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So, my name is Tom, 26, from the great shithole called Stockholm. I began my metal odyssey around 13 with rock and heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath and Dream Evil. Quickly got into folk and death metal with finntroll and bloodbath 2004, and advanced to 2nd wave bm by 2007. Did military service as a combat medic in Afghanistan, became more open minded to people with different life views but more anti society. -> Crustpunk and D-beat bands like Discharge, Avskum, Skitsystem etc. Started Skoll 2010 with Sebbe, Jeppe and Axel, wanting to get the d-beat attack into old school thrash/black metal (bathory, celtic frost, slayer, venom blah blah :P), for it is the shit. (I'm the one to the right in the profile picture). And now I'm here, interested in seeing what the metal community are talking about all over the world today. Find some new hellblasting bands to listen to, stuff like that. Hail to you all!

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Welcome, it sounds like we are about the same age and were getting into more extreme strains of metal around the same time. I dig a fair bit of crust and d-beat as well, and the combination with first wave black metal doesn't sound all that farfetched (Celtic Frost were big Discharge fans and used plenty of d-beats), but it does sound cool, I'll have to check it out.

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hey is you dont like sweden move to the far better norway home of black metal
Black metal was born in England with Venom, and developed in Sweden, Germany, the US, Italy, Denmark, and Switzerland before the first Norwegian black metal band Mayhem had even released anything. It wasn't until black metal had been around for 10 years that anyone else in Norway took notice, with a mass exodus from death metal occurring in the early 90's.
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I was always wondering.. what happened in scandinavian countries that black metal became so popular anyway :D well' date=' not just black, metal in general. Guess people there are much more awesome than perhaps in my country. Eh, what can we do..;) just live where you guys think is the best for you.[/quote'] Their scenes were about the same size and output as other black metal producing countries early in the second wave. The media sensationalism surrounding the church burnings and murders in Scandinavian countries caught many people's attention and drew many to become new fans and start new bands in the style. The same goes for their death metal scenes, but the majority of Scandinavian death metal musicians jumped ship to black metal changed direction away from metal altogether, whereas elsewhere in Europe, death metal stayed consistent, causing two small/mid-sized extreme metal scenes rather than one large one.
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