Carnal Forge

Carnal Forge
Carnal Forge in 2009.
Background information
Origin	Sala, Västerås, Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Melodic death metal, thrash metal
Years active	1997–2010, 2013–present
Labels	WAR Music, Relapse, Century Media, Candlelight
Members	Peter Tuthill Lars Linden Petri Kuusisto Dino Medanhodzic Chris Barkensjö
Past members	Stefan Westerberg Jens C. Mortensen Jari Kuusisto Jonas Kjellgren Johan Magnusson Dennis Vestman
Website	www.carnalforge.com

Carnal Forge are a Swedish band, best classified as thrash metal with some melodic death metal influences. Their name originates from a song on Carcass's album Heartwork.

Biography

Formed in 1997 by Jari Kuusisto & Stefan Westerberg, Carnal Forge released its debut, "Who's Gonna Burn" (War Music), in 1998. After signing with Century Media in early 2000, the band released "Firedemon" later in the year.

Petri Kuusisto joined and the band would tour Europe supporting The Haunted and Nile and make the first of several prestigious festival appearances.

In 2001 Lars Linden joined just to the recordings of "Please... die!" (Linden making his debut with the band at the year's 2000 Decibel festival and Wacken Open Air). "The More You Suffer" (2003) and "Aren't You Dead Yet" (2004) would continue to see the band expand fan and worldwide sales base as well as touring in Europe, USA & Japan, playing a number of festivals (Sweden Rock Festival (SE), Metal Meltdown (USA), Fury Fest (FR), Pressure Fest (DE), Kaltenbach Open Air (A), Summer Breeze (DE), Fuck the Commerce (DE) Metal Fest URI (CH) etc. and releasing the live DVD "Destroy Live" recorded live in Kraków, Poland (2004).

Vocalist Jens C. Mortensen would join the band's ranks in late 2004. In early 2005, the band began work on new material and the first pre-prod recordings with Jens were made late 2005. In 2006 demos of all songs were made and in Oct the real recordings started.

In January 2007, the band signed to Candlelight Records. "Testify For My Victims" was released June 2007. Director Owe Lingvall (Village Road Film) has made two videos for the songs "Burning Eden" and "Numb (The Dead)". Both videos recorded in Umeå, Sweden in January 2007, and additional photage for "Numb" during the fall.

In November 2007 Jens and Jari both decided to part ways with Carnal Forge for personal reasons. Shortly after the replacements were found in Peter Tuthill (Vocals), and Dino Medanhodzic (Guitar). Peter Tuthill released 2 albums with Construcdead prior to joining Carnal Forge. Dino Medanhodzic has released one album with Soulbreach and is also a well reputated album producer as well as video director.

On the 27 of September 2009 Carnal Forge released the first song with the new line up. The song is called "Blood War". Blood War is written, recorded & produced by Carnal Forge in their own studio in Sala and mixed by Dino Medanhodzic.

In Jan 2010 Stefan Westerberg left the band and was replaced by Chris Barkensjö.

The video for Blood War was released in June 2010. This was Stefan Westerbergs last appearance with the band.

After the Rock Weekend Festival 2010, the band took a break and some of the members has been working on side projects.

At the moment Carnal Forge is writing new material and working on pre-productions for the next album.

Discography

Title	Release date	Label
Sweet Bride	1997	Demo
Who's Gonna Burn	22 September 1998	WAR Music/Relapse Records
Firedemon	14 November 2000	Century Media
Please... Die!	22 October 2001	Century Media
The More You Suffer	22 April 2003	Century Media
Aren't You Dead Yet?	21 June 2004	Century Media
Testify for My Victims	21 May 2007	Candlelight Records
Gun to Mouth Salvation	25 January 2019	ViciSolum Productions

Videography

Title	Release date	Label
Destroy Live	2004	Metal Mind Productions

Band members

Current members

• Tommie Wahlberg – vocals (2018–present)
• Jari Kuusisto – rhythm guitar (1997–2008, 2013–present)
• Petri Kuusisto – lead guitar (2000–2010, 2013–present)
• Lars Linden – bass (2001–2010, 2013–present)
• Lawrence Dinamarca – drums (2013–present)

Former members

• Johan Magnusson – guitars (1997–2000)
• Dennis Vestman – bass (1997–2000)
• Jonas Kjellgren – vocals (1997–2004)
• Stefan Westerberg – drums (1997–2010)
• Jens C. Mortensen – vocals (2004–2007, 2013–present)
• Peter Tuthill – vocals (2008–2010)
• Dino Medanhodzic – guitar (2008–2010)
• Chris Barkensjö – drums (2010)

Timeline

External links

• Official website
• Carnal Forge at Encyclopaedia Metallum
• Carnal Forge at MySpace
• Carnal Forge at YouTube
• Carnal Forge at Relapse Records
• Allmusic band entry