***In 1911, Sweden established the world’s first government board of film censors, provoking a century-long war against filmmakers that outlived two world wars, communism, and the sexual revolution. In 2011, the censors finally surrendered—and Swedish Sensationfilms declares victory with a fiery retrospective of over 200 often banned and cut films by directors from Ingmar Bergman to Boarne Vibenius, produced during the golden age of Swedish sin. From the backyard of the Swedish film industry, these daring sensationsfilms form a canon dealing with shocking and taboo subjects—street punks, sadistic mobsters, space aliens, unruly housewives, ruthless drug pushers, bloodthirsty ninjas, teen temptresses, lingonberry cowboys, bearded Danish perverts, horny glam rockers, and drunken vikings—all simply too strange and too Swedish to ignore. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, DANIEL EKEROTH is a writer and editor for the Stockholm Intl. Film Festival. He is the author of the acclaimed book Swedish Death Metal and is known as a musician from the bands TYRANT, INSISION, DELLAMORTE, and ONKEL KANKEL. He lives peacefully in Stockholm.
BK $17.75
03/22/2011
***BACK IN STOCK!!! DANIEL EKEROTH’s (INSISION, TYRANT, DELLAMORTE, DISKONTO) exhaustive, 450-page history of Swedish Death Metal. Ekeroth captures the epic tale with enlightening detail, beginning with Sweden’s violent loss of innocence in the 1980s, through metal’s virtual chokehold on the country during the 1990s, into the lasting legacy and influence in the turbulent 2000s of the Sunlight guitar tone, the “Gothenburg Sound,” and the countless offshoots of Sweden’s most lethal cultural export.
BK $31.35
09/01/2008