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