Unanimated are 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....

 extreme metal

Extreme metal

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal,...

 band. They were founded in 1989 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 and dissolved in 1996. Largely inspired by Dismember

Dismember (band)

Dismember was a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1988. They are well known in the death metal underground. They split up in October 2011.-History:...

, they made two melodic death metal albums. In 1993, In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead

In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead

In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead is the debut album by the Swedish death metal band Unanimated.-Track listing:The original release on No Fashion Records has this incorrect tracklist stated on its back cover:# "At Dawn" – 4:27...

was released on Pavement Music, a label which has since merged with Crash Music Inc.. In 1995 Ancient God of Evil

Ancient God of Evil

Ancient God of Evil is the second album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Unanimated.-Track listing:# "Life Demise" – 4:01# "Eye of the Greyhound" – 4:31# "Oceans of Time" – 5:56# "Dead Calm" – 4:01# "Mireille" – 2:39...

was released on No Fashion Records, an independent Swedish label. The band also contributed to the 1996 Slayer

Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...

 tribute Slaytanic Slaughter II with their cover of "Dead Skin Mask". Their music exemplifies the melodic Swedish sound and though primarily 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....

, a black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 influence stands out. Former members have gone on to contribute to various other projects, most notably Therion

Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...

, 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...

, and Dismember

Dismember (band)

Dismember was a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1988. They are well known in the death metal underground. They split up in October 2011.-History:...

. In 2007, they reformed, and in April 2008, signed to Regain Records

Regain Records

Regain Records is a Swedish based independent record label. The label predominantly releases death metal and black metal albums. Regain Records was founded from what remained of the former label, Wrong Again Records, by Per Gyllenbäck in 1997...

. The band has released a new album, titled "In The Light Of Darkness", in April 2009.

Discography

• Rehearsal/demo 1990 (Demo, 1990)
• Fire Storm (Demo, 1991)
• In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead
  In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead
  In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead is the debut album by the Swedish death metal band Unanimated.-Track listing:The original release on No Fashion Records has this incorrect tracklist stated on its back cover:# "At Dawn" – 4:27...
  
  (Album, Pavement, 1993)
• Ancient God of Evil
  Ancient God of Evil
  Ancient God of Evil is the second album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Unanimated.-Track listing:# "Life Demise" – 4:01# "Eye of the Greyhound" – 4:31# "Oceans of Time" – 5:56# "Dead Calm" – 4:01# "Mireille" – 2:39...
  
  (Album, No Fashion, 1995)
• In The Light Of Darkness
  In the Light of Darkness
  In the Light of Darkness is the third studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Unanimated. It was released on Regain, 14 years after their last release, "Ancient God of Evil" In the Light of Darkness (The Covenant Of Death) is the third studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal...
  
  (Album, Regain Records, 2009)

Members

• Peter Stjärnvind
  Peter Stjärnvind
  Peter Stjärnvind, born 11 August 1973, is a Swedish drummer. His current position is the drummer of the bands Unanimated and Nifelheim. Before that he also played in Loud Pipes, Merciless, Regurgitate, Entombed, and Face Down. He also appeared in several side-projects, including Krux, Born of Fire...
  
   - drums
• Jonas Mellberg - guitar
• Richard Daemon - bass
• Micke Jansson - vocals
• Daniel Lofthagen - bass
• Jojje Bohlin - guitar
• Jocke Westman - keyboards

External links

• Unanimated MySpace
• Unanimated 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...