"In the beginning, all was silent...
1996
However, something was starting to move; something that disturbed the silence. In 1996 Hubertus Liljegren (guitars) and Daniel Thelin (drums) founded Sanctifica and were soon joined by Alexander Orest (bass). The sound of death metal had replaced the silence. Soon another element was integrated into the sound of Sanctifica; Alexander left the bass guitar to Jonathan Jansson and instead showed his talent with the keyboard. The sound of death metal became frostier and blacker.
1997-98
Sanctifica's first recording was perceived in late 1997. The demo tape, called In The Bleak Midwinter, contained nordic black metal and was released in early 1998. Following this, Henrik Georgsson joined the band as a second guitar player, broadening the musical possibilities.
1999
In the last year of the millenium Alexander was replaced by Aron Engberg. The wintery black metal was transformed into something furious enough to tame chaos. Sanctifica again laid siege to the studio, directed by chief engineer Mick Nordstr..m in the intense recording.
2000
The resulting debut album, Spirit Of Purity, was released in March by Little Rose Productions and C.L. Music & Publishing. Following the release Sanctifica played shows in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
2001
Spirit Of Purity received great reviews and inspired Sanctifica continued evolving their sound. Having mastered black metal the course was set for less explored territories. The furiousity in the music calmed leaving place for more intelligent playing, it was arranged in new interesting ways and a lot of the screaming was replaced with clean vocals. In the late of the year Sanctifica again entered the studio to work on the concept album Negative B, this time engineered by guitar wizard Carl Johan Grimmark.
2002
Four months in the making, Negative B was perfected in January and the album was released in March.
During the first couple of shows with the new songs Bj..rn Isacsson was a stand in guitar player, while Hubertus concentrated solely on the singing. In May a new vocalist, David Seiving of Crimson Moonlight, was recruited letting Hubertus focus on his guitar and occasional screaming.
The summer saw Sanctifica play a number of much cheered concerts at different festivals in Scandinavia, the new album and line up received a great welcome everywhere. Some shows offered the extra attraction of dance by Lovisa Lindstr..m, the fairy.
In early October Finland was blessed with a short Sanctifica tour reaching rock clubs in Turku, Helsinki and Jyv..skyl... This also marked Hubertus departure from the band.
At the moment Sanctifica is in the process of writing new material, always taking the music one step further.
'The road goes ever on and on' " From www.sanctifica.com
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Discography
In the Bleak Midwinter
1. Intro
2. Burial of the Grave
3. Blind for Reality
4. In the Bleak Midwinter
5. Sacrifice to Life
6. King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Spirit of Purity
1. Riket
2. The Dark Desires
3. Released from Pain
4. Spirit of purity
5. Allhärskaren
6. Landscape
7. The Dark Embrace of Night
8. The Wanderer
Negative B
1. Labels
2. Stardust Inc.
3. Nerve
4. Lavender
5. Epitaph
6. Red Alert
7. As a Reminder
8. Confront
9. Summer Sits Here Raining