Artist description Thrash metal band from Sweden with plenty of crushing riffs, attitude, and grooves

Music Style Thrash / Metal

Musical Influences Slayer

Similar Artists Slayer, Entombed, At the Gates, The Haunted, Hatebreed, Pantera

Artist History The foundation of 2Ton Predator was laid in 1993 when Tobbe and Mogge founded the band Wedge. They were soon joined by Petter and Matte, and with the line-up complete the band began writing songs, doing demos, and looking for a deal. The style back then was laid back metal sort of in the vein of Alice In Chains. The band's first demo from '93 was done in the Swedish Gorysound Studio with Dan Swano (Edge Of Sanity) behind the knobs, but despite Wedge's cooperation with Dan Swano, they didn't manage to catch the interest of any labels so new recordings were done and more demos sent out. Despite their many efforts the band had to face the fact that getting a deal is not the easiest thing in the world and to top it off - In 1996 the band's singer Mogge had to do eight months in prison. Ironically exactly at that time the band actually got a deal with the TCB-Agency, and thus their continued rehearsing obviously had to be done without the presence of a singer and with a lot of rehearsal tapes being sent to Mogge's new "home" in order to keep him updated on the development of the band. Evidently even eight months in prison pass and Mogge finally got released. At that time everybody thought that Wedge were to record their first full length for the TCB-Agency, but once again the record business displayed some of its more unpredictable sides. Here's what happened according to Matte: "The manager from TCB split leaving behind him numerous of unpaid bills, his employees in deep shit and us very disillusioned and to put it mildly - fuckin’ disappointed!!! We then knew it was time for a change." So Wedge decided to change their name to 2Ton Predator and start from scratch. After all there were already two other bands called Wedge along with an American bakery. And who wants to be associated with a bakery anyway? What's the reason for naming themselves 2Ton Predator you might ask? "All four of us are very fascinated with large animal predators such as the great white shark" says Matte. "I guess that's what inspired us to come up with that name. Also I think that the name 2Ton Predator very well reflects our style of playing. You just know when you hear the name 2Ton Predator that it isn't just some whimpy load of shit." A new demo "Burned ‘98” was recorded and that tape managed to catch the interest of Diehard. A deal was made and the Danish producer Tue Madsen (Grope) was transported to the Soundlab Studios in �rebro, Sweden, where he produced the 2Ton Predator debut full length "In The Shallow Waters". The musical inspirations for the members of 2Ton Predator derive from a lot of different bands. “First of all”, says Matte, "I guess we have to blame Mr. Hetfield and Mr. Araya for playing music in the first place, and eventhough we obviously donut have a certain band or person in mind when writing new songs we all very much like the great bands of the 80s such as Kiss, Maiden etc., but we also get into the newer stuff like C.O.C , Crowbar, Pantera, At The Gates just to mention a few. Once in a while we even get into "MTV music" Yes! Crucify us if you like."

Group Members Mogge - Vocals Bully - Bass Mazza - Guitar Matte - Drums

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vokills

Albums In the shallow waters (1999), Boogie (2001), Demon Dealer (2003)

Press Reviews Very few albums catch my attention on the first listen. I usually have to spin a cd three or four times before I can really wrap my brain around what I am hearing. Not so with Sweden’s 2 Ton Predator's latest album, Demon Dealer. I was halfway through track 3 when I decided that this is one of the best albums I've heard in the past couple of years. 2 Ton Predator seem to have taken all the best elements or old school US thrash, hardcore, and metal, modernized it, and created a unique sound of their own. Their past work has often been compared to Pissing Razors or Pantera, but this album defies comparison to any other band I've listened to. Just because the band is from Sweden doesn’t mean they are making melodic metal. Production here is great. The bass, drums, vocals, and guitar sounds are all mixed well and all are very clear and audible. The guitar and bass tones are done especially well, and heavy as fuck. It sounds like they may have used some different guitar amps/processing on this recording, I hope they keep it. Some of the songs here also feature some well-used vocal effects, always done subtle enough that they add to the music, rather than just be fucking annoying. If you are a fan of 2 Ton's previous two albums, you are going to like this, a lot. The songs here are meaner, faster, and the songwriting is just killer. If you consider yourself any type of metal fan, check this out. I think this album is going to go down as one of those "hard-to-find" gems you see people paying full import price on. Demon Dealer is being compared to The Haunted's music, but I think that's a bit of a stretch. Love it or hate it, this is metal in 2003. If only Diehard would realize the potential of an album like this with a proper release and promotion in the US, they could all have success.

Location Orebro, Hell - Sweden

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