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Necrophobic was formed in Stockholm, Sweden the year 1989 by guitarist David Parland and drummer Joakim Sterner to give the world a band that created unholy death metal. Around this time, most bands played death metal in the veins of Carcass, Napalm Death etc. Necrophobic had a bit different influences and focused more on to create a much more dark and evil sounding music, in the beginning influenced by Morbid Angel, Slayer and Bathory. During the »underground years« 1990-1992, the band builds up a great reputation with the demo tapes »Slow Asphyxiation« (1990), »Unholy Prophecies« (1991) and the limited vinyl-ep »The Call« (1992). The great sales of these releases proved that Necrophobic was not »just another band«. Necrophobic thought the time was right to move on and started to contact a few labels to get a record contract. Black Mark Production responded after just two days and it turned out to be the label the band signed with. In March 1993, members David Parland (guitar), T...