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The year is 1982 when two teenage-punks,
Nisse and Håkan, from a sleepy little town called Kristinehamn in Sweden
starts to travel to nearby towns to check out if there´s something going
on. In towns like Mariestad, Skövde and Götene they find a lot of
new friends. Their new friends, members of bands like Anti Cimex and DNA
make such an impression on both of them with their brand new sound. It’s a
kind of punk music that they never heard before, its much more direct,
more aggressive, more chaotic and with a dirtier sound then the
punk music they are used to listen too. The music is influenced by English
bands like Discharge, Varukers, Chaos UK and Disorder.
Back home in Kristinehamn, Nisse and Håkan starts a crust punk band of
their own together with Pyri and Gunnar, two small and ugly baby punks mad
enough to coop with this new ass kicking style. They name the band Avskum.
During this time in Sweden the commercial interests from the music
business and media was very cold about the punk scene, in their eyes the
punk was dead so the punks themselves got the possibility to create a punk
movement complete on their own.
New bands popped up
everywhere, especially in the countryside. The kids started to give out
their own cassettes and records on small independent record labels.
Several fanzines got started. People started music and cultural
associations and networks. Concerts were arranged all over the country but
the most important stages during this time were “Tandsticksfabriken” in
Jönköping and “Sprangkulls teatern” in Gothenborg. On the concerts you
could see a lot of real cool Swedish bands like Anti Cimex, DNA,
Headcleaners, Associal, Absurd, Mob 47, Dissacord, Tatuerade snutkukar,
Rovsvett and many many more. |