David Isberg
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David Isberg (born February 23, 1975) is a Swedish musician, most famous for having founded seminal Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth.
Before Opeth, David was in the Swedish black metal combo Procreation (1989-1991). In Procreation, he used the artist name Unholy Emperor, alongside David you could find Cristoffer Johnsson known from Swedish Metallers Therion, using the name Necro. Procreation made 2 demo tapes ("Enter the land of the dark forgotten souls of eternity" 1991 & "Procreation of the antichrist" 1990 and 2 live shows (both at Hunddagis, Handen 1 held in 1989 or 1990 no one really remembers and 2nd show being held on February 23rd 1991 to celebrate David's 16th birthday) with various Therion members filling in on the empty slots.
David formed Opeth with some friends from Täby in 1990. Long-time friend Mikael Åkerfeldt was in a band called Eruption, but he could see it wasn't going to play out like he had hoped. One day David invited him to play bass for Opeth and he accepted the offer. When he came to the rehearsal, however, none of the other members of the band knew Mikael was coming and they didn't want to kick out the bass player they already had. The ensuing argument played out with all the members of Opeth (aside from David) leaving. They renamed themselves Crowley and released a demo tape called "The Gate" in 1991.
David remained with Opeth until 1992, when he left citing creative differences. His duties as lead singer were taken up by Åkerfeldt.
David Isberg continued his musical career with electronic project Grooveza (later Grooveza/Fuzz), death metal band Mynjun & today to be found in experimental David Isberg & The Stockholm War Ensemble as well as Stockholm Death Metal band Tutorial together with Adam Skogvards of Mynjun.
David Isberg is also known as DJ Dake, having a successful DJ career with independent and electronic music, often influenced by the magical Madchester scene. He also DJs old school heavy, thrash, speed & death meteal from the 80's at Club Rocks in Stockholm on a monthly basis.
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