Ika Johannesson has been one of Sweden's major music journalists for the last 20 years. Mainly as a writer for different publications and editor-in-chief of Tidningen Sex, an interview magazine about alternative popular culture, but also within radio and tv. She is currently the anchor of the culture news on Swedish national television.

Table of Contents

Prologue

1. Fuck Off!

The twins Pelle och Erik Gustafsson of Nifelheim set out to embody the most evil band in the world; but they ended up in an insurance company ad.

2. Too Much Fucking Guck

An upper-class gang of Vikings, paving the way for the first Swedish metal wave.

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3. Bathory

How a suburben teenager at the dawn of the '80s laid the foundation for black metal - with the help of his dad.

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4. Pelle Dead

The story of Pelle Ohlin, whose desire to repulse the world set a new aesthetic standard for black metal.

5. Death Metal

How undecipherable band logos, tape trading, and a burning love for splatter movies transformed heavy metal forever.

6. Metal and the Media

The fanzines, magazines, TV shows and other media that brought metal to the public.

7. Black Metal

How the quest for true authenticity made a marginal metal genre a worldwide sensation - via church burnings and murder.

8. Metal and Money

When Dark Funeral took their record company to court for financial mishandling, something strange happened - the band refused to give up.

9. Dissection

The story of Jon Nödtveit's road from prison to the greatest possible freedom imaginable.

10. By Men, For Men

To be a metalhead - and preferably not female.

11. Entombed

Why the foremost trailblazers of the Swedish death metal scene divided into two bands - of the same name.

12. Well, Sieg Heil Then?

Though many bands flirt with evil and misantrophy, nobody truly wants to be associated with right wing extremism. Or do they?

13. A Lesson in Suicide

The birth of depressive metal, and why Shining's Niklas Kvarforth sincerely wants to hurt you.

14. Heavy Metal

How the power metal sensation of the late 90's paved the way for an unexpected revival of falsetto and spandex pants.

15. Watain

Watain tours the North of Sweden, equipped with homemade flame-throwers and rotten animal cadavers.