Fred Estby

{{short description|Swedish drummer}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Fred Estby | image = Photo - Märvel and Fred Estby while on tour with Dregen (cropped).jpg | caption = Estby in 2013 | birth_name = Fredrik John Estby | birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1972|3|14|df=y}}}} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | origin = | genre = {{hlist|Death metal|heavy metal}} | occupation = {{hlist|Musician|songwriter|record producer}} | instrument = Drums | years_active = 1988–present | current_member_of = {{hlist|Dismember|Ekstasis}} | past_member_of = {{hlist|Carnage|Daemon|Death Breath|Dismemberizer|Necronaut|Parodi|Shubniggaraut|Terra Firma|The A-Bombs|The Clint Eastwood Experience|The Dagger}} | website =  }}

'''Fred Estby''' (born 14 March 1972) is a Swedish musician who is known as the drummer and main songwriter of the death metal band Dismember.<ref>{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p38425/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Dismember|last=Huey|first=Steve|publisher=AMG|accessdate=6 May 2010}}</ref> He has also worked as a record producer on occasion.

== Career == Estby originally played drums in the band Carnage. He has appeared in various other projects including The A-Bombs (drums), The Clint Eastwood Experience (drums), Daemon (vocals), and Shubniggurat (vocals), Dismemberizer (drums), Parodi (guitar), Death Breath (vocals). He contributed vocals to the band Centinex of the album ''Subconscious Lobotomy'', and appeared as a guest singer with Entombed in 1997 during a show in Stockholm where he sang "Left Hand Path". He also played drums The Dagger, a hard rock/heavy metal band from Stockholm formed in 2009 by Estby, David Blomqvist, Tobias Cristiansson and Jani Kataja. In 2022, he joined death metal band Ekstasis, which also includes vocalist Damien Moyal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramirez |first=Carlos |date=28 October 2022 |title=Ekstasis: Stream Debut EP from New Band Feat. Dismember, As Friends Rust & Crusades Members |url=https://www.noecho.net/features/ekstasis-dismember-as-friends-rust-band |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028133741/https://www.noecho.net/features/ekstasis-dismember-as-friends-rust-band |archive-date=28 October 2022 |access-date=28 October 2022 |website=No Echo |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Herron-Wheeler |first=Addison |date=28 September 2022 |title=Track Premiere: Ekstasis – "Magmatic Decimation" |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2022/09/28/track-premiere-ekstasis-magmatic-decimation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928180559/https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2022/09/28/track-premiere-ekstasis-magmatic-decimation |archive-date=28 September 2022 |access-date=29 October 2022 |website=Decibel |language=en-US}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == *{{Official website|http://www.dismember.se}}

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