Genre(s):
Death Metal/Grindcore
Lyrical Theme(s):
Death and Violence
Origin:
Sweden (Gävle)
Formed In:
1997
Status:
Active
Current line-up:
William Blackmon - Guitar, Drums, Vocals (Withered Beauty)
Rikard Olsson - Guitar (Shitstorm, Diskonto)
Emil Englund - Vocals
Fredrik Nygren - Bass (Ashram, Sorcery (Swe))
Additional notes:
In 1997 William Blackmons old hardcore band Abegail had a side project called Gadget where the members just switched instruments and played power violence/fastcore (William handled the vocals). The band recorded one demo before they (and Abigail) split up. During 1998/98 William formed a new grindcore band called Leviathan together with soon-to-be Gadget vocalist Emil and two other friends. That short lived band also split up just after they recorded their only demo. In late 1999 William then started a new grindcore project and re-used the name Gadget.

The intentions were to do everything by himself but he soon realised that it was too demanding (and boring) to do it all on his own, so he recruited guitarist Rikard Olsson after just a few months. As a duo the band wrote ten songs and recorded their first demo during a week in february 2000. They both handled guitar and bass duties and William took care of the vocals and drums as they couldn't find a suitable drummer yet.

Shortly after Emil Englund was recruited as the vocalist, first just as a stand-in so the band could start perform live but he later joined in as a full member, and William stayed behind the drums. A few bass players went by untill they recruited Fredrik Nygren during 2003.

Discography:
Gadget - Promo 00 [demo] - 2000
Gadget - Promotion Songs December 2000 [demo] - 2000
Gadget & Exhumed - Exhumed / Gadget [split] - 2001
Gadget - Polargrinder [demo] - 2002
Gadget & Sayyadina & Assel & Genocide Superstar & Birdflesh & Disfear - Swedish Assault [split] - 2002
Gadget - Contaminated 5.0 [demo] - 2003
Gadget - Contaminated Vi [demo] - 2004
Gadget - Remote [full-length] - 2004
Gadget - The Funeral March [full-length] - 2006
Gadget & Phobia - Gadget/Phobia [split] - 2010
Gadget - The Great Destroyer [full-length] - 2016

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Official site:
http://www.myspace.com/gadgetgrindcore