Craft (metal band)

Craft
Origin	Dalecarlia, Sweden
Genres	Black metal
Years active	1994-Present
Labels	Carnal Records Southern Lord Records Napalm Records
Website	Craft MySpace Homepage

Craft is a Swedish black metal band, originally formed under the name "Nocta" in 1994. As Nocta they recorded an unreleased demo in 1997 and subsequently changed their name to "Craft". While musically inspired by early black metal acts such as Burzum and Darkthrone, as well as Heavy Metal bands such as Black Sabbath and Celtic Frost, their lyrics tend not to deal with themes common in the genre (such as paganism and anti-Christian blasphemy), but rather focus on misanthropy, destruction, hate, Anti Cosmic Satanism and death resembling the older lyrics of melodic black metal band Dissection. After drummer Daniel Halén was fired from the band in 2005, the remaining members briefly considered putting the band on indefinite hold, but decided to continue and address his replacement in the future. In 2008 Dirge Rep (Gehenna, ex-Gorgoroth, ex-Enslaved) joined the band on session basis to work on the drums for the coming album which is due for release August 2011.^{[citation needed]}

Members

Current

• Mikael Nox – vocals
• John Doe – guitar
• Joakim Karlson – lead guitar, bass and lyrics
• Dirge Rep - (session) drums

Former

• Daniel Halén – drums (1994–2005)
• Björn – Session vocals on Total Soul Rape

Guests

• Björn, Kaos131 and Shamaatae – "Additional noise and creative madness" on Fuck the Universe

Discography

• Total Eclipse (Demo, 1999)
• Total Soul Rape (2000)
• Terror Propaganda (2002)
• Fuck the Universe (2005)
• Void (2011)

References

• http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p675585/biography Craft at Allmusic

Interviews

• Interview (2002) with Thomas Legros on Voices from the Darkside
• Interview (2006) on Ferrum

External links

• Craft MySpace Homepage
• Craft on Encyclopaedia Metallum
• Craft on Carnal Records (dead link)