Fifth Reason

Describing their music as "psychotic metal," the members of Sweden's Fifth Reason split their time between several bands, only occasionally coming together to create melodic power metal records like 1997's Psychotic and 2000's With or Without. Comprising singer Kristian Andren (Memento Mori and Tad Morose), guitarists Simon Johansson (Abstrakt Algebra, Memory Garden) and Marco A. Nicosia (Hexenhaus), bassist Marty Marteen (Hexenhaus, Memento Mori), drummer Martin Larsson, and, on the first LP, bassist Oscar Tillman, Fifth Reason is supposedly still a going concern, despite their long absence from recording. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia