To celebrate my 250th Instagram post

@herr_black_metal I did this collage for the 25 most important bands/albums in
"My Metal History 1988 - 1994" a timeline beginning with Iron Maiden. Before discovering Black Metal in 1994 with Dissection and Emperor, then it was in motion a new era of my life began. I didn't know it at the time, but with time it sure had a HUGE impact on my life. I probably forgotten some bands/albums...

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)

The first ever Metal record I got was this album by Iron Maiden. My mother let me choose one cassette tape at a record store when I was 8 years old in 1988. Me and a friend used to listen to his 2 older brothers Heavy Metal records at his place. I didn't remember what the best songs was called in the record store so I picked the one I thought looked most badass, guts and everything coming out of Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie. It wasn't a bad choice but "Powerslave" (1984), "Piece of Mind" (1983), "The Number of the Beast" (1982) etc.is better records. Don't get me wrong I love this album from beginning to end. 3 favorite songs on it this album: Moonchild, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and The Clairvoyant.    

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Picture and text coming 

3 favorite songs on it this album: It's So Easy, Nightrain. Mr. Brownstone

Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood

W.A.S.P. - s/t

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Megadeth - Rust in piece

Danzig - s/t

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

King Diamond - Abigail

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

Slayer - Reign In Blood

Slayer - Hell Awaits

Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

Entombed - Left Hand Path

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream

Deicide - s/t

Morbid Angel - Covenant

Carcass - Heartwork

At The Gates - Terminal Spirit

Merciless - Unbound

Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand

Dissection - The Somberlain

Some bands that didn't make it but I want to mention:
Kiss, Dio, Twisted Sister, Skid Row, Motörhead, Testament, Pantera, Death, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Unleashed, Tiamat, Hypocrisy, Kreator etc etc etc... etc

I will edit and post pictures of each and every release when I got the time.

Another Jon Nödtveidt text translated

As the title says I have translated another Jon Nödtveidt text. This time he shared the text with Ole Öhman, drummer of Dissection at the time. This review is of a Entombed and Dark Tranquility gig in Gothenburg. Originally published in Metal Zone #2 in February of 1994.

Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik's - Hugsjá Live clip of Oska 2017 at Grieghallen Bergen, Norway

Short clip of Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik's live performance at Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway last week. With their new project called "Hugsjá", the followup to "Skuggsjá". That I saw live during a visit to the beautiful town of Bergen, Norway. 

All new songs in this live performance. I don't remember the name of the song (ed. it's called Oska). Even if Einar did most of the talking, both Ivar and him introduced each song. Wish I would have written down the setlist. But I wanted to focus on the performance rather then looking down at my phone during songs. That I do to much anyway... 

Enjoy this short clip, it was the only thing I filmed and only a handful of pictures. I can't wait for this to be released on an album. Last time it took 2 years since the Skuggsjá live debut in 2014 to be released on a record. Let's hope this will get released sooner, because this sounded awesome!! 

Jon Nödtveidt Dissection interview in June 1994

The first ever Jon Nödtveidt/Dissection interview that I read was in June of 1994. In Swedish with this very ugly unfitting background. But that's not important it's what Jon says in the interview that matters. 

Anyway this is one of the reasons that made me buy The Somberlain 23 year ago in 1994 when I was 14 years. Damn I'm fucking old... 

It's from the Swedish magazine Metal Zone that both Jon Nödtveidt and Ole Öhman wrote in for a couple of issues. This is in the same issue (nr. 5) of the magazine that Jon interviews Bathory and Emperor. In the Extreme Zone he wrote about bands that caught my interest like Nifelheim, Ophthalamia, Abruptum, Einherjer, Opeth etc. and a few fanzines (see a English translation of the article I made here. Kind of strange that he got to write about the excellent album A Journey In Darkness (1994) by Ophthalamia since he was the vocalist on that one. 

Jon Nödtveidt was a very talented writer and every text he wrote for this magazine was so interesting back then (and now) for me. That combination almost made me a Dissection fan even before buying The Somberlain. That record was so important and had such an effect on me.

Iron Maiden started my interest for Heavy Metal back in 1988. Even if band like Slayer, Morbid Angel & Dismember plus a ton of other bands had a very strong effect on me. It was Dissection that really changed my view on Extreme Metal music forever whether it called Black/Death/Thrash.

I decided to translate it into English thanks to all the demand on Instagram.