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Original
ENTOMBED members
Alex Hellid (guitar),
Uffe Cederlund (guitar) and
Nicke Andersson (drums) have released a statement about the recent passing of
Lars-Göran "LG" Petrov. The pioneering
ENTOMBED and
ENTOMBED A.D. singer died on Sunday, March 7 after a battle with bile duct cancer. He was 49 years old.
Hellid,
Cederlund and
Andersson wrote: "All the years, all the toil, all the dreams, the struggle, the rewards, the humor, the laughter, and the tears. It's been a long damn journey and the memories are many and fantastic. Everything we've experienced and laughed at together, the big and the small, from being teenage kids to almost growing up. Your now legendary and unique sayings, your 'LGisms', must surely one day find their way into the dictionary. How can you argue against 'Pizza was invented in the late '70s by Turkish people in Bredäng (Sweden)'!
"Our thoughts go to your family, and your wider other family — your many friends all around the world. Through everyone you've touched, you live on. We will forever miss you, a member of our family, and we will always keep the good memories with us.
"Rest in peace
LG".
Hellid and
Petrov had been embroiled in a legal battle over the
ENTOMBED name for several years. In 2014,
Petrov was reportedly awarded the right to use the band name in connection with future recording and touring activities, a decision which
Hellid appealed without success. The guitarist then went on to register a trademark for spirits production under the "
Entombed" name. This move did not sit well with
Hellid's former bandmate, who filed a letter of protest against
Alex's registration of the name, claiming that it could be confused with band activities. He also said that
Hellid acted in "bad faith" when he registered name and that there was a desire to "deceive the public."
Petrov's protest, however, found no favor with the
Swedish Patent And Registration Office, which rejected his claims on the issue in a March 2016 ruling.
In an interview with
Revolution-Music.dk,
Petrov defended his group's decision to release albums and tour under the name
ENTOMBED A.D. in order to avoid a legal battle with
Hellid who didn't want his former bandmates to use the
ENTOMBED moniker: "It had to be done, because without an album you can't tour," he explained. "I mean, you
can tour, but if there's seven years between albums, it's ridiculously long. So we did the right thing, and we did what bands should do, and still do — release an album and go on tour and headbang and have a good time with friends, and that's what it's all about."
He continued: "There was too much bullshit — crying and whining about things. It's just ridiculous.
"Some people are comfortable staying at home, but then just step aside and let us do our thing.
"We added two letters, but it's still the same band — [only] without people that wanna stay at home, or take millions of years [coming up with] a [new] riff."
Asked if he thinks the
ENTOMBED name has been damaged as a result of the drama surrounding the split with
Hellid and the decision to continue as
ENTOMBED A.D.,
Petrov said: "Nah, not really. A thousand people have a thousand different opinions — good and bad. But we do what we felt was right. And we're out here touring, and that's the most important [thing], I think. And leave the childishness aside and play metal, basically."
A completely different version of
ENTOMBED — featuring
Hellid,
Cederlund and
Andersson — played the band's groundbreaking 1991 album,
"Clandestine", in its entirety at Malmö Live in Malmö, Sweden in November 2016. Joining them at the show were
Robert Andersson (vocals) and
Nicke's half brother
Edvin Aftonfalk (bass), both formerly of the Swedish death metal band
MORBUS CHRON. Two weeks earlier, the most recent
Hellid-led lineup of
ENTOMBED made its live debut on the
Close-Up Båten cruise.
ENTOMBED A.D.'s latest album,
"Bowels Of Earth", was released in August 2019 via
Century Media.
All the years, all the toil, all the dreams, the struggle, the rewards, the humor, the laughter, and the tears. It's...
Posted by Entombed Clandestine on Thursday, March 11, 2021