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In the spring of 2002 the Danish Melo-death/Black-metal band "Descensus" was formed in Ribe. Bass player/lead singer Asbjørn Steffensen and guitar player Mads Gath had been wanting to make some brutal melo-metal for a long time. They hooked up with drummer Mikkel Carlsson and guitar player Kristian Bjerg, and the foundation to the band was hereby formed. However, the band members wanted to add some new elements to their Swedish-inspired death metal. Therefore they decided to bring keyboard player Esben Michelsen into the band. This provided the music with a touch of symphonic black metal. The band soon realized that...