Dark Funeral have announced the group\'s new sticksman: Nils Fjällström is replacing Matte Modin. Comment the band: \"Let\'s raise the horns high and welcome Nils Fjällström (Aeon, Sanctification etc) to Dark Funeral! Since this guy totally dominate on drums, he will from now on go under the pseudonym \'Dominator\'.\"
The new drummer made his live debut in Germany at Hellraiser Open Air and Rock Hard Festival.
A couple of weeks ago we were forced to cancel two shows in Russia and one in Ukraine because of our drummer\'s complaint of pain in one of his elbows. We (read Caligula, Ahriman, Chaq Mol and B-Force) were told that he needed rest and that his doctor had forbid him to play for at least 10 days. Unfortunately it gave us no other option but to cancel/postpone the shows with, regretfully, a very short notice. (...) Well, it\'s really bad… But what is even more fucked up, is that everything Matte Modin had been telling us (and you) was all lies! (...) He didn\'t have an infection in his elbow; he was on tour with another band, a punk band! I don\'t know what he told those guys, as I\'m sure they must have known about our touring schedule, but I seriously don\'t think it was, \'Hey, fuck Dark Funeral, I rather play with you guys, and since I\'m not man enough to tell them that, I will tell them I am sick, they will hopefully buy it.\'\"
The Dark Funeral vocalist/bassist continues with another example, that happened more recently:
\"So yesterday we asked [Matte Modin] straight out if he was going to show up at the airport or not [for two shows we had confirmed for this weekend]. He said no! This time the story was that his son had his birthday and that he wanted to stay home. Can\'t really say anything about that, it is quite normal. But to forget your own son\'s birthday and remember it the day before a show, a show you have confirmed several months ago, I do not understand! Right there and then, I was so mad, so fucking angry. He fucking did it again! He must obviously have known about his son\'s birthday, so why did he even confirm the shows in the first place!? And he sure should have let us (and you) know about it in advance so that there was enough time to make proper arrangements and postpone the shows or something. Instead he put us in this nightmarish situation (again) when we have no other option but to cancel/postpone yet another two shows (Latvia and Lithuania) with such a short notice. I think you get the whole thing….\"
