Research Catalog

Title

Swedish death metal / Daniel Ekeroth.

Author

Ekeroth, Daniel

Publication

Brooklyn, NY : Bazillion Points Books 2008.

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Description

447 p. : ill., ports., facsims.; 24 cm.

Summary

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

Subject

• Death metal (Music) > Sweden > History and criticism
• Death metal (Music) > Sweden > Discography
• Rock groups > Sweden > Bio-bibliography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• bibliographies.
• Biographies
• Bibliographies
• Bio-bibliography
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Discographies
• Biographies.
• Bibliographies.

Note

• "Interviews ... between spring 2006 and spring 2008, if not otherwise indicated." -- Half-title page.

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780979616310
• 097961631X

LCCN

^^2010561979

OCLC

256029895

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library