Macabre End

History

1988 - The embryo of what would become Macabre End and then God Macabre was born... Right after Christmas four friends decided to start a grindcore band... Per, Ola and Niklas had been playing together in a punk band before this and Tomas was an old friend of the guys. They started to write songs that was a mix of grindcore and hardcore inspired by bands like Heresy, Napalm Death, Carcass, Agathocles etc... The name at this time was B.P.B. (Botten På Burken). The lyrics were pretty silly and were a mix of swedish and english (often in the same song).

1989 - The band rehearsed and recorded a couple of rehearsal demos, but felt it was time to change the sound... Death metal was pretty new back then in sweden and the guys had found the sound they wanted. There were still grindcore parts in the music, but now they became a full fledged death metal band and at the same time they changed the name to Macabre End and started writing all the lyrics in english.

1990 - Very early this year the band met Jonas who was playing guitar in the band Abhoth, but after he had heard some Macabre End songs he decided to quit Abhoth and join Macabre End instead. The band scrapped all the old songs to start fresh with this new line-up... In september this year the band went to the famous Sunlight Studio to record their first demo 'Consumed by Darkness' (something they did in less than 11 hours...mix and lunchhour included). It became an underground classic with it's brutal sound and grinding death metal... The band was contacted by the French label Corpse Grinder Records about a possible 7" release, as it was the easiest thing to do it was decided that the demo should be the 7".

1991 - In january the band remixed the demo preparing it for the 7" and in June the record was released. Right after the EP had been released the band decided to change the name to God Macabre as it felt better with the music and lyrics...

(source: God Macabre's MySpace.com page, January 2009)