METALLIAN - Puteraeon

The Esoteric Order - 2011 - Cyclone Empire
Cult Cthulhu - 2013 - Cyclone Empire
The Crawling Chaos - 2014 - Cyclone Empire
The Cthulhian Pulse: Call From The Dead City - 2020 - Mighty
Mountains Of Madness - 2025 - Emanzipation

Members

Vocals

Taetre, Deletion>>JONAS LINDBLOOD>>Taetre, Deletion

Guitar

Taetre, Thorium, Commander, Deletion>>JONAS LINDBLOOD>>Taetre, Deletion - Exempt, Valedictory, Dawn Of Time, One Man Army And The Undead Quartet, Aggro, Killaman, Reclusion, Pagandom>>RUNE FOSS>>Pagandom

Bass

Absinth, 13itch>>DANIEL VANDIJA

Drum

Infestation, Absinth, Immemoreal, Prophanity, Inverted, Bhleg, Nominon>>ANDERS MALMSTRÖM

History & Biography

Active since 2008, the death metal act had demos called Fascination For Mutilation and The Requiem in 2008. This was the solo act of Jonas Lindblood to begin. The Extraordinary Work Of Herbert West was the 2009 demo. It referred to a story by H. P. Lovecraft. Cyclone Empire became involved and the debut record was released in 2011. The band had brought back many demo songs. The band’s first concert was at Överrocken in Alingsås. The group appeared at Party San Open Air 2011 with Dew-Scented, Absu, Aborted and Witchburner among others. The Lovecraft inspiration continued with the next album, Cult Cthulhu. The band was live at Aalborg Metal Festival in neighbouring Denmark and Nocturnus Festival Vol.II in Germany. Lindblood contributed lyrics or leads to bands like Megascavenger and Just Before Dawn. 2013 brought a mini-tour with Revel In Flesh. The bands had a split called Imperial Anthems No. 13 too. The Lovecraft theme continued with The Crawling Chaos in 2014.

Next up was a single called The Empires Of Death through the digital service Spinnup in 2017. The Dunwich Damnation was a MLP in 2018. The band switched to Emanzipation Productions for 2020’s The Cthulhian Pulse: Call From The Dead City.

Another self-cover version came when Puteraeon had a digital EP called Quindecennial Horror through Emanzipation in March 2024. Among others it contained the first song the band had written, The Plague. The song Graverobber was a self-cover version originally heard on The Requiem demo of 2008. 2025 brought a single, called I Am The Darkness, in advance of an album, which was billed as the last part of the group's Lovecraftian odyssey. It was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö. The group's album was called Mountains Of Madness. The label was Emanzipation Productions. The release date was May 30 2025.

A second guitarist named Hans Sörensen came and went in 2009, but otherwise the band’s line-up has been remarkably stable since Foss joined in 2010. Puteraeon announced that their former guitarist Hans Sörensen had died in 2019. He played with the band between 2009 and 2010 and was also in Cult Of The Headless Witch. The cause of death was not disclosed.

Reviews

Interviews

Let PUTERAEON transport you to the Mountains Of Madness

It's fast. It's heavy. It's inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. What's more metal than that? Sweden-based Puteraeon, comprised of singer and guitarist Jonas Lindblood, guitarist Rune Foss, bassist Daniel Vandija and drummer Anders Malmström, is underground, but already on album number five and the subject of this feature. The band is about to issue its Mountains Of Madness full-length through Emanzipation Records of Denmark and, having been convinced by the vocals, music and lyrics, Ali "The Metallian" invited main man Lindblood into the halls of Metallian Towers for a conversation. The Swede was welcoming of the questions and open to the path the conversation took. - 06.04.2024

METALLIAN: Jonas, thanks for your availability and making time. First though, could you introduce the band to all the readers who either have just heard the group's name or don't know it at all?
JONAS: We are Puteraeon, a small unknown band that has been around in the underground for some time. Around 17 years right now if my math is correct. The band was founded in Alingsås, a small town outside of Gothenburg. Since the start we have done a bunch of full-length albums, number five is the reason we are doing this interview, and also some EPs and stuff. We play some kind of Lovecraftian Swedish old school death metal, or at least, that is the foundation we build upon while adding some melodies here and there.

METALLIAN: Before we jump to the present, let's go back twenty years or so. Your former band Taetre was said to have recorded an album that is lost beneath the sands of time now. Do you get nostalgic sometimes thinking back about that music that went unreleased?
JONAS: Yeah, that happens for sure. I don't have the finished album. I think we called it Psychopath. I remember it as a good album, a mix of the first album and the third mainly. Who knows what the future holds, but my guess is that this one will never be released. There is actually one song leaked by an old friend online on YouTube called The Razor Dreams if anyone is interested. Not sure if that song is representative of the album, but it was a track from the album.

METALLIAN: One thing that is rather surprising is the stability of the band's line-up. With one minor exception, Puteraeon's line-up has remained the same. This is a surprise within the parameters of the metal scene and almost a shock within the parameters of the Swedish metal scene these days. What makes you guys different?
JONAS: Hans who was handling guitars for a very short time was never a contributing member. We had a good friendship with him until he passed away back in 2019. I think we found a stable line-up when Rune Foss joined the band in 2010… I think it was. I guess the recipe is that we are four different people with loads of stuff in common who really enjoy hanging out. We always have a great time during rehearsals. Since we never made it big, we haven't gone around the world and gotten tired of each other.

METALLIAN: Jonas, that raises an interesting point, what does it take to make it big in metal? We know it is not necessarily the quality of the music. I usually half kid with people that all it takes is to disband and reform and all the attention in the world will come pouring in.
JONAS: I guess we don't really know since we never made it (laughs). But I guess you have to make it interesting. And you need to have the flow, like, you are seen everywhere. And to be seen everywhere, you need to be everywhere, on the road back and forth. You need to know the right people with the right connections, I guess. There are just so many artists and so much music being forced upon you that you don't really need to go after it if you aren't a picky listener. Of course, Cthulhu must be pleased with the sacrifice and the stars must be positioned right obviously (laughs again).

METALLIAN: Alright, Jonas, we are speaking because you have a new album called Mountains Of Madness. This one, again, as the title suggests, follows a story that is part of H.P. Lovecraft's mythos. Could you expand on why this choice was made? By the way, this is not the first time the band has used At The Mountains Of Madness as an inspiration, is it?
JONAS: We have been more or less Lovecraft-only the last ten years or so, and before that we also had a huge part of the lyrics' concept as Lovecraft inspired stuff.
It feels like we have found our category so to speak. The last full-length album The Cthulhian Pulse: Call From The Dead City was heavily inspired by The Call Of Cthulhu story. This time we took the story from At The Mountains Of Madness and made it into an album. We have done several songs previously that have had inspiration from this novel, sure. On our second album Cult Cthulhu you'll find the song Shoggoth and also In Dreamdead Sleep on our third album. So yeah, we've been poking in this pie a bit before.

METALLIAN: While we are here, it is my understanding that this is the final album by the band to have an entire Lovecraftian concept. Is that accurate?
JONAS: That is probably a misunderstanding. We have no plans to stop and we have no plans to not write about Lovecraft stuff in the future.

METALLIAN: In that case, has the band contemplated becoming part of the mythos and adding to it as opposed to being only inspired by the current available body of literature?
JONAS: Not thus far. Lovecraft's universe is just perfectly fitting to this kind of music. I think if we do another album in the future, most likely, it will be another concept album on another Lovecraft story.

METALLIAN: One thing that came to mind repeatedly listening to your album was how conceptual effects and atmospheric elements were added in the service of the storytelling, but they were never at the expense of the speed or heaviness. The norm is to dread albums or bands that are described as "atmospheric" because they are, inevitably, wimps who use the excuse of deploying non-metal elements in the name of 'atmosphere.' Poor souls don't understand that pure metal is a pure atmosphere. Puteraeon managed something rare, which is to be atmospheric without compromising on the metal.
JONAS: For us, we cannot compromise on the speed and the heaviness. We wanted this album to be in your face, aggressive and intense. That was the most important thing. I also love my metal with some stains of horror mixed into it, so therefore there are some eerie melodies here and there to build it all together so to say.

METALLIAN: I want to pick up on the album's closing number, which has also become the subject of a video for the band. This came across as an odd choice because it is an atypical representation of the rest of the album. In fact, the first 40 seconds are more Dissection than what is known as Swedeath, before normal programming resumes before, in turn, the opening rhythm returns.
JONAS: Well, first up, yes there are some Dissection influences on this song, which I think fit perfectly in the mix, but why did it become the first video? In the past we have always decided on our own which song should be the video. This time I thought it would be cool to ask Dan Swanö (who mixed the album), which song he thought of. So he said, 'I Am The Darkness.' We had this one as a contender, for sure, and we decided to go with what Dan suggested. The song itself is mainly built around that first riff. It's the same as the chorus except here we don't have the second melody and there it doesn't feel as much like Dissection so it's experienced differently due to what you add up together.

METALLIAN: It seems you have a penchant for creating compound words and portmanteaus like Puteraeon or Studio Stunlight. With that said, could you say a few words about the set-up for Studio Hatecraft and whether this is actually a public facility?
JONAS: Studio Stunlight was our old studio and Studio Hatecraft is our new one since ten years back. We own it so you can't book it or something. We rehearse at the same place so, in other words, our rehearsal is also functioning as our studio where we record.

METALLIAN: That's what I thought, Jonas. Speaking of your recording process, Dan Swano's quotation after mixing and mastering your album caught my attention. How did you find him on Cameo and how much did you pay him to offer you this quotation about the new album: "...will go down in the history books as one of the best Swe-Death releases ever"?
JONAS: We didn't pay him anything for this quote. I understood that he liked the album and I asked him if he could write a few words regarding the album. I know the words are big, but those words are Dan's. We are just very happy he thought so well about our album. I hope someone will pick up the album or maybe find us because of this. We've always been an underground, small label band, but I hope that continues and good albums get people to find us.

METALLIAN: Of course, it was my attempt at being funny when I said you paid him. With that said, and since we are here, obvious albums like Into The Grave and Like An Everflowing Stream aside, what is the one Swedeath masterpiece that didn't get the attention it deserves and needs more praise?
JONAS: You never know in these times (laughs). You never know what people pay for! I grew up in Gothenburg and I think there is some good stuff from that town that never reached the heights of At The Gates, Dissection or In Flames. Bands like Liers In wait, I think they only released one album or mini-album. Awesome chaos (laughs loudly). I loved a band called Sarcazm who released a couple of demos, thrash/death, really cool. Otherwise, we have Luciferion, another Gothenburg-based band. They did two albums, very American death metal. Really good stuff. Runes' old band Exempt did a couple of really good demos as well. Oh, I must also mention Merciless. I'm surprised they didn't get bigger. Unbound was a damn good album.

METALLIAN: That is a fine list and yes the commercialism and transactional nature of the scene is quite tacky! Back to Puteraeon, is any live work planned for 2025? Either way, do you have any other news you would share beyond the album's release?
JONAS: There are a few shows booked, but I'm not really sure when they will become official. I would say we are a pretty intense live band, and we love playing live. So I hope we get more concert time during 2025.

METALLIAN: It occurs to me to ask whether you have ever considered including Lovecraftian visuals or imagery in your live sets.
JONAS: We have thought about it, but I think we will keep it at a-full-throttle-sweaty-band-giving-it-everything-live-situation.

METALLIAN: OK! Jonas, to conclude our conversation, the whole world knows that Metallian is the best portal for everything metal. Why do you obviously agree with this fact?
JONAS: Well, first up, I don't want to get a beating or be called a balled poser, so I agree. Metallian is the best portal for everything metal. Only interviewing Puteraeon shows that!

Jonas Lindblood knows his stuff. Mountains Of Madness is available through Emanzipation Productions on 30.05.2025. The band can be found at http://www.puteraeon.com/

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