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Repugnant

Repugnant is a death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden which formed in June 1998 by guitarist and vocalist Mary Goore. The following eighteen months saw the band establish themselves in the global underground circuit with debut demo cassette “Spawn of Pure Malevolence” and 7’ep “Hecatomb” selling thousands worldwide. In 2000, the band signed to Dutch record label Hammerheart Records with the intention of releasing a full length album on the label.

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Facebreaker

Facebreaker is a -band formed in the summer of 1999 in Finspång, Sweden. The band consists of vocalist Roberth Karlsson, guitarists Mika Lagrén and Janne Ivarsson, basist and backing vocalist Jonas Magnusson and drummer Mikael Wassholm. Facebreaker started as an idea of a straight-forward metal act and in the autumn of 1999 the band began rehearsing. Jonas came to join the band after stopping by a rehearsal-session.

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Grave

There are several bands which go by 'Grave' 1) Grave is a Death Metal band from Visby, Sweden. They started in 1986 under the name Corpse and changed it to Grave in 1988. From the beginning of the great European death metal movement Grave took charge with an incredibly tight band and a lot of atmosphere. Although eclipsed in popularity by many other, and usually lesser, bands, Grave have continued touring and releasing classic albums.

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Cromlech

Cromlech was a Melodic Death Metal band in the vein of Eucharist's A Velvet Creation but continued to build on their own sound to develop their own brand of Melodic Death with their following Promo and then last EP, The Vulture Tones. The sound exhibitied in those two releases after "And Darkness Fell" (1996) was much more elaborate now mixing in more elements of straight death metal as well as hints of black metal.

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Desolator

1. Old School Death Metal Band from Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.myspace.com/desolatorswe 2. Heavy hardcore from Sydney, Australia. Taken from myspace: "In possibly permanent hibernation." http://www.myspace.com/desolatorhc 3. Thrash Metal maniacs from Los Angeles, California. Desolator, released their first split with San Diego Natives, Inhuman Sacrifice.
http://www.myspace.com/desolatorband 4. Black Metal from Finland.
http://www.myspace.com/desolatorattack

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Morbus Chron

an old school death metal band from Sweden that was formed in 2007. As of now, they have released two demos, "Morbus Chron" in 2009 and "Splendour of Disease" in 2010 and also featured on the Resurrected in Festering Slime-compilation, released by Soulseller Records. Presently signed up with Pulverised records. myspace - http://www.myspace.com/morbuschronband

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Putrefaction

Putrefaction was a side project of Grave sometimes around 1989. But the songs were shortly after integrated in the Grave set and so the project was ended. (Copied from Metal Archives) Putrefaction is also a heavy crust band from Ireland and a death metal band from Brazil.

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Suffer

There are at least 7 bands called Suffer: 1. Suffer is a hardcore punk / powerviolence band from Perth, Australia. To date, the band has released a self-titled demo cassette (2008), a CDR / cassette titled 'Blood Wars' (2009), a split 7" with Pathetic Human (2010), and have recently released their first full-length LP titled 'Lone' (2010). 2. Swedish Suffer formed in 1988. The band had a raw, yet somewhat technical sound, unlike many "straight to the point" bands.

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Engel

Engel is an industrial/melodic death metal band. They hail from Gothenburg, Sweden and in addition, their bassplayer origins from England. Engel is also a Dutch rapper, who released his debut album "Engelland"in 2008. Fans of the band?
Formed at Göteborg, Sweden back in 2004, Niclas Engelin and Marcus Sunesson felt that they should bring something new to the genre. Lineup as of September 2010:
Magnus Klavborn - Vocals (ex-Headplate)

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