Matti Kärki, born December 13, 1972, is a Swedish

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....

 singer who is best known for his work with Dismember

Dismember (band)

Dismember was a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1988. They are well known in the death metal underground. They split up in October 2011.-History:...

. Before he joined Dismember in 1991, he was the singer in the Swedish band Carnage

Carnage (band)

Carnage was a Swedish death metal band whose members later went on to found Dismember, Arch Enemy and the Grindcore band Carcass. The band was formed by Michael Amott and Johan Liiva in 1988. They released only one album before dissolving in 1991.-History:...

 (1989-1990). The first band fronted by Kärki was Therion

Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...

 in 1989. He also appears with the Autopsy-inspired Murder Squad

Murder Squad

Murder Squad is a Swedish death metal band that was formed in 1993 in Stockholm. It is a side project of two Dismember members and two Entombed members. The band is highly influenced by the American group Autopsy...

 since 1993. Furthermore, he was part of the experimental band Carbonized from 1988 to 1990. Kärki appeared as a guest-singer 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...

 and sang "But Life Goes On" on the Entombed show in Sala 24 June 1990. Moreover, he was the bass player for General Surgery

General Surgery (band)

General Surgery is a Swedish goregrind group, known as one of the earliest Carcass clones. Their 1991 debut, Necrology, was released by Relapse Records and would be General Surgery's only material released until 2001, when the group recorded one track for the Carcass tribute album, Requiems of...

 during 1988 to 1990, and joined again in early 2000 when the band was temporarily resurrected to record a song for the Carcass

Carcass (band)

Carcass are an extreme metal band from England, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1995. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons....

 tribute album Requiems of Revulsion

Requiems of Revulsion

Requiems of Revulsion is a tribute album of goregrind, death metal, grindcore and deathgrind bands covering Carcass tracks.-Track listing:All songs originally by Carcass.# Regurgitate – "Genital Grinder" – 1:48...

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