Blood, Fire, Death

Auteur

Ika Johannesson has been one of Sweden's major music journalists for the last 20 years. Mainly as a writer for different publications and editor-in-chief of Tidningen Sex, an interview magazine about alternative popular culture, but also within radio and tv. She is currently the anchor of the culture news on Swedish national television.

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The emergence of death metal in the beginning of the 90's changed the metal scene forever. Many of the seminal bands came from Sweden. Why did this small mild-mannered country become the hotbed for such aggressive and extreme music? Blood, Fire, Death explores the bands, individuals and phenomena which have propelled the scene forward and still does to this day. The book investigates the politics, economy and gender structures of the scene, and tells the spectacular stories of Bathory, Entombed, Pelle Dead, Dissection and many other major players in the scene.

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Table of Contents Prologue 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 Media The 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.