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Victor Brandt (born 18 December 1983)[1] is a Swedish musician best known as current touring bassist of Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir,[2] he has also previously played bass for death metal and black metal bands Entombed, Entombed A.D.,[3] Six Feet Under,[4] Satyricon and Witchery.
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Brandt was bassist for Swedish hardcore punk band Totalt Jävla Mörker (Total Fucking Darkness in English) since 2004. He also formed a side project called Dominion, which he performed in as guitarist, bassist and vocalist, alongside drummer Jocke Olafsson (formerly of In Aternum).[5]
Brandt started playing with Norwegian black metal band Satyricon in 2008, as session and touring member before departing in 2009.[6] Following this, he joined Aeon, replacing Max Carlberg,[7] although he had departed by 2010, with guitarists Zeb Nilsson and Daniel Dlimi playing bass on Path of Fire.
He joined Swedish death metal band Entombed in September 2010, taking bass duties from Nico Elgstrand who moved onto second guitar.[8] He played with Entombed until 2014 when the band went on hiatus due to legal battles between founding members Lars-Göran Petrov and Alex Helid. He followed Petrov, Elgstrand and drummer Olle Dahlstedt in forming a new band called Entombed A.D.[9]
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While Entombed were still active, he founded death metal band Firespawn as guitarist alongside Necrophobic bassist Alex Friberg.[10] The two recruited Entombed vocalist L-G Petrov as well as guitarist Fredrik Folkare of Unleashed and Necrophobic and drummer Matte Modin of Defleshed.[11] Him and Friberg as the band's main composers.[10] Firespawn have been inactive since the death of Petrov in 2021.[12]
In 2012, he became a member of hardcore punk/death metal supergroup Akani,[13] featuring vocalist Jorge Rosado (Merauder), guitarists Anders Björler (At the Gates) and Daniel Antonsson (Dimension Zero), and drummer Anders Lowgren (Dead Reprise).[14] They have released one album,[15] and have toured Europe.[16]
While still in Entombed A.D. he played with American death metal band Six Feet Under on the Hatefest tour in 2015, when regular bassist Jeff Hughell was unavailable.[17] In 2018, Brandt departed Entombed A.D. to join Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir who were playing their first show since 2012 that year.[18] In 2022, he joined Witchery, replacing Sharlee D'Angelo (Arch Enemy, Mercyful Fate).[19] He had previous played as a stand in for Witchery in 2017.[20][21]
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