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title: "Swedish Death Metal"
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# Swedish Death Metal

**Brand:** various artists
**Price:** € 89.89
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- **What is this?** Swedish Death Metal by various artists
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Product Description          In the mid-80 s, a small underground movement started to emerge from the small towns and suburbs of Sweden. In search for the most extreme music available, the teenagers picked up instruments themselves and created what in a few years would dominate the world of extreme music Swedish Death Metal. Featuring more than 50 relevant tracks amounting to a playing time of over 200 minutes. Apart from essential classics of the genre, this audio companion to the book of the same title contains many rare recordings and insiders tips from the heyday of the Swedish Death Metal scene the ideal opportunity for anyone who s interested to get a taste of this explosive style of music in all its creative diversity.             Review          This compilation is a three-CD companion to an equally exhaustive book of the same name, and each in its own way is an authoritative and wholly enjoyable tour guide to a scene the reverberations of which have echoed throughout the entire metal world since the late 1980s. The Swedish death metal scene has given us some of the most melodic, fist-pumping, anthemic, and classic music to ever emerge under that subgenre's banner, from At the Gates and Arch Enemy to Entombed, Grave, Dismember, Unleashed, Therion...the list is seemingly endless. And yet, many of the bands featured here will be new to the average listener, because compiler Daniel Ekeroth is attempting to chart the earliest days of the scene and pay respect to bands that never broke out of their homeland (if, indeed, they were even renowned beyond their home towns). Consequently, the entire first disc is taken up by never-before officially released tracks from demo tapes, originally circulated by hand and by mail in the pre-Internet era. Bands like Grave, Therion, and Nihilist (who would become Entombed) are heard alongside more obscure peers like Carbonized, Afflicted Convulsion, and the aptly named Obscurity. The second and third discs offer songs by Marduk, Dissection, At the Gates, Unleashed, and many more, and again, acts known only to diehards like Toxaemia, Liers in Wait, Crypt of Kerberos, and Repugnant get their moment in the (midnight) sun. Virtually everything here boasts the thick, distorted guitar sound that was the trademark of the Swedish scene, though some bands display greater ambition than others, experimenting with keyboards, progressive song structures, and greater length (with the longest track here, Dissection's proto-black metal epic "Black Horizons," coming in at a patience-testing 8:10). There are some big names absent, whether it's because of licensing issues or Ekeroth's personal tastes, notably Amon Amarth and Opeth; in the latter case, it's easy to suspect aesthetic choice at work, since they were ignored in the book as well. Ekeroth's tastes clearly run to the primitive and the obscure; he's one of those "they were better before anybody knew who they were" guys, which is one of the things that makes this trip through the history of the Swedish metal underground a bounty of surprises, no matter how knowledgeable you may think you are. But even a total newcomer will find much to enjoy here. --Phil Freeman - All Music Guide.

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## Customer Reviews

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    killer value
  

*by R***L on Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2010*

i first heard about this cd on sirius's metal channel on ian christy's show and was so impressed i gave it a try. all the production was as optimised as could be done considering the large amount of demo material they covered, however really  it does not sound "euro", and seems quite modern metal sounding. for the cost you get a lot including the liner note which are cool. this cd set has a lot of great  metal songs which kept me head banging all nite!! highly recommended!

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    A labor of love...
  

*by S***. on Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2010*

This is a fine collection of music and an excellent companion to the "Swedish Death Metal" book.  When I first read the book I was sorry that I couldn't hear many of the bands described.  Now I can!  When my order arrived from Amazon I put the CDs in the stereo and sat down to re-read the book.  Great fun.

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    swedish death metal
  

*by E***3 on Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2011*

omg!!! wow!!! this has got to be one of the greatest purchases of my life! if you love metal (like the entire world should ;p) you will not be disappointed! xo to the beautiful demented soul who put this together!!! ;p

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