"I think there was always a big divide between the Stockholm and Gothenburg scenes. The Gothenburg scene seemed to be way more into the melodic aspect; I don’t think they ever went for the brutality in death metal. [...] If you overdo the melodic aspect within death metal you’re definitely going to chop off an important element. [...] Of course, there were bands who were mixing it up pretty good. You had bands like Grotesque, which led to At The Gates, but in some ways they kept the tradition of [heavy metal] - I don’t want to say the cheesy element but the hyper-melodic element of it all. [...] And, for me, if you overdo the melodic aspect within death metal you’re definitely going to chop off an important element, an essential element of death metal, and that is the darkness. The whole eerie, dark element of death metal is to not go too melodic. [...] Yeah, I’m really proud to be from the Stockholm scene when I talk about that because I think the Stockholm underground death metal scene really did good in keeping justice to the whole true promise of death metal."
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