Description

In the mid-1980’s, a small underground movement started to emerge from the small towns and suburbs of Sweden. A handful of restless teenagers started to search for the most extreme music available, and a tape-trading community began to grow. Eventually the teenagers picked up instruments themselves and created what in a few years would dominate the world of extreme music – Swedish Death Metal. A humungous 3-CD compilation 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 will contain 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. This 3 cd edition includes 52 tracks and a total playing time of more than 200 minutes and a 16 page booklet with exclusive introductory text and liner notes to every single song by Daniel Ekeroth. CD1 starts off with the pioneers of Swedish Death Metal and documents the genesis of the entire genre. CD2 focuses on the period of the first album releases of the scene, which spread the deadly Swedish sound all over the globe. It naturally portrays the classics of the Stockholm school (Entombed, Dismember), but also the beginnings of a more mid-tempo and atmosphere orientated variation of the original style (Tiamat, Therion). It contains early documents of the Gothenburg sound (At The Gates, Liers In Wait) as well as the fusion of Death Metal and the emerging Black Metal (Marduk, Dissection). CD3 eventually overviews the variety and power of Swedish Death Metal in its golden age and draws a bow into the present with a strong newcomer act like Katalysator. Track listing: Disc 1 1. Mefisto: Betrayed Truth 2. Obscurity: Demented 3. Corpse: Rise Again 4. Merciless: Souls Of The Dead 5. Morbid: Wings Of 6. Nihilist: Abnormally Deceased 7. Putrefaction: Putrefaction Remains 8. Carnage: Torn Apart 9. Therion: Megalomania 10. Carbonized: Final Chapter 11. Expulsion: Darkside 12. Grave: Brutally Deceased 13. Sorcery: Descend To The 14. Tribulation: Irrevocable Act 15. Afflicted Convulsion: Consumed In Flames 16. Dismember: Dismembered 17. Desultory: The Chill Within 18. Grotesque: Submit To Death Disc 2 1. Entombed: But Life Goes On 2. Nirvana 2002: Mourning 3. General Surgery: Slithering Maceration Of Ulcerous Facial Tissue 4. Dismember: Override Of The Overture 5. Grave: Into The Grave 6. Unleashed: Before The Creation 7. Tiamat: Ancient Entity 8. Carbonized: Recarbonized 9. At The Gates: City Of Screaming 10. Liers In Wait: Bleeding Shrines Of Stone 11. Edge Of Sanity: Enigma 12. Cemetary: Nightmare Lake 13. Therion: Symphony Of The Dead 14. Afflicted: Tidings From The Blue Sphere 15. Marduk: Still Fucking Dead (Heres No Peace) 16. Dissection: Black Horizons Disc 3 1. Evocation: Through The Darkened Peril 2. Sance: Reincarnage 3. Toxaemia: Beyond The Realm 4. Furbowl: Shark Heaven 5. Suffer: Human Flesh 6. Traumatic: A Perfect Night To Masturbate 7. Macrodex: Necrophilicide 8. House Of Usher Rather Black 9. Crypt Of Kerberos: The Ancient War 10. Eternal Darkness: Psychopath 11. Interment: Morbid Death 12. Uncanny: Transportation To The Uncanny 13. S. G. R.: Die In Agony 14. Sarcasm: In Hate 15. Crematory: Enshrouded (In The River Of Eternity) 16. Necrony: Under The Black Soil 17. Repugnant: Spawn Of Pure Malevolence 18. Katalysator: Mass Genocide Ritual