Here Daniel Ekeroth, author of the massive Swedish Death Metal book (not to mention bassist of TYRANT and INSISION), unleashes a short session explaining the classic Swedish death metal guitar sound invented by Leif Cuzner of NIHILIST and perfected at Studio Sunlight in Stockholm on albums by ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER, and countless others. As you can tell by sunburned face, this is on day ten of a recent trip to New York. As soon as he finished making this clip, his body was chopped into pieces and sold as drugs to other Swedish tourists. That’s how we roll in New York…I guess.
You did a nice interview with this guy on Bloody Roots. I wish someone wrote something similar about US death metal (hint, hint…)
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This typical Scandinavian DM sound also needs to have a really dirty(distorted) bass. When played together with the guitars you’ll get this massive sound.