BiografieBiography
Line-Up 2001 to present:
Fredrik Schälin - Lead vocals, guitar
Henrik Drake - Bass guitar
Andreas Allenmark - Guitar
Conny Pettersson - Drums

Anata is a death metal band that was formed -93 in Varberg, Sweden. Today Anata´s music can be described as progressive yet brutal death metal with melodic elements. However, while updating this section we thought it´d be more interesting for you to read somebody else´s view upon the band. We simply stole this info from Relapse´s website ( www.relapse.com ) and added some headlines for the sake of readability.

ANATA is…
Self-described as "MORBID ANGEL meets AT THE GATES" [we never did], Anata is the perfect bridge between explosive American death metal and bloody European thrash. "Dreams of Death And Dismay", the band’s second full-length, combines precise, angular riffing with a superb sense of melody, resulting in rapid, harmonic metal the likes of which hasn’t surfaced in years.

But in the beginning…
Formed in Varberg, Sweden in 1993 by Robert Petersson (drums), Fredrik Schälin (lead guitar, vocals), Mattias Svensson (guitar) and Martin Sjöstrand (bass), Anata´s penchant for penning unrelenting death metal with a razor-sharp sense of melody has always been an inherent trait in their songwriting. As the band grew as musicians and songwriters, the music shifted into a darker, more death metal direction. Performing live with Dissection, Lake Of Tears and Beseech, Anata also proved to be an intense live outfit. It was in this arena that the band honed their skills equivalent to that of their more experienced countrymen.

The demo years
Anata´s first demo, "Bury Forever the Garden of Lie", was recorded in June 1995. The recording was met with overwhelming success from the European press, and furthered the band’s visibility in the worldwide market. Yet, even with an acclaimed demo behind them and increasing interest from press and labels, guitarist Mattias Svensson and bassist Martin Sjöstrand left the band in 1996. In the same year, Anata found a new bassist in Henrik Drake. Ready for battle once again, Anata recorded their second demo, "Vast Lands of My Infernal Dominion" in 1997. The demo signaled a continued drive to venture faster into the depths of death metal, using the blueprint drawn and re-drawn by their American counterparts as a guide. By year’s end, the band found Andreas Allenmark to fill in as second guitarist.

"THE INFERNAL DEPTHS OF HATRED" (CD -98)
The quality of "Vast Lands of My Infernal Dominion" landed in the hands of French label Season Of Mist, and only a year later Anata was in the studio recording their debut album. Titled "The Infernal Depths of Hatred", the album featured four songs from their second demo as well as four new tracks. Tracks like "Released When You’re Dead" and "Aim Not at the Kingdom High" ushered a move into thicker, bottom-heavy death metal while "Slain Upon His Altar" and "Dethrone the Hypocrites" maintained the band’s yearning for harmonic structure. As evidence of the album’s greatness, French magazine, Metallian, voted "Infernal Depths of Hatred", "Album Of The Month".

"DREAMS OF DEATH AND DISMAY" (CD 2001)
The mounting praise from fans and critics alike didn’t stop Anata. Never one to rest on their laurels, Anata started writing for a second full-length. "Dreams of Death and Dismay" harnesses Anata´s punishing songwriting abilities into 10 explosive songs of uncompromising, punch-you-in-the-throat aggressive death metal. Anata´s fierce, all-over-the-fretboard riffing, however, never compromised the band´s superb melodic sense. The seamless combination of musical elements and culmination of many years of experience shows that Dreams of Death and Dismay isn’t merely a death metal album with fantastic melodic purport, it’s an album that shows where the genre has been and where it’s headed. Anata is the future of intense, intricate metal.

ANATA signed to Earache/Wicked World in August 2002.

[In April 2001 drummer Robert Petersson left Anata and was replaced by Conny Pettersson.]

[We agree. Now if you´re new to the band you might wonder "what the hell did these guys do between those two albums?". In the meantime we recorded a split album with a Norwegian band called Bethzaida. Both bands contributed with two new songs and two covers per each. The mission included covering one of the other band´s songs. Confused? Why this album? Nevermind… it was released in December –99 though.]

Quelle: http://www.varberg.se/~drake/frames.htmlDiscografie2003 - UNDER A STONE WITH NO INSCRIPTION
2001 - DREAMS OF DEATH AND DISMAY
1998 - THE INFERNAL DEPTHS OF HATRED
1998 - WAR vol. II - ANATA vs. BETHZAIDA
1997 - VAST LANDS OF MY INFERNAL DOMINION (Demo)
1995 - BURY FOREVER THE GARDEN OF LIE (Demo) www