Skitsystem 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....

 crust punk

Crust punk

Crust punk is a form of music influenced by anarcho-punk, hardcore punk and extreme metal. The style, which evolved in the mid-1980s in England, often has songs with dark and pessimistic lyrics that linger on political and social ills...

 band formed in early 1994. Their sound was heavily influenced by 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....

 and 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...

. In actuality, band members originally came from different death metal bands, bonding over a common interest in d-beat. The band announced in December 2007 that they were on indefinite hiatus. In November 2009, Skitsystem announced plans to play two shows in Göteborg in late February 2010, with possibly more to follow.

Current members

• Mikael "Micke" Kjellman - guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Fredrik Wallenberg - guitar and vocals
  Singing
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• Alex Höglind - bass
  Bass (instrument)
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   and vocals
• Karl "Kalle" Persson - drums
  Drum kit
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Former members

• Tomas "Tompa" 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:...
  
   - Guitar and vocals (1994–2004)
• Adrian Erlandsson
  Adrian Erlandsson
  Adrian Erlandsson is a prolific Swedish heavy metal drummer, who currently plays in Brujeria, Netherbird, with his wife in Nemhain and in Yorkshire doom metal band Paradise Lost...
  
   - Drums (1994–1997)

Discography

• 1995 - Profithysteri 7"
• 1996 - Ondskans Ansikte 10"
• 1997 - Levande Lik 7" (split disk with Wolfpack
  Wolfbrigade
  Wolfbrigade are a Swedish D-beat crust punk band, formed in 1995. Their line-up has included members of Asta Kask, To What End?, Today's Overdose, Cosa Nostra, Anti Cimex, Obscure Infinity and Harlequin. Their music was a groundbreaking mix of Swedish hardcore punk and death metal that paved the...
  
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• 1999 - Grå Värld / Svarta Tankar LP/CD
• 2001 - Enkel Resa Till Rännstenen LP/CD
• 2002 - Det tunga missbrukets karga ingenmansland/Det eviga hatet 7" (split disk with Nasum
  Nasum
  Nasum was a political Swedish band that played a mixture of grindcore and death metal. The band's name, meaning 'nose', was taken from the horror film Flesh for Frankenstein.-Biography:...
  
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• 2003 - Allt E Skit (Compilation disk with their first single)
• 2006 - Stigmata LP/CD
• 2006/2007 split 7 inch with cyness.