Morbid (band)

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[edit] Biography

Morbid was a thrash/death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in early 1987. With Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin as the group's founder and mastermind, they had a revolving door of members before settling on the line-up of John "John Lennart" Hagström and "TG" on guitars, Jens Näsström on bass and Lars-Göran Petrov on drums. When "TG" left the band, Ulf Cederlund took over. The band recorded their debut demo, December Moon, at Thunderload Studios in Stockholm on December 5-6th, 1987. This was the only recording featuring this line-up, as Hagström quit and Ohlin left for Norway to join the legendary black metal band Mayhem. The remains of the band tried to carry on, and brought in photographer Johan Scarisbrick as a new vocalist. Scariscbrick happened to live near a recording studio named Sunlight, which would later gain some notoriety in death metal circles, recording bands like Entombed and Dismember. It was there that the band recorded their swan song, another demo entitled The Last Supper, in September 1988. The band faded, as Petrov and Cederlund started Nihilist, which eventually turned into Entombed. Näsström later contiuned in the bands Contras and Skull.

Although Morbid only officially released those two demos, they gained a certain cult-status after their demise, most likely due at least in part to Ohlin's efforts with Mayhem, and the fact that he committed suicide in 1991. Both the demo-recordings and various live/rehearsal tracks have later made it onto vinyl and CD, on both official and bootleg releases.

[edit] Discography

Live From the Past (Rehearsal), 1987
Dark Execution (Rehearsal), 1987
December Moon (Demo), 1987
Last Supper (Demo), 1988
December Moon (12"), 1994
A Tribute to the Black Emperors (CD, bootleg), 1994
Death Execution (Bootleg), 1996
Death Executions II (Bootleg, Holycaust Records), 1997
Live from the Past (Bootleg, 1997)
Defiants of the Church (MC, bootleg, DEAD Productions), 1998
My Dark Subconcious (flexi 6", Russian pressing), 2000
Death Execution III (7", Reaper Records), 2001
Live in Stockholm (LP, Reaper Records), 2002

[edit] References

Ekeroth, Daniel (2007). Swedish Death Metal. Tamara Press. ISBN 919743342X.