- A Journey Into The Deepest Throngs Of The Underground Metal Spirit -
(This introduction by the mighty Corroseum website)
My quest to record and digest every piece of Metal ever put to vinyl, and for the sake for efficiency, doing so country by country, has led me into this pretty much unexplored area of Steel-clad trivia: mixed local/budget compilation albums. I'm sure they're a common occurrence in the sales-bins of most countries, but for certain economical and cultural reasons they're an even more common thing in my part of the world. The popular trend of releasing small compilations by the bands in your commune/town/rehearsal place started out sometime in the mid-70's and has since been a cheap and popular way to promote and motivate the bands in your community. Raising the funds for these kinds of projects were relatively easy in Sweden (at least back then?) thanx to rather generous city- as well as private sponsoring being available. There were also a few labels around at the time who enjoyed cashing in on the vinyl dreams of plenty of young rockers. I've made a special section for the most (in)famous of these labels: Pang Records.
Availability?
If you're on the lookout for one particular title you're in for quite a piece of work since the edition of these albums were usually around a few hundred copies and practically never exported outside the borders of Sweden, or even their home town. The good news is that very few of them are considered major collector's items and when walking into any half-decent vinyl shop over here you are bound to found at least 1 or 2 for about 5 euros or so. Sure, there's a handful of titles that are considered rarities ("Skånsk Rock I", "Rockslaget", "Double Up"..) but for the most part these records will only cost you a minuscule of what a rare 7" with the same amount and quality of Metal music would do. They're not the kind of albums that turns up on trade lists very often, but ask around among your Swedish contacts and I'm sure you'll eventually find what you're looking for.
In all honesty a lot of these recordings are far from brilliant, but contrary to common belief, the majority of them were exclusive studio recordings and not just nicked from some demo tape you could just as well trade yourself a copy of from some bigass tape trader list. Plenty of really rare & early material by familiar acts such as SILVER MOUNTAIN, MANINNYA BLADE, AXEWITCH, SYRON VANES, MERCY, COUNT RAVEN etc can be found on records like these, as well as a few gems of pure and utter obscurity. I hereby hope that this guide will give you some directions on what to look for and what not to. I've ignored anything and everything in the style of a.o.r. or commercial/"hair" hard rock (something very different from the term "Melodic Metal" mind you!) as well as blues-, boogie- and bar-oriented rock (yet again something very different than 70's oriented HR!). If any band members of these bands or people in other ways involved with these releases come across this article, please drop me a line! I'm always looking to update and improve this data, and who knows, maybe even get an old demo or rehearsal tape or two sent my way?
VARIOUS SWEDISH COMPILATION SONGS 1980-87
Somewhere between 2005-2010 I made a lot of compilations CDs just for fun. I found this yesterday and actually I’m not 100% sure if I made this all by myself. But I remember I cut and paste the text for the booklet from The Corruseum website. But the source of the music itself is a bit unclear.
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CD1
1. AxeWitch - Axewitch (From Ostgotarock Comp Lp 1982)
2. AxeWitch - Nightmare (From Studieframjandet 82 Comp Lp 1982)
3. Blackbird - Rise (From Double Up Comp Lp 1987)
4. Candy Girls - Together (From Girls & Boys Comp Lp 1987)
5. Dark Ice - Förödande Tidevarv (From Förortsrock Comp Lp 1984)
6. Dream - Mitt Djup Blir Ditt Djup (From Musik I Skellefteå 2 Comp Lp 1982)
7. Glory - Hjälp Mej (From Rock N Rock Comp Lp 1982)
8. Greensleeves - The Evil (From Rock 82 Vetlanda Comp Lp 1982)
9. Greensleeves - Fire (From Rock 82 Vetlanda Comp Lp 1982)
10. Hels - Chaos On Earth (From Klipp-rock Comp Lp 1987)
11. Hels - Living Dead (From Klipp-rock Comp Lp 1987)
12. Hydra - Cross Of Iron (From Förortsrock Comp Lp 1983)
13. Interaction - Stuck In Drugs (From Rockslaget Comp Lp 1980)
14. Interaction - It S Night (From Rockslaget Comp Lp 1980)
15. IQ Zero - Murderer (From Pang I Bygget Comp Lp 1983)
16. IQ Zero - Evil (From Pang I Bygget Comp Lp 1983)
17. Ironside - The Ironsides (From Kristianstadsrock Vol 2 Comp Lp 1983)
18. Manitou - Tribal War (From Girls & Boys Comp Lp 1987)
CD2
1. Mercy - State Of Shock (From Rockslaget Comp Lp 1980)
2. Mercy - Love Me Tonight (From Rockslaget Comp Lp 1980)
3. Red N Black Viper - Nighttime (City Lights, Burnin Bright) (From Girls & Boys Comp Lp 1987)
4. Second Hand - Jag Vill Ha (From Rockbeast Comp Lp 1982)
5. Second Hand - Tunga Droppar (From Rockbeast Comp Lp 1982)
6. Snöfall - Farlig Vänskap (From Rock Cocktail Comp Lp 1982)
7. Snöfall - Frusna Tår (From Rock Cocktail Comp Lp 1982)
8. Stormwarning - Barn Av Gatan (From Förortsrock Comp Lp 1984)
9. The Duke - Fighter (From Drag Utan Droger Vol. II Comp Lp 81)
10. The Duke - Sweet Survivor (From Drag Utan Droger Vol. II Comp Lp 81)
11. Virgin - Maiden In Black (From Four Fabulous Freaks Comp Lp 1987)
12. Virgin - Battle Of Pride (From Four Fabulous Freaks Comp Lp 1987)
13. Virgin - Hotel Rendezvous (From Four Fabulous Freaks Comp Lp 1987)
14. Whirgin - Run Run Run (From Quattro Comp Lp 1986)
15. Wilderness - The End Of Mystery (From Girls & Boys Comp Lp 1987)
16. Witch - Evil Night (From Helgdagsrock Åt Far Comp Lp 1983)
17. Witch - White Death (From Helgdagsrock Åt Far Comp Lp 1983)
18. Heavy Load - I Am Me (Rocket: Caught in Steel Compilation Track 1985)
