Firespawn is a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm, formed in 2012 by Alex Impaler of Necrophobic, Lars Göran Petrov and Victor Brandt, both of Entombed A.D.. The band, originally called Fireborn, the musicians "wanted to play faster and harder death metal than in our other bands".[2] The later addition of guitarist Fredrik Folkare of Unleashed and Necrophobic and drummer Matte Modin of Defleshed, completed the band's line-up.