Centinex
History
1990 Centinex founded. First recordings followed in March 1991. Using the two singers Mattias Lamppu and Lasse Eriksson, Andreas Evaldsson (guitar ), Martin Schulman ( bass) and Per Guselius (drums) went one up in the Sunlight studio and played the demo End of Life a. Joakim Gustafsson joined them as the new drummer in the port.
In 1992 the debut album Subconscious Lobotomy, which published on Underground Records in an edition of 1,000 pieces and Tomas Skogsberg and Fred Estby ( Dismember ) was produced. In 1993, Mattias Lamppu the group and Centinex made with only one singer on.
With a three - track promo, the group was able to secure a contract with Wild Rags Records, which released their promo as the EP under the title Under the Blackened Sky. In 1994 the EP Transcend the Dark Chaos with the second guitarist Kenneth Wiklund. Following Joakim Gustafsson left the band. Centinex then made with a drum machine on. With Inverted a split 7 '' appeared, followed the second album Malleus Maleficarum on Wild Rags, which consisted mainly of the photographs of the EPs.
1997 the third album Reflections, followed by Reborn Through Flames 1998 to Repulse Records. Then it came to serious line-up changes. As the only founding member was bassist Martin Schulman received the group. Johan Jansson joined them as the new singer, new guitarist Jonas Kjellgren were the drums has also been replaced by a drum machine. The two new members came from the group Della Morte. Despite these serious reshuffle was published in 1999, the EP Blood Hunt. Then rose with Kennet Englund (also from Della Morte ) is a drummer, a.
Appeared in 2000 Light Brigade, the last album for Repulse Records. The group then signed with Candlelight Records, publish the Diabolical Desolation 2002. Followed in 2004 Decadence: Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos. Following the publication of Ronnie Bergerståhl came as the new drummer for the group. 2005 appeared the last album World Declension, a concept album about the apocalypse. After the group split up.
According to the resolution, Schulman, Jansson and Bergerståhl decided to continue their cooperation and founded the Death Metal band Demonical.
Style
Initially, the group of hardcore punk and Florida death metal oriented itself. Not least because of the entry of the members of Della Morte changed the style of the group towards the Swedish death metal style. The band later pursued a style that sought to unite both the aggressiveness of Death and Black Metal, and harmonious melodies. As an example here was popular in the metal scene band At the Gates.
Numerous recruitment problems and a constant search for new record labels prevented a greater success of the group.