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Ludvika
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Ludvika is a bimunicipal city and the seat of Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County within the country of Sweden, with 14,498 inhabitants in 2010. The conurbation of Ludvika extends over the border of Smedjebacken Municipality, Ludvika is situated by Lake Väsman in the south-east part of the municipality. From Stockholm to Ludvika it is,234 km, from Gothenburg to Ludvika it is,400 km. From London to Ludvika it is,1975 km
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Dalarna County
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Dalarna County is a county or län in middle Sweden. It borders the counties of Uppsala, Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and it is also bordered by the Norwegian counties of Hedmark and Sør-Trøndelag in the west. The term Dalarna County is mainly used for administrative purposes, being subdivided into municipalities. Dalarna County virtually encompasses the historical province Dalarna, that deals with history, in older times, Dalarna was periodically part of the territory ruled by the governor of Västerås Castle. The 1634 Instrument of Government led to the creation of a county covering Dalarna with its own County Governor, the Kopparbergs län was finally created by royal decree in 1647. In 1997, the name of the county was changed to Dalarna County, the County Administrative Board is a Government Agency headed by a Governor. The County Council of Dalarna or Landstinget Dalarna primarily handles health care, when it is shown with a royal crown it represents the County Administrative Board
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Sweden
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Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, at 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. Approximately 85% of the lives in urban areas. Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear, Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Today, Sweden is a monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country, legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister, Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages, in the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, the last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Swedens current borders, though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 and it is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Swēoþēod and this word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means Realm of the Swedes, excluding the Geats in Götaland, the etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally not agreed upon but may derive from Proto-Germanic Swihoniz meaning ones own, referring to ones own Germanic tribe
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Melodic death metal
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Melodic death metal is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal. The style originated and developed in Sweden and the United Kingdom during the early, the Swedish death metal scene did much to popularize the style, soon centering in the Gothenburg metal scene. The vocal style typically combines harsh screaming, sung vocals, and death growls, writer Gary Sharpe-Young considered the Gothenburg scene the commercial salvation of death metal, Gothenburg became the new Tampa and the genre received a new lease on life. Its influence lead to the diversification of modern metalcore, with melodic metalcore gaining prominence in the 2000s, stewart Mason claims that the style has become very popular in the United States, using the term Swedecore to describe Scandinavian-style metal as played by non-Nordic bands. List of melodic death metal bands Swedish death metal
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Death metal
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Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Building from the structure of thrash metal and early black metal. Bands such as Venom, Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Kreator were important influences on the genres creation, Possessed and Death, along with bands such as Obituary, Autopsy and Morbid Angel, are often considered pioneers of the genre. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, death metal gained more attention as popular genre niche record labels like Combat, Earache. Since then, death metal has diversified, spawning several subgenres, melodic death metal combines death metal elements with those of the new wave of British heavy metal. Technical death metal is a style, with uncommon time signatures, atypical rhythms. Death-doom combines the deep growled vocals and double-kick drumming of death metal with the slow tempos, deathgrind, goregrind and pornogrind mix the complexity of death metal with the intensity, speed, and brevity of grindcore. Deathcore combines death metal with metalcore traits, Death n roll combines death metals growled vocals and highly distorted, detuned guitar riffs with elements of 1970s hard rock and heavy metal. English heavy metal band Venom, from Newcastle, crystallized the elements of what became known as thrash metal, death metal and black metal. Their dark, blistering sound, harsh vocals, and macabre, another highly influential band, Slayer, formed in 1981. Although the band was a metal act, Slayers music was more violent than their thrash contemporaries Metallica, Megadeth. Their breakneck speed and instrumental prowess combined with lyrics about death, violence, war, according to AllMusic, their third album Reign in Blood inspired the entire death metal genre. It had a big impact on the genre such as Death, Obituary. While attributed as having a Slayer influence, current and former members of the band had actually cited Venom and Motörhead, as well as work by Exodus. Possessed arguably did more to further the cause of Death Metal than any of the acts on the scene back in the mid-late 80s. During the same period as the dawn of Possessed, an influential metal band was formed in Florida. Death, originally called Mantas, was formed in 1983 by Chuck Schuldiner, Kam Lee, in 1984 they released their first demo entitled Death by Metal, followed by several more. The tapes circulated through the tape trader world, quickly establishing the bands name, with Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene
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Nuclear Blast
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Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany, originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic death metal, grindcore, industrial metal, power metal and black metal bands, as well as tribute albums. More recent signings include names such as Wednesday 13, Slayer, Opeth, Decapitated, Danzig, Cradle of Filth, Edguy, Nightwish, Symphony X, Suffocation, Machine Head and Fear Factory. Nuclear Blast was formed in 1987 after founder Markus Staiger travelled throughout the United States for four weeks, the labels first release was a vinyl compilation called Senseless Death featuring US hardcore bands like Attitude, Sacred Denial, Impulse Manslaughter and others. Swedish band Meshuggah became the first band in the history of Nuclear Blast Records to crack the Billboard 200, landing at number 165 with their 2002 album, Meshuggah also became the first Nuclear Blast band to be reviewed in Rolling Stone magazine. It became the first release in the history to reach number 1 on the German charts. Slayer released the album Repentless in 2015 which went to number 4 on the Billboard 200 making it the highest charting Nuclear Blast release in the USA, List of record labels List of Nuclear Blast artists Nuclear Blast Europe
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Immortal (band)
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Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1991 by frontman and bassist Abbath Doom Occulta and guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta. The pair worked with various drummers for their first three albums, and were joined by current drummer Horgh in 1996. In August 2015, Demonaz and Horgh claimed that the band never stopped, Demonaz would return to playing guitar with the band for the first time since 1997, and would also do vocals as well. Immortal arose from two short-lived bands, Old Funeral and Amputation, which were formed by Abbath and others in 1988, Immortals original lineup consisted of ex-members from both of these bands. Old Funeral was founded by Abbath and Tore, then went through a string of guitarists until disbanding in 1992. Abbath, Demonaz, and Jørn formed Amputation, which released two demos with Demonaz on guitar and vocals, Jørn on guitars, and Padden on drums, before disbanding in 1990. Members of Old Funeral and Amputation formed Immortal in 1991, with Abbath on bass and lead vocals, Demonaz on guitar, the music on their early demo recordings was death metal, with lyrics influenced by Morbid Angel and Possessed. The band then became influenced by Euronymous and bands like Bathory and they released their self-titled EP in 1991, which saw a stylistic change to black metal. This was followed by their debut album Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism in 1992, in 1995, the band released two video clips directed by British artist David Palser, entitled Masters of Nebulah Frost, through Osmose Productions. The video for Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms features Mayhem drummer, Hellhammer and these clips have become the template for many other bands producing such works, similarly to how The Call of the Wintermoon is also highly influential. Apart from the two members, Abbath and Demonaz, Immortal did not find a stable lineup until 1996. A major turning point for the band was in 1997 when Demonaz suffered acute tendinitis in his arm and was unable to continue playing, and Abbath took over for guitar. Despite this, Demonaz continued writing lyrics and has been a manager for the band, accompanying them on tour, releasing updates, Abbath and Horgh wrote and recorded the bands next album, At the Heart of Winter. During the tours for this album, the band recruited Iscariah to stand in for bass duties, Grim committed suicide in 1999, however, it is said that this was unrelated to his departure from Immortal. The band frequently headlines a festival held in his memory, the Hole in the Sky Festival, the next album, Damned in Black was more similar to their old style. It was well received, but is overlooked as it came between two of their classic albums, At the Heart of Winter and Sons of Northern Darkness. In 2000, the EP Immortal was repackaged as part of the True Kings of Norway compilation by Spikefarm Records, Two months after this, Iscariah announced his intention to leave the band and was replaced by Saroth for the next few months. Immortal decided to split during the summer of 2003 for various reasons of the band members
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Pain (musical project)
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Pain is a musical project from Sweden that mixes heavy metal with influences from electronic music and techno. The project started out as a project for front man Peter Tägtgren, whose idea was to fuse heavy metal with 1980s-inspired electro-industrial. Tägtgren, who is also the vocalist/guitarist of Hypocrisy and producer of his own The Abyss studios, is the current member. Pains self-titled debut was released in 1997, and since then Pain has released six more albums and a DVD. Starting with their second, all of Pains albums have made the Swedish charts, thanks in part to hit singles such as End of the Line, Shut Your Mouth. In early February 2006, Blabbermouth. net reported that Pain had signed with Roadrunner Records, currently, Pain is under the Nuclear Blast Records banner. In 2008, Pain was on tour as a performer for the Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish. During this tour singer Peter Tägtgren, drummer David Wallin, Tägtgren received 10 stitches in his face, Wallin suffered a concussion and stitches to his head, and Husgafvel had his nose broken. Pain supported Nightwish on the half of their Dark Passion Play World Tour, along with Finnish pop rock band Indica, beginning with the first show in London. Pain released their album, You Only Live Twice, on 3 June 2011 via Nuclear Blast. They released their studio album entitled Coming Home on September 9,2016
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Dark Funeral
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Dark Funeral is a Swedish black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They emerged during the wave of black metal. Their lyrical themes have traditionally pertained to Satanism and anti-Christianity, in their earlier years, their lyrical themes usually revolved specifically around depictions of Hell and Satan. After Emperor Magus Caligula joined the band, their lyrics came to more on blasphemy and anti-Christian rhetoric. The group have released six albums and are one of the most prominent acts in the Swedish black metal scene. Dark Funeral was founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993, shortly afterwards drummer Draugen and bassist and vocalist Themgoroth joined the band. Their self-titled and self-financed EP, Dark Funeral, was recorded in 1994 at Dan Swanös Unisound Studio in January. It was released on May 4, the day the band performed their first gig at Luse Lottes Pub in Oslo, Norway, alongside bands such as fellow live debut band Gorgoroth. After the recording sessions, Draugen left the band and was replaced by Equimanthorn, in 1995, the band signed up to No Fashion Records and started preparing songs for a full-length album. After an attempt to record The Secrets of the Black Arts at Unisound Studios, during the break between studio sessions, the band wrote the song When Angels Forever Die. With engineer Peter Tägtgren on board, the band finally got the production they were looking for, shortly after, Dark Funeral played their first festival gig, Under the Black Sun I, in Berlin. A few weeks prior to this gig Emperor Magus Caligula replaced Themgoroth, on January 28,1996, the bands first full-length album, The Secrets of the Black Arts, was released and the album was soon licensed to Metal Blade and Mystic Productions. Equimanthorn was soon replaced by Alzazmon, the line-up of Emperor Magus Caligula, Lord Ahriman, Alzazmon and Blackmoon recorded their versions of Bathorys Call from the Grave and Equimanthorn for the Bathory tribute In Conspiracy with Satan. Blackmoon eventually left and founded War a year later, together with Necromass, the band embarked on the Satanic War Tour I throughout Europe. The second leg of the Satanic War Tour followed with Ancient, Dark Funeral played their first show in America at the Expo of the Extreme festival in Chicago. From there, the band embarked on The American Satanic Crusade Tour with Usurper in support, originally, the tour was supposed to also feature Acheron and Deströyer 666, but both bands cancelled. In September, the returned to The Abyss Studio to record Vobiscum Satanas. The Ineffable Kings of Darkness Tour with Enthroned and Liar of Golgotha took place with Dominion joining the band as a bass player
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Bloodbath
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Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm, formed in 1998. The band has released four albums, two EPs and two DVDs depicting their performances at Wacken Open Air and Bloodstock Open Air. The group comprises Martin Axenrot, Anders Nyström, Jonas Renkse, Nick Holmes, and Per Eriksson, the band named themselves after the song Blood Bath from the album To the Gory End by Cancer. In 2004, Åkerfeldt left Bloodbath to free up time for his primary band Opeth. To replace him, Bloodbath brought in Peter Tägtgren, the lineup changed further, with Swanö switching to play the guitar instead of drums. Martin Axenrot took his place and the band was now bigger and more serious, the bands second full release, Nightmares Made Flesh, was released in Europe in September 2004. In February 2005, Tägtgren left the band due to conflicting schedules and that same year, Åkerfeldt rejoined the band for a single live show at Germanys Wacken Open Air on August 5. Prior to the show, the band commented on the Wacken show, Not only the first, in September 2005, Bloodbath started searching for a new lead singer. In August 2006, the announced the departure of Swanö from their ranks due to musical differences. They simultaneously closed the vocal auditions, announcing that no suitable singer had been found. On March 27,2007, the announced that a new line-up would shortly be unveiled, along with news that they were producing new material. In August 2007, Renkse wrote a message on the official discussion forum which suggested that work was in progress. On January 30,2008, it was announced via the Bloodbath website that Åkerfeldt would be rejoining the line-up on vocals, in March 2008, the EP Unblessing the Purity was released. Also released in 2008 was the Wacken live CD/DVD The Wacken Carnage, Bloodbath released their third full-length album, The Fathomless Mastery, in October 2008. On April 25,2011, Bloodbath released their second DVD, Bloodbath over Bloodstock, on November 1,2011, during the final show of the American Opeth/Katatonia tour at Rams Head Live in Baltimore, MD, Bloodbath performed a surprise encore after Opeths set. On April 14,2012, Blakkheim announced that Åkerfeldt officially left the group, Blakkheim has said in multiple interviews that they have a new vocalist set, but they cannot reveal the identity at the moment due to the lack of contract. When asked in one interview whether the new vocalist was known or not, Blakkheim said, Oh, on September 16,2014, the band announced the new Bloodbath vocalist as Nick Holmes from Paradise Lost
