Blood, fire, death - The Swedish Metal Story Johannesson IkaPaperback
Blood, fire, death - The Swedish Metal Story Johannesson IkaPaperback In the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. The birth of black metal drove the culture…
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Blood, fire, death - The Swedish Metal Story Johannesson IkaPaperback
In the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. The birth of black metal drove the culture to even greater extremes, featuring a rawer, darker sound and non-ironic death-worship. Suddenly, the mild-mannered Scandinavian country found itself at the forefront of a new movement with worldwide impact thanks to bands such as Entombed, Dismember, and At the Gates.
But how did it all start? Soon churches in both Norway and Sweden were aflame, and be- fore long Satanism emerged as more than just an image. Why did Sweden become a hotbed for such aggressive, nihilistic music?
And who are the people and bands that brought it all about?Blood, Fire, Death: A Swedish Metal Story recounts the evolution of the genre from the massive amplifier walls of 1970s rock, through the church-burning Satanic 1990s, to the diverse and paradoxical manifestations of