GRAVE Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement

Swedish death metallers GRAVE have posted the following message on their official web site:

“After careful consideration our drummer Pelle [Ekegren, ex-COERCION] has decided to leave the band due to personal reasons and also the increasement of touring that we will engage in the coming months and hopefully years to come.

“Pelle has been a very important part of the band and has played a big part in GRAVE‘s sound on the albums he appeared on. We wish him all the best with his other projects and life in general.

“For the upcoming tours we have drafted Ronnie BergerstГҐhl (ex-BASTARDS, JULIE LAUGHS NOMORE, AMARAN, CENTINEX). Rehearsals are going great and we welcome Ronnie in the band. His first live appearance with GRAVE will be when we kick off the first leg of the 2006 U.S. tour on September 30.”

GRAVE will tour in North America with labelmates VITAL REMAINS as well as DISMEMBER, DEMIRICIOUS and WITHERED in October and with DISMEMBER, ENTOMBED and THE ABSENCE in December. The European “Masters Of Death Tour 2006” — featuring GRAVE, ENTOMBED, UNLEASHED and DISMEMBER — will kick off in early November.