Morgana Lefay

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Morgana Lefay
Origin Sweden
Genre(s) Progressive metal
Heavy metal
Thrash metal
Power metal
Years active 1986-present
Label(s) Black Mark Records
Noise Records

Morgana Lefay (known as "Damage" from 1986 until 1989) is a power/thrash metal band from the town Bollnäs in Sweden. Sounding like a mixture of bands such as Savatage, Pantera and Iron Maiden with the crunch of early Metallica albums. It is named after Morgan Le Fay of the Arthurian cycle.

In 1997, Morgana Lefay split up. Persson, Heder and Soderling kept the name, but changed style completely. In 1999, a self-titled album was made with Thomas Persson on guitar, featuring traditional hard rock sound. This album is not recognized as a "real" Morgana Lefay album by the present incarnation of band.

Meantime, Rytkönen and Eriksson were joined by members from Fantasmagoria, and continued under the name Lefay, changing record label to Noise Records. After releasing three albums, they got back the name Morgana Lefay when they returned to Black Mark Records. The albums "The Seventh Seal", "Symphony Of The Damned, re-symphonised" and "S.O.S" was made when the band was called Lefay.

In beginning of May, 2006 drummer Robin Engström surprisingly quit the band because of "personal differences." Later that month, a Pelle Åkerlind became the new permanent drummer.

In late August 2006 the band went into Studio Soundcreation to record a new album (titled "Aberrations Of The Mind"), it was released on March 19th, 2007. First album with Pelle on drums. Since autumn 2007 it has been complete silence from the band, not because of any split-up or that the band is "dead" as some has claimed. They are just taking it easy and slowly working on new songs. There's just no direct plans for any activity at the moment though.

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[edit] Current line-up

  • Charles Rytkönen - Vocals (1989 -)
  • Tony Eriksson - Guitars (1989 -)
  • Peter Grehn - Guitars & Backing vocals (1998 -)
  • Fredrik Lundberg - Bass & Backing vocals (2003 -)
  • Pelle Åkerlind - Drums (2006 -)

[edit] Former members

  • Stefan Jonsson - Guitars (1986-1989)
  • Tommi Karppanen - Guitars (1989-1994)
  • Daniel Persson - Guitars (1994-1997)
  • Joakim Lundberg - Bass (1986-1991)
  • Joakim Heder - Bass (1991-1997)
  • Micke Åsentorp - Bass [The Lefay-years] (1997-2003)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio Albums

Title Released Label
Symphony of the Damned 1990 Self Released
Knowing Just as I 1993 Black Mark Records
The Secret Doctrine 1993 Black Mark Records
Sanctified 1995 Black Mark Records
Maleficium 1996 Black Mark Records
The Seventh Seal 1999 Noise Records
Symphony of the Damned, re-symphonised 1999 Noise Records
...---... (S.O.S) 2000 Noise Records
Grand Materia 2005 Black Mark Records
Aberrations Of The Mind 2007 Black Mark Records

[edit] Singles

Title Released Label
Over And Over Again 2007 Black Mark Records

[edit] Compilations

Title Released Label
Past, Present, Future 1995 Black Mark Records
Fata Morgana 1998 Black Mark Records

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