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Månegarm is a Swedish Viking/black metal band from Norrtälje. The band’s name comes from Mánagarmr, a wolf in Norse mythology.

The band started from the ideas of Svenne Rosendal, Jonas Almquist, and Pierre Wilhelmsson in 1995. After securing another guitarist in Mårten Matsson and a drummer in Erik Grawsiö, they began rehearsing as “Antikrist”. By 1996, they had changed their name to Månegarm, after the wolf of Norse legend, apt for a band concentrating on Viking metal, and early that year, they began recording first demo Vargaresa (Wolf’s Journey) in 1996. After the recording, Rosendal and Matsson left to be replaced by Jonny Wranning (vocals) and Markus Andé (guitar).

With the second demo, Ur Nattvindar, folk metal became part of their sound, including violins and female vocals for the first time, and they were signed by Displeased Records. Soon afterwards, Wranning left the band and was replaced by Viktor Hemgren. At the end of the year, they went back into Sunlight studios to record their first full-length album, Nordstjärnans Tidsålder (The Age of the Northstar).

In the summer of 1999, they began recording their next album, Havets Vargar. Because of some difficulty with the recording studio, they took some time off from recording the album. During this time off, Viktor Hemgren was fired, but instead of finding a new vocalist, Grawsiö assumed the duties along with his drumming. Also during this time, Janne Liljekvist was added as a full member. With the line up now solidified, they finished recording the album and released it in 2000.

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  • acclamationsun

    I am a member of a metal committee in Chicago. We say, people who own the Emperor discography or the Immortal discography should also have their discography. Another thing we say is, Månegarm are Sweden's first metal band. First means most important.

    23 May 2:42pm Reply
  • iBloodshed

    Title track for the upcoming album: http://youtu.be/N2RMLztRAT4

    22 May 2:37pm Reply
  • Alice_North

    love the guitars of this band, really nice work

    18 May 1:18pm Reply
  • Keltia_Vikinga

    Find all details on the new album, the spanish tour, tourdates, lyrics, etc in their official forum forum http://www.sword-chant.com/

    9 May 8:28pm Reply
  • haggard123

    i want a new acoustic record like urminnes havd [2]

    9 May 2:40pm Reply
  • iBloodshed

    Here is a teaser for the upcoming album :) http://youtu.be/9Fy4tHP2VUc

    8 May 7:27pm Reply
  • Qyaffer

    i want a new acoustic record like urminnes havd :(

    3 May 3:21am Reply
  • FiftySven

    macho2 I talked about the recording quality, wich is quite bad

    16 Apr 10:46am Reply
  • ikd-sj

    |vedergallningens tid| good (゚∀゚)!!!

    14 Apr 7:13am Reply
  • macho2

    Also, the quality of the demo's makes it hard to enjoy them? No offense guys but have you heard Ulver's "Nattens Madrigal" or Vlad Tepes, "La Mort Lune", there really isn't anything wrong with the production of Manegarm's demo's they are just more primitive sounding, which I think is somewhat fitting. Granted, if it was re-released and reproduced I wouldn't have that much of an issue with it.

    13 Apr 12:15am Reply
  • macho2

    One of the best pagan metal bands around. Going through all of their stuff and have yet to find a bad album.

    12 Apr 1:55am Reply
  • Matti81

    26.06.2013 ESP/SWE/NO, 28.06.2013 G/A/S, FIN & Benelux, 01.07.2013 Rest of Europe, 09.07.2013 USA/CAN

    4 Apr 2:45pm Reply
  • Earnado

    New album "Legions of the North" coming this summer!

    4 Apr 2:21pm Reply
  • UnrealGerry

    Album art for the upcomming album http://www.last.fm/music/M%C3%A5negarm/+images/88356791

    4 Apr 11:44am Reply
  • FappyFap

    Укупник все фотки запорол(

    21 Feb 10:36am Reply
  • XtremeBrutality

    Pretty good blend of Black/Folk Metal.

    3 Feb 1:51pm Reply
  • DMITRII_GHETTO

    у знакомого есть группа с очень похожим названием

    16 Jan 7:06am Reply
  • FiftySven

    Yes the Demos are great, but the quality makes it hard to enjoy

    10 Jan 10:35pm Reply
  • nomleben

    Eld...

    9 Dec 2012 Reply
  • bloody72

    pozdrowienia z Polski dla fanów Manegarm

    3 Dec 2012 Reply
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