Nightrage
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Nightrage is a Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

/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....

 melodic death metal
Melodic death metal
Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...

 band formed by guitarist Marios Iliopoulos
Marios Iliopoulos
Marios Iliopoulos, born December 16, 1969 in Thessaloniki, Greece is an acclaimed Greek heavy metal guitarist and founder of the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band Nightrage, and a former member of Exhumation....

 and his close friend Gus G.
Gus G.
Kostas Karamitroudis aka Gus G., born September 12, 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece is a heavy metal guitarist. He currently plays with his band Firewind and Ozzy Osbourne...

 who later re-located to Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden
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....

.

Sweet Vengeance

Their first release, Sweet Vengeance
Sweet Vengeance
Sweet Vengeance is the debut full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on July 30, 2003. It features a bonus track "Gloomy Daydreams" which is a demo version from either their first or second demo which is only for...

, was released in 2003 and featured drummer Per Möller Jensen
Per Möller Jensen
Per Möller Jensen is a Danish drummer in the Swedish thrash metal band The Haunted. He has earlier played drums in Invocator, Konkhra and Nightrage.-References:...

 (The Haunted
The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...

), and bassist Brice Leclercq. They also managed to acquire the services of vocalist Tomas Lindberg
Tomas Lindberg
Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...

 (ex-At the Gates
At the Gates
At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...

). Sweet Vengeance also featured guest clean vocals on a few tracks by Tom S. Englund
Tom S. Englund
Tom S. Englund from Sweden currently plays guitar and sings lead vocals for the band Evergrey. He is married to Carina Englund, who does backing vocals in most of their albums.-Discography with Evergrey:* The Dark Discovery...

 of Evergrey
Evergrey
Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1995 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998. Their most recent album Glorious Collision was released in 2011.-Lyrical themes:...

 fame. The album is proceeded by their first ever video for the track "Gloomy Daydreams" on an earlier edit, with Gus G. on Vocals.

Descent into Chaos and end of the Lindberg & Gus G era

Their second release, Descent into Chaos
Descent into Chaos (Nightrage album)
Descent into Chaos is the second full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on 21 February 2005 in Europe, on 5 April 2005 in the US and by King Japan on 27 April 2005 in Japan...

, was released in 2005 and had a change of line up, with the addition of a more permanent rhythm section. Fotis Benardo (Septic Flesh
Septic Flesh
Septic Flesh is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, which was founded in 1990.- History :Septic Flesh was formed in March 1990 by Sotiris Vayenas , Spiros Antoniou , and Christos Antoniou , and quickly released a debut EP, Temple of the Lost Race in December 1991...

, ex-Innerwish
Innerwish
Innerwish is a power metal band from Greece, formed by guitarist Thimios Krikos and vocalist Yiannis Papanikolaou in 1995.- Current line-up :* Babis Alexandropoulos - Vocals * Thimios Krikos - Guitars * Manolis Tsigos - Guitars...

) took over on drums and Henric Carlsson, who also plays in the band Cipher System, on bass. Mikael Stanne
Mikael Stanne
Bengt Mikael Stanne is the vocalist for the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity and the ex-vocalist for Swedish power metal band HammerFall.-Dark Tranquillity:...

, of Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene, and are one of the most integral pioneers of the melodic death metal genre of music....

, provided a clean vocal section on the track "Frozen." Tomas Lindberg left the band so that a more full-time vocalist could accompany them on tours and studio albums. Jimmie Strimell (Deathdestruction) was chosen.

When Gus G. was performing with Arch Enemy at Ozzfest
Ozzfest
Ozzfest is an annual festival tour of the United States featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. It was founded by Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne, both of whom also organize each yearly tour with their son Jack Osbourne...

 2005, he was replaced by Pierre Lysell for Nightrage's touring activities. For some of Nightrage's tour in support of Bolt Thrower
Bolt Thrower (band)
Bolt Thrower are a British death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. The band then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling bands on that label. Their current label is Metal...

, Gus G. was again unavailable and his place was taken by Christian Muenzer, of Necrophagist
Necrophagist
Necrophagist is a German death metal band, founded and fronted by Muhammed Suiçmez; a German-born, Turkish guitarist and vocalist. The band is known for its rapid and technical compositions....

. In March 2006, Gus G. permanently left Nightrage to focus completely on Firewind
Firewind
Firewind is a Greek power metal band. Formed in 1998, the group is currently signed to Century Media Records and was originally a small project created by guitarist, Gus G. to showcase his demo, Nocturnal Symphony in 1998. Firewind later became a full band over three years later when they recorded...

 (later in 2009 becoming the guitarist for heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...

). At this time Fotis Benardo decided also to leave Nightrage and focus on the reunited Septic Flesh. He was replaced by Alex Svenningson.

A New Disease Is Born

Their third release, A New Disease Is Born
A New Disease Is Born
A New Disease Is Born is the third full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Lifeforce Records on 12 March 2007...

, was released in 2007. Gus G was replaced by Olof Mörck
Olof Mörck
Olof Mörck is a guitarist in the melodic death metal band Nightrage and guitarist of the power metal band Dragonland. Besides Marios, Olof is the longest running member of Nightrage...

. The song "Scathing" was chosen for the bands second video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

, and was directed by Bob Katsionis
Bob Katsionis
Babis "Bob" Katsionis , born on February 17, 1977 in Athens, Greece, is the rhythm guitarist and keyboard player for the heavy metal/power metal bands Firewind, Revolution Renaissance and Outloud.-Appearances:...

.

After the release of A New Disease Is Born Alex Svenningson and Jimmie Strimell left the band to pursue a career in pop music. Long time bassist Henric Karlsson also left the band due to his family obligations.

Wearing a Martyr's Crown

Vocalist Antony Hämäläinen
Antony Hämäläinen
Antony Hämäläinen , is a Finnish musician and composer living in the United States.-Biography:In the early 1990s, he started playing bass, drums, and singing for multiple bands based both in the USA and Finland...

, bassist Anders Hammer
Anders Hammer
Anders Hammer is bass player for the melodic death metal band Nightrage. Anders also plays bass for the Swedish power metal band Dragonland.-Gear/Endorsements:...

, and drummer Johan Nunez
Johan Nunez
Jo Nunez born on March 3, 1988 in Charleroi, Belgium is the drummer for the melodic death metal band Nightrage and the Belgian Metal band Suicide Of Demons...

 joined the band in the summer of 2007. Their fourth album, Wearing a Martyr's Crown
Wearing a Martyr's Crown
-Musical appearances:* "A Grim Struggle", "Collision of Fate", "Shed the Blood", and "Wearing a Martyr's Crown" were made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on Xbox...

, was recorded, produced, and mixed by Fredrik Nordström
Fredrik Nordström
Björn Tom Fredrik Nordström, born on 5 January 1967, is a Swedish record producer and guitar player for the heavy metal band Dream Evil. Nordström is one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, and he has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy,...

 at Studio Fredman
Studio Fredman
Studio Fredman is a recording studio in Göteborg, Sweden, owned and operated by producer Fredrik Nordström.It is popular among Swedish metal bands, with artists such as At the Gates, Deathstars, Nightrage, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, Amon Amarth, In Flames, Zonaria,...

 for a 2009 release date.

On February 18, 2010, Nightrage released their third music video for the song "Wearing a Martyr's Crown." The video was again directed by Bob Katsionis
Bob Katsionis
Babis "Bob" Katsionis , born on February 17, 1977 in Athens, Greece, is the rhythm guitarist and keyboard player for the heavy metal/power metal bands Firewind, Revolution Renaissance and Outloud.-Appearances:...

.

Insidious

It was announced via Blabbermouth.net
Blabbermouth.net
Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews. Blabbermouth.net was founded and is run by Borivoj Krgin. The first version of the website was officially launched in March 2001...

 that former At the Gates and Nightrage vocalist Tomas Lindberg
Tomas Lindberg
Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...

 will be performing guest vocals for the new album. A short video clip of the session was added to YouTube. Other guests set to appear on the new album are Gus G, Tom Englund, Apollo Papathanasio
Apollo Papathanasio
Apostolos "Apollo" Papathanasio is a Swede of Greek descent heavy metal vocalist, who is currently with the bands Firewind, Spiritual Beggars and Evil Masquerade. He has also sung for Meduza, Gardenian, and Richard Andersson's projects Majestic and Time Requiem.In 2007, Papathanasio had to opt...

 and John K. Making this album the first since Sweet Vengeance
Sweet Vengeance
Sweet Vengeance is the debut full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on July 30, 2003. It features a bonus track "Gloomy Daydreams" which is a demo version from either their first or second demo which is only for...

 to feature the original line up.

Antony Hämäläinen
Antony Hämäläinen
Antony Hämäläinen , is a Finnish musician and composer living in the United States.-Biography:In the early 1990s, he started playing bass, drums, and singing for multiple bands based both in the USA and Finland...

 spoke briefly about the albums direction in a recent interview with Deathmetalbaboon.com "It sounds really heavy. Stripped down and in your face. The songs are a bit shorter and with fewer acoustic guitars than Wearing a Martyr’s Crown. It’s a very pissed of sound, so it’s going to be a really heavy record. Lots of guitar solos and melodies there too of course."

The new album will be called "Insidious" and is set to be released 2011, September 26 in Europe and October 11th in North America.

Starting on October 9th 2011, the band will be supporting the new album on a tour of North America with Firewind
Firewind
Firewind is a Greek power metal band. Formed in 1998, the group is currently signed to Century Media Records and was originally a small project created by guitarist, Gus G. to showcase his demo, Nocturnal Symphony in 1998. Firewind later became a full band over three years later when they recorded...

 and Arsis. The tour is titled "Frets Of Fury".

Current members

  • Antony Hämäläinen
    Antony Hämäläinen
    Antony Hämäläinen , is a Finnish musician and composer living in the United States.-Biography:In the early 1990s, he started playing bass, drums, and singing for multiple bands based both in the USA and Finland...

     (2007–Present) – vocals
    Death growl
    A death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...

  • Marios Iliopoulos
    Marios Iliopoulos
    Marios Iliopoulos, born December 16, 1969 in Thessaloniki, Greece is an acclaimed Greek heavy metal guitarist and founder of the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band Nightrage, and a former member of Exhumation....

     (2000–Present) – guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Olof Mörck
    Olof Mörck
    Olof Mörck is a guitarist in the melodic death metal band Nightrage and guitarist of the power metal band Dragonland. Besides Marios, Olof is the longest running member of Nightrage...

     (2006–Present) – guitar (bass on 2007 European Tour)
  • Anders Hammer
    Anders Hammer
    Anders Hammer is bass player for the melodic death metal band Nightrage. Anders also plays bass for the Swedish power metal band Dragonland.-Gear/Endorsements:...

     (2007–Present) – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Johan Nunez
    Johan Nunez
    Jo Nunez born on March 3, 1988 in Charleroi, Belgium is the drummer for the melodic death metal band Nightrage and the Belgian Metal band Suicide Of Demons...

     (2007–Present) – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....


Former members

  • Tomas Lindberg
    Tomas Lindberg
    Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...

     – vocals (2003–2005)
  • Gus G.
    Gus G.
    Kostas Karamitroudis aka Gus G., born September 12, 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece is a heavy metal guitarist. He currently plays with his band Firewind and Ozzy Osbourne...

     – guitar, vocals (on demos) (2000–2006)
  • Henric Karlsson – bass guitar (2004–2007)
  • Brice LeClercq – bass guitar (2003–2004)
  • Fotis Benardo – drums (2004–2006)
  • Alex Svenningson – drums (2006–2007)
  • Jimmie Strimell – vocals (2005–2007)

Guest musicians

  • Fredrik Nordström
    Fredrik Nordström
    Björn Tom Fredrik Nordström, born on 5 January 1967, is a Swedish record producer and guitar player for the heavy metal band Dream Evil. Nordström is one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, and he has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy,...

     - keyboards on Sweet Vengeance
    Sweet Vengeance
    Sweet Vengeance is the debut full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on July 30, 2003. It features a bonus track "Gloomy Daydreams" which is a demo version from either their first or second demo which is only for...

    , Descent into Chaos
    Descent into Chaos (Nightrage album)
    Descent into Chaos is the second full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on 21 February 2005 in Europe, on 5 April 2005 in the US and by King Japan on 27 April 2005 in Japan...

    , Wearing A Martyr's Crown
    Wearing a Martyr's Crown
    -Musical appearances:* "A Grim Struggle", "Collision of Fate", "Shed the Blood", and "Wearing a Martyr's Crown" were made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on Xbox...

  • Tom S. Englund
    Tom S. Englund
    Tom S. Englund from Sweden currently plays guitar and sings lead vocals for the band Evergrey. He is married to Carina Englund, who does backing vocals in most of their albums.-Discography with Evergrey:* The Dark Discovery...

     – clean vocals on Sweet Vengeance
    Sweet Vengeance
    Sweet Vengeance is the debut full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on July 30, 2003. It features a bonus track "Gloomy Daydreams" which is a demo version from either their first or second demo which is only for...

    , Insidious
    Insidious (Nightrage album)
    Insidious is the fifth album by the melodic death metal band Nightrage. The album is set to be released September 26th in Europe and a day later in North America through German label, Lifeforce Records...

  • Mikael Stanne
    Mikael Stanne
    Bengt Mikael Stanne is the vocalist for the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity and the ex-vocalist for Swedish power metal band HammerFall.-Dark Tranquillity:...

     – clean vocals Descent into Chaos
    Descent into Chaos (Nightrage album)
    Descent into Chaos is the second full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on 21 February 2005 in Europe, on 5 April 2005 in the US and by King Japan on 27 April 2005 in Japan...

  • Jacob Hansen - guitar solo on A New Disease Is Born
    A New Disease Is Born
    A New Disease Is Born is the third full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Lifeforce Records on 12 March 2007...

  • Gus G - guitar solo on Wearing A Martyr's Crown
    Wearing a Martyr's Crown
    -Musical appearances:* "A Grim Struggle", "Collision of Fate", "Shed the Blood", and "Wearing a Martyr's Crown" were made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on Xbox...

    , Insidious
    Insidious (Nightrage album)
    Insidious is the fifth album by the melodic death metal band Nightrage. The album is set to be released September 26th in Europe and a day later in North America through German label, Lifeforce Records...

  • Sakis Tolis
    Sakis Tolis
    Sakis Tolis is a Greek musician best known as the vocalist and guitarist of Rotting Christ. He is also known as Necromayhem. He has recently produced some of the band's albums and contributed as session keyboardist...

     - backing vocals on Wearing A Martyr's Crown
    Wearing a Martyr's Crown
    -Musical appearances:* "A Grim Struggle", "Collision of Fate", "Shed the Blood", and "Wearing a Martyr's Crown" were made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on Xbox...

  • Elias Holmlid - keyboards on Wearing A Martyr's Crown
    Wearing a Martyr's Crown
    -Musical appearances:* "A Grim Struggle", "Collision of Fate", "Shed the Blood", and "Wearing a Martyr's Crown" were made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on Xbox...

    , Insidious
    Insidious (Nightrage album)
    Insidious is the fifth album by the melodic death metal band Nightrage. The album is set to be released September 26th in Europe and a day later in North America through German label, Lifeforce Records...

  • Tomas Lindberg
    Tomas Lindberg
    Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...

     - guest vocals on Insidious
    Insidious (Nightrage album)
    Insidious is the fifth album by the melodic death metal band Nightrage. The album is set to be released September 26th in Europe and a day later in North America through German label, Lifeforce Records...

  • Apollo Papathanasio
    Apollo Papathanasio
    Apostolos "Apollo" Papathanasio is a Swede of Greek descent heavy metal vocalist, who is currently with the bands Firewind, Spiritual Beggars and Evil Masquerade. He has also sung for Meduza, Gardenian, and Richard Andersson's projects Majestic and Time Requiem.In 2007, Papathanasio had to opt...

     - clean vocals on Insidious
    Insidious (Nightrage album)
    Insidious is the fifth album by the melodic death metal band Nightrage. The album is set to be released September 26th in Europe and a day later in North America through German label, Lifeforce Records...


Touring members

  • Nicholas Barker
    Nicholas Barker
    Nicholas Howard Barker is an extreme metal drummer .- Biography :He was the original drummer for British metal band Cradle of Filth, playing on the first three albums. After leaving in 1999, he joined Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir...

     – drums (2004)
  • Pierre Lysell – guitar (2006)
  • Christian Münzner – guitar (2006)
  • Constantine – guitar (2007)
  • Morten Løwe - drums (2007)
  • Johnny Haven - vocals (2007)
  • Bill Hudson
    Bill Hudson
    William Louis "Bill" Hudson is an American musician most famous for being in the band The Hudson Brothers.Hudson was born in Portland, Oregon. His mother, Eleanor, was Italian American. He married actress Goldie Hawn in 1976 and together they had two children, both of whom are actors, Kate and...

     – guitars (2011 Frets Of Fury Tour)

Studio albums

  • Sweet Vengeance
    Sweet Vengeance
    Sweet Vengeance is the debut full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on July 30, 2003. It features a bonus track "Gloomy Daydreams" which is a demo version from either their first or second demo which is only for...

    (2003)
  • Descent into Chaos
    Descent into Chaos (Nightrage album)
    Descent into Chaos is the second full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on 21 February 2005 in Europe, on 5 April 2005 in the US and by King Japan on 27 April 2005 in Japan...

    (2005)
  • A New Disease Is Born
    A New Disease Is Born
    A New Disease Is Born is the third full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Lifeforce Records on 12 March 2007...

    (2007)
  • Wearing a Martyr's Crown
    Wearing a Martyr's Crown
    -Musical appearances:* "A Grim Struggle", "Collision of Fate", "Shed the Blood", and "Wearing a Martyr's Crown" were made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on Xbox...

    (2009)
  • Insidious
    Insidious (Nightrage album)
    Insidious is the fifth album by the melodic death metal band Nightrage. The album is set to be released September 26th in Europe and a day later in North America through German label, Lifeforce Records...

    (2011)

Compilation albums

  • Vengeance Descending
    Vengeance Descending (Nightrage album)
    Vengeance Descending is a double CD reissue by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on November 19th, 2010. The Sweet Vengeance disc features the bonus track "Gloomy Daydreams" which is a demo version from either their first or second demo...

    (2010)

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