DANIEL EKEROTH’s (INSISION, TYRANT, DELLAMORTE, DISKONTO) exhaustive, 450-page history of Swedish Death Metal. Ekeroth captures the epic tale with enlightening detail, beginning with Sweden’s violent loss of innocence in the 1980s, through metal’s virtual chokehold on the country during the 1990s, into the lasting legacy and influence in the turbulent 2000s of the Sunlight guitar tone, the “Gothenburg Sound,” and the countless offshoots of Sweden’s most lethal cultural export.
