DESULTORY was formed in Sweden, by vocalist / guitarist Klas Morberg, bassist Haken Morberg, drummer Thomas "Snake" Johnson and guitarist Stefan Poge.

Desultory has been one of Sweden's leading Speed Death metal outfits since its inception in the early ' 90s.They recorded 3 demos, and debuting in 1993 with "Into Eternity", Desultory has released several albums, including 1994's "Bitterness" and 1996's "Swallow the Snake" under Metal Blade Records.

DESULTORY  was:

Klas Morberg - Vocals /Guitar
Haken Morberg - Bass
Thomas Johnson - Drums
Stefan Poge - Guitar
Jens Almgren - Bass

"Into Eternity"

Hailing from the country of Sweden, the same place as the immensely talented, incredible band Dismember are Desultory. While comparisons between these bands may likely happen, considering Desultory some semblances to old-styled Dismember material, the group take a different angle on song writing and style.

Desultory have put together a pretty impressive debut record, "Into Eternity", that follows the school of more technical Thrash Metal with a distinctly European sound, not unlike that of Coroner it's more into the Swedish sound ( Sunlight / Skogsberg ). "Into Eternity" has various complex songs that usually tread a basic rhythm with smoothly integrated segues into different leads.

"Tears" and "Twisted Emotions" are good examples of the tightness the band exemplify, while keeping the track interesting through diversions within the songwriting. While several of the songs drift from a slower approach and bleaker mood, almost without failing the pace is picked up in every song. "Visions" has a truly belligerent unrelenting mid-pace that makes it stand out, although it is hard to pick through the tracks since most are good. But definetly my favourite tracks are "Into Eternity" and "Asleep", that couple of tracks are like a punch in the face that increase your adrenaline into a more higher level!

Insofar as debut albums go, Desultory have released a very well-produced record that shows musicianship and very harsh sound, recorded at Sunlight Studio with producer Tomas Skogsberg, this is one of that records that you most get to your cd collection, If you are into Death Metal of course! One more release that helped to make famous the Stockholm Scene.

"Bitterness"

What can I say about "Bitterness"?, well first I didn't recognize the Klas Morberg vocals!!, totally difeferent, clean vocals but with the same rage as always, the raw voice just go, and I don't know why he did that because his vocal performance on "Into Eternity" was so fuckin' great, but this time he just turn down the harsh way, but that doesn't mean that the music loose that too, the music are still into Thrash Death way with a lot of great riffs. For example "Life Shatters" , "Bleeding" and "Among Mortals" are killer tracks, with the Desultory touch that they show us on their first album, with melodic parts and a more better songwriting everytime, more mature with some slow parts along the songs.

I think that Metal Blade didn't give the necessary promotion to this album, even actually the label just sell the album on tape, I can't beleive it (In fact the Desultory albums are very hard to find), this kind of bands deserve a better support from their labels.

A second great release from this killer Swedish act, recorded again at Sunlight Studio with master Tomas Skogsberg ( good job Tomas!) a killer production, and an album to search and If you see this album in a Metal store and you don't buy it, just give you a shoot in the head.
( I think that the guys of "Gates of Ishtar" were very influenced by this album, you can listen all the influence on "At Dusk and Forever" cd).

"Swallow the Snake"

Desultory's third album finds the Death Metal band adding more melody into their foreboding, near-gothic heavy riffs. Instead of diluting the group's impact, the addition of stronger hooks actually makes the album more powerful, especially since it coincided with the group toughening up their rhythmic attack. Though "Swallow the Snake" lacks the consistent songwriting of "Bitterness", these musical improvements make it nearly as impressive. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

In my opinion, "Impressive" is a wrong word, because instead of give a great Death Metal album they just turn the band' style into a totally different way that doesn't belong to Death Metal, therefore the great bands like Desultory or Morgoth or many other bands split-up, because they start to do experiments with their music and just they make shitty music, or near-pop stuff. And I think that's not fair to the fans that follow the band (or bands), I know that the band don't care what the fans think but come on, you can't play Death Metal one day and the next album play Goth Heavy Bizarre Rock or something like that.

I agree with the "Evolution" into the bands music but you have to get the evolution step by step, not so fast like this "Swallow the Snake", if they were another band , will be a great release , but no, sadly is Desultory.

This interview was made by a guy namely Tomas, editor from
a 'zine elsewhere in Europe, thanks to a Greek friend for send it!

DESULTORY has been a wellknown band in the underground scene, they has now a new demo out called "Visions" and this tape are really great! 3 tracks of agressive Thrash Death Metal, now to the interview with Klas Morberg the Singer and guitar player...

Tomas: I was heared that your "Death Unfolds" demo has sold out pretty good, how many
copies has you sold, and does people like it?
Klas Morberg: Yes, it has now sold around 1500 copies which I think is very good and the response has been great, we were even voted as 7:th best demo band in THRASH & BURN...

T: And now has you released a new demo called "Visions", tell us more about it, are you satisfied with it?
K: The "Visions" demo was recorded in Sunlight in August ' 91 and contains 3 trax: "Forever Gone", "Depression" and "Visions" and we are quite satisfied with the way it turned out...

T: And when are you m-Lp out how many tracks will it be, some title?
K: It should be out when this zine is released and it will contain the 2nd and the 3rd demo...

T: Have you some tracks ready?
K: Yes, right now were writting new songs and we' ve got 4-5 new ones ready, some titles are "Twited Emotions", "Into Eternity" and "Tears".

T: The gig you did in Poland on some kind of festival, was it a success for you, how many people was there?
K: We played a gig in Poland and one in Moscow in Aug.' 91 in Poland there were
2000 and in Moscow it was 7000 people and the response was great!, We played
with Vader, Asshole, Shud.

T: Have you ever heard something from some record label?
K: Yes, right now we are talking to a few quite big labels but nothing is decided yet, so I don't want to say anything about it... Let's see what happens...

T: You are recording your stuff in Studio Sunlight, and in my opinion you are not getting the usual Sunlight sound, or I'm on wrong lines?
K: Well, a lot of people say that and it makes me happy, 'cos we try to create an own sound. We try to go for a slightly cleaner sound, maybe a reason for that is we don't tune down our guitars that much.

T: What do you think of the old Heavy Metal?
K: I have grown up with Heavy Metal, I still love some bands like: Black Sabbath (old) Iron Maiden (old) Ozzy, things like that...

T: What are members of Desultory doing when they not play music?
K: Right now I'm doing civil service stead of the army. Thomas and Stephan works and Hakan goes to school. On the end we like to meet friends, drink beers and go to some club here in Stockholm.

T: Future plans and anything last...
K: We'll try to secure a record deal, write new material and hopefully play here in Sweden and other countries. Thanks for the space in your zine, take care, bye.