   artillery is a danish thrash metal band. they participated in the early development of the genre, and their highly energetic, riff-centric and often fast-paced music is similar in style to that of voivod, coroner, megadeth and sabbat from the same era. after releasing three full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, artillery disbanded in 1991, but decided to reform seven years later, only to disband once again in 2000. however, they reformed again in 2007 and are still together today. ==history== the band formed in 1981 in taastrup, a suburb to copenhagen by drummer carsten nielsen and guitarist jÃ¸rgen sandau while they were visiting mercyful fate at their rehearsal room. later on they agreed to name the band artillery from the track "heavy artillery" from tank's album "filth hounds of hades". after trying several musicians, the line up became: guitarists jÃ¸rgen sandau and michael stÃ¼tzer, bassist morten stÃ¼tzer, drummer carsten nielsen and singer per onink. the group recorded the demos "we are the dead" (1982), 'shellshock and deeds of darkness in 1984. artillery's first commercial debut came in early 1985 with the inclusion of the song "hey woman," on volume one of the speed metal hell compilation series which was released on new renaissance records. later that year, carsten lohmann left and was replaced by flemming rÃ¶nsdorf. later the same year, artillery recorded a third demo, fear of tomorrow, signed with neat records, and released their first album, also titled fear of tomorrow. in 1986, carsten nielsen was contacted by quorthon of bathory asking him if he was interested in drumming for bathory. nielsen turned down the offer since he thought artillery would become a much bigger band than bathory. their second album, '
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