1.ENTOMBED Left hand path "Left Hand Path" 1990
2.DISMEMBER overide of the overture "Like an ever flowing stream" 1991
3.CARNAGE deranged from blood "Dark recollections" 1990
4.THERION the return "...Of darkness..." 1991
5.UNLEASHED unleashed "where no life dwells" 1991
6.CARBONIZED euthanasia "For the Security" 1991
7.GRAVE extremely rotten flesh "Into the Grave" 1991
8.NIRVANA 2002 further beyond promo 1991/"Recordings '89-'91" 2009
9.GROTESQUE blood runs from the altar "The Black gate is closed Demo 1989
10.AT THE GATES Terminal spirit disease "Termainal Spirit Disease" 1994
11.LIERS IN WAIT bleeding shrines of stone "Spiritually Uncontrolled Art" 1992
12.EDGE OF SANITY in the veins/darker then black "Unorthodox" 1992
13.DISSECTION heaven's Damnation "The Somberlain" 1993
14.EUCHARIST once my eyes moved mountains "A Velvet Creation" 1993
15.ENTOMBED Stranger aeons "Clandestine" 1991
16.AFFLICTED CONVULSIONS consumed in Flames "Beyond Redemption" demo 1990
17.EVOCATION through the darkened Peril "The Ancient Gate" Demo 1992
18.INTERMENT in silent darkness "The Final Chapter" Demo 1994
19.GENERAL SURGERY The succulent aftermath of a sudural haemorrhage "Pestisferous anthropophagia" Demo 1990
20.NECRONY Hill of cadavers "Severe Malignant Pustule" Demo 1991
21.TIAMAT necrophagious shadows "Sumerian Cry" 1990
21.MORBUS CHRON creepy creeping creep "Creepy Creeping Creep" 7" 2010
22.BASTARD PRIEST power of death "Under the hammer of Destruction" 2010
Another hard episode to compile due to the many great Swedish Death Metal bands to choose from, but I mainly wanted to focus, after looking at the Swedish scene of the 1980s in last week's episode, on the period post "Left Hand Path" as this album really planted fiercely the flag of Swedish metal into the ground and inspired so many other Swedish death metal releases to come afterwards. The foundation of the Swedish death metal scene was the underground tape-trading phenomenon, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s there was no internet, mobile phones and it was virtually impossible to hear/know about extreme metal without real dedication! The fact that the Swedish death metal scene was mainly made up of young males between the ages of 14 to 18 is all the more impressive. Today, most people on this planet have heard the words "Swedish death metal" and have some idea as to it's main characteristic sounds (the Stockhlom sound having the fat buzzsaw guitar made helpful by the bossman heavy metal pedal turned to 10, deep guttural vocalz, heavy bass & thundering drums or the Gothenburg sound with slightly more melodies, screechy/throaty vocalz, and generally more cleaner production) that's quite a feat, considering the brutality of the music and the discrimination these young male Swedes would have encountered back when it all started....I finnished the show with MORBUS CHRON which features Nicke Andersson's brother, Robert, and BASTARD PRIEST with their song "power of death" which I thought was quite fitting since Swedish Death Metal is still going strong! And check out Daniel Ekeroth's great book, Swedish Death Metal.
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