Swedish punk

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Asta Kask in Södertälje 2009
Disfear 2008

The Swedish punk is the first time in 1977 mention. Ebba Grön and KSMB were among the first and still best known Swedish punk bands . Internationally, these early bands are described as melodic and catchy. The associated subgenre is called Trallpunk . Other well-known representatives of this genre are Asta Kask and Radioaktivia Räker , who still exert influence today with their critical, left-wing political texts. Many of the early Swedish punk bands still play concerts today with old or new line-ups.

Among the pioneers of the musically harder and faster D-beat , which became increasingly popular in Sweden in the 1980s, include: a. the bands Mob 47 and Anti Cimex . Popular bands of the 1990s, which are also assigned to the genre D-Beat or Crustcore , are Driller Killer, Skitsystem , Wolfbrigade and Disfear .

The internationally best-known representative of Swedish punk is the band Millencolin , founded in 1992 and assigned to the genre of melodycore .

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Jandreus: The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk 1977-1987 . Premium Publishing, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-972712-3-3 .
  2. a b Joachim Hiller: Asta Kask. In: Interviews & Articles. Ox-Fanzine.de, March 2007, accessed on November 12, 2019 .
  3. Millencolin - SOS. From Millencolin.com, accessed November 11, 2019.