Dissection was formed in 1989 by guitarist/vocalist Jon Nödveidt and bass player Peter Palmdahl. Earlier they played in a thrash metal band called Siren´s Yell, a band existing between 1987 and 1989.
They started writing songs and in the spring of 1990 drummer Ole Öhman joined the band. In
1990 they released their first demo called "The Grief Prophecy" and a little later they signed
a deal with the French Corpsegrinder Records to release a 7" EP called "Into Infinite Obscurity"
in 1991. In the beginning of 1992 they recorded their second demo called "The Somberlain"
which helped them sign a one album deal with Swedish No Fashion Records. They now recorded
their debut album called "The Somberlain" like the demo. Because of delays and label problems
it wasn´t released until December 1993. The album was engineered by famous musician/producer
Dan Swanö and it was dedicated to Euronymous of Mayhem, a good friend of the band. The guy who ran No Fashion had signed too many bands
and therefore he got himself into financial problems and delays. About the same time that
the debut album was released he sold the company to the major Swedish metal distributor
House Of Kicks. House Of Kicks didn´t give the album any promotion at all but still about
8000 copies were sold.
In 1995 guitarist John Zweetslot had to leave the band which was a big setback since he was an
important song-writer. He was getting lazy and didn´t bother coming to the rehearsals so
there was no other way to go. John almost immediately started a new band called Cardinal
Sin together with former members of the Swedish black metal band Marduk. The new guitarist
was Johan Norman, a long time friend of the band. In July 1997 Jon Mödveidt and a guy named
Vlad killed a 37-year old homosexual Algerian named Josef Ben Maddour and on the 7th of July
Jon was sentenced to 8 years in prison and Vlad to 10 years. Vlad was also wanted for
another murder and mutilation of a teenage girl but I don´t know if he was convicted for
this. In October 1998 German major label Nuclear Blast signed Johan Norman's new band Reaper, later
renamed Soulreaper.
In early January 2006 it was announced that the band were going to release their new album "Reinkaos" through their own label Black Horizon Music.
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