Skitsystem (; "Fucking System" or "Fucking Society", literally "Shit System") is a Swedish
crust punk
Crust punk (also known as crust or stenchcore) is a form of music influenced by English punk rock and extreme metal. The style, which evolved in the early 1980s in England, often has songs with dark and pessimistic lyrics that linger on politic ...
band formed in early 1994. Their sound was heavily influenced by
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, fe ...
and
D-beat. The band members originally came from different death metal bands, bonding over a common interest in D-beat.
Initially the group was a side-project of two members of
At the Gates
At the Gates is a Swedish death metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. The band was a major progenitor of Gothenburg-style melodic death metal alongside In Flames and Dark Tranquillity. Prior to their first disbandment in 1996, At the ...
.
The band announced in December 2007 that they were on indefinite hiatus.
In November 2009, Skitsystem announced plans to play two shows in
Gothenburg in late February 2010, with possibly more to follow.
Fredrik Wallenberg cites the group's initial influences as
Anti Cimex, Asocial,
Discharge
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Expel or let go
* Discharge, the act of firing a gun
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,
Doom and
Disrupt.
Band members
;Current
* Fredrik Wallenberg – guitar, vocals
(1994–present) (The Lurking Fear)
* Karl "Kalle" Persson – drums
(1997–present) (Dispense)
*
Martin Larsson – bass
(2010–present) ( Agrimonia, At the Gates
At the Gates is a Swedish death metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. The band was a major progenitor of Gothenburg-style melodic death metal alongside In Flames and Dark Tranquillity. Prior to their first disbandment in 1996, At the ...
, House of Usher, Macrodex, ex-Bombs of Hades)
*
Andreas Axelsson – guitar
(2019–present) ( Disfear, The Deadbeats, Tormented, ex-Infestdead, ex-Total Terror, ex-Marduk
Marduk (Cuneiform: dAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: ''amar utu.k'' "calf of the sun; solar calf"; ) was a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon. When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time o ...
, ex-Necronaut, ex- Edge of Sanity, ex-Incapacity, ex-The Dontcares, ex-Tortyr)
;Former
* Alex Höglind – bass, vocals
(1994–2010) (Golden Silver, Straight Edge My Ass)
*
Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg – guitar, vocals
(1994–2004) (At The Gates, Sign of Cain, The Lurking Fear, ex-Grotesque, ex-Infestation, Ben-Hur, Disfear, The Great Deceiver, ex- Lock Up, ex- Nightrage, ex-The Crown
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, ex-Necronaut, ex-Liers in Wait, ex-Sacrilege, ex-Conquest, ex-Hide, ex-Snotrocket, ex-World Without End)
*
Adrian Erlandsson – drums
(1994–1997) (The Haunted, The Lurking Fear, ex-Decameron, ex-H.E.A.L., ex-Needleye, ex-Terror, Nemhain, ex- Brujeria, ex- Cradle of Filth, ex-Netherbird, ex-Nifelheim, ex-Paradise Lost
''Paradise Lost'' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674 ...
, ex-Riket, ex-Samsas Traum, ex-12 Ton Method, ex-Tenet, ex-Vallenfyre, ex-Hyperhug, ex-Penance (Swe), ex-Deathstars)
* Mikael "Micke" Kjellman – guitar, vocals
(2003–2019) (Martyrdöd, Sanctuary in Blasphemy, ex-Neolithium, ex-Zonetripper)
Discography
Albums
* 1999 – ''Grå Värld / Svarta Tankar'' LP/CD
* 2001 – ''Enkel Resa Till Rännstenen'' LP/CD
* 2006 – ''Stigmata'' LP/CD
EPs
* 1995 – ''Profithysteri 7-inch, Profithysteri'' 7-inch
* 1996 – ''Ondskans Ansikte'' 10-inch
* 2003 – ''Allt E Skit''
Split albums
* 1997 – ''Levande Lik'' 7-inch (split with
Wolfpack)
* 2002 – ''Det tunga missbrukets karga ingenmansland/Det eviga hatet'' 7-inch (split with
Nasum)
* 2006 – split 7-inch with Cyness
References
External links
Official website(archived)
Swedish crust and d-beat groups
Musical groups from Gothenburg
Musical groups established in 1994
Swedish death metal musical groups
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