VISCERAL BLEEDING
Founded in the late nineties by Peter Persson on Guitar and Niklas
Dewerud behind the Drums to perform what they thought was lacking
in the Swedish death scene. A mixture of raw brutality and
technical skill. With Calle Löfgren on Bass, Dennis Röndum on
vocals and Marcus Nilsson joining in as a solo guitarist they had
found the right mixture to play their extreme metal. The first demo
"Internal decomposition" was recorded at studio Moonshine fall 2000
and received only good reviews. Chris at Retribute Records picked
up on this and decided to sign the band and release a full-length
album with Visceral Bleeding. The album was called Remnants of
Deprivation and was recorded during three weeks of Nov-Dec 2001 in
Pama Studio in Kristianopel and Salt Island studio in Karlskrona
and was released in March 2002. Shortly after the CD was recorded
Niklas unfortunately had to depart from the band. He didn't feel he
had the time and commitment it took to continue as drummer and
wanted to dedicate his time and full attention to job as bass
player in Spawn of Possession.
Tobias "Rottenboy" Persson joined in as drummer shortly after
Niklas departure. After trying out for a wile V.B. decided to take
him in as a permanent member and there by making Visceral Bleeding
a complete band once again.
Remnants of Deprivation received great response from all over the
world and the reviews were overwhelming. Visceral Bleeding was at
this time picked up by Record label Neurotic Records and
immediately started to write, arrange and complete songs for what
was going to be the album "Transcend into Ferocity". Recorded,
mixed and mastered by Visceral Bleeding and Robert Ahrling in
studio Flat-pig - Malmö/Sweden during 3 weeks of Dec-Jan. Released
through Neurotic Records in May 2004.
Once again the reviews were overwhelming and Transcend into
Ferocity made sure to establish Visceral Bleeding as one of the
most extreme death metal bands out there. Following the release,
Dennis Röndum decided he could not continue focusing on two bands
without one of them being left behind. Realizing he could not give
100% to both, he decided to leave Visceral Bleeding to focus on his
main obsession - extreme drumming in one of the most extreme bands
ever to play Death metal: Spawn of Possession.
A replacement was found in Martin Pedersen who immediately joined
in and gave the band a breath of fresh air with his 120%
commitment, ambition and focus on the one goal: to further
establish the name Visceral Bleeding in the scene of extreme death
metal.
Touring all across Europe as support band to Re-united Obituary and
as main support to Death metal legends Deicide made sure to spread
the madness and create a devoted fan base. To further strengthen
their position in the genre, the band also did a headlining tour
throughout the UK during spring 2005.
During writing process of album number three Absorbing the
Disarray, lead guitarist Marcus Nilsson decided to take a step back
from the scene and in his place Martin "Germ" Bermheden was
introduced to the band. The album was recorded in June 2006, once
again using Studio FlatPig with Robert Ahrling as
technician/producer.
Directly following the recording Calle got married and had a
daughter, he therefore had to take a step back from the band for a
undetermined amount of time, filling his shoes in the band and
helping out with the recording of Absorbing the Disarray was Martin
"Body" Eklöv.
Visceral Bleeding kicked of the new line-up and Album release with
a five week European tour with Skinless / Cryptopsy directly
followed by a four week European tour with Deicide.