Birdflesh is a Swedish

Sweden

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 extreme metal

Extreme metal

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/grindcore

Grindcore

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 band, formed in 1992. The lyrics, members' alter ego

Alter ego

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s, and stage outfits focus on the humorous and absurd. Birdflesh have released four full-length albums and a multitude of split album

Split album

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s and demos.
Founding member Magnus Roos quit the band after moving to Stockholm and joined pop/rock band Melody Club

Melody Club

Melody Club is a Swedish pop/synth rock band from Växjö formed in January 2000. Their break-through came in 2002 with the song Palace Station, which was also a big success in Germany. The band has frequent radio airplay in Sweden, Germany, Japan, Norway and Denmark.Melody Club's style can be...

 after the release of Alive Autopsy.

Current line-up

• Smattro Ansjovis - drums
  Drum kit
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  , vocals (Dethronement, Sayyadina, General Surgery
  General Surgery (band)
  General Surgery is a Swedish goregrind group, known as one of the earliest Carcass clones. Their 1991 debut, Necrology, was released by Relapse Records and would be General Surgery's only material released until 2001, when the group recorded one track for the Carcass tribute album, Requiems of...
  
  , Jigsore Terror)
• Achmed Abdulex - guitar
  Guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Panda Flamenco - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , backing vocals

Former members

• Hampus Klang "Barbro Havohej" - bass guitar, backing vocals (Jigsore Terror, Bullet, Hypnosia)
• Magnus Roos "Moshbastard" - bass, vocals (Melody Club
  Melody Club
  Melody Club is a Swedish pop/synth rock band from Växjö formed in January 2000. Their break-through came in 2002 with the song Palace Station, which was also a big success in Germany. The band has frequent radio airplay in Sweden, Germany, Japan, Norway and Denmark.Melody Club's style can be...
  
  )

Demos

• The Butcherbitchtape (1994)
• Demo of Hell (1995)
• Fishfucked (1997)
• We Were 7 Who 8 Our Neighbors on A Plate (1998)
• Killing Rosenkeller (2004)
• Happy Fun Sumo Sandwich (2007)

Studio Albums

• Alive Autopsy (2001)
• Night of the Ultimate Mosh
  Night of the Ultimate Mosh
  Night of the Ultimate Mosh is a Grindcore 2002 album from Birdflesh.The title track is about a Samantha Fox concert.-Track listing:#"Coffinfucker" - 01:33#"Master of Violence" - 01:32#"Gore In Gore Out" - 02:04#"Arabian Psycho" - 00:30...
  
   (2002)
• Mongo Musicale (2006)
• The Farmer's Wrath (2008)

Split Albums

• Misery of The Defenseless - Birdflesh / Carcass Grinder (1999)
• Morbid Jesus / Wo-Man?! - Birdflesh / Squash Bowels (1999)
• The Dead / Birdflesh (2001)
• Catbomb - Birdflesh / The Kill (2003)
• My Flesh Creeps At Insects / Death Metal Karaoke - Embalming Theatre / Birdflesh (2004)
• Time To Face Extinction - Birdflesh / Catheter (2004)
• In Swamps You Rot / Taste of the Sun - Splatterhouse / Birdflesh (2005)
• The Thing that Should Not Beak - Birdflesh / Hatebeak
  Hatebeak
  Hatebeak is a death metal band, formed by Blake Harrison, Mark Sloan and Waldo, a 19 year old Congo African Grey Parrot. The band members do not use their last names on their releases "for the mystery." Hatebeak is unique in that they are the only band to feature a parrot on vocals...
  
  (2007)