Emperor Magus Caligula (born Magnus Carl "Masse" Broberg, 23 May 1973)Masse's myspace
is a Swedish

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musician best known as the former vocalist, bassist and lyricist of Swedish

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band

Dark Funeral Dark Funeral is a Swedish black metal band from Stockholm, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They emerged during the second wave of black metal. Their lyrical themes have traditionally pertained to Satanism and anti ...

, performing for the band between 1995 and 2010. He has also been the vocalist of

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bands

Demonoid Demonoid is a BitTorrent tracker and website founded in 2003 to facilitate file sharing, file-sharing–related discussion and provide a searchable index of torrent files. The site underwent intermittent periods of extended downtime in its his ...

, replacing

Christofer Johnsson Christofer Jan Johnsson (born 10 August 1972) is a Swedish musician and producer. He is a founding member and the guitarist for symphonic metal band Therion and was previously a member of Carbonized, Liers in Wait, Messiah, and Demonoid. In ...

, and

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. He was the original vocalist for

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and has featured in other extreme metal bands including Dominion-Caligula (with former Dark Funeral secondary guitarist Dominion) and God Among Insects. He has also performed backing vocals for the Swedish black metal band Sportlov. In July 2011,

Witchery Witchery is a Swedish blackened thrash/speed metal band formed by former members of Satanic Slaughter in 1997. The current lineup consists of guitarists Patrik Jensen and Rickard "Rille" Rimfält, bassist Sharlee D'Angelo, vocalist Angus Norde ...

announced Caligula was joining the band, replacing Legion. In 2016, he departed Witchery due to hearing issues.

Early life

Broberg was born in

Ludvika Ludvika () is a bimunicipal Urban areas in Sweden, city and the seat of Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County within the country of Sweden, with 14,498 inhabitants in 2010. Overview The conurbation of Ludvika extends over the border of Smedjebacke ...

Beliefs

Caligula is a practitioner of

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, and while he has on one hand distanced himself from

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, like many other black metal musicians, he has generally assumed an apolitical stance, although he expressed disdain for former

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leader

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, with his audience when playing live. He has also denounced

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priests due to widespread child molestation allegations.YouTube – Dark Funeral – Interview (Episode 276)
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Gazziero murder controversy

Caligula was quoted as being "somewhat impressed" by the premeditated murder of Fr. Faustino Gazziero, a Catholic priest, by Dark Funeral fan Rodrigo Orias at the Metropolitan Cathedral in

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, further stating that "He deserves some credit. You're not supposed to say that, but I don't care."DARK FUNERAL Vocalist Says He Was 'Somewhat Impressed' By Fan's Murder Of Chilean Priest
Although he suggested the possibility that "the music triggered him somehow," he denied Dark Funeral's music being the direct cause of Orias' murder of Gazziero. Caligula also recalled having met Orias at a Dark Funeral concert in 2003, where he burnt a cross on Orias' arm at his request with a Cuban cigar.

Film

Caligula made an appearance in the Swedish zombie film Die Zombiejäger, playing a humorous part of a

necrophile Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction or acts involving corpses. It is classified as a paraphilia by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its ''International ...

. Dark Funeral also provided two songs for the film, ''Godhate'', which is played during the film's opening credits and ''Thus I Have Spoken'', which is played during a fight scene.

Discography

Dark Funeral

Sanctification

* ''Black Reign''

God Among Insects

Studio releases

* ''World Wide Death'' (2004) * ''Zombienomicon'' (2006)

Dominion Caligula

Studio releases

* ''A New Era Rises'' (2000)

Hypocrisy

* '' Penetralia'' (1992) * '' Osculum Obscenum'' (1993) * '' Pleasure of Molestation'' (1993)

The Project Hate

* ''Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Caligula, Emperor Magus 1973 births Living people English-language singers from Sweden People from Ludvika Black metal musicians Swedish death metal musicians Swedish Satanists Swedish heavy metal singers Dark Funeral members Black metal singers Hypocrisy (band) members Witchery members Demonoid (band) members Musicians from Dalarna County

Early life

Beliefs

Gazziero murder controversy

Film

Discography

Dark Funeral

Studio releases

Live releases

Video albums

Sanctification

God Among Insects

Studio releases

Dominion Caligula

Studio releases

Hypocrisy

The Project Hate

References