Tomas Skogsberg

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Tomas Skogsberg is a Swedish music producer and sound engineer . He is considered to be one of the most important producers of death metal . Above all, he helped shape the Swedish scene, which at the end of the 1980s, along with the American scene, was instrumental in the development of the genre. The sound of his Sunlight Studio in the Swedish capital was also known as "Sunlight Sound" or " Stockholm Sound".

Career

The first production of Skogsberg was in 1988 the band Morbid of the later Mayhem singer Dead and the later Entombed band members Lars-Göran Petrov and Uffe Cederlund , more precisely their second demo Last Supper . The genre term Death Metal didn't exist back then. Skogsberg fulfilled the band's wish to make them sound “as brutal and dirty as possible”. However, the sound was also described as "confused and unfocused", Skogsberg as "overwhelmed" at the time. Skogsberg named Rick Rubin as a role model for his work .

One of the most important productions was Entombed's debut Left Hand Path , which is seen as defining the style and which gave rise to the "Sunlight Sound", whose features include lower-pitched guitars and a differentiated drum sound. The sound, however, comes from the nihilist guitarist Leif “Leffe” Cuzner and was created during the recording of the second nihilist demo Only Shreds Remain . Nihilist / Entombed guitarist Nicke Andersson , who later released the debut album Supershitty to the Max! With his band The Hellacopters ! and Payin 'the Dues recorded there, said the band only went to the Sunlight Studio because Morbid had been there, the drums on the demo sounded "terrible".

However, due to the effect of Left Hand Path and its successor Clandestine , Skogsberg was soon in international demand. In addition to Left Hand Path , he named Entombed's third work Wolverine Blues , which became the starting point of the subgenre Death 'n' Roll , as the best production . By 1993 he had put together a professional studio set-up. From this time on, however, he said he was exposed to the risk of repetition, which he also criticized his American colleague Scott Burns . He described himself as an "underground guy" who prefers "organic productions" and rejects " MTV metal". Skogsberg's sound influenced Swedish metal music as a whole, including Melodic Death Metal , which emerged in the early to mid-1990s . He is still active today and produces death metal bands. His latest production is an album by the German-Swedish death thrash metal band Protector .

literature

  • Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish death metal . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936878-18-9 (English: Swedish Death Metal . Translated by Andreas Diesel).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Eklige Cover, Skull and Blood: The Protagonists , in: Rock Hard, No. 273, Death Metal Special, p. 78ff.
  2. ^ A b Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936878-18-9 , pp. 86 (English: Swedish Death Metal . Translated by Andreas Diesel).
  3. ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936878-18-9 , pp. 91 (English: Swedish Death Metal . Translated by Andreas Diesel).
  4. ↑ a b www.diabolicalconquest.com: Tomas Skogsberg vs. Dan Swanö
personal data
SURNAME Skogsberg, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish music producer and sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century