Section 05
The Scenes
The rehearsal rooms, tape-trading networks, zines, and geography that organised Nordic metal before the internet.
- 01
The Tape-Trading Circuit
Before the label existed, the tape did its work — how cassette demos moved across borders, built scenes, and told labels where to look.
- 02
Gothenburg and Stockholm: Not a Rivalry
The documented record — session logs, label addresses, liner notes, pressing credits — tells a story of traffic, not competition.
- 03
The Bergen Scene: What the Records Show
What the physical record — sleeve credits, studio addresses, label imprints — actually tells you about Bergen's metal output, stripped of the mythology.
- 04
Zines as Infrastructure
The Fanzine Was the Postal Address You Couldn't Find Anywhere Else
- 05
The Rehearsal Room and What It Cost
What a band paid per hour, and how the four walls shaped everything that followed.