Sanctification

Östersund, Sweden's Sanctification were formed in the summer of 2001 by former Divine Desecration members Mathias Mohlin (vocals) and Tomas Elofsson (guitar) along with drummer Nils Fjellström (<a href="spotify:artist:0JNdLWt83suen9AAIDCvxu">Chastisement</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:21ojeH5LNADIGzJKc3hIlE">Dark Funeral</a>, etc.), before adding bassist Jürgen Bylander (of Defaced Creation) in 2002 and guitarist Markus Edvardsson (<a href="spotify:artist:2h8TligWI8YeZluK5jVZUQ">Souldrainer</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0JNdLWt83suen9AAIDCvxu">Chastisement</a>). Obviously, all of these parallel bands drained some of the focus that all of the involved would have otherwise committed to Sanctification, and this explains the group's six-year gap between 2003's Misanthropic Salvation debut album and its 2009 follow-up, Black Reign, by which time one Kristoffer Hell had assumed the microphone (only to be replaced by Magnus "Masse" Broberg of <a href="spotify:artist:21ojeH5LNADIGzJKc3hIlE">Dark Funeral</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:73UIalJYgktSi7qQFV53Qv">Hypocrisy</a>, etc., soon after) and Tony Westermark was handling session drums in place of a briefly rumored Tony Laureano (ex-everyone you can think of in extreme metal). Indeed, the only constant throughout Sanctification's career has been their music, which consists of ultra-brutal death metal in the style of <a href="spotify:artist:2K3GorTixXKAiwe2t9lO89">Deicide</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3pzAW9xs16rX8fukH8wV6N">Krisiun</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3thZAdDkh3yDo21gLptJTc">Aeon</a> (with whom they shared several musicians over the years), dedicated to divulging anti-Christian sentiments of all kinds. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, Rovi