Carnal Forge

Carnal Forge
Origin Sala, Västerås, Stockholm, Sweden
Genres Melodic death metal, thrash metal
Years active 1997–2011
Labels WAR Music, Relapse, Century Media, Candlelight
Associated acts Godsic, Soulbreach, Steel Attack, Construcdead
Website www.carnalforge.com
Members
Peter Tuthill
Lars Linden
Petri Kuusisto
Dino Medanhodzic
Chris Barkensjö
Past members
Stefan Westerberg
Jens C. Mortensen
Jari Kuusisto
Jonas Kjellgren
Johan Magnusson
Dennis Vestman

Carnal Forge are a Swedish band, best classified as thrash metal with some melodic death metal influences. The songs tend to be very fast and violent. Their name originates from a song on Carcass's album Heartwork.

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Biography

Formed in 1997 by Jari Kuusisto & Stefan Westerberg, Carnal Forge released its debut, "Who's Gonna Burn" (War Music), in 1998. After signing with Century Media in early 2000, the band released "Firedemon" later in the year.

Petri Kuusisto joined and the band would tour Europe supporting The Haunted and Nile and make the first of several prestigious festival appearances.

In 2001 Lars Linden joined just to the recordings of "Please... die!" (Linden making his debut with the band at the year's 2000 Decibel festival and Wacken Open Air). "The More You Suffer" (2003) and "Aren't You Dead Yet" (2004) would continue to see the band expand fan and worldwide sales base as well as touring in Europe, USA & Japan, playing a number of festivals (Sweden Rock Festival (SE), Metal Meltdown (USA), Fury Fest (FR), Pressure Fest (DE), Kaltenbach Open Air (A), Summer Breeze (DE), Fuck the Commerce (DE) Metal Fest URI (CH) etc. and releasing the live DVD "Destroy Live" recorded live in Kraków, Poland (2004).

Vocalist Jens C. Mortensen would join the band's ranks in late 2004. In early 2005, the band began work on new material and the first pre-prod recordings with Jens were made late 2005. In 2006 demos of all songs were made and in Oct the real recordings started.

In January 2007, the band signed to Candlelight Records. "Testify For My Victims" was released June 2007. Director Owe Lingvall (Village Road Film) has made two videos for the songs "Burning Eden" and "Numb (The Dead)". Both videos recorded in Umeå, Sweden in January 2007, and additional photage for "Numb" during the fall.

In November 2007 Jens and Jari both decided to part ways with Carnal Forge for personal reasons. Shortly after the replacements were found in Peter Tuthill (Vocals), and Dino Medanhodzic (Guitar). Peter Tuthill released 2 albums with Construcdead prior to joining Carnal Forge. Dino Medanhodzic has released one album with Soulbreach and is also a well reputated album producer as well as video director.

On the 27 of September 2009 Carnal Forge released the first song with the new line up. The song is called "Blood War". Blood War is written, recorded & produced by Carnal Forge in their own studio in Sala and mixed by Dino Medanhodzic.

In Jan 2010 Stefan Westerberg left the band and was replaced by Chris Barkensjö.

The video for Blood War was released in June 2010. This was Stefan Westerbergs last appearance with the band.

After the Rock Weekend Festival 2010, the band took a break and some of the members has been working on side projects.

At the moment Carnal Forge is writing new material and working on pre-productions for the next album.

Discography

Title Release date Label
Sweet Bride 1997 Demo
Who's Gonna Burn September 22, 1998 WAR Music/Relapse Records
Firedemon November 14, 2000 Century Media
Please... Die! October 22, 2001 Century Media
The More You Suffer April 22, 2003 Century Media
Aren't You Dead Yet? June 21, 2004 Century Media
Testify for My Victims May 21, 2007 Candlelight Records

Videography

Title Release date Label
Destroy Live 2004 Metal Mind Productions

Line-up

Current members

Former members

References

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