1995 \\ Mjølner i kvitekrists åsyn
Gravferd was formed by Larsen and Strange during the first hours of `95 over a phone call. Larsen got some songs and riffs, and needed a drummer to complete the songs. After lots of tapes sent through mail and weekend-rehearsals once in a while, there was 5 songs ready for the first demo Mjølner i kvitekrists åsyn. In the meantime, a third member, Løw joined in on second guitar and keyboards. This first demo was recorded on a four-track portastudio with a very bad production, released in 300 copies.
Recording line-up \\ Larsen - guitar & bass \ Strange - drums & vocals \ Løw - guitar & synth

1996 \\ Voices of death p.1
Gravferd signed up for participating on a compilation CD Voices of death p.1 to be released by V.O.D. Records. The first song from the demo was re-recorded and used for the compilation. The production was better but still terrifying. This was the the first recording session for the new vocalist, Abomonator, and bassist, Svalestad.

1997 \\ Av hedensk blod \ Voices of death p.2
After the release of the compilation CD, 5 new songs were written and recorded for the 2nd demo Av hedensk blod. This time the production was better and pretty suitable + digitally mastered by some guy from the USA calling himself re-masters. It was released in 400 copies (tapes) by an underground record label called Eerie productions. Sold out after a couple of months and re-released on a CD-sampler a bit later together with other demo-tapes released by Eerie prod. One song was also released on the Voices of death p.2 CD
Recording line-up \\ Larsen - guitar & synth \ Strange - drums \ Løw - guitar & synth \ Abominator - vocals \ Svalestad - bass
Additional performers \\ Petter - synth \ Butch - solo-guitar

1998 \\ Nightplay
Løw leaves the band after the recording of the previous demo, and the synth leaves with him. Larsen had written 4 more songs, then roughly rehearsed and roughly recorded, and released in a few copies as a promotape called Nightplay. Butch was helping out as a session solo-guitarist, stepped in at rehearsals and did the guitar-solos during the recording-session.
Recording line-up \\ Larsen - guitar \ Strange - drums \ Abominator - vocals \ Svalestad - bass \ Butch - solo-guitar

1999 \\ Modus operandi
4 years, 3 demotapes... it was time to move on. The songwriting became more well-structured and there was songs for one or two albums to pick from the new material by the riffmachine, Larsen. It was time to finance a debut album.The recording was supposed to be done at a Roland VS workstation. but ended up unfinished as a raw-mix of 9 songs with drums and rhythm guitars because of lost backup files after a long break from the recording. Butch didn't want to perform with the band anymore so he's quickly replaced by Blargh from Nidingr. The line-up felt very stable at that moment of time, and the activity became better.

2000 \\ The savage heart
Since the album-project got wasted there was decided to pick the 4 songs from the raw-mix with the best sound quality and record the remaining elements on PC. Later released as a demo-CD in a few copies. This should for least been sent around to a lot of record labels but somehow, it remained with a few with not good enough response. The next period was long and quiet with only a few rehearsals/year.
Recording line up \\ Larsen - lead guitar \ Blargh - lead guitar \ Abominator - vocals \ Strange - drums \ Svalestad - bass
Additional performer \\ Knut - the last infernal guitar-solo

2006 \\ Philosophize \ Demonized \ The one great curse
Gravferd has been more or less inactive for the last five years due to extremesports-injuries, work, kids, parties, etc… But finally the band has now started to rehearse more intense than before in new locations with very good recording opportunities and once again with a few line-up changes... The latest presentation of the band is the 2006 promo recording Philosophize which is kind of a “sound check” before the recording of the debut album The One Great Curse. Gravferd hits Multimono Studio to start the recording early this year.
Beside the planning of the debut, Gravferd releases Demonized CD/DigiCD through German record label Northern Silence Productions. Demonized is the early history of Gravferd in three chapters - the complete demo-collection 1997-2000.