SDM Band of the Week – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com The blog is faster than the books... Mon, 05 Aug 2019 17:40:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-BAZILLION_POINTS_B_GREEN_144.png.jpeg SDM Band of the Week – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com 32 32 The Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week is SPORTLOV https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/24/the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-is-sportlov/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/24/the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-is-sportlov/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2016 13:32:30 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9658 This week, from among the hundreds of bands cataloged in the band appendix of Daniel Ekeroth’s SWEDISH DEATH METAL, one tightly packed assault sails from the crowd into our faces like a nuclear snowball: SPORTLOV. This valient Uppsala-born death/crust supergroup dominates all things grim and frostbitten—their name means “winter holidays”—and their weapons are skis, skates, and brutal snobullar as…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/12/24/the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-is-sportlov/feed/ 1 GRAVE Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/11/19/grave-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/11/19/grave-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:31:14 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9539 “Brilliant, original death metal from the island of Gotland,” writes Daniel Ekeroth about extreme pioneers Grave in his genre opus, Swedish Death Metal. “Their debut album, Into the Grave, remains one of the best Swedish death metal albums of all.” That’s high praise, but is heavily earned by the still forward-charging metal force initially formed in 1988 by guitarist and vocalist Ola Lindstrom.

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/11/19/grave-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/feed/ 4 CENTINEX Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/11/10/centinex-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/11/10/centinex-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:09:59 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9495 Arising from the old Swedish city Hedemora in 1990, the eardrum-pummeling Centinex has ventured forth from an initial hardcore hybrid featuring two lead vocalists into what Swedish Death Metal author Daniel Ekeroth calls: “pure death territory…settling somewhere between the Swedish and American sounds.” Two demos in 1991, Stupid Humanity and End of Life, set the course for the band’s hideously…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/11/10/centinex-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/feed/ 1 Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week: SOCIETY GANG RAPE https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/22/swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-society-gang-rape/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/22/swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-society-gang-rape/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:26:54 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9337 “The most dangerous female band on Earth,” according to Daniel Ekeroth, this band was born at full-pitch rage in 1991 as Sadistic Gang Rape. Just let that hit you and sink in. Three years later, this female-led wrath squad from Avesta moved toward crust punk, and then morphed into the slightly cleaned-up name Society Gang Rape. Either way, polite conversation typically acknowledges them as S.G.R.

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/22/swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-society-gang-rape/feed/ 2 EUCHARIST Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/13/eucharist-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/13/eucharist-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:10:28 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9304 Early innovators of the ’90s “Gothenburg sound” that fuses crushing death metal ferocity with muscularly musical melody, Eucharist wailed first in summer 1989 when the group’s shockingly young members discovered one another in the small city of Veddige. No exaggeration—consider that drummer Daniel Erlandsson—later of Arch Enemy, Carcass, In Flames, and Brujeria (among others) and brother of At the…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/13/eucharist-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/feed/ 4 The Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week Is REGURGITATE https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/01/the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-is-regurgitate/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/01/the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-is-regurgitate/#respond Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:18:04 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9215 Never to be confused with Regurgitate from Avesta—who raucously rage in their own right—the Stockholm-based Regurgitate is a powerhouse/clearinghouse of Swedish death metal talents blasting savage grindcore under the towering tutelage of vocalist Rikard “Rugge” Janssen. Since forming in 1990, Regurgiate’s rotating lineup has recruited drummer Peter Stärvind of Entombed and Merciless…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/09/01/the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week-is-regurgitate/feed/ 0 MERCILESS Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/24/merciless-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/24/merciless-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:58:01 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9194 Storming forth from the small town of Strängnäs in 1986, Merciless proved to be not only one of Sweden’s earliest and most rip-roaringly original death metal cabals, but, according to Swedish Death Metal author Daniel Ekeroth, “one of the best bands Sweden has produced.” Thrash fans and devotees of Germany’s Sodom in particular, Merciless formed with Erik Wallin on guitar and vocals…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/24/merciless-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/feed/ 2 CARBONIZED Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/15/carbonized-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/15/carbonized-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:39:57 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9124 During the band’s seven active years, Spånga-spawned innovators Carbonized pushed death metal to prog-powered new frontiers and unexpected extremes of psychedelic rock, while never once letting up on their brutality. The band’s connections to other death metal battalions are as deep and twisted as the monstrous visions conjured by their music. Bassist Lars Rosenberg formed Carbonized in 1988…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/15/carbonized-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/feed/ 2 UNANIMATED Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/02/unanimated-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/02/unanimated-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:05:20 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9105 Pummeling the line between death metal and black metal, harnessing melody and fury, the spawn-of-suburban-Stockholm Unanimated formed in 1989, drawing deep inspiration from Dismember. In fact, the spirit may have been felt a bit too deep, as the group’s original vocalist Rickard Cabeza departed early on to play bass with Dismember. The two bands’ orbits continued to intersect…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/08/02/unanimated-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/feed/ 0 NECRONY Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/07/22/necrony-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2016/07/22/necrony-is-the-swedish-death-metal-band-of-the-week/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:20:55 +0000 http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=9075 From Örebro they came, and under the profound influence of Carcass they furiously flourished—one of the most over-the-top, off-with-their-heads, party-with-their-guts-out, goremonger cabals of their day. The one and and only NECRONY, was founded in 1990 as Necrotony by Anders Jakobsson, a death metal maven who simultaneously published the killer zine Hymen. The two-man splatter squad featured…

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