Disfear
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Disfear is a Swedish
D-beat
band that formed in the early 1990s. They have only recorded sporadically over the years. After releasing the albums Soul Scars
in 1995 and Everyday Slaughter
in 1997, the group did not release an album until 2003 with a 12 track album, Misanthropic Generation
, featuring vocalist Tomas Lindberg
of At the Gates
and The Great Deceiver
fame and Uffe Cederlund of Entombed
fame. They recently finished working with Converge's
Kurt Ballou
for their new album, Live the Storm
. It was confirmed on 30 March 2011 that bassist Henke Frykman had lost his battle against cancer. The band had issued a statement: "It is with heavy hearts we inform you that on Friday the 25th of March Henrik Frykman passed away in his home after a long battle with cancer. Henrik will be greatly missed by family and friends."
has cited The Ramones, AC/DC
, Motörhead, The Wipers, The Dead Boys
, The Stooges
, Jerry's Kids
, Articles of Faith
, and Uniform Choice
as musical influences, as well as Michel Foucault
as a conceptual influence. Other bands mentioned as inspirational include Discharge
, Entombed
, Turbonegro
, Zeke
, and Anti Cimex.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
D-beat
D-beat
D-beat is a style of hardcore punk developed in the early 1980s by imitators of Discharge, for whom the genre is named. Discharge may have themselves inherited the beat from Motörhead. The first such group was The Varukers.The vocal content of D-beat tends towards shouted slogans...
band that formed in the early 1990s. They have only recorded sporadically over the years. After releasing the albums Soul Scars
Soul Scars
Soul Scars is the third album released by Disfear.-Track listing:#"Soul Scars"#"Left to Die"#"The Ultimate Disaster"#"To Hell and Back"#"Weak"#"Sobriety"#"The Price of Ignorance"#"All This Fear"#"The True Face of War"#"Grim Reality"...
in 1995 and Everyday Slaughter
Everyday Slaughter
Everyday Slaughter is the fourth album released by Disfear.-Track listing:#"With Each Dawn I Die"#"Anthem of Agony"#"Crimscene: Worldwide"#"A Race for Power"#"Spectre of Genocide"#"Everyday Slaughter"#"Subsistance"#"Totalitarian Control"...
in 1997, the group did not release an album until 2003 with a 12 track album, Misanthropic Generation
Misanthropic Generation
Misanthropic Generation is the fifth album by Swedish D-beat band Disfear. It is the first full-length album from the band to feature Tomas Lindberg on vocals.-Track listing:#"Powerload"#"An Arrogant Breed"#"Misanthropic Generation"#"Rat Race"...
, featuring vocalist Tomas Lindberg
Tomas Lindberg
Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...
of At the Gates
At the Gates
At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...
and The Great Deceiver
The Great Deceiver (band)
The Great Deceiver is a band featuring former At The Gates Frontman Tomas Lindberg. Their music is a mixture of hardcore and metal.-Current line-up:* Tomas Lindberg * Matti Lundell * Johan Österberg * Ulf Scott...
fame and Uffe Cederlund of Entombed
Entombed (band)
Entombed is a Swedish death metal band which formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist. Though Entombed began their career as an early pioneer of Scandinavian death metal which initially differed itself from its American counterpart with its distinct guitar tone, by the early 1990s their sound had...
fame. They recently finished working with Converge's
Converge (band)
Converge is an American band from Salem, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the elements of the metalcore genre.-Description:...
Kurt Ballou
Kurt Ballou
Kurt Ballou is the guitarist from Massachusetts-based band Converge. Aside from his role in Converge, he is a prolific producer, engineering and producing out of his own Godcity studio.- GodCity studio :...
for their new album, Live the Storm
Live the Storm
Live the Storm is the sixth album by Swedish hardcore punk/D-beat band Disfear, released on January 22, 2008.-Track listing:#"Get It Off" 3;17#"Fiery Father" 2:39#"Deadweight" 2:52#"The Cage" 4:00#"The Furnace" 4:12#"Live the Storm" 2:19...
. It was confirmed on 30 March 2011 that bassist Henke Frykman had lost his battle against cancer. The band had issued a statement: "It is with heavy hearts we inform you that on Friday the 25th of March Henrik Frykman passed away in his home after a long battle with cancer. Henrik will be greatly missed by family and friends."
Influences
Tomas LindbergTomas Lindberg
Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...
has cited The Ramones, AC/DC
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
, Motörhead, The Wipers, The Dead Boys
The Dead Boys
The Dead Boys were an American punk rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. Among the first wave of early punk bands, the Dead Boys were initially active from 1976 to 1979, briefly reuniting in 1987, 2004 and 2005.-Formation and 1970s punk rock era:...
, The Stooges
The Stooges
The Stooges are an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003...
, Jerry's Kids
Jerry's Kids
Jerry's Kids is one of the earliest Boston hardcore bands, formed in 1981, from Braintree, Mass.. Their first recorded output was on the Modern Method This Is Boston, Not L.A. compilation LP in 1982. They contributed six tracks along with other early Boston Hardcore band Gang Green.Frontman Bryan...
, Articles of Faith
Articles of Faith (Band)
Articles of Faith were a Chicago-based hardcore punk band notable for songwriting in a class above most of their contemporaries . The band's later work, the posthumous In This Life LP in particular, either founds or foreshadows the emo sound...
, and Uniform Choice
Uniform Choice
Uniform Choice is an Orange County, California hardcore punk band.-History:Uniform Choice was started by guitarist Myke Bates, bassist Hanson Meyer and drummer Eric Hanna during the Spring of 1982. Bates had been playing with a couple of bands previously in Palm Springs...
as musical influences, as well as Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
as a conceptual influence. Other bands mentioned as inspirational include Discharge
Discharge (band)
Discharge is a British hardcore punk band formed in 1977 by Terry "Tezz" Roberts and Roy "Rainy" Wainwright. They are often considered among one of the very first bands to play hardcore punk, and to mix punk with metal...
, Entombed
Entombed (band)
Entombed is a Swedish death metal band which formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist. Though Entombed began their career as an early pioneer of Scandinavian death metal which initially differed itself from its American counterpart with its distinct guitar tone, by the early 1990s their sound had...
, Turbonegro
Turbonegro
Turbonegro is a Norwegian punk rock band that was initially active from 1989 to 1998, and later reformed in 2002. Their style combines glam rock, punk rock and hard rock into a style the band describes as "deathpunk"....
, Zeke
Zeke (band)
Zeke is an American hardcore punk band from Seattle, Washington formed in 1993. They are known for their extremely fast, energetic guitar sound. Zeke mixes this with strong influences from hard rock, and occasionally blues-rock, and are often compared to Motörhead.Zeke has released six full-length...
, and Anti Cimex.
Current members
- Tomas LindbergTomas LindbergTomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...
- vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Björn Peterson - GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Marcus Andersson - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Uffe Cederlund - GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
Former members
- Jan Axelsson - Drums
- Jallo Lehto - Drums (1989–1995)
- Robin Wiberg - Drums (1995–1998)
- Jeppe Lerjerud - Vocals (1989–1998)
- Henke Frykman - Bass Guitar (1990-2011)
Discography
- Disfear (1992)
- A Brutal Sight of WarA Brutal Sight of WarA Brutal Sight of War is the second album released by Disfear.-Track listing:#"A Brutal Sight of War"#"Judgement Day"#"Forced to Conform"#"No Hope of Survival"#"Religion"#"Min Elegi"#"Undergång"#"Vietnam i dag"#"Det sista kriget"...
(1993) - Disfear/Uncurbed Split EP (1993)
- Soul ScarsSoul ScarsSoul Scars is the third album released by Disfear.-Track listing:#"Soul Scars"#"Left to Die"#"The Ultimate Disaster"#"To Hell and Back"#"Weak"#"Sobriety"#"The Price of Ignorance"#"All This Fear"#"The True Face of War"#"Grim Reality"...
(1995) - Everyday SlaughterEveryday SlaughterEveryday Slaughter is the fourth album released by Disfear.-Track listing:#"With Each Dawn I Die"#"Anthem of Agony"#"Crimscene: Worldwide"#"A Race for Power"#"Spectre of Genocide"#"Everyday Slaughter"#"Subsistance"#"Totalitarian Control"...
(1997) - In Defence of Our Future, Tribute to DischargeDischarge (band)Discharge is a British hardcore punk band formed in 1977 by Terry "Tezz" Roberts and Roy "Rainy" Wainwright. They are often considered among one of the very first bands to play hardcore punk, and to mix punk with metal...
, contributing the song "Realities of War". (2001) - Misanthropic GenerationMisanthropic GenerationMisanthropic Generation is the fifth album by Swedish D-beat band Disfear. It is the first full-length album from the band to feature Tomas Lindberg on vocals.-Track listing:#"Powerload"#"An Arrogant Breed"#"Misanthropic Generation"#"Rat Race"...
(2003) - Powerload (2003; 7", Throne RecordsThrone RecordsThrone Records is an independent record label of extreme metal located in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. It was created in 2002 by Uge, after the dissolution of its previous hardcore/punk label...
) - Split w/ ZEKE (2004; 7", Relapse Records)
- Live the StormLive the StormLive the Storm is the sixth album by Swedish hardcore punk/D-beat band Disfear, released on January 22, 2008.-Track listing:#"Get It Off" 3;17#"Fiery Father" 2:39#"Deadweight" 2:52#"The Cage" 4:00#"The Furnace" 4:12#"Live the Storm" 2:19...
(2008) - Split with DoomridersDoomridersDoomriders is a heavy metal band from Boston, Massachusetts. The band has released two albums on Deathwish, Inc. The band's vocalist/guitarist Nate Newton also plays bass in Converge and guitar in Old Man Gloom. Jebb Riley formerly played bass in "There Were Wires". Doomriders have toured with...
(2008)
External links
- http://www.myspace.com/disfear - Myspace profile with several songs