The Great Deceiver

When formidable, critically acclaimed, intensely influential Swedish melodic death metal troupe and Earache saving artist On the Gates made a decision to contact it a trip to the very best of their video game, three of its members quickly formed the Haunted. But that which was still unclear was to whom vocalist Tomas Lindberg would following give his throaty growls. The response to that query arrived in 1998 with the forming of the fantastic Deceiver, a metallic quintet that treads a streamlined, hardcore route sharing a larger similarity towards the Haunted’s Pantera-styled experience than In the Gates’ even more typically metal-oriented melodic savagery. The band’s audio is brutal, nevertheless, using its pounding rhythms, bone-rattling riffage, abrasive eagerness, and breakneck speed. A Metallic Hammer scribe likened the fantastic Deceiver’s audio to Sepultura’s landmark Origins album “matches Neurosis,” which could very well be no inaccurate explanation of what these Swedes perform. THE FANTASTIC Deceiver’s first documented function — the Aircraft Black Artwork mini-CD/10″ EP — surfaced in European countries on Swedish indie Bridge Information before it had been certified in 2000 from the even more typically hardcore-oriented Trustkill in america. First drummer Hans Nilsson remaining the fantastic Deceiver soon after the EP’s conclusion, producing the lineup contain his alternative Kalle Anderson, Lindberg, bassist Matti Lundell, as well as the dual acoustic guitar/songwriting group of Johan Osterberg and Kristian Wahlin. The music group commenced writing materials for their 1st full-length album soon thereafter, halting for a while as Lindberg lent his vocal skills to metallic supergroup SECURE on tour following the band’s vocalist stop to spotlight other projects. Furthermore to SECURE (an outfit which has included people of Napalm Loss of life and Dimmu Borgir, with one stage Hypocrisy), Lindberg was following noticed fronting a music group known as the Crown. In interviews in past due 2001, Lindberg remarked that the fantastic Deceiver was still heading solid, despite his participation in other rings. And actually, the band’s following record, A Venom SMARTLY DESIGNED, surfaced in middle-2002 via Peaceville, implemented in nov 2003 by Terra Incognito. THE FANTASTIC Deceiver agreed upon with Massachusetts-based Deathwish Inc the springtime 2007 and readied their label debut, Lifestyle Is Wasted over the Living, for discharge that August.