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his Godsend is not the one featuring Andy Sneap (ex-Sabbat). This Godsend was mostly a gothic metal project for guitarist Gunder Audun Dragsten. On his own he recorded two demos but after having enlisted Dan Swanö (ex-Bloodbath/ex-Edge of Sanity/ex-Nightingale/ex-Pan-Thy-Monium; vocals/keyboards) and Benny Larsson drums (ex-Edge of Sanity/ex-Ophthalamia/ex-Pan-Thy-Monium; drums) he would complete the As the Shadows Fall debut in 1993. By the follow-up In The Electric Mist (1995) he had recruited an entirely new line-up in the form of Per Morten Kjöl (vocals), Tom Wahl (guitars), Tommy Halseth (bass) and Henrik Pettersen (drums) before re-instating Swanö, along with new members Tomas Steinscherer (guitar), Erik Oskarsson (ex-Nightingale; bass), Benny Larsson (drums) for A Wayfarer's Tears (1997), an album of classic Swedish doom metal that also featured bonus tracks at the end that were originally on

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