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Swedish death metal / Daniel Ekeroth.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Bazillion Points Books, 2008Description: 447 p. ill., ports., facsims. 24 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • Omedierad resurs
Carrier type:
  • Volym
ISBN:
  • 9780979616310
  • 097961631X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 781.66 22
Contents:
Dawn of the dead. The punk connection -- Swedish metal gets brutalized. Sweden loses its innocence ; Bathory enters the eternal fire ; Obscurity and Mefisto : the rise of the underground ; Swedish thrash metal -- The birth of Swedish death metal. Merciless ; Morbid, Nihilist, and the early Stockholm scene ; Grave and Grotesque : early death metal around the country -- The scene gets going. Bajsligan : the "Army of excrement" ; The movement grows nationally ; The Stockholm scene reigns ; The last hour of thrash metal ; Blood, fire, death! ; The pioneers : a summary -- The underground breaks through. The awakening ; Left hand path ; Mean ; Dark recollections ; Sumerian cry ; Time shall tell ; For the security ; Incantation ; The demo boom : Stockholm ; The demo boom : nationally ; Singles of death -- The reigning years of Swedish death metal. Entombed and Earache ; Dismember and Nuclear Blast ; Therion and Deaf ; Enter Century Media ; Dolores and the Gothenburg bands ; Under the sign of the Black Mark ; At the Gates and Peaceville ; Active : from thrash to death ; Century Media reigns on ; Nuclear Blast takes command ; House of Kicks ; Entombed and the rest -- The death metal explosion. The Gothenburg area ; Goth town Borås ; Death center Finspång ; The strange case of Mjölby ; The Eskilstuna scene ; Avesta and the scene in Bergslagen ; Uppsala bloodbath ; The Stockholm scene gets flooded ; Up north and down south -- The end of the original scene : black metal takes over. The birth and development of black metal ; A blaze in the Swedish sky ; No Fashion ; Dissection ; Marduk ; Abruptum ; Exit black metal -- The dead live on. Grind ; Death 'n' roll ; The Gothenburg sound ; Retro thrash ; Extreme death metal ; Retro death -- A-Z of Swedish death metal bands. Gallery ; Encyclopedia.
Summary: Includes "A-Z of Swedish death metal bands - encyclopedia," with band histories and performers.
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"Interviews ... between spring 2006 and spring 2008, if not otherwise indicated." -- Half-title page.

"Bibliography: Swedish death metal fanzines" (p. [422]-441.)

Dawn of the dead. The punk connection -- Swedish metal gets brutalized. Sweden loses its innocence ; Bathory enters the eternal fire ; Obscurity and Mefisto : the rise of the underground ; Swedish thrash metal -- The birth of Swedish death metal. Merciless ; Morbid, Nihilist, and the early Stockholm scene ; Grave and Grotesque : early death metal around the country -- The scene gets going. Bajsligan : the "Army of excrement" ; The movement grows nationally ; The Stockholm scene reigns ; The last hour of thrash metal ; Blood, fire, death! ; The pioneers : a summary -- The underground breaks through. The awakening ; Left hand path ; Mean ; Dark recollections ; Sumerian cry ; Time shall tell ; For the security ; Incantation ; The demo boom : Stockholm ; The demo boom : nationally ; Singles of death -- The reigning years of Swedish death metal. Entombed and Earache ; Dismember and Nuclear Blast ; Therion and Deaf ; Enter Century Media ; Dolores and the Gothenburg bands ; Under the sign of the Black Mark ; At the Gates and Peaceville ; Active : from thrash to death ; Century Media reigns on ; Nuclear Blast takes command ; House of Kicks ; Entombed and the rest -- The death metal explosion. The Gothenburg area ; Goth town Borås ; Death center Finspång ; The strange case of Mjölby ; The Eskilstuna scene ; Avesta and the scene in Bergslagen ; Uppsala bloodbath ; The Stockholm scene gets flooded ; Up north and down south -- The end of the original scene : black metal takes over. The birth and development of black metal ; A blaze in the Swedish sky ; No Fashion ; Dissection ; Marduk ; Abruptum ; Exit black metal -- The dead live on. Grind ; Death 'n' roll ; The Gothenburg sound ; Retro thrash ; Extreme death metal ; Retro death -- A-Z of Swedish death metal bands. Gallery ; Encyclopedia.

Includes "A-Z of Swedish death metal bands - encyclopedia," with band histories and performers.

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