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Vicious art

Vicious ArtVicious Art started up in 2002. Matti Mäkelä (Guitar) and Robert Lundin (Drums), who both used to be in Dark Funeral, was joined by long time friends and fellow-musicians Jocke Widfeldt (Vocals) (Dominion Caligula, Obscurity Sthlm) and Tobbe Sillman (Guitar) (Guidance of Sin, The dead). After a while Jocke felt ’tied up’ handling both the vocals and the bass (you will understand why when you see him live) and so the band decided to start looking for a permanent bass-player.

In early 2004 the band finally got in touch with Jörgen Sandström (Grave, Entombed, Project Hate MCMXCIX, Krux) and right from the start, during their first rehearsal together, everybody knew that this was going to be a classic collaboration. Not only did Jörgen bring great bass-playing and backing vocals, he also takes part in the songwriting which without a doubt contributes to making the music what it is: Sensational and brilliant pieces of work (Art !)

In late 2003 Vicious Art released their first and only demo. Soon thereafter they hooked up with Threeman Recordings and spent the better part of spring and summer 2004 writing material for the debut album ’Fire falls and the waiting waters’. This album was recorded in August at Off Beat Studio in Stockholm and will be released in late October.

With the intense blastbeat-riffing combined with heavy and -for lack of better words- ’melodic dark’ parts together with the aggressiveness of the vocals, the works just smashes through the listener, one after the other. The lyrics are very diverse and deals with topics such as the darker sides of relationships, suicide, ’the undead ones’ and so forth.. There is certainly a depth and power behind their music.

Official site: www.viciousart.se.