Loading details…
Artist
Embracing
12+ albums
Melodic Death Metalswedisholdschool melodic death metalOld School Melodic Death MetalProgressive metal
about
In the fall of 1992 five friends wanted to start a band and play brutal music like: Unleashed, Hypocrisy, My dying bride, Dismember & Bolt Thrower. They named the band BEYOND and the line-up of members was: Vocals: Henrik Nygren, Guitar: André Nylund, Guitar: Johan Westerlund, Bass: Peter Lundberg, Drums: Mattias Holmgren. About two years after the creation of BEYOND they changed their name to MISHRAK and recorded their first demo called "Of beauty found in deep caverns". The music was a great mix between heavy parts and more brutal deathmetal with alot of double-bass drumming. And Henriks deep vocals added a horrifying ambience to the overall chaos. "...After we had recorded the demo we decided not to release it officially, because we didn't get the specific sound we was after at the time..." So the demo was never released, even though some of the songs were of great quality. The following months after the demo recording MISHRAK made some local live gigs while trying to figure out how to evolve the sound and break into new grounds. In the year of 1994 NAGLFAR wanted Mattias to join their band as a drummer, and so he did. After Mattias had been into the studio with NAGLFAR and recording "Vittra" he realised that he wasn't allowed to contribute with alot of music for NAGLFAR and thereby decided to leave them and continute work with the debute album of his own band MISHRAK instead. When things started to get serious with the band Peter Lundberg left MISHRAK because he wasn
