

However, most of the music was written by Jonas Bryssling with assistance of Erlend Caspersen on certain songs. It is often being dubbed as 'one of the most influential modern death metal records, next to Necrophagist's Epitaph and Obscura's Cosmogenesis, all of which Muenzner performed on. On March 13, 2012, with three new members, Spawn of Possession released their third retail album, Incurso, which was met with very positive reactions from fans and critics alike, being their most technical and heavy record up to date. Henrik Schönström announced as new drummer. The reason cited was that Richard depends very much on actual band practice and with SoP members being scattered all over Sweden, Norway and Germany band practice becomes an impossibility. In December 2010, Richard Shill has been relieved from drumming duties. However in September 2010, Dennis Rondum joined back and will handle the vocals instead of Chalky who just joined for a brief period. The Line-up is now complete." In the same year, Norwegian bassist Erlend Caspersen (Blood Red Throne, The Allseeing I), known for his highly technical playing, also joined the band to complete the lineup. Christian Muenzner (ex-Obscura, ex-Necrophagist) is going to do the Lead Guitar part and unleash his madness into the multicoloured and distorted universe of Spawn of Possession. Matthew Chalk (Ex-Psycroptic) is going to handle the vocal and lyric writing. Bryssling states "Two very talented and competent musicians has recently joined Spawn of Possession. On June 24, 2009, Jonas Bryssling confirmed on Spawn of Possession's message board that Matthew Chalk (ex- Psycroptic, Mephistopheles) and Christian Muenzner (ex- Obscura, ex- Necrophagist) have joined the band. The band also explained that "additional lineup changes will be announced soon". There are five finished songs and seven others still in the works. On May 11, 2009, the band posted a small preproduction teaser from their as yet untitled new album, commenting that they wanted "to finally break the silence". The successor to the debut album is titled Noctambulant and was released in July 2006 by Neurotic Records. In mid-September the band joined Cannibal Corpse as direct support on a 24 show tour throughout Scandinavia and the Baltic/Eastern European states. ĭuring this period and the beginning of fall 2004, Spawn of Possession also started to work on new material. After this spring-tour summerfestival the band perform at eight festivals, including Fuck the Commerce (Germany), Stonehenge (Netherlands), Grind You Mother (Italy), and Mountains of Death (Switzerland). Īfter coming back from the US came another European tour, as part of the annual No Mercy package, with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Hypocrisy, Kataklysm, Exhumed, Vomitory, and Carpathian Forest. Travelling coast to coast including a five gigs ride to Canada, they played no less than 27 shows on this tour. Shortly after followed a six-week North American tour together with Unique Leader label mates Severed Savior, Pyaemia, and Gorgasm. To promote the album, they first toured Europe for four weeks, together with Disavowed, Vile, Inhume, and Mangled. The band ended up in the Pama Studios together with the highly acclaimed producer and engineer Magnus Sedenberg with whom they had worked on previous recordings, and released Cabinet. The band worked on new material for the next six months and in June 2002 began recording their debut album, Cabinet. A year later the band went to the studio to record their second demo, Church of Deviance, and in December 2001 Spawn of Possession signed a deal with Unique Leader Records. Īfter three years the band recorded their first demo, The Forbidden, and right after found bass guitar player Nick Dewerud to fill the empty bass spot. Spawn of Possession formed in February 1997, consisting of Jonas Bryssling (guitar), Jonas Karlsson (guitar), and Dennis Röndum (drums).
