1. Entombed - Forsaken
2. Mayhem - Carnage
3. Grotesque - Spawn Of Azathoth
4. Therion - Future Conscience
5. House Of Usher - Battle Of Spectrum
6. Merciless - Nuclear Attack
7. Unleashed - The Dark One
8. Nirvana 2002 - Mourning
9. Chronic Decay - 1st Of September
10. Dismember - Sickening Art
11. Mayhem - The Freezing Moon
12. Merciless - The Book Of Lies
13. Macrodex - Cremation
14. Traumatic - A Putrid Reek Of Mangled Remains
15. Tiamat - Ancient Anciety
16. Skull - On A Mission In Blood
Origin - Sweden
Genre - Death Metal
" Compilation of classic Swedish underground bands from the inception of the Swedish death metal subgenre in 1991"
" Towards the beginning of the Death Metal wave C.B.R. records put out this compilation and sent it to the far corners of the world to show metalheads what was going on in sweden....Many of these bands later became famous....some infamous!...But all were at the cusp of something special that still rings true even today !
Here are some of my fave tracks :
1. Entombed - Forsaken captures the elegance of their second album without the excess of swing in its rhythm, being compositionally more of the second but in spirit and playing of their legendary "Left Hand Path."
5. House of Usher - Battle of Spectrum provides a definitive "Swedish death metal" track that resembles an Unleashed/Dismember hybrid; fast tremolo riffs run into a melodic slow breakdown that ambles like a newly created river.
6. Merciless - Nuclear Attack is what, had they continued to develop, a band like Metallica might have been: violent riffs, a catchy chorus, and enough musical deviation in the latter half to give musicians room for not only well-designed solos but use of drums and bass to higher potential.
8. Nirvana 2002 - Mourning sounds extremely similar to Dismember, from the slow melodic opening to the faster pickup riffs colliding into similar progressions played slower with the impact of dramatic theatre, sliding into choruses that are both vocal hook and flavorfully compact and resolute progressions. Did this later appear on "Like an Ever-Flowing Stream" as "Soon to be Dead"? Members of Entombed shared with Dismember helped produce it. Hmm.
13. Macrodex - Cremation reminds the experienced listener of Finland's Belial: plodding verse riffs and fast choruses with an underlying implication of melody stated in four notes, followed by pure rhythm riffing of a punkish simple nature to offset its impact. This song builds through basic riffs and pocket drumming toward a melodic takedown that is effective but not as repetitively as used here.
14. Traumatic - A Putrid Reek of Mangled Remains opens with a chromatic suspension riff like the one that opens Deicide's "Oblivious to Evil," and then drops into a running downstrum riff that is fantastically catchy but has to set it up against rock-style seizure pauses that play on our desire for forward rhythm with sudden stops; the rest is simple death metal that could be stuck in Florida or Stockholm with no effect on either.
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