Brighter Death Now is the artist name under which Roger Karmanik (b. 1965 as Roger Karlsson), the founder of the Swedish record label Cold Meat Industry, releases death industrial, power electronics and dark ambient music.
Whereas early Brighter Death Now recordings tended to be largely instrumental and atmospherically oriented, present-day releases often feature screamed vocals, distorted beyond comprehension. Throughout its history, Karmanik has kept his music's thematic elements focused on such topics as child molestation, sadism, and psychosis.
The Great Death trilogy and May All Be Dead have become rare collector's items, and are sought after by many Brighter Death Now fans. Roger Karmanik has been active under other names such as Lille Roger (Swedish for Little Roger) and Bomb The Daynursery.
In 2009, Karmanik remixed the short films of Jason LaRay Keener as projection for live shows.
Karmanik closed down Cold Meat Industries around the beginning of 2014 as he expressed that he was suffering mentally and physically from the stress of running the label. By the end of 2014, Karmanik had fully immersed himself within the shroud of Brighter Death Now and announced the creation of his new label Familjegraven whose sole purpose is to release his own projects, including rarities, reissues, and new recordings.
Discography
As Brighter Death Now
YearTitleFormat Notes1989Temp TationsCassette release. Ltd. to 50 copies.1989Pain in Progress1989 (Unclean Production/Cold Meat Industry) URD 08 90 12 33-01/CMI-03LP. Compilation of two recordings originally released on two distinct "Pain in Progress" cassettes: in 1988 under the pseudonym Bomb the Daynursery for the seven opening tracks, and later on as Brighter Death Now for the seven last tracks.
Shatterer Of Earth/Pain In Progress/Certified Dead/Deathkomh (Unreeased)/ Dachau-Anthem/Still Murder/Meat Improvement/Heart Of Stone/ Meat Improvement (Video Version)1990Great DeathLP.(Cold Meat Industry) CMI-09 Ltd.of 500 copieslater reissued as first CD on Great Death I-IIGreat Death/Erisceration/Certified Death/Gore/Moribund/Laudate Dominum1989Slaughterhouse InvitationCassette release, later released as part of 'The Slaughterhouse' CD1993The SlaughterhouseCD.1993Great Death I-II2xCD. Ltd. to 1500 copies.1995Necrose EvangelicumCD. Features Mortiis on the title track.1996Great Death IIICD. Only available by mail-order via coupon in Great Death I-II1996Brighter Death Now - Nordvinterdöd/Kill 7”Pic(Pain In Progress) PAIN001 Ltd. of 300 copies. Recorded at the Soul Grave1996Nordvinterdöd7" single. Only available by mail-order via coupon in Great Death III1996No Salvation/No Tomorrow7"/10" single1996Innerwar1996 (Cold Meat Industry) CMI-45 LP/CD Innerwar/American Tale/No Pain/Happy Nation/Little Baby/Sex Or Violence ?/No Tomorrow/War1998Greatest DeathCD - compilation of tracks from all 3 parts of the Great Death trilogy1999May All Be Dead1998 (Cold Meat Industry) CMI-67 Ltd. of 1000 copies 2xLP/CDI Hate You/I Wish I Was A Little Girl/Behind Curtains/Payday/Oh What A Night/Fourteen1999XN Recordings 005Ltd. edition 7" single (486 copies)2000ObsessisLP/CD20011890LP.2001 (Cold Meat Industry) CMI-101 Ltd. of 800 copies I/II/III/IV2001Why12" single2001 (JINX) Ltd. of 777 copies Why/Never Again !2003Brighter Death Now/Coph Nia - Nunsploitation LP(Cold Meat Industry) CMI 110 Ltd. of 666 copiesA Tribute To The Leather Nun A-Side: Slow Death (Slow Mix) Brighter Death Now. B-Side: Prime Mover (Sex Mix) Coph Nia. Several versions have the labels inverted (A-side is the Coph Nia track, B-side is the Brighter Death Now track)2005DisobeyCD+DVD dualdisc in A5 pack. Live recordings.2005Kamikaze KabaretCD.2005Brighter Death Now/Proiekt Hat 7”(XN Rec.) Xn 009 Ltd. of 486 copies Covers of the Can You Feel It (The Jacksons) (renamed 'Feel', Proiekt hat) and Bad (Michael Jackson) (Brighter death now)20071890 LP(Cold Meat Industry) CMI- 169 Rekreation StálbadV/VI/VII/VIII/IX2008Necrose Evangelicum LP/2CD(Cold Meat Industry) CMI- 179Re-release of the 1995 album. The CD release includes a bonus CD 'Unlive in Finland 1996'. LP ltd. to 500 copies.2009Where Dreams Come True(Cold Meat Industry, JINX) CMI196, JINX CD-003Live recording in Chicago, 13 June 20032009Breaking Down Nihil(Der Angriff, Indiestate Distribution) Angriff Nr. 37, IST 073 CDThis release was made to support the Russian shows of Brighter Death Now tour "Breaking Down Nihil!" which took place in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg in September 2009. Ltd. to 150 copies; intended sale only at these shows.2011Very little funCold Meat Industry CMI209 (3xCD/4xLP)2014With promises of deathFamiljegraven GRAV-01There are two versions, a US version and a European version, which have a different end track
As Bomb The Daynursery YearTitleFormat & Notes1983Discipline Through Mental IllnessCassette release. Ltd. to 50 copies.1983Pain In ProgressCassette release, later reissued on CD under Brighter Death Now name
As Lille Roger YearTitleFormat & Notes1985Metrom Evil 84'Cassette. Ltd. to 84 copies1985For LifeCassette1985Despise/A CelebrationLP, split with Verboten1986Älskar DigCassette1986Rock N Roll 85-86 / SillmjölkeCassette, split with Engürdetz. Ltd. 27 copies1987Undead7"1993Golden ShowerCD compilation of tracks from previous releases2018Undead6-LP compilation
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