Comecon was 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....

 death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 project founded in 1990. The band consisted of two guitarists, a drum computer and a session singer; a different one on each album. The debut album featured the Swede Lars Göran Petrov

Lars Göran Petrov

Lars Göran Petrov, better known simply as LG Petrov, is a Swedish singer of Macedonian background , born 17 February 1972. He is best known for his work with the band Entombed. In 1991 he was forced to quit Entombed, due to personal problems. He then did the vocals for Comecon's debut album...

, who was then dismissed from Entombed

Entombed (band)

Entombed is a Swedish death metal band which formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist. Though Entombed began their career as an early pioneer of Scandinavian death metal which initially differed itself from its American counterpart with its distinct guitar tone, by the early 1990s their sound had...

. Their second album was sung by Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

man Martin van Drunen

Martin van Drunen

Martin van Drunen is a Dutch death metal vocalist, who started out in the band Pestilence. In this band, he also performed the bass duties live. He recorded two albums with them, Malleus Maleficarum and Consuming Impulse. After his departure from Pestilence, he joined Asphyx as the singer and bass...

 (Asphyx

Asphyx

Asphyx is a Dutch death/doom band that was formed in Overijssel in 1987.-Biography:The band was formed in 1987 by Bob Bagchus and Tonny Brookhuis. Eric Daniels was found as a second guitarist and Chuck Colli joined on vocals and bass guitar; this line up released the Enter the Domain demo...

). German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 Marc Grewe, from Morgoth

Morgoth (band)

Morgoth is a German death metal band that was formed in 1985 by Rüdiger Hennecke and Carsten Otterbach in Meschede. Originally the name Cadaverous Smell was used and the band played grindcore / noise style. When Harry Busse joined the band they renamed themselves to "Minas Morgul". In 1985 the band...

 handled the vocals on their final album. All three albums were produced by Tomas Skogsberg.

Discography

• Split album with Merciless
  Merciless
  Merciless is a Swedish death/thrash metal band. The band was formed during the summer of 1986 in Strängnäs, Sweden by Erik Wallin Fredrik Karlén and Stefan Carlsson . They were inspired of the early fast-playing bands such as Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Bathory...
  
   (1991)
• Megatrends in Brutality
  Megatrends in Brutality
  Megatrends in Brutality is the debut album of the Swedish death metal band Comecon. It was released in 1992 on Century Media Records. Contrary to the album credits, the drums were recorded using a drum computer; Anders Green who is listed as a drummer does not exist. The photograph shows an...
  
  (1992)
• Converging Conspiracies
  Converging Conspiracies
  Converging Conspiracies is the second album by the Swedish death metal band Comecon. It was released in 1993 on Century Media records. Contrary to the album credits, the drums were recorded using a drum computer; Fredrik Pålsson who is listed as a drummer does not exist. The photograph shows an...
  
  (1993)
• Fable Frolic
  Fable Frolic
  Fable Frolic is the third and final album by the Swedish death metal band Comecon. It was released in 1995 on Century Media records. Contrary to the album credits, the drums were recorded using a drum computer; Jonas Fredriksson who is listed as a drummer does not exist...
  
  (1995)

Members

• Rasmus Ekman - Guitar, bass
• Pelle Ström - Guitar, bass
• Lars Göran Petrov
  Lars Göran Petrov
  Lars Göran Petrov, better known simply as LG Petrov, is a Swedish singer of Macedonian background , born 17 February 1972. He is best known for his work with the band Entombed. In 1991 he was forced to quit Entombed, due to personal problems. He then did the vocals for Comecon's debut album...
  
   - Vocals (1992)
• Martin van Drunen
  Martin van Drunen
  Martin van Drunen is a Dutch death metal vocalist, who started out in the band Pestilence. In this band, he also performed the bass duties live. He recorded two albums with them, Malleus Maleficarum and Consuming Impulse. After his departure from Pestilence, he joined Asphyx as the singer and bass...
  
   - Vocals (1993)
• Marc Grewe - Vocals (1995)

External links

• Band website
• [ Comecon] at Allmusic
• Comecon at MusicMight
  MusicMight
  MusicMight, formerly Rockdetector is a rock music website which provides artist and product information through a global website and an ongoing book series...