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{{short description|Swedish drummer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2010}}
{{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 music|heavy metal]]}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Drummer||musician|producer|songwriter}}
| instrument        = {{hlist|Drums|guitar|vocals}}
| years_active      = 1988–present
| label             = {{hlist|American Line|Back on Black|[[Candlelight Records|Candlelight]]|[[Century Media Records|Century Media]]|Distorted Harmony|[[Earache Records|Earache]]|[[Hammerheart Records|Hammerheart]]|High Roller|[[Karmageddon Media|Karmageddon]]|Necrosis|[[Nuclear Blast]]|[[Regain Records|Regain]]|Relativity|[[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor]]|Willowtip}}
| current_member_of = {{hlist|[[Dismember (band)|Dismember]]|Ekstasis}}
| past_member_of    = {{hlist|[[Carnage (band)|Carnage]]|[[Daemon (band)|Daemon]]|[[Death Breath]]|Dismemberizer|Necronaut|Parodi|Shubniggaraut|[[Terra Firma (band)|Terra Firma]]|The A-Bombs|The Clint Eastwood Experience|The Dagger}}
| website           = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} or {{Official URL}} -->
}}

'''Fred Estby''' (born 14 March 1972) is a Swedish musician. He is best known as the drummer and main songwriter of the Swedish [[death metal]] band [[Dismember (band)|Dismember]].<ref>{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p38425/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Dismember|last=Huey|first=Steve|publisher=[[All Media Group|AMG]]|accessdate=6 May 2010}}</ref> Before he played drums in the band [[Carnage (band)|Carnage]]. Estby appeared in various other projects including The A-Bombs (drums), The Clint Eastwood Experience (drums), [[Daemon (band)|Daemon]] (vocals), and Shubniggurat (vocals), Dismemberizer (drums), Parodi (guitar), [[Death Breath]] (vocals). He has contributed vocals to the band [[Centinex]] of the album ''Subconscious Lobotomy''. Estby also appeared as a guest singer of [[Entombed (band)|Entombed]] in 1997 during a show in [[Stockholm]] and sang "Left Hand Path".

After the release of 'The God That Never Was' and some touring, Fred Estby left the band "after long and careful consideration".  In a posting on the official site on April 20, 2007 Fred cites the demands of touring and the needs of his family as key reasons for him leaving the band.<ref>[http://www.dismember.se/ Fred leaves Dismember - Official Statement]</ref>  Fred's statements appears as "My decision to put my family in first hand makes it impossible to keep on touring and commit to the band full time. I want to thank all the fans, friends, bands and all the other cool people i've met through the years and I wish Dismember all the best in the future. Fred."

Currently, Fred plays drums on the band The Dagger, a hard rock/heavy metal band from Stockholm, Sweden formed in 2009 by Fred Estby, David Blomqvist, Tobias Cristiansson and Jani Kataja. The Dagger has just released their first album through Century Media. In 2022, Estby joined the [[death metal]] band Ekstasis, which also includes vocalist [[Damien Moyal]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramirez |first=Carlos |date=October 28, 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=October 28, 2022 |access-date=October 28, 2022 |website=No Echo |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Herron-Wheeler |first=Addison |date=September 28, 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=September 28, 2022 |access-date=October 29, 2022 |website=[[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

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

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[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Swedish heavy metal drummers]]
[[Category:Dismember (band) members]]
[[Category:21st-century Swedish drummers]]
[[Category:Carnage (band) members]]
[[Category:Musicians from Stockholm]]


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