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Blithe

Vocalist/songwriter Emil Odling formed Blithe in 1990 in the tiny college city of Umea, Sweden, with guitarist Mattias Norlander, bassist Nils Forsberg, and drummer Johan Nilsson. Some Swedish alternative groupings, like the Cardigans and Komeda (which Norlander also has for), are led by way of a kitschy sixties sensibility, Blithe …

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Nocturnal Rites

Nocturnal Rites began life because the Swedish death metallic outfit Necronomic, which released a demo tape entitled The Obscure in 1991. Steadily, as the music group members realized they might would rather play even more melodic strains of metallic they had loved we were young — English and Gothic metallic …

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