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Havok

HAVOK - SOPHISTICATED KILLING MACHINE

About Me


Havok began in the year of 2003, when guitarists Mahan Ahmadi and Miguel Cabrera founded the technical thrash/death metal outfit Ecliptica, in the southern swedish city of Lund. With a loosely knit formation, they recorded a couple of songs. During the winter of 2004, they were on the hunt for a new drummer, and conveniently found Johan Cronqvist, who had recently immigrated from the town of Halmstad. With him came the change of bandname, turning the music towards a more brutal, chaotic death metal sound, yet still with remnants from the thrash days. Trying out various musicians to fill the void behind microphone and bass, the summer of 2005 brought the vocalist Johan Bergström. Some months later, as winter approached, Andreas Johansson joined the band, filling the last gap in the line-up with his bass.
As time progressed, the songwriting continued to evolve, leaving older songs behind, sharpening their composing skills, and a few live performances in Lund took place. In July 2006, this constellation entered a studio for the first time (Flatpig, in Malmö), recording their four tracked debut demo, ”Realms of Reverie”. Despite a generally positive respone to the demo, Havok were not overly satisfied with how the sound turned out, moving on composing the follow-up single, entitled ”World Shroud”. It was recorded at the end of 2006 at the Blacklodge Studio in Örkelljunga, and was released in early February 2007. The new recording recieved great acclaim, among others the title "Best of Sweden" in Close-Up Magazine in April -07, sending us to perform at the Peace&Love Festival in Borlänge (the fastest growing music festival in Sweden). Several other shows where played in Lund and Malmö throughout the year.
In August, Miguel Cabrera announced he was about to leave the band, for personal reasons, and in mid-September he did. Havok went on without him to record the EP "Apathy Esplanade" in the autumn, which is yet to be released.

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Member Since: 9/24/2006
Band Website: havok.se
Band Members: Johan Bergström - Vocals Mahan Ahmadi - GuitarAndreas Johansson - Bass Johan Cronqvist - Drums
Influences: Extreme Metal, Violence, Philosophy, Fear...
Sounds Like: Uncompromising sophisticated violence.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Vote for us!

Seems we've entered this nice contest, with a bunch of fancy prices. We are very very keen on winning this, so please, if you in any way support Havok - vote for us!(just press "RÖSTA på din favorit" ...
Posted by Havok on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:47:00 PST

NEW SONGS!!!

Lo and behold, two songs from the Apathy Esplanade EP. Stormfeed and A Pyrrhic Victory For Humanity. They are Myspace exclusive, until our new website is revealed, sometime during the first month of 2...
Posted by Havok on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:33:00 PST

Miguel leaves the band...

Because of personal reasons, Miguel Cabrera has chosen to leave Havok. His department has nothing to do with the band, and there is absolutely no strife or disagreement behind his decision. We are or ...
Posted by Havok on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:57:00 PST

Live stuff...

It's been two weeks now since we played at Peace&Love. Still a great weekend, in retrospect. Many new acquaintances. And this Saturday we beat the living crap out of Möllevångsfestivalen.We'll be ...
Posted by Havok on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:17:00 PST

HAVOK AT PEACE & LOVE FESTIVAL / BEST IN SWEDEN

With the April issue of swedish Close-Up Magazine comes a great surprise. Not only having the honour of being elected "Best in Sweden" (for the World Shroud demo), appearing with review (8/10), interv...
Posted by Havok on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:50:00 PST

Gigs and updates...

So, things are moving forward. Two gigs confirmed - on May the 2nd we will play at Mejeriet, Lund, with hardcore masters Skörda and ecclectic metal maniacs Body Core. An event to die for. Or die at, w...
Posted by Havok on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:34:00 PST

UNSIGNED BANDS! ATTENTION!

If your band has a demo of some kind, and you are interested in trading, feel very free to contact us. We (especially I, Andreas) are very keen on discovering new fresh bands in the extreme (metal) un...
Posted by Havok on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:25:00 PST

WORLD SHROUD FINISHED AND POSTED...

Listen to it, enjoy, buy it! NOW. (it is to be released quite soon, and it can be yours for only 3¬ or 5$. go ahead, [email protected].)Now we continue down our path, make new songs, and search for gigs ...
Posted by Havok on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:22:00 PST

Sophisticated Death

Yes! Yesterday, we finished the vocal sessions for World Shroud. All that remains is for Mahan to add some flashing guitar-leads, and the mix/master to be done. Afterwards, soon we hope, the two songs...
Posted by Havok on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:11:00 PST

Death Ascending Lund

The show last evening went quite well. The crowd was small but enthusiastic, and the stage was only small. If we had been given the luxury of a sound-check, the onstage sound wouldn't have sucked as m...
Posted by Havok on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:05:00 PST