CLAWS started in early August of 2008 when Lasse wanted to start a Death Metal band highly influenced by the cult Swedish death metal band Crematory from the early 90's, as well as other rotting and cryptic sounding bands such as Derketa, Nihilist, and Incantation. This style of death metal is very rare today and Lasse felt he could have fun writing some very raw, heavy, and utterly haunting songs in this way! He called upon his ravenous friend of all things horror Billy Nocera to help him write some lyrics and together they both came up with the name CLAWS and a theme of decaying terror...

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