Some Swedish Steel for starters..

[DaN]

2ND UPDATE

AMBUSH - 4 TRACK EP 7'' EP 1984
Now here's a real hidden Swedish Metal treasure for sure. AMBUSH make a highly original blend of heavy, doomy Metal, moody & esoteric hard rock like ASHBURY, WIDOW (UK) etc and 70's folksy HR a la JETHRO TULL. The fiercely captivating and original chorus to "Run Like Hell" could itself make the EP a certain buy, but then you have the excellent doomster "Holy Ruler", the woeful, melodic "Whole Man Again" and a surprisingly good ballad closer in "Spirit Of A Fool" still waiting for you. I'm desperately searching for a copy (digital or original) of their full-length tape from '85, so all help is appreciated.

AMBUSH 4 Track EP 84 - 1 run like hell.mp3
AMBUSH 4 Track EP 84 - 2 holy ruler.mp3
AMBUSH 4 Track EP 84 - 3 whole man again.mp3
AMBUSH 4 Track EP 84 - 4 spirit of a fool.mp3

KEEN HUE - ONE OF TWO/SPREAD YOUR WINGS OF FIRE 7'' 1982
Without a doubt one of the best, most talented and professional releases of the Pang label ...but who gives a fuck about 'talent' and 'professionalism' really? What matters is the fact that both songs are outstanding examples of classic, 1st rate NewWhaveOfWherever-Metal. Åke's vocals may sport some tonal imperfections on the bridge of "One Of Two", but it matters little in the greater schemes of things. Heavy, energetic, clever and brilliant song writing all the way. 'Nuff said really.

KEEN HUE - 1 one of two.mp3
KEEN HUE - 2 spread your wings of fire.mp3

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Let me know if the 707 Inches..-article has wet your appetite for more Swedish 7"s and I'll try and upload them too.

[Fucking Åmål]

Tack så mycket DaN

[omen of hate]

Awesome !!!

Thanx a lot !!

[Keir]

Thanks for those! "Living Dead" comes just in time as I need to make a new Halloween mix for this year. As for WULCAN, I’m sorry but if I want to hear a blatant rip off of "Heaven and Hell" I’d rather listen to “Fire in Your Eyes” by BLACK KNIGHT. Now SERGEANT, on the other hand, is just the kind of stuff I live for!

[Keir]

Was going to post this in the Requests thread, but just noticed the "not related to a current post" part.

Could you post the PARADIZE 7"? Your review is quite contrary to others I've read so I'd like to hear it for myself. Thanks!

[Keir]

Oops! I just realized that the 2 PARADIZE tracks are on the High Vaultage reissue of the Reflexions EP. I'll have to pick that up. Sorry I asked!

[steelegacy]

i hope you put more rare swedish rarities for download ,dan.i had heard all singles except of Seargant 7".want to hear more,i am thirsty for swedish metal!!!
Actually,i have the WULCAN 7",yes on vinyl ,and i remember that i had bought i from a guy from Sweden that used to have rare stuff and cheap!!!i dont remember his name right now but i can look and tell you,i still have his list,it was in 1996 ,if i remember well when i bought some of his stuff.i am sure he is still selling but not that stuff anymore.I had also bought the ORIGINAL VIDEOTAPE of MERCY-WITCHBURNER TOUR along with a giant poster!!!!! for a very low price!!!i had also bought the SACRIFICE-street fighter 7"..Great single!!!and i also have the PARADIZE 7",yes its very melodic but i love it for the pomp and its epic feeling it has!!!! i dont remember where i got it from.i am not well known for having good memory!!!

[DaN]

You had WULCAN already in 96?? If so I'm impressed. As far as I know noone knew about that 7"until only a year ago.Could it have been Peter Höög? Or the TPL guys? Or Stefan Renström?

Let me know if there's any titles you wanna hear and uploads will follow

[ION BRITTON]

First the 2 compilation-trax by HELS, especially for John/ION BRITTON. (Still need those ORION'S SWORD demos?)

Many thanks! ''Living dead'' is a very good tune indeed. I put it in the same league with ''Birth'' which was my favorite from the 7''. Musically is not that haunting with the 7'' material, but the vocals are definitely doomy in the characteristic Swedish vein, fuckin' heavy and straight from the grave! Influenced by Nwobhm, but in no case i would mistake this band for English!

The Orion's Sword demos are still needed!

The excellent WULCAN debut 7". A Swedish top-rarity of which I've only ever seen one copy.

''Mysterier'' was a cool one. It's such a rip-off that you could quite well start singing ''Sing me a song you're a singer...'' with the vocal entrance, but strangely it didn't bother me that much. ''Travellin'' was below average, tending more into the crap 'n' roll kind of metal.

Ripping Power Metal the way the Gods intended!

I had heard this one before, it's truly an excellent piece of Epic metal. Sound close to Zone Zero, at least to my ears. ''Swords and sorcery'' slays!


Let AMBUSH and KEEN HUE be next!
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[The Sentinel]

Great tunes

[DaN]

Since I prefer to upload to my own servers, these will go down in a few days to leave room for more stuff. If you missed anything, ask another forum member to mail them to you or reupload them.

[steelegacy]

Yes Dan,
i checked the lists and its Peter Hoog!!!you are right,i was a customer of him untill 1999,or 2000??!!i dont remember well,but he had great stuff,yes i had Wulcan for a long,i dont consider it to be a top swedish 7" but its a great single!!!one of my fave bands from the swedish scene is Parasite,and i think i have a demo that i am sure i still havent heard!!!someone should put swedish demos on vinyl or on cd"S,there are so many great demos !!!!!!i run STEEL LEGACY records putting such stuff but i dont have good contacts from sweden.STORMBRINGER records has released some great stuff so i beg him to do such releases

[Dirty Rocker]

SERGEANT and WULCAN was new for me, never heard them before! I saw the Wulcan single on tradera for a while ago, I think it went for 40 dollars or something like that? Anyway, the cover is awesome, and Mysterier was a killer tune of music, though it was kinda ripp off. But it didn't bothered me as much anyway! I think the B-side was pretty good, but not the same class as the A-side.

Now, time to listen to SERGEANT.

Thanks for the uploads!!

[otakon]

thanks man i really like the WULCAN and SERGEANT !

[Fucking Åmål]

I liked most HELS and WULCAN really masterpieces all their tracks.HELS vocals remind me of the ALMIGHTY King Diamond singing(Halloween...Halloween).I need the HELS single oslo desperately.WULCAN´s Mysterier is a HYMN really masterpiece(i need the lyrics) and Travellin´ a very good song.I didn´t liked SERGEANT,WARNING and RISING are very good.