KATALYSATOR – Uppsala Blodbad III 14/5 2005
True story. And one of my best memories ever:)) The very first KATALYSATOR (later to be INVIDIOUS) gig in Uppsala. These guys opened the festival and played on the small stage upstairs. They were really young, and i mean REALLY – the singer, these days known as Hornper (IN SOLITUDE, INVIDIOUS), hadn´t even celebrated his 14th birthday yet. His brother, Gottfrid, was 15 (barely) and the rest of the band were about the same age (?). When the band entered the stage, the crowd (except the ones who actually knew what to expect) were having fun at their expence – at first. The festival used to have some young band as opening act, and the year before there were some 15-17 year olds wearing funny wigs & who were mostly in it for the laughs. Well, that wasn´t the case with KATALYSATOR. You got this 13 year old telling you that “We are KATALYSATOR and we play old school death metal”. Yeah, right.
But I think about two seconds later the giggling stopped and nobody has been taking lightly anything the Åhman brothers or any of the other guys in the band has been up to ever since. Quite the opposite.
The gig was awesome, the band pure power and the only thing that still got the crowd smiling a bit was Pelle shifted from brutal growling to some small talk between the songs:) But hey! The guy was 13!! And he was still awesome:)
Anyway, wasn´t that good friends with digital cameras yet and had to use the built-in flash, so the pics suck big time and they´re not that many, but I think they´re still very important.Line Up (with (mostly) later bands):
Pelle Åhman – Vocals / Also: In Solitude, Invidious
Gottfrid – Bass / Also: In Solitude, Invidious, Repugnant, ex-Immaculate
Andreas “Skullthrasher” Bolldén – Drums / Also: ex-Vindicate, ex-Immaculate
Andreas Meisingseth – Guitars /Also: Invidious, ex-Vindicate, ex-Graveless
Hampe Death – Guitars / Also: Degial, Invidious, Watain (live), Malign, ex-Degial of Embos,
KATALYSATOR – Toxic Death (1st demo 2005)
KATALYSATOR – Divus Des Mortuus Uppsala 2007 (Necrovore cover)
Pelle´s fanzine Torment mag #1
DEVIANT- Uppsala Blodbad III 14/5 2005
Wiki: “Deviant är en svensk death metalgrupp bildad tidigt 2002 av Johan, EB och Magnus i Uppsala. Alx gick med i bandet snart därefter. Debutdemon Deviant gavs ut i augusti 2003.
Debutdemon släpptes i november 2003 och ledde till ett skivkontrakt med italienska The Spew Records tidigt 2004. Debutalbumet, Larvaeon, spelades in i slutet av december 2004 och januari 2005. Det var även under denna period som Fredrik blev medlem i bandet som basist. Albumet släpptes i juni 2005. I januari 2006 spelades en EP in, Apathyphus, som släpptes 2007 på det grekiska skivbolaget Nuclear Winter Records.”Senaste medlemmar: Alex – sång Johan (Johan Wikmark) – gitarr Magnus (Magnus Wikmark) – gitarr EB – trummor Fredrik Holmqvist – basgitarr
Serpent Obscene 2005
Photo shoot with SERPENT OBSCENE ( 1997 – 2006) in April 2005. Shot the outdoor pics at an old (abandoned) tuberculosis hospital and at some sandpits. We also climbed up in a water towerFor the indoor shots we occupied the local youth centre and used their smoke machine.
Additional note: The pizzaplace where we went for lunch made pentagrams in bearnaise on the pizzas m/.
One of the smoky pics ended up on the album “Chaos Reign Supreme” (cover art made by the great Joe Petagno) and the whatever pics on the album are also by me.
Trivia: The winged Serpent Obscene skull was made by Erik Tormentor and it´s also used here and there in “Swedish Death Metal”, the book by Daniel Ekeroth (the spikes removed, tho).
The band split up after releasing the album and I´m still not over it! No release gigs, no nothing.
Erik “Tormentor” Sahlström – V / Johan Thörngren – G Nicklas Eriksson – G / Jonny Putrid – B / Jonas Eriksson – D
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