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'War' was a Swedish black metal supergroup, formed by Jim Berger of Abruptum, David Parland of Dark Funeral and Peter Tägtgren of Hypocrisy.
War was formed in 1995 when David "Blackmoon" Parland of Dark Funeral attended an Abruptum recording session in Peter Tägtgren’s ''The Abyss Studios''. According to Blackmoon, „''We decided loaded out of our minds, to form a band that night...a band that should be like a true fist to the face to all the theatrical, keyboards, female vocals, troll singing black metal bands that were coming out at the time''“. Unlike those bands, War played primitive black metal with lyrics mostly about Satan and war.
In 1997 the band recorded its first EP "Total War" featuring IT and Blackmoon on guitars, Peter Tägtgren on drums, Mikael Hedlund of Hypocrisy on bass and Jim "All" Berger of Abruptum, Ophthalamia and Vondur on vocals, and released it on Necropolis Records. Two years later they recorded their album "We Are War" with All on vocals, Blackmoon on guitars, David "Impious" Larsson of In Aeternum on bass and Lars Szöke, one more Hypocrisy member, on drums and guitars. IT had left the black metal scene in the meantime.
The band had to change its name to ''Total War'' as there was already another band called War and was put on hold in 2001, but released "We Are...Total War", a compilation of material released before. They featured on the Bathory tribute album In Conspiracy With Satan, performing the final song, conveniently (perhaps as a humorous thing) titled ''War''.

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Members

Former members

Discography

External links

Members

★ All (Jim Berger) - Vocals

★ David "Blackmoon" Parland - Guitar

★ David "Impious" Larsson - Guitars, Vocals

Former members

★ Mikael Hedlund - Bass

★ Lars Szöke - Session drums on We Are War

★ It (Tony Särkkä) - Guitars

★ Peter Tägtgren - Drums

Discography

★ ''Total War'' (EP, 1997)

★ ''We Are War'' (Full-length, 1999)

★ ''We Are...Total War'' (compilation, 2001)

External links

★ War fan site at MySpace