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Artist
Mefisto
12+ albums
black metalthrash metalspeed metaldeath metalold school black metal
about
There are at least three bands named Mefisto: a Swedish metal band, a Czechoslovakian surfbeat group and noise punk/hardcore band from Novi Sad, Serbia. 1. Mefisto, Sweden After Bathory, Mefisto must be considered Sweden’s oldest and most legendary death/black metal act. The first time their name appeared in a zine must have been in Slayer zine #3/4 1986 but the history goes back to years earlier. In 1984 at a northern suburb to Stockholm called Åkersberga the bass man and vocalist Sandro Cajander founded Torment together with a guitarist the name whom remains unknown. After some struggle a drummer was found in Roberto “Thord” Granath, but having that struggle sorted out, another struggle continued with the guitarist- Thus a big boot in the butt of the man and a long search for a new guitarist began, and while this went on. Sandro and Thord grew tired of their name. The name of the devil in the Dr. Faustus myth caught their eye but Mephistopheles felt too long, which was cut to Mefisto. A singer was also tried but he was not particularly fond of death metal, instead a guitarist turned up. Or rather, Mefisto turned up for Omar Ahmed one day when he was rehearsing and they were amazed by his playing. He did not immediately accept the offer to join Mefisto, but once his other band broke up he did so. He’d rather play “Total Death Concrete Magical Speed Warfare Metal” (as the style was described by Metalion) with these lunatics than not play at all. The first of the two demos
