Nightrage

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Nightrage

Country	Gothenburg, Sweden
Years active	2000–present
Genres	Melodic Death Metal
Labels	Century Media Lifeforce Records
Members	Jimmie Strimell Marios Iliopoulos Constantine Henric Carlsson Alex Svenningson

Nightrage is a Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band formed by guitarist Marios Iliopoulos (ex-Exhumation) and his close friend Gus G. They have since re-located to Sweden. Their first release, Sweet Vengeance, was released in 2003 and featured drummer Per Möller Jensen (The Haunted), and bassist Brice Leclercq. They also managed to acquire the services of Gothenburg vocalist Tomas Lindberg (ex-At the Gates). Sweet Vengeance also featured guest clean vocals on a few tracks by Tom S. Englund of Evergrey fame.

Their second release, Descent Into Chaos, was released in 2005 and had a change of line up, with the addition of a more permanent rhythm section. Fotis Benardo (ex-Septic Flesh, ex-Innerwish) took over on drums and Henric Carlsson, who also plays in the band Cipher System, on bass. Mikael Stanne, of Dark Tranquillity, provided a clean vocal section on the track "Frozen."

On July 10, 2005 it was announced that Tomas Lindberg had decided to leave the band due to difficulty working his role in the band around his various other projects. Replacing him on vocals was the relative unknown Jimmie Strimell, whose influences range from bands such as Death to Pantera.

When Gus G. was performing with Arch Enemy at 2005's Ozzfest, he was replaced by Pierre Lysell for Nightrage's touring activities. For some of Nightrage's tour in support of Bolt Thrower, Gus was again unavailable and his place was taken by Christian Muenzer, of Necrophagist. ^[1] In March of 2006, Gus permanently left Nightrage to focus completely on Firewind. At this time Fotis Benardo was also removed from the band as they want to build a solid, Swedish-based line-up that free to rehearse as a unit.

Nightrage has now finished recording it's third album, entitled "A New Disease is Born". Pierre Lysell is once again helping out as a temporary live guitarist with Marios recording all guitars himself for the time being.