This is the third and, by far, the biggest encyclopedia of Swedish hard rock and heavy metal - ever! You will find information on over 3 600 bands, ranging from the fluffiest AOR to the blackest metal and anything inbetween, starting way back in 1970. Detailed biographies, discographies, line-ups, hometowns, geographical index with a map and a member index including over 11 700 names. All of it topped off with never before published photos and over 4 700 record covers. Also featuring a price indication guide for the rarest and most collectable discs. Hard Rock - Heavy Metal - Death Metal - AOR - Black Metal - FM Rock - Pomp - Melodic Hard Rock - Sleaze - Glam Metal - Heavy Rock - Seventies Hard Rock Stoner - Sludge - Drone - Doom - NWoBHM - NWoSHM - Neoclassical Metal - Power Metal - Speed Metal Thrash Metal - Bay Area Thrash - Progressive Metal - Progressive Rock - Symphonic Rock - Opera Metal - Melodic Death Metal - Progressive Death Metal Symphonic Death Metal - Symphonic Black Metal - Gothenburg Sound - Old-school Death - Old-school Black Metal - Death & Roll - Funk Metal - Folk Metal - Viking Metal - Metalcore - Deathgrind - Goregrind Industrial Metal - Blues Rock - Southern Rock - Grunge Metal - Shredders - Alternative metal - Post grunge - Nu-metal - Rap Metal - Goth - Post Metal Biographies - Discographies - Member information Map - Home towns - Band pictures - Covers - Name index - Town index - Style description - Price indication - Compilation bands - Peripheral bands - Trivia Plus a unique bonus CD featuring hidden gems, only available with this book!
“Really, it’s so much quality from such a small country, which will become all too graphically clear as you stagedive into the moshpit of this book expertly compiled by Janne Stark.” Martin Popoff (Author, journalist and senior editor) “I’m lucky Janne Stark speaks “Blekingska” (strange, rural Swedish idiom), otherwise he would easily have stolen my job, since he knows everything about Swedish hard rock and heavy metal.” Andreas Matz (Swedish radio personality) “Whatever tiny bit of trivia Janne Stark doesn’t know about Swedish metal isn’t worth knowing. For years, he’s researched and documented virtually every single band that ever existed and compiled his discoveries in an impressive encyclopedia in color that leaves all other attempts to shame.” Anders Tengner (Author and journalist) “To fully embrace such a task as writing these books (now a third one) clearly borders on insanity, but that kind of insanity is something to be grateful for.” Teddy Möller (F.K.Ü, Loch Vostock) “In your hand you’re holding an encyclopedia of thousands of metal bands from Sweden, all the fantastic music they have created and all the inspiration they can provide.” Yasin Hillborg (Musician, producer of the documentary Så jävla Metal) For full quotes, and more of them, please see inside.
EXCLUSIVE “UNRELEASED GEMS” BONUS CD! Inside you will find an exclusive bonus CD, which features previously unreleased tracks only! Bands featuring members of bands like HammerFall, 220 Volt, Talisman, Heavy Load, Trash, F.K.Ü, Therion, The Poodles and more.