Cat Rapes Dog is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 electropunk-, ebm

Electronic body music

Electronic body music or industrial dance is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music...

- and heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band, formed in 1984 by Joel Rydström and Magnus Fransson.

History

Cat Rapes Dog started out in the mid 80s with some demo releases. and made their debut with the EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 "Columna Vertebralis" in 1989, becoming the first hard Swedish electronic act.
Annelie Bertilsson joined the band for their 12" "Fundamental" in 1990 and soon became a regular member of the group. The group reached a peak with their "Moosehair Underwear" which was mostly mixed and mastered by Jürgen Engler and Chris Lietz at Atom H (Die Krupps

Die Krupps

Die Krupps is a German industrial rock/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf.-History:Their initial sound throughout the 1980s combined synthesizers with metallic percussion...

 HQ).

During the creation of the follow-up album "Biodegradable" in 1995 the band went through some turmoil when singer Joel quit unexpectedly. They were in the process of integrating Laszlo Hago as their new lead vocalist but he did not work out, thus the band went on hiatus for a few years. "Biodegradable" saw the arrival of guitarist Jonas Awertoft that has become more or less a regular member of the band since then. An EP called "Fuck Nature" was released with more unreleased tracks from the "Biodegradable"-era (thus still including some of the vocal work of Joel).

In 1998 the band returned with a new regular singer John Wreibo Lindqwister and the album "The Secrets Of God". Gone were much of the distorted vocals but the guitars made their appearance well noted still. They soon followed up this album with the album "People As Prey" in 1999. The band continued touring to support these two last albums.

Albums

• Cat Rapes Dog (1986, MC)
• Nekronomikon (1987, MC)
• Property Produces Bodily Injury (1987, MC)
• Maximum Overdrive (1989)
• God, Guns & Gasoline (1990)
• Superluminal (1991)
• Schizophrenia (1993)
• Moosehair Underwear (1993)
• Biodegradable (1995)
• Fuck Nature (1995)
• More Than You Bargained For (1995)
• The Secrets of God (1998)
• People As Prey (1999)

Singles and EPs

• Columna Vertebralis (1989)
• Down & Out (1998)
• American Dream 7" (1990)
• Chuckahomo Bridge 12" (1990)
• Fundamental 12" (1990)
• Madman / True Love 7" (1990)
• I Sometimes Wish I Was Famous (1991) (A Swedish Depeche Mode cover album: CRD collaborates with one track: "Something to Do" in which they altered some of the lyrics.)
• The Banzai Beats (1991)
• Superluminal (1991)
• Trojan Whores (1992)
• Moosewear (1993)
• Nej till EU (1994)
• Sucking Dry (1994)
• Motörhead Tribute (1995)
• Motorman (1998)
• Workers of The World (1998)
• Miaow at the Moon (2003)