Associated acts	Visceral Bleeding
Website	spawnofpossession.com
Members
Jonas Bryssling Jonas Karlsson Niklas Dewerud Jonas Renvaktar
Former members
Dennis Röndum

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Biography

Spawn of Possession rose from the ashes of various constellations in February 1997, consisting of Jonas Bryssling (guitar), Jonas Karlsson (guitar) and Dennis Röndum (drums). The whole idea of the band was to create brutal and sick music that went beyond all that had been done before in death metal history.^[1] 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Death metal is a heavy metal subgenre. ...

After three years the band went to record their first demo, The Forbidden. Right after the release of "The Forbidden" the band found bass player Nick Dewerud to fill the empty bass spot the band had suffered from since the start. A year later the band went to the studio to record their second demo, Church of Deviance and in December 2001 Spawn of Possession signed a deal with Unique Leader Records. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Unique Leader Records is a record label formed by the members of the band Deeds of Flesh. ...

Spawn of Possession worked on new material for the next six months and in June 2002 the recording of the debut album, Cabinet, commenced. The band ended up in the Pama Studios together with the highly acclaimed producer and engineer Magnus Sedenberg with whom they had worked on previous recordings. The recording, mixing and mastering of Cabinet went smooth and the final result followed up the band's expectations for a complete satisfaction.^[1] For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Cabinet is the debut album of the Swedish technical death metal band Spawn of Possession. ...

With nothing but great press and a rapidly growing name, it was now time to start supporting their release live. First off was a four week European tour together with Disavowed, Vile, Inhume and Mangled. Shortly after returning home, the next tour offer was a six week North American tour together with Unique Leader label mates, Severed Savior, Pyaemia and Gorgasm. Travelling coast to coast including a five gigs ride to Canada, Spawn of Possession played no less than 27 shows on this tour.^[1][2] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Vile is an American brutal death metal band. ... Inhume is a Dutch grindcore band. ... Severed Savior are a brutal death metal band, formed in 1999 in South San Francisco, California. ... Pyaemia is a type of septicaemia that leads to widespread abscesses and is usually caused by the staphylococcus bacteria. ...

After coming back from the US-tour Spawn of Possession was fortunate enough to be able to do another tour, this time as a part of the annual No Mercy package in Europe, with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Hypocrisy, Kataklysm, Exhumed, Vomitory and Carpathian Forest.^[1] The tour consisted of fourteen shows, playing in front of 600 to 1500 people a night at some of the biggest club venues in Europe. After this spring-tour summerfestival offers kept pouring in, having the band perform at eight festivals including Fuck the Commerce (Germany), Stonehenge (The Netherlands), Grind You Mother (Italy) and Mountains of Death (Switzerland).^[1][2] Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band founded in 1988. ... Hypocrisy is a blackened death metal band from Sweden. ... Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. ... Exhumed is also a first-person shooter available for the PC, PlayStation and Sega Saturn; see Powerslave (game). ... The Roman Empire comprises the period between the 6th century BC and the 5th century AD and hence a little more than 1000 years, if we include the pre-empire period of the Roman Republic. ... Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Beatrix  - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War   - Declared July 26, 1581   - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain...

During this period and the beginning of fall 2004, Spawn of Possession also started to work on new material. In mid-September the writing however got interrupted as the band joined Cannibal Corpse as direct support on a 24 show tour throughout Scandinavia and the Baltic/Eastern European states.^[1][2] shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band founded in 1988. ... Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ... The three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania The Baltic states refer to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. ... Map of Eastern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange),members of the Warsaw pact (light orange), and other former Communist regimes not aligned with Moscow (lightest orange). ...

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Influences

Spawn of Possession have been influenced by many different artists from various subgenres, mainly from death metal and classical music. They have been influenced by artists such as Death, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Gorguts and by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Sylvius Leopold Weiss and Dmitri Shostakovich.^[3] Death metal is a heavy metal subgenre. ... This article discusses classical music in the first sense (see below). ... Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 and dissolved in 1999. ... Morbid Angel is a Florida-based death metal band assembled in 1983. ... Suffocation is an American death metal band. ... Gorguts was a technical death metal/avant-garde metal band from Quebec, Canada. ... Bach in a 1748 portrait by Haussmann Places in which Bach resided throughout his life Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced ) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the... Sylvius Leopold Weiss. ... Dmitri Shostakovich   (Russian: , Dmitrij Dmitrievič Å ostakovič) (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906–August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ...

Members

• Jonas Bryssling - Guitar
• Jonas Karlsson - Guitar
• Niklas Dewerud - Bass
• Jonas Renvaktar - Vocals

Former Members

• Dennis Röndum - Drums, vocals (on first albums and demo)

Discography

• The Forbidden (Demo)(MCD), 2000)
• Church of Deviance (Demo, 2001)
• Cabinet (CD, 2002)
• Noctambulant (CD, 2006)

Cabinet is the debut album of the Swedish technical death metal band Spawn of Possession. ... Noctambulant is the second album by the Swedish technical death metal band Spawn of Possession. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Official biography (retrieved 2007-07-08)
2. ^ ^{a b c} History of concert dates (retrieved 2007-07-08)
3. ^ Spawn of Possession MySpace page (retrieved 2007-07-06)

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External links

• Official website