I discovered Marcus Karlsson's Black and Doom Metal page back in 1998, when I first got online. Up until then, I had been discovering music the old-school way: tape trading, magazines, gigs, word of mouth, fanzines, college radio, and so on. There were a couple of other pages around at the time (another similar one run by a college student, and the BNR Metal Pages), but this one stood out because of the reviews. Instead of simply presenting general information about each band, he gave descriptions of the various albums. Some were more detailed than others, several were only a line or two, but it was still a welcome addition to my ongoing search for more music.

Thanks to that site, I discovered a large number of bands and learned more about others that I had only heard mentioned in passing. It also carried a certain weight with me because the person who created it was a history student from Sweden. At the time, I still had several pen pals across Europe who introduced me to new bands through tape trading, so I tended to value the opinions of someone who was actually living nearer to where many of these bands came from.

The site also ended up serving as an inspiration when I eventually decided to collect my own writings together on a single webpage. When I first started putting my own reviews online, this was one of the pages that influenced the idea and the straightforward late-90s style that I still associate with that early period of the web.

Because this site played a role in that early period, I decided to recreate it here as an archive so that it remains accessible. This site has been reconstructed from archived snapshots preserved by the Wayback Machine. Archive navigation elements and capture URLs were removed so the pages function like a normal website, but the original layout, text and errors have been left unchanged.