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I’m all about historical preservation of the metal scene, and my focus is from the beginning up until about the year 2000. I spend a lot of time researching dates, pictures, concerts and when this or that happened.
The reason I started to post about this stuff that I love, is simply that of the hours I’m awake each day, I probably spend 90% listening, reading, thinking about metal. Always chasing old stuff that’s for me unknown.
I have never been interested in playing an instrument, but have been collecting records since I was about 9 years old and have always ”forced” people to listen to it. Kind of like I do here!
I would guess 99% av Metalfans never goes beyond the border of the ”mainstream”, you know Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem etc etc. But I have always wondered what I might be missing, and there’s so much that is as good as what the big bands put out. But for a various of reasons like getting released on a small label that didn’t have any money to promote them, came out when the genre wasn’t at its peak, came from the ”wrong” country etc etc etc.
As some you may know and what’s on this blog, I’m about 95% stuck in the past, between 1970-2000’s when it comes to metal. It’s not that I don’t like anything after that, it’s just that I usually prefer the sound of older things before everything started to be recorded digitally with default settings and sound the same. And there’s still sooooo muuuuch to find from the 80’s. Have I really heard all demo tapes from bands in Belfast, Maine, US or Upplands Väsby, Stockholm, Sweden?
Also things was much harder to do back then so I kind of appreciate them more. I know of bands in former Soviet Union who built there own guitars, people who made fanzines on their parents old typewritter at home, then went down to the xerox place in town to make copies, bought stamps and send them, out. I love that era.
With that said I’m not one of these people that refuse to listen to anything new and says anything post 2000 is shit. It’s just that I don’t actively seek them out. But sometimes I get recommends from people ”I trust” and sometimes I just stumble upon things on YouTube etc.
With that said I’m not one of these people that refuse to listen to anything new and says anything post 2000 is shit. It’s just that I don’t actively seek them out. But sometimes I get recommends from people ”I trust” and sometimes I just stumble upon things on YouTube etc.
CAN I CONTRIBUTE?
Yes, of course. I love getting photos from someone who had a simple compact camera during a metal show in 1984, recorded a show on their taperecorder etc. etc. Please consider contribute to this page. You will of course get all the credit with your name (unless you wish otherwise). I can’t offer any financial award for it today, but if any idea comes up in the future that makes that possible you will of course be compensated.WHEN I REVIEW!
I use a 6 grade scale when I review things. The best you can get is PERFECTION and the worst is GARBAGE.
N.W.O.B.H.M
Iron Maiden and Saxon goes under this genre as you all know. But I only use it as a ”tag/label” on the blog for these bands up until 1983. Really don’t know why, more than it felt wrong to tag an article about ”A Matter of Life & Death” with N.W.O.B.H.M.DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS WHEN IT COMES TO BANDS
I can extinguish between a bands different periods, which seems to be impossible for a lot of people. Either you must love a band or hate a band. But I can really, really love a period and then be extremely uninterested in other time periods.For example:
METALLICA: I loved them to death during the 1980’s, up until the black album. And I still listen to these album often, but after this period I couldn’t care less. To me they are the definition of sell outs. Read more about my opinion of it here
MÖTLEY CRUE: I really like the first two albums ”Too Fast for Love” and ”Shout at the devil”, then they became all-out poodle pop-hard rock and I couldn’t care less what happened with them after that.
EUROPE: I love the bands first two albums, ”Europe” and ”Wings of Tomorrow”. Then came the final-countdown era and I completely lost interest. Again with that commercial pop-hard rock I despised. But since I grow up in the same town as them they have a special place in my heart. After the reunion around the 2000’s and their comeback album ”Start from a Dark” my interest was again awaken and I like pretty much everything after that. Not like the first two albums, but it’s still good.
METALLICA: I loved them to death during the 1980’s, up until the black album. And I still listen to these album often, but after this period I couldn’t care less. To me they are the definition of sell outs. Read more about my opinion of it here
MÖTLEY CRUE: I really like the first two albums ”Too Fast for Love” and ”Shout at the devil”, then they became all-out poodle pop-hard rock and I couldn’t care less what happened with them after that.
EUROPE: I love the bands first two albums, ”Europe” and ”Wings of Tomorrow”. Then came the final-countdown era and I completely lost interest. Again with that commercial pop-hard rock I despised. But since I grow up in the same town as them they have a special place in my heart. After the reunion around the 2000’s and their comeback album ”Start from a Dark” my interest was again awaken and I like pretty much everything after that. Not like the first two albums, but it’s still good.
DISSECTION: A band that released 3 perfect albums, and yes ”Reinkaos” is pure perfection. If you have any knowledge or serious interest in the occult and Satanism you understand what a masterpiece this is. If you’re into that ordinary turn the cross upside down rebellion, and think the dirtier the music is the more evil it is. Then when you outgrow kindergarten you might be in for a surprise.
IRON MAIDEN: Love almost everything up until today. Not the Blaze albums, since I don’t think he was a good fit for the Iron Maiden material. But nothing against him otherwise, I like a lot of his solo stuff, and I just love his "The Man Who Would Not Die” album, that’s a 10/10 record for me.
IRON MAIDEN: Love almost everything up until today. Not the Blaze albums, since I don’t think he was a good fit for the Iron Maiden material. But nothing against him otherwise, I like a lot of his solo stuff, and I just love his "The Man Who Would Not Die” album, that’s a 10/10 record for me.
KISS: I know several of you wonder why I post so much about them. My love for Kiss will always be there. They were the ones that awakened my passion for metal in 1981/82 with the ”Creatures of the Night” album. and the Alive II promo film. The guy next door had recorded a Swedish TV show where they showed a promo for ”Alive II” and that was it. I watched it again, and again, and again, and again …. and again! Since then they have had a special place in my heart and to this day I still get goosebumps when watching it. Although I can say I have zero interest in the band after the so-called Farewell tour in 2001, when they became a pure nostalgia act. But I can spend hours and days looking for any information on where they rehearsed before a tour in 1975.
DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS WHEN IT COMES TO GENRES
HEAVY METAL:The 80’s is my big passion, but of course I also love part of the 1990’s.
THRASH METAL:
Pretty much the same as Heavy Metal, it’s all about the 80’s
DEATH METAL:
DEATH METAL:
The early scene up until the mid-90’s is where my passion is, but I listen to stuff after that as well.
BLACK METAL:
Here’s my perspective a little bit wider. With most styles my interest ends around the year 2000, but with Black Metal you can add 10 year. I think there were a lot of interesting and awesome releases during the first part of the decade. Such as Triumphator, Deathspell Omega, Funeral Mist, Watain etc. etc.
BLACK METAL:
Here’s my perspective a little bit wider. With most styles my interest ends around the year 2000, but with Black Metal you can add 10 year. I think there were a lot of interesting and awesome releases during the first part of the decade. Such as Triumphator, Deathspell Omega, Funeral Mist, Watain etc. etc.
HARD ROCK:
Here it’s more or less all about the 70’s with Black Sabbath, UFO, Montrose, Alice Cooper etc. Also I like to find obscure proto-metal releases from the late 60’s.
But some bands I still buy everything with new material that they release (if it’s on vinyl) afor example Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Kiss, Accept, Saxon, W.A.S.P, Udo, Motörhead, Judas Priest, Manilla Road, Europe, Candlemass, Slayer, Dismember, Obituary, Watain, Funeral Mist, Arckanum and probably a couple of more that I can’t come to think of right now.
BAND I STILL COLLECT
There are a lot of bands that I stopped collecting what they released around the year 2000. Not that what they released was bad, but I just prefered their early material when they were young and hungry and before more or less every production sounded the same. Which usually is the time period and producers fault, and not the bands.But some bands I still buy everything with new material that they release (if it’s on vinyl) afor example Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Kiss, Accept, Saxon, W.A.S.P, Udo, Motörhead, Judas Priest, Manilla Road, Europe, Candlemass, Slayer, Dismember, Obituary, Watain, Funeral Mist, Arckanum and probably a couple of more that I can’t come to think of right now.
I COLLECT
I collect vinyl and demo tapes, and the bands I really collect and buy more or less everything with is my the ones mentioned above. But apart from various bands I also collect releases from various scenes, countries and time periods (vinyl and tape):
Swedish Death Metal (from the 80’s up until around 1995)
Swedish Heavy Metal (from the 80’s up until around 1995)
Swedish Black Metal (from the 80’s up until around 2010)
Norwegian Black Metal (from the 80’s up until around 1997)
Czechia Death, Black and Thrash metal (from the 80’s up until around 1995)
Soviet Union/Russian and the eastern bloc (from the 80’s up until around 1995)
Everything South American (from the 80’s up until around 1995)
STATEMENT ABOUT POLITICS
I’m strongly anti-racist, but I believe music is an art form and anything is allowed. For example, Varg Vikernes (Burzum) have had some racist ideology after incarceration but as a hobby music historian I first and foremost look into if the artist have had any impact on the scene before choosing to look into them at all, second of all … if his lyrics where all out nazi, I wouldn’t cover him. I would never cover lets say a N.S Black Metal band (have to be the dumbest shit since music was created) with nazi lyrics.
Another aspect is that I deal with music history, and I don’t want to rewrite history in any way because certain parts doesn’t fit me or makes me want to vomit. Rewriting history I leave that to politicians and governments.
So to conclude, I don’t care about the political beliefs of a person outside of the music when I chose what to publish. I’m only interested in the music and the impact it have made on the scene.
If I where to chose what music to listen to based on the person outside what he creates, the I couldn’t listen to Mötley Crue because Vince Neil drunk drive killed someone, Ozzy for his abuse of Sharon, Metallica for bullying Jason Newstedt, Led Zeppelin for their treatment of women during their heydays, Scorpions for having a naked kid on their album cover etc. etc.
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