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Blood, Fire, Death : The Swedish Metal Story by Jon Jefferson Klingberg and Ika Johannesson (2018, Trade Paperback)
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But how did it all start?. And who are the people and bands that brought it all about?. Jon Jefferson Klingberg combines his writing with a music career. His first novel was published in 2008. He has but one tattoo; the Manowar eagle on his lower arm.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFeral House
ISBN-101627310673
ISBN-139781627310673
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038462521
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlood, Fire, Death : the Swedish Metal Story
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Ethnomusicology, Ethnic
Publication Year2018
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic
AuthorJon Jefferson Klingberg, Ika Johannesson
Book SeriesExtreme Metal Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight24.3 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsBlood Fire Death: The Swedish Metal Story is not simply one of the best books ever written on extreme metal, it's among the finest, most captivating, stirring, disquieting, intimate, heartening, entertaining rock n' roll tomes period. Seriously. It's smart, nuanced, unpredictable, and teeming with amazing, fully realized character studies which instill a real, grounded humanity in these vessels that brought such otherworldly heaviness into the world." Decibel Magazine
Dewey Decimal781.6609485
Table Of ContentTable of ContentsPrologue 1. Fuck Off! The twins Pelle och Erik Gustafsson of Nifelheim set out to embody the most evil band in the world; but they ended up in an insurance company ad.2. Too Much Fucking Guck An upper-class gang of Vikings, paving the way for the first Swedish metal wave.3. Bathory How a suburben teenager at the dawn of the '80s laid the foundation for black metal - with the help of his dad.4. Pelle Dead The story of Pelle Ohlin, whose desire to repulse the world set a new aesthetic standard for black metal.5. Death Metal How undecipherable band logos, tape trading, and a burning love for splatter movies transformed heavy metal forever.6. Metal and the MediaThe fanzines, magazines, TV shows and other media that brought metal to the public.7. Black Metal How the quest for true authenticity made a marginal metal genre a worldwide sensation - via church burnings and murder.8. Metal and Money When Dark Funeral took their record company to court for financial mishandling, something strange happened - the band refused to give up. 9. Dissection The story of Jon Nödtveit's road from prison to the greatest possible freedom imaginable.10. By Men, For Men To be a metalhead - and preferably not female.11. Entombed Why the foremost trailblazers of the Swedish death metal scene divided into two bands - of the same name. 12. Well, Sieg Heil Then? Though many bands flirt with evil and misantrophy, nobody truly wants to be associated with right wing extremism. Or do they?13. A Lesson in Suicide The birth of depressive metal, and why Shining's Niklas Kvarforth sincerely wants to hurt you.14. Heavy Metal How the power metal sensation of the late 90's paved the way for an unexpected revival of falsetto and spandex pants.15. Watain Watain tours the North of Sweden, equipped with homemade flame-throwers and rotten animal cadavers.
SynopsisIn the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. 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. The birth of black metal drove the culture to even greater extremes, featuring a rawer, darker sound and non-ironic death-worship. Soon churches in both Norway and Sweden were aflame, and be- fore long Satanism emerged as more than just an image. But how did it all start? 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 the scene today. This book focuses on the phenomena that have propelled the scene forward in an evolution that has not only been musical, but aesthetic and ideological as well. This is a story about grotesque logos and icons that invoke death and darkness, but also a story of dedication, friendship, community, and a profound love for music., In the early 90's, death metal changed the metal scene forever. Many of the seminal bands came from small and mild-mannered country of Sweden. Blood, Fire, Death explores the bands, individuals and phenomena which have propelled the scene forward. Interview with: Entombed, Nifelheim and Dissection, tales of Bathory, Pelle 'Dead' Ohlin, and the overlords of the contemporary black metal; Watain., In the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. 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. The birth of black metal drove the culture to even greater extremes, featuring a rawer, darker sound and non-ironic death-worship. Soon churches in both Norway and Sweden were aflame, and be- fore long Satanism emerged as more than just an image. But how did it all start? Why did Sweden become a hotbed for such aggressive, nihilistic music? And who are the people and bands that brought it all about? 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 the scene today. This book focuses on the phenomena that have propelled the scene forward in an evolution that has not only been musical, but aesthetic and ideological as well. This is a story about grotesque logos and icons that invoke death and darkness, but also a story of dedication, friendship, community, and a profound love for music.
LC Classification NumberML3534.6
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