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SWORDMASTER
CURRENT NAME	Swordmaster
FORMER NAMES	-
ORIGIN	Göteborg, Västra Götalands Län, Sweden
STATUS	Disbanded (since 2000)
FORMED IN	1993
GENRE	Black metal; Death metal
STYLE	-
LYRICAL THEME	-
BAND ADDED	2002-07-02, 00:00
LAST UPDATE	2008-02-04, 02:28

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In the summer of 1993 a band called Swordmaster was formed during a wild metal party in Gothenburg, Sweden. After the usual line-up problems they signed a deal with Florida based label Full Moon Productions and recorded their mini album "Wraths Of Time" in the spring of 1995. In 1996 they signed a new deal with the French label Osmose Productions. In January 2000 the band played a show at Kafé 44 in Stockholm together with Merciless where they gained attention from the label LED Recordings (Hellacopters a.o.), a label backed up by Universal. The band signed a new deal and changed musical direction completely, from brutal black / death metal to a black form of industrial metal. They also changed their name to Deathstars. The drummer Nicklas Rudolfsson didn't want to take part in this and therefore left the sticks to the former Dissection batterist Ole Öhman.

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Ole Öhman	1995-1995	Drums	See also Deathstars, Dissection, Haunted, The, Ophthalamia
Tobias Kjellgren	-1995	Drums	See also Decameron, Dissection, In Flames, Nifelheim, Nocrofobic, Satanized, Seventh One, Soulreaper, Wolf
Emil Nödtveidt	1993-2000	Guitars	See also Deathstars, Dissection, Ophthalamia
Andreas Bergh	1993-2000	Vocals	See also Deathstars
Nicklas Rudolfsson	1996-2000	Drums	See also Deathwitch, Dracena, Lord Belial, Oderu, Runemagick, Sacramentum
Erik Halvorsen	1998-2000	Guitars	See also Deathstars
Mattias Eliasson	-1995-	Bass	See also Soulreaper

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Buy Swordmaster albums

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1995	Wraths Of Time 7.5 / 10 Read our review here	Full Moon Productions
1997	Postmortem Tales	Osmose Productions
1997	Death Rider 2000	Osmose Productions
1999	Moribund Transgoria	Osmose Productions

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