Anders Nyström
Anders Nyström, also known as Blakkheim, is a Swedish musician, best known as a founding member of Katatonia and Bloodbath alongside Jonas Renkse.
Career
Nyström founded the Swedish [heavy heavy metal music|metal music|metal] band Katatonia with Jonas Renkse in 1991. Nyström is involved in the songwriting, guitars, backing vocals, keyboards, programming, arrangements, art direction and production of Katatonia along with Renkse.He used to be a member of the metal band Bewitched from 1995 to 1997 and is a member of the death metal project Bloodbath. He has released four albums as the solo black metal act Diabolical Masquerade.
On March 17, 2025 Renkse announced that Anders had departed Katatonia, Nyström stated that his departure was because of the band's disregard of earlier material. He felt that the band's name should had been retired when the band departed from their death-doom roots. Fellow Katatonia guitarist Roger Öjersson had previously stated that Nyström hadn't contributed guitars to the band's two previous albums.