Sanctification

2001
The band was spawned by Tomas Elofsson, Daniel Dlimi, Mathias Mohlin and Nils Fjellström. Dlimi, Elofsson and Fjellström did some songs, but shortly after that Dlimi left the band to join fellow friends AEON. And in the late fall of 2001 the four track "Demo 01-02" was recorded. Peter Jönsson was asked to join the band as bassplayer, but he was only in the band a few month´s. During the short time he was in the band, he did contribute to some cool riffs on some of the songs.
2002
During late spring 2002 SANCTIFICATION unleashed their wrath for the first time live, it took place in Östersund – Sweden. Peter was replaced by axe wielder Jörgen Bylander who had been playing in bands like (Defaced creation & Deranged). The audiens was amazed with the bands performance, so the band decided to release the "Demo 01-02" witch was only ment to be for promotional use. The demo got great response from webzines around the world. In July Sanctification played at STORSJÖYRAN festival in front of a huge crowd in Östersund. After that the band started concentrating in writing more songs.
2003
In early 2003 Sanctification played a gig with fellow friends LORD BELIAL in Östersund. After that gig the band felt that something was missing when the band played live and specially when the songs are built for two guitar, so they asked a fellow friend MARCUS EDVARDSSON (CHASTISEMENT, SOULDRAINER) to join as there second guitarist and after a few meetings he accepted the offer and the band was complete for the first time ever. In August the band played in Trondheim (Norway) and in September at "Club Extreme" in Trollhättan. That year the band astablished a one album deal with german lable REMISSION RECORDS and the recording of the debute album "Misanthropic Salvation" started and took mostly the whole year to finnish due to some problems in the studio.
2004
In February the album was finaly out after some trouble in the studio and to celebrate the release of the album Sanctification played a show in there hometown Östersund for a big crowed. The album did get a great response in magazines and webzines all over the world. Shortly after the album was out Jörgen had to leave SANCTIFICATION due to differenses in the band and the search for a new bassplayer was on! In August SANCTIFICATION entered the ABYSS studio with PETER TÄGTGREN to record a two track PROMO. The recording was later named "PROMO-04" and contained four tracks including the two tracks they recorded in ABYSS + two live songs from the release gig for the MISANTHROPIC SALVATION album. In september SANCTIFICATION got an offer to play with the mighty CANNIBAL CORPSE and SPAWN OF POSSESSION in Trondheim Norway on they European tour and jumped right on it. Sence the Band was missing a bassplayer SANCTIFICATION asked JOHAN HJELM of AEON to fill out that area for that gig and he gladly exepted. The gig was a success and the Band had a great show. (SANCTIFICATION has always had a bounch of great fans in Norway) Later that year TOMAS and NILS went on tour in Europe with there other band IN BATTLE to support swedish Death Metal Kings UNLEASHED.
2005
The year started with Nils and Tomas going on tour again with IN BATTLE, this time to support the mighty CROWBAR and BEHEMOTH for a few dates in Europe. SANCTIFICATION took some time of during the summer to give all focus on the upcoming fall. Instead of having a "session bassplayer" the band started to look for a new guy that could fill the emtiy space. In October a guy named Kristoffer Hell came in contact with the band and the he fitted right in so the rehersals for the upcoming shows was on. Kristoffer has played in a band called DYSPLASIA and have a lot of experience of playing live with other bands to. After a few weeks of rehersals they felt like SANCTIFICATION now was a BAND with a strong line up so they started to get ready to do the shows that was booked. The first one out was in Västerås and then Stockholm and to follow that up a great show in Karlstad at METALCLUB. A venue the band had wanted to play at for a long time. During that time the band started to talk about the future of the band and what the plans should be for the near futute. To release the "PROMO-04" was the first step and to make another album in 2006.