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 1980's, through metal's virtual chokehold on the country during the 1990's, into the lasting legacy and influence in the turbulent 2000's of the Sunlight guitar tone, the Gothenburg Sound, and the countless offshoots of Sweden's most lethal cultural export.