Violent Work of Art
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Växjö, Sweden | |
| Genre(s) | Industrial metal Metalcore |
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| Years active | 1994 – present | |
| Label(s) | Swedmetal Records | |
| Website | violentworkofart.com | |
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| Magnus Karlsson Tobias Eng Viktor Eng Anders Gyllensten Maria Simonsson |
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| Former members | ||
| Wincent Persson Tobias Turesson Magnus Pettersson Caroline Bucquoy |
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Violent Work of Art is a Swedish industrial metal band that combines heavy metal with techno and trance music.
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[edit] History
[edit] 1993-1994
Violent Work of Art was formed in 1993 and played metalcore under the name Red Alert. The band soon changed their name to Violent Work Of Art, Anders Gyllensten (Guitars) and Wincent Persson (Guitars) joined.
[edit] 1994-1996
In 1994 they recorded the demo Aggressive and send it to some labels, trying to get a record deal, in 1995 they released another demo, Hard. In 1996 Download Records signed the band and they released Breeding Dance which contained all the songs on Aggressive and Hard.
[edit] 1996-2000
The band soon lost their record deal with Download Records when the owner of the label committed suicide and the label was put out of business. In 1998 the band changed their sound and line-up a lot and started to play Industrial Metal and kicked out their drummer and started to use a Drummachine, they did a cover of AC/DC's song Hells Bells which was featured on the album A Salute To AC/DC released by Tribute Records another cover they made was of Ozzy Osbourne's song Bark At The Moon. In 1999 they released Promo '99, their first demo with their new style and in 2000 they released Promo 2000, yet no label wanted to sign them. Violent Work Of Art did get lots of fame from countries like France, USA and Germany by uploading their songs at Mp3.com.
[edit] 2000-present
Two more demos was released, COMA (2001) and The Worst Is Yet To Come (2002). Tobias Eng rejoined the band in 2004 to replace Wincent Persson who had left the band due to personal reasons. After about 10 years unsigned they finally got a new record deal for two albums with Swedmetal Records. They re-released The Worst Is Yet To Come together with the songs from the COMA demo. In 2006 Maria Simonsson (Synth) joined the band. The band released their 3rd studio album Automated Species (in which half of the songs are written, or co-written by former member W.Persson), in January 2007.
[edit] Current Members
- Magnus Karlsson - Vocals (2000 - present)
- Tobias Eng - Rhythm Guitars, Vocals (1993 - 2000, 2004 - present)
- Anders Gyllensten - Lead Guitars (1994 - present)
- Viktor Eng - Bass (1993 - present)
- Maria Simonsson - Synth (2006 - present)
[edit] Past Members
- Wincent Persson - Guitars, Synth and Programming (1994 - 2004)
- Tobias Turesson - Synth (1993 - 1998)
- Magnus Pettersson - Drums (1993 - 1998)
- Caroline Bucquoy - Background Vocals (1999)
[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio Albums
- Breeding Dance (1996)
- The Worst Is Yet To Come (2005)
- Automated Species (2007)
