Roger Karlsson (born 1965), performing as Brighter Death Now, is a Swedish electronic musician and founder of the record label Cold Meat Industry. Karlsson established the solo project in 1989 in Linköping as a method to address personal depression. His career specialized in death industrial, power electronics, and dark ambient music. His discography included the early releases Temp Tations (1989), Pain in Progress (1989), and Great Death (1989). Karlsson’s work featured the albums Necrose Evangelicum (1995), Innerwar (1996), and Kamikaze Kabaret (2005). Following the closure of Cold Meat Industry in 2014, Karlsson founded the label Familjegraven to release subsequent recordings. Later albums included No Decency (2019), All Too Bad - Bad to All (2021), and Everything is gonna be alright (2022).
