Title: Swedish death metal /
Authors: Ekeroth, Daniel
Publisher: Bazillion Points Books
Year: 2008
Subjects: Death metal (Music) Sweden History and criticism.; Death metal (Music) Sweden Discography.; Rock groups Sweden Bio-bibliography.
Abstract: Includes "A-Z of Swedish death metal bands - encyclopedia," with band histories and performers.
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.