Sweden's TORTURE DIVISION, which features in it's ranks guitarist Lord K. Philipson (THE PROJECT HATE, GOD AMONG INSECTS, ex-LEUKEMIA), bassist/vocalist Jörgen Sandström (VICIOUS ART, The Project Hate, ex-ENTOMBED, GRAVE) and drummer Tobias "Tobben" Gustafsson (VOMITORY), have issued the following update:

"We had a fantastic time at the Close Up Boat and wanna thank everyone involved for making it an unforgettable day of death metal and carnage. Naturally Peter Andersson, Sophie Linder and Close Up Magazine’s editor Robban deserves the biggest cheers. Not to forget our fantastic Sillboy of VICIOUS ART who helped out with pretty much everything at all time. You guys are phenoms.

It was tremendous to see so many people there so early in the day and we can never thank you enough for showing us your support. We take a bow to the heroes creating the pits and to everyone in the front row who did nothing but help us to create a great show and enjoy themselves to the fullest. Thank you people, thank you so much. Also, thanx to Peter Herneheim (www.herneheim.se) who helped us out with some new band photos that we will display at this site asap (you can watch some of them at our MySpace in the meantime if you feel like it), he also took a bunch of live shots that we will post when we get them. In the meantime we are now gearing up for the House Of Metal Festival and the gig in Karlstad. Those two events will have a hard time beating what the Close Up Boat did for us, but our expectations are sky rocketing, just so you know, haha…

And now we have a request: If you happened to be on the boat and witnessed this gig… Did you take any photos? Film anything with your mobile phone? If so, please send us everything you have, no matter the quality - we just would love to have it for our private collection. You can send it to torturedivision@gmail.com.

Again, thank you so much for the support and for buying our merch (we sold every single item which we never thought would happen). We’ll leave you for now with a shot that captures the gig quite well, thanx to Peter Herneheim for taking it - (click photo to view)."