Ribspreader 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....

 death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band.

History

Ribspreader was formed in June of 2002

2002 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...

 by Rogga Johansson and Andreas Karlsson, both also of Paganizer

Paganizer

Paganizer is a Swedish death metal band playing the classic Swedish style metal, in the style of Grave and Dismember. The band was started by Johansson and Jocke in 1998...

. Their debut album features the famous Swedish musician and producer Dan Swanö

Dan Swanö

Dan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...

 on drums and lead guitar. The band split up shortly after the release of their second album because they were not able to find a suitable drummer. However, they recently reformed and are planning to release a new album.

Discography

• Ribspreader (Demo, 2002)
• Bolted to the Cross
  Bolted to the Cross
  Bolted to the Cross is the debut album by the Swedish death metal band Ribspreader. It was released in 2004 on New Aeon Media.-Track listing:# "Dead Forever" – 4:45# "Beneath the Cenotaph" – 3:47# "Heavenless" – 3:35...
  
  (CD, New Aeon Media, 2004)
• Congregating the Sick
  Congregating the Sick
  Congregating the Sick is the second album by the Swedish death metal band Ribspreader. It was released in 2005 by Karmageddon Media.-Track listing:# "Autopsy Obsessed" – 2:36# "Morbid Reflections" – 3:52# "Bleeding You Dry" – 2:53...
  
  (CD, Karmageddon, 2005)
• Church of the Zombie/Re-Excavating Death (Album recorded 2006, Summers End, unreleased)
• Rotten Rhythms and Rancid Rants (A Collection of Undead Spew) (Compilation, 2006)
• Opus Ribcage (CD, 2009)
• Serenity in Obscenity (the complete works of Ribspreader) (double CD, Vic Records, 2009)

Members

• Rogga Johansson – vocals, guitar, bass
• Andreas Carlsson
  Andreas Carlsson
  Andreas Carlsson is a Swedish music producer, composer, and pop songwriter.-Biography:Carlsson was part of the Cheiron Studios team until the studio was closed down in 2001....
  
   – guitar, bass (2002–2005, 2007–)
• Dan Swanö
  Dan Swanö
  Dan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...
  
  – drums, lead guitar (2003)
• Mattias Fiebig – drums (2005)
• Patrik Halvarsson – bass (2002–2005)
• Ronnie Bjornstrom – drums (2006–)