Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth

The ultimate blow-by-blow account of Sweden's legendary death metal underground, 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.

Book of the Year 2008, Decibel Magazine.

"Finally, the true story of Swedish death metal! This book brought me back to the good old days" (Tomas Lindberg, At the Gates)

"Death metal ruled my adolescent years. The problem is I don’t remember half of it! This tome of dark recollections is the chance to set things straight" (Nicke Andersson, Nihilist / Entombed / The Hellacopters)

"Read this book if you are willing to be subjected to the story behind the extreme face-melting, flesh-ripping, ear-slaying, gut-blasting phenomenon known as Swedish death metal" (Chris Reifert, Death / Autopsy)

CONTENIDO:

Acknowledgements

Preface
Foreword by Chris Reifert
Introduction: Why Sweden?

1. Dawn of the Dead
The Punk Connection

2. Swedish metal gets brutalized
Sweden Loses Its Innocence
Bathory Enters the Eternal Fire
Obscurity and Mefisto: The Rise of the Underground
Swedish Thrash Metal

3. The Birth of Swedish Death Metal
Merciless
Morbid, Nihilist, and the Early Stockholm Scene
Grave and Grotesque: Early Death Metal
Around the Country

4. The Scene Gets Going
Bajsligan: The "Army of Excremem"
The Movement Grows Nationally
The Stockholm Scene Reigns
The Last Hour of Thrash Metal
Blood, Fire... Death!
The Pioneers: A Summarv

5. 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

6. 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 Sino 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

7. The Death Metal Explosion
The Gothenburg Area
Goth Town Borás
Death Center Finspáng
The Strange Case of Mjólby
The Eskilstuna Scene
Avesta and the Scene in Bergslagen
Uppsala
Bloodbath
The Stockholm Scene Gets Flooded
Up North and Down South

8. 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

9. 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
Bibliography: Swedish Death Metal Fanzines
Cast of Central Characters