Swedish death metal
By: Daniel Ekeroth.
Edition: [Exp. U.S. ed.]
Publisher: Bazillion Points Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780979616310
Subjects: Death metal (Music) -- Sweden -- History and criticism; Death metal (Music) -- Sweden -- Bio-bibliography
Genres: Bio-bibliography.
Description: Includes "A-Z of Swedish death metal bands - encyclopedia," with band histories and performers.
Notes: "Interviews ... between spring 2006 and spring 2008, if not otherwise indicated." -- half-title page.

Includes bibliographical references and discographies.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Chris Reifert; title: Introduction. Why Sweden?; title: Dawn of the dead. The punk connection; title: Swedish metal gets brutalized. Sweden loses its innocence ; Bathory enters the eternal fire ; Obscurity and Mefisto : the rise of the underground ; Swedish thrash metal; title: The birth of Swedish death metal. Merciless ; Morbid, Nihilist, and the early Stockholm scene ; Grave and Grotesque : early death metal around the country; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: The dead live on. Grind ; Death 'n' roll ; The Gothenburg sound ; Retro thrash ; Extreme death metal ; Retro death; title: A-Z of Swedish death metal bands. Gallery ; Encyclopedia; title: Bibliography : Swedish death metal fanzines; title: Cast of central characters.