Adept is a Swedish

Sweden

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 post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

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 band from Trosa

Trosa

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Formation

Adept was founded in 2004 and consists of musicians Robert Ljung (vocals), Jerry Repo (guitar) Filip Brandelius (bass) and Gabriel Hellmark (drums). In their first year, they released their first demo, Hopeless Illusions, recorded and sold on their own. Their first EP, which was released a year later, was financed out of pocket. The second EP, The Rose Will Decay was released as a proper production. Because of the great success and the rapidly growing awareness of the band, Panic & Action was aware of the group and took them under contract.

Panic & Action and Success

On 4 February 2009, Adept released their first full-length, Another Year of Disaster. In 2010, Adept toured in Germany with the band Her Bright Skies, which is also under contract with Panic & Action. The tour consisted of 6 The Toughest Kids concerts. The venues were Hamburg, Berlin, Osnabrück, Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne. In August 2010, Adept began working on the successor of Another Year of Disaster. They worked with Fredrik Nordström

Fredrik Nordström

Björn Tom Fredrik Nordström, born on 5 January 1967, is a Swedish record producer and guitar player for the heavy metal band Dream Evil. Nordström is one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, and he has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy,...

, an experienced music producer who already worked with In Flames

In Flames

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, Bring Me the Horizon

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 and At the Gates

At the Gates

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. On 11 March 2011 they released their second album titled Death Dealers.

Discography

Studio albums

Date of release	Title	Label
February 4, 2009	Another Year of Disaster	Panic & Action
March 4, 2011	Death Dealers	Panic & Action

EPs

Date of release	Title	Label
2004	Hopeless Illusions (Demo)	Self-Released
2005	When the Sun Gave Up the Sky	Self-Released
2006	The Rose Will Decay	Self-Released
October 15, 2009	Shark! Shark! Shark	Panic & Action