Swedish Death Metal

Capa
Bazillion Points Books, 2008 - 447 páginas
Sweden is a remote country in the freezing northern Europe, with less than nine million inhabitants and a reputation for Volvos, hockey players, cheap furniture, vodka, and blonde women. Since the late 1980s, however, Sweden has produced over a thousand extreme heavy metal bands, creating one of the most respected regional music scenes in the world. This is the improbable history of how a marginalized teen movement crawled from Sweden's small towns and suburbs, and found a lasting place on the world stage. Daniel Ekeroth captures the epic tale with enlightening detail, beginning with Sweden's violent loss of innocence in the 1980s, through the metal's virtual chokehold on the country during the 1990s into the lasting legacy and influence in the turbulent 2000s of the Sunlight guitar tone, the "Gothenburg Sound," and the countless offshoots of Sweden's most lethal cultural export.

This ultimate blow-by-blow account of Sweden’s legendary death metal underground is based on exclusive interviews with members of Nihilist/ Entombed, In Flames, At the Gates, Dismember, Grave, Hypocrisy, Opeth, Unleashed, Marduk, Morbid, Mob 47, Deranged, Edge of Sanity, Merciless, Therion, Liers in Wait, Carnage, Carcass, Tiamat/Treblinka, Afflicted, Repugnant, and the Haunted.
 

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PREFACE
1
DAWN OF THE DEAD
8
SWEDISH METAL GETS BRUTALIZED
26
Sweden Loses Its Innocence
34
THE BIRTH OF SWEDISH DEATH METAL
64
THE SCENE GETS GOING
92
THE UNDERGROUND BREAKS THROUGH
143
The Awakening
151
Incantation
165
Singles of Death
177
THE DEATH METAL EXPLOSION
218
THE END OF THE ORIGINAL SCENE
238
THE DEAD LIVE ON
260
AZ OF SWEDISH DEATH METAL BANDS
278
SWEDISH DEATH METAL
422
CAST OF CENTRAL CHARACTERS
442

Mean
159

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