
The Presidents of the United States of America - Kudos to You! Notes - Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 66.4 (2010): 840-50.Some of these have already came out, but I haven’t listened to them. "A Selective Discography of Scandinavian Heavy Metal Music". "Justin Foley of Killswitch Engage: Playing Heavy, having Fun".
James Hoare, "Left Hand Pathfinders", Terrorizer #182, April 2009, pp. 28–29. Olivier "Zoltar" Badin, "In the Embrace of Evil: Swedish Death Metal New Blood", Terrorizer #182, April 2009, pp. 32–34. Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture. "A SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY OF SCANDINAVIAN HEAVY METAL MUSIC." Notes - Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 66.4 (2010): 840-50. "Justin Foley of Killswitch Engage: Playing Heavy, having Fun." Modern Drummer 10 2004: 96,100, 102, 104, 106.įreeborn, Robert. James Hoare, "Left Hand Pathfinders", Terrorizer #182, April 2009, pp. Olivier "Zoltar" Badin, "In the Embrace of Evil: Swedish Death Metal New Blood", Terrorizer #182, April 2009, pp. "Resurrection Through Carnage - Bloodbath". ^ Ekeroth, chapter 3, "The Birth of Swedish Death Metal", pp. "How Entombed and Sunlight Studios gave birth to death-metal guitar tone". Melodic death metal, on the other hand, has had a notable influence on the melodic metalcore sound of the 2000s. The Stockholm sound has less reception but is strictly followed by bands like Trap Them and Rotten Sound. The Stockholm sound has been known to be very influenced by the first Entombed album and bands such as Autopsy, Death and Repulsion. Stewart Mason has noted this popularity in the United States, using the term " Swedecore" to describe Scandinavian-style metal as played by non- Nordic bands. The death metal scene in Sweden has influenced many bands and genres outside Sweden. Other groups to have emerged from the Swedish death metal scene include Scar Symmetry, Hypocrisy, Tiamat, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Meshuggah, Amon Amarth, Edge of Sanity, Opeth, Desultory, Cemetary, Avatar and The Haunted. The Gothenburg sound, (also known as " melodic death metal", " Gothenburg melodic death metal" and " melodeath"), propelled by both the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal distortion effect pedal with cleaner recordings and melded with new wave of British heavy metal guitar lines, was pioneered by bands such as At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity and In Flames for their respective albums: Slaughter of the Soul, The Gallery and The Jester Race.
Later, Swedish and Finnish bands used grindcore-based riffs and began adding progressive rock influences and the scene moved from Stockholm to Gothenburg. According to Stewart Mason of AllMusic, the "increasingly melodic" style of Swedish death metal combines the post-hardcore aggression and guttural vocals of black metal with melodic and technically proficient guitar lines. Newer bands playing in the "old school" Swedish style include Bloodbath, Paganizer and Repugnant. The originator of this guitar sound was Nihilist guitarist Leffe Cuzner, though it was evolved and altered over the years. It was created by using detuned electric guitars (usually C# standard or lower), a maxed out Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal, sometimes in combination with a single guitar through a Boss DS-1 Distortion pedal.
Many of these bands used the trademark Tomas Skogsberg/ Sunlight Studios "buzzsaw" guitar tone. The first wave of "Swedish death metal" consisted of the bands Carnage, MorbidĪnd Nihilist, who fragmented later into Entombed, Dismember and Unleashed. In the early 1990s, two death metal scenes emerged in Gothenburg and Stockholm.
Bathory, who would subsequently become a primary influence for the black metal scene, were a pivotal group in Swedish extreme metal. Unlike American groups, the Swedish death metal scene's earliest originators were influenced by punk rock, especially the D-beat and hardcore punk scene.