Sunlight Studios is a
recording studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home project studio large en ...
in
Stockholm, Sweden which is run by Tomas Skogsberg.
It has been a popular choice for Swedish
death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, fe ...
bands such as
Dismember,
At The Gates
At the Gates is a Swedish death metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. The band was a major progenitor of Gothenburg-style melodic death metal alongside In Flames and Dark Tranquillity. Prior to their first disbandment in 1996, At the ...
,
Entombed,
Grave
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,
Katatonia
Katatonia are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band's love of death metal. Increasing popularity led them ...
and
Tiamat
In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat ( akk, or , grc, Θαλάττη, Thaláttē) is a primordial goddess of the sea, mating with Abzû, the god of the groundwater, to produce younger gods. She is the symbol of the chaos of primordial cre ...
.
Records
1989
*
Treblinka
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- ''Severe Abominations''
*
Therion - ''
Time Shall Tell''
*
Nihilist - ''Only Shreds Remain''
1990
*
Carnage - ''
Dark Recollections''
*
Entombed - ''
Left Hand Path''
*
Tiamat
In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat ( akk, or , grc, Θαλάττη, Thaláttē) is a primordial goddess of the sea, mating with Abzû, the god of the groundwater, to produce younger gods. She is the symbol of the chaos of primordial cre ...
- ''
Sumerian Cry''
*
Grotesque
Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus ...
- ''Incantation''
*
Carbonized - ''No Canonization''
1991
*
Darkthrone
Darkthrone is a Norwegian extreme metal band from Kolbotn, Akershus. Formed in 1986 as a death metal band named Black Death, in 1991 Darkthrone embraced a black metal style influenced by Bathory and Celtic Frost and became one of the leading ba ...
- ''
Soulside Journey''
*
Dismember - ''
Like an Ever Flowing Stream
''Like an Ever Flowing Stream'' is the debut album by Swedish death metal band Dismember, released in May 1991.
Overview
The title may refer to the Biblical Book of Amos 5:24, "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever ...
''
*
Entombed - ''
Clandestine''
*
Grave
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- ''
Into the Grave''
*
Therion - ''
Of Darkness...''
*
Merciless - ''
The Treasures Within
Merciless is a Swedish extreme metal band.
History
The band was formed during the summer of 1986 in Strängnäs, Sweden by Erik Wallin (guitar), Fredrik Karlén (bass guitar) and Stefan Carlsson (drums). They were inspired by the early fast- ...
''
*Sorcery - ''Bloodchilling Tales''
*
Xysma
Xysma is a Finnish rock band that was founded in 1988 in Naantali, a small town near Turku. The band split up in 1998, but reunited in 2006 for a memorial gig, and reunited again in 2011.
History Formation and early years
In the beginning Xy ...
- ''Yeah''
1992
*
Amorphis
Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other genres, including progressive metal, ...
- ''
The Karelian Isthmus''
*
Obscure Infinity
Obscure may refer to:
*Heraclitus of Ephesus was called "The Obscure"
* ''Obscure'' (video game), a 2004 survival horror game
*Obscure (band), a Bangladeshi pop rock band
* Obscure Records, a 1975–1978 UK label founded by Brian Eno
*"Obscure ...
- ''
Beyond the Gate''
*
Afflicted - ''Prodigal Sun''
*
Cemetary - ''
An Evil Shade of Grey''
1993
*
Dismember - ''
Indecent & Obscene
''Indecent & Obscene'' is the second album by Dismember. The album is accompanied by two music videos for the tracks "Skinfather" and "Dreaming in Red".
Track listing
All songs written by Matti Kärki
Matti Kärki, (born 13 December 1972) i ...
''
*
Entombed - ''
Wolverine Blues
''Wolverine Blues'' is the third studio album by Swedish death metal band Entombed, released on 4 October 1993 by Earache Records. The album displays a completely different sound from previous releases, combining elements of hard rock, heav ...
''
*
Desultory
Desultory was part of the first wave of Swedish death metal bands, alongside Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed and others. ''Into Eternity'', their Metal Blade debut following a lesser-known EP release, is standard for the genre, energetic and for ...
- ''Into Eternity''
*
Necrophobic
Necrophobic is a Swedish blackened death metal band.
History
The band was formed in 1989 by drummer Joakim Sterner and now-deceased guitarist David Parland. It is believed that the band named themselves after a Slayer song from the 1986 semin ...
- ''
The Nocturnal Silence
''The Nocturnal Silence'' is the first studio album recorded by Swedish death metal band Necrophobic. It was recorded and mixed at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in March 1993. It was produced by Necrophobic and Tomas Skogsberg and enginee ...
''
*
At The Gates
At the Gates is a Swedish death metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. The band was a major progenitor of Gothenburg-style melodic death metal alongside In Flames and Dark Tranquillity. Prior to their first disbandment in 1996, At the ...
- ''With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness''
*Utumno - ''Across The Horizon''
1994
*
Amorphis
Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other genres, including progressive metal, ...
- ''
Tales from the Thousand Lakes''
*
Amorphis
Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other genres, including progressive metal, ...
- ''
Black Winter Day''
1995
*
Dismember - ''
Massive Killing Capacity
''Massive Killing Capacity'' is the third album by Dismember. It was re-released by Regain Records in 2005. A music video was made for the track "Casket Garden".
Track listing
Personnel
* Matti Kärki
Matti Kärki, (born 13 December 197 ...
''
1996
*
Amorphis
Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other genres, including progressive metal, ...
- ''
Elegy
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to ''The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy'', "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometime ...
''
1997
*
Dismember - ''
Death Metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, fe ...
''
*
Entombed - ''
DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth''
*
Vibrion
Vibrion may also refer to: the singular form of ''vibrio'', a genus of anaerobic bacteria with a comma-like shape.
Vibrion is an antiquated term for microorganisms, especially pathogenic ones; see Germ theory of disease. The term was specifically u ...
- ''
Closed Frontiers''
1998
*
Katatonia
Katatonia are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band's love of death metal. Increasing popularity led them ...
- ''
Discouraged Ones
''Discouraged Ones'' (stylized ''discøuraged ønes'') is the third full-length album by Katatonia, released on 27 April 1998. This is the only Katatonia album with bassist Micke Oretoft. It is also their last release with Jonas Renkse on drums; ...
''
1999
*
Katatonia
Katatonia are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band's love of death metal. Increasing popularity led them ...
- ''
Tonight's Decision''
2001
*
Katatonia
Katatonia are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band's love of death metal. Increasing popularity led them ...
- ''
Last Fair Deal Gone Down''
2013
*
Jesus Chrüsler Supercar - ''
Among The Ruins And Desolate Lands''
2018
*
Befouled - ''
Refuse to Rot''
2022
*
Xorsist - ''
Deadly Possession''
References
* A chronological "discography" of the studio can be found
carnagedeathmetal.de – SUNLIGHT STUDIO (SWE)
Recording studios in Sweden
Music in Stockholm
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