Leif Edling

Sweden is currently one of the world's largest producers of heavy metal. Super Stars like Europe and Yngwie Malmsteen have shown the way to the big stages, while bands like Candlemass and Bathory established entirely new genres. This is the story of the personalities that made ​​the Swedish hard rock and metal scene to what it is today. A fascinating, moving and humorous story about how Sweden became a world nation in one of the strongest and most popular cultural phenomena ever, full of eyewitness accounts, anecdotes and, of course, a whole lot of metal!

Sweden's Candlemass helped reintroduce the lumbering power chords of Black Sabbath to an entire generation of post-New Wave British Heavy Metal and post-Thrash metalheads. Recently, the original lineup toured Europe and recorded this their farewell show in front of their home audience. 1. Demons Gate 2. Dark Reflection 3. Well of Souls 4. Into the Unfathomed Tower 5. Ancient Dreams 6. The Bells of Acheron 7. Witches 8. Mirror Mirror 9. A Cry from the Crypt 10. Mourners Lament 11. Black Stone Weilder 12. Solitude 13. At the Gallows End

La seule performance live de KRUX enregistrée à ce jour. Datant de 2003, ce concert à Stockholm les voit jouer sur scène avec des membres de Entombed, Opeth, Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Candlemass, Talisman & At Vance! Tracklist 1 Intro 2 Black Room 3 Enigma Ezb 4 Nimis 5 Shadowplay 6 Omfalos 7 Popocatépetl 8 Krux 9 Abstrakt Sun 10 Evel Rifaz 11 Lunochod

Swedish hard rock took its first big step abroad in the early 80s, when a young Yngwie Malmsteen sent a demo cassette across the Atlantic and became a guitar god overnight. Now Swedish hard rock bands perform all over the world on the biggest stages. This is the story of how Swedish hard rock became an export success.