Fragment was formed in Geneva Switzerland at the beginning of 1995 and then grew in a sound that is an unprecedent combination of powerful metal and hardcore influences. Fragment performs dark grooves and an unconventional tortured metal.

Shortly having released a first 7’’, their debut E.P. ‘Tronc’ was recorded in 1996 with Geneva’s producer David Weber (Young Gods, Treponem Pal, Lofofora, Tantrum) in ‘Studio des Forces Motrices’ and released in March 1997 on Snuff Records. This record displayed an imaginative, colourful and yet complex style of metal identified to Fragment nowadays. Very favourably received by the French and German presses (Rage, Rocksound, Metalhammer Germany) it marked the band’s first major step towards shedding their influences, heading into a specific, personalized style, taking them to another stage.

1997 brought a spurt of inspiration which saw the band write their first full-length. Fragment began experimenting with an incorporating advaned style of rythmic patterns with more and more worrying atmospheres, discordant and surgical riffing, controlled dissonance and own song structures into their intense. The texts are introspective, mostly expressed bad feelings by which each of us may be prompted. Beginning December, Fragment entered the‘Dug-Out Productions Studios’ in Uppsala Sweden, with acclaimed engineer/producer Daniel Bergstrand who has come to be known for working with bands like Strapping Young Lad, Meshuggah, Stuck Mojo, Misery Loves Co. and more.

Fragment was put into his own musical realm, with personal identity soundscape. The result of the band’s labor is 'Flux', an exhausting exercise in creativity and brutality.

The band signed and released this album with ‘Headstrong Records’ in October 1998. The ‘Flux’ album found distribution in Spain, France, Benelux, Austria, Switzerland and the U.S. on Relapse Catalog, countries in which the band contributed to several compilations.

The year after, a short European tour with Pro-Pain, and opening for Soulfly in Switzerland for the promotion of the ‘Flux’ L.P., before hitting the road for their second tour in April-May 2000, bringing their absolutely ferocious live assault as the opening act for the Swedish band Meshuggah throughout France and Switzerland. The famous tour show in Geneva, with Pantera, Powerman 5000, Satyricon and Meshuggah, was definitely one of the high-lights of the band so far. Last year tour with Meshuggah maintained Fragment’s ability to expand their musical borders and constantly challenge their listeners.

2001 signalled a major turning point for the trio as they added a new vocalist to improve their raging aggression and give more direct approach for their new songs. The vocals are more intense than ever before, absorbing energy and spitting back into the listener’s face. From now on the lyrics will be in english.

In fact, the new four songs recorded and mixed early January 2002 by Fredrik Thordendal in Stockholm, Sweden, displayed the expected Fragment characteristics, however the songs began to get longer and more expressive, focusing on efficiency and aggressivity, while retaining the accurate sense of worrying sonorities that have graced the band's past material.

While composing new material, they have settled in producing the next record Fredrik Thordendal, Meshuggah's lead guitarist, in Stockholm Sweden, to work for the making of Fragment's personality, which will result like an ever-expanding organic machine fuelled by an unquenchable thirst for evolution, thus signalling a new direction in the Fragment's sound.

Exploring new ways of expression and density for Fragment, the latter creates music that is uncompromising, but becoming more melodic, still with an underlying dark and tortured attitude, with more impact and a spine shivering effect, taking their art to a new level of extremity...