David Isberg
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David Isberg (born February 23, 1975) is a Swedish musician, most famous for having founded seminal Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth.
Before Opeth, David was in the Swedish black metal band Procreation (1989-1991). In Procreation, he used the alias of Unholy Emperor. Alongside David was Christofer Johnsson, the man most known for being the frontman of the band Therion, using the name Necro. Procreation made two demo tapes ("Enter the Land of the Dark Forgotten Souls of Eternity" 1991 and "Procreation of the Antichrist" 1990, along with two live shows (both at Hunddagis, Handen 1 held in 1989 or 1990 (the year is not confirmed) and the second show being held on February 23, 1991 to celebrate David's 16th birthday) with various Therion members filling in on the empty slots.
David formed Opeth with some friends from Täby in 1990. Long-time friend Mikael Åkerfeldt was in a band called Eruption, but was considering a departure from this group. One day David invited him to play bass for Opeth and Åkerfeldt accepted the offer. When he came to the rehearsal, however, none of the other members of the band knew Mikael was coming and they didn't want to kick out the bass player they already had. The ensuing argument played out with all the members of Opeth (aside from David) leaving. They renamed themselves Crowley and released a demo tape called "The Gate" in 1991.
David remained with Opeth until 1992, when he left citing creative differences. His duties as lead singer were taken up by Åkerfeldt.
David Isberg continued his musical career with electronic project Grooveza (later Grooveza/Fuzz), death metal band Mynjun & today to be found in experimental David Isberg & The Stockholm War Ensemble as well as Stockholm Death Metal band Tutorial together with Adam Skogvards of Mynjun.
David Isberg is also known as DJ Dake, having a successful DJ career with independent and electronic music, often influenced by the magical Madchester scene. He also DJs old school heavy, thrash, speed & death metal from the 80's at Club Rocks in Stockholm on a monthly basis.
David is today also active in extreme blues maniacs Dubplate Connection, which recently released their debut album "Plays and sings the blues". They are at the moment doing shows in Sweden to support the album. The other 3 members of Dubplate Connection are Mårten Tiljander, Linus Dielemans & the mysterious Southside Slim.
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