LIFE AFTER DEATH
Situated in the outskirts of a remote town about an hour’s drive from Stockholm, Sunlight Studios is synonymous with the sound of Swedish Death Metal. It was here that the sound of the genre was formed, with Entombed’s groundbreaking debut album ‘Left Hand Path’, produced and engineered by Tomas Skogsberg. Aside from Entombed, Skogsberg has left his mark on recordings from At The Gates, Darkthrone, Katatonia, The Backyard Babies, The Hellacopters and more. Working out of a converted barn with relatively simple equipment, Skogsberg’s approach is more about the attitude than the gear...
Joe Matera: You started Sunlight Studios in 1982. What led you to that decision?
I was working in studios with people who were always thinking ‘inside the box’. I would ask them to stop looking at the VU meters and just listen to the speakers instead, but it was hard to get them to do that. So I decided to build my own studio. I started with
