Sweden's grindcore heritage scarcely needs any qualification here. Seemingly every month our collective eardrums face a brutal house invasion from some of the most furious, ripsaw-savage bands that Northernmost nation can produce.Typical in their fury, but perhaps atypical in their line-up - while Swedish musicians leapfrog between bands like VD, Splitter's five-piece remain wholly dedicated to their mission.
Forming in 2003, these Stockholm-based brutalists joined the Obscene Productions grindcore family for their second EP, 2006's En Sorglig Historia, impressing the crowds at Obscene Extreme that same year with their unrelenting barrage of death-laden, up-tempo grind. Playing again in 2008, they also took the devastation to North America with a 2009 set at Maryland Deathfest, and ended that same year touring with the mighty Napalm Death.
Back from a break, with new material and a renewed sense of vigour, Splitter are primed to hit 2012 like a rockfall over a mountain highway, hopefully bringing with them a follow-up to 2007's ice hot Avskräckande Exemplar.
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