Max Thornell (born 1970) is a
Swedish
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musician
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, most widely recognized as the drummer of Swedish
death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, feat ...
band
Hearse
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.
Hearse: Max Thornell
, accessed 2010-05-28 Also with Johan Liiva
Johan Patrik Mattias Liiva (born 18 November 1970) is a Swedish extreme metal vocalist, most widely recognized as the founding vocalist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as a former member of Carnage, Furbowl and NonExist. He is ...
from Hearse, he played drums
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, keyboards and performed some backing vocals
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in early 90s death metal band Furbowl. The other Max's band is Swedish thrash metal
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, 2007, . ...
band Satanarchy.
Discography
Furbowl
* Those Shredded Dreams (1992)
* The Autumn Years (1994)
Satanarchy
* Disgraceful World (2002)
Hearse
* '' Dominion Reptilian'' (2003)
* ''Armageddon, Mon Amour
''Armageddon, Mon Amour'' is the second album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Hearse
A hearse is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceas ...
'' (2004)
* ''The Last Ordeal
''The Last Ordeal'' is the third album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Hearse
A hearse is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased perso ...
'' (2005)
* ''In These Veins
''In These Veins'' is the 4th album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Hearse.
Track listing
# "House of Love" - 06:07
# "Corroding Armor" - 05:07
# "Intoxication" - 03:28
# "Naked Truth" - 04:04
# "Crusade" - 02:56
# "Among The Forlorn" ...
'' (2006)
References
External links
Max Thornell
at MySpace
1970 births
Musicians from Stockholm
Swedish heavy metal drummers
Living people
21st-century drummers
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