Devourer is black/death metal forged in fire and fury. Formed in 2002 in Sandviken by multi-instrumentalist and producer John Falk, the band — now based in Gävle — delivers a sound that’s both punishing and atmospheric.
In 2019, John’s partner in life and sound, Sanna Falk (aka Oksana Rage), joined on bass. By 2023, she took over vocals, igniting a new era for the band. Her voice is venom in sonic form—serrated, powerful, and unmistakably clear. On stage and on video, Sanna commands attention with an intense, magnetic presence that has redefined Devourer’s identity.
Their latest release, The Wicked Ones (2024), marks the band’s fifth full-length album and its most visceral statement yet. Sanna wrote all the lyrics and co-composed every track with John. Critics and fans agree—this is Devourer at their fiercest.
With over four hours of music, a growing collection of videos, and a sound that crushes boundaries, Devourer stands as a relentless force in the underground metal scene.
This is Devourer as it stands — scarred, deliberate, and fully formed.
To understand how this entity came to be, the record must be followed further, into the formative years and the long, uncompromising process that shaped it.
It took more than two decades for Devourer to manifest in its true form. the project began as a private creative space where John could write and record without restraint — no rules, no rehearsal, no audience to satisfy.
With well over a hundred published works spread across multiple bands, his nature as a composer is relentless, and Devourer became the vessel through which he sharpened his composing and production craft.
The Origins (2002-2012)
The first eleven years of Devourer was a slow, festering gestation. No full-length albums emerged. A raw demo surfaced in 2003, but other bands demanded time, and the project was forced back into the shadows. Four years passed before Thy Devourer bled into existence.
Two additional songs were written and recorded in this era and later grafted onto the same release. During these years, Devourer did not yet stand at the center of John’s creative will. It waited. It grew. It endured.
The Evolution (2013-2022)
Between 2013 and 2022, Devourer released four full-length albums, each one a step deeper into aberration, refinement, and intent. During this period, John turned his attention toward visual decay, expanding the project beyond audio into film.
The first video, Filth, was not bound to any album — a standalone act of defilement — and other isolated works followed.
Each release during this decade was treated as an experiment in domination over sound, a calculated mutation of songwriting and production that slowly shaped Devourer into a more focused, more merciless entity.
In 2022, Devourer took form beyond isolation and entered the physical realm of rehearsal for the first time. It was Sanna who brought forth the idea of live performance, dragging the project out of pure solitude and into a shared process.
Becoming the Devourer (2023–Present)
When the band’s vocalist, Fredrik Håf, departed in 2023, John and Sanna considered ending Devourer and birthing something new — until they began writing together and discovered that the new material carried the unmistakable mark of Devourer. The path was sealed.
After the release of The Wicked Ones in 2024, Devourer was set to defile a stage at Fredagsmangel in Järfälla on September 12th, 2025. Bureaucratic obstruction and the cruelty of circumstance, tied to Sanna’s Swedish residence permit, forced the event to be postponed.
In the absence of her return, John constructed the Devourer Sanctum — the definitive archive of Devourer’s work — and continues to refine both hardware and software. Two new songs now exist, and the next album is already mutating in both sound and form beyond The Wicked Ones. Her return date is unknown, but the work does not stop.
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