'Swedish Death Metal' Book Is A Hit In Sweden

INSISION bassist Daniel Ekeroth's recently published book about the Swedish death metal scene, apty titled "Swedish Death Metal", has reached position No. 1 on the AdLibris sales charts in Sweden for the month of February for non-fiction books in a foreign language. View the whole chart at this location. According to Daniel, "AdLibris is Sweden's biggest retailer of books, and the fact that an underground project like this can hit the No. 1 spot is just amazing! If the rush continues, the book will be sold out in a month."

Ekeroth previously said the following about the "Swedish Death Metal" book, "In the mid-'80s, a small underground movement in Sweden started to emerge from small towns and suburbs. 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. This is the improbable history of how it all began and evolved into the early '90s. The book also includes a massive A-Z of Swedish death metal bands (about 900 entries) as well as fanzines. All in all, the book is 480 pages long, and contains over 500 cool pictures. About 30 central characters of the scene have been interviewed" — including Fredrik Karlén (MERCILESS),Johan Edlund (TREBLINKA, TIAMAT),Fred Estby (DISMEMBER, CARNAGE),Ola Lindgren (GRAVE),Kristian "Necrolord" Wåhlin (GROTESQUE, LIERS IN WAIT, DECOLLATION) and Orvar Säfström (NIRVANA 2002) — "and some of their anecdotes are as wild as the music ever was. Still, the main focus of this research is the music. After all, the fantastic music is the greatest achievement of the Swedish death metal movement."

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