Our favourite links
Now about 280 links!
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Note: A small Swedish flag (
) next to a link means that the site is in Swedish only and/or is of minor interest to others.
Artists
Alice in Chains - official home at Sony Music.
Alice in Chains #1 - Mike Coleman's AiC page, all info you'd ever want about the band.
Alice in Chains #2 - PiO's AiC page, great layout and cool pictures, frequent updates.
Amorphis
Amorphis - official site at Relapse Records
Amorphis - the band's own page.
Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy - official.
At the Gates
Big Fish - cool Swedish metal/folk band. (official)
Biohazard
Black Sabbath
Bolt Thrower - official
Bolt Thrower FAQ
Cannibal Corpse - kings of gore metal.
Carcass
Corrosion of Conformity - official
Corrosion of Conformity
Dan Swanö - the mastermind behind Edge of Sanity and his cool wife Åsa.
Darkane
Death - the classic death metal band.
Dying Fetus (official)
Edge of Sanity
Edge of Sanity
Entombed
Fear Factory - official
Fear Factory
Front 242 - the legendary synth band.
Grip Inc. - the first fan page.
Grip Inc. - the official page.
Haunted - official
Hypocrisy
In Flames - official.
In Flames
Kyuss - kings of stoner rock.
Machine Head - Swen's great official MH site.
Meshuggah
Metclub.com - the official Metallica site.
Encyclopedia Metallica - the best Metallica site I've found.
Metallica.nu - good Swedish Metallica site.
Ministry - official home at Warner Bros Records
Ministry
Opeth - official
Opeth, Opeth - two good fan sites.
Pantera - official home at Elektra Records.
Pantera - 'Pan-fucking-tera', a great Pantera page.
Queen
Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - official home at Warner Bros Records
Sepultura - Swen's Sepultribe site.
Sepultura - official
Skinlab
Slayer - official
The Abyss - my very own Slayer site!
Slipknot (offical) (also try Slipknot2.com)
SlipknotWeb.com
Soulfly
Soundgarden
Soundgarden - the official home page
Vader, Vader
Band indexes
The Ultimate Bandlist is the resource when you're looking for info about your favourite artist.
Mega's page of bands is a huge list of metal links. (Better than the UBL when it comes to metal.)
Metal Links - another huge list, complete with links to labels, mailing lists and other metal sites. (gone?)
Various pages
The BNR Metal pages - info about and short reviews of hundreds records and bands, new and old.
Satan Stole My Teddybear - "online record review archive and pseudo ezine". Good stuff!
"Remnants of Reezon" - heavy metal music database
Heavy Metal - cool site with metal news and articles.
Internet Metal Top 10 - vote for your favourite artists and songs here!
The Swedish Punk/Hardcore archive - info about most swedish punk groups around, both old and new.
All-Music Guide - reviews of more records you could dream of...
Release dates and tour dates
Pollstar - huge searchable list of tour dates.
WWW Live Music - another "tour date site", concentrating on Europe.
The Metal Release List - release dates, release dates and more release dates...
Mailing lists
Angry Chair is a excellent mailing list devoted to Alice in Chains.
The Edge of Sanity mailing list - a mailing list about the great Swedish death metal band. I happen to run this list aswell... :)
Mouth For War - a Pantera mailing list (digest only).
Nectar - an Opeth mailing list. Recommended.
The Slayer mailing list - maintained by yours truly!
Record labels
Black Mark (Edge of Sanity)
Century Media (Skinlab)
Earache (Carcass, Misery Loves Co., At the Gates, Bolt Thrower)
Metal Blade Records (Grip Inc., Sacred Reich)
Nuclear Blast (Amorphis, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames)
Relapse
Roadrunner Records (Sepultura, Machine Head, Fear Factory)
Magazines & fanzines
Close-Up - great Swedish metal/punk/h.c. magazine.
Chronicles of Chaos - a monthly metal e-zine with dozens of record reviews & interviews in every issue!
Scream Magazine - the home page of the Norwegian fanzine - published in Norwegian only, but there are loads of searchable reviews in English available on this site.
Fellow bands
Peta Näsan - my friend Johan's punk band.
Vi Diggar Ondska - an evil side-project related to Peta Näsan above. :)
Lester - rock band featuring our ex-drummer Fredrik.
Ominous - Swedish death from Malmö.
Soils of Fate - gore metal.
Clubs & scenes
Eclipse - at Grottan, Stockholm. Gothic club every saturday.
Soulless in Stockholm.
Gothic.nu - Swedish goth page (in English).
Studion (Stockholm).
Rock Guide Stockholm - links to stores, pubs and clubs.
Shopping
Sweden
Ginza Musik - cheap Swedish mail order company. Big selection of all kinds of music.
Sound Pollution - good record store specializing in extreme music.
Boxman - another cheap online recordstore.
Heavy Sound Rock Shop
CDBot - Swedish CD agent that finds the cheapest CD stores for you.
International
CD Universe - huge and pretty cheap online record store.
MySimon - big agent that searches for all kinds of merchandise.
BizRate - independant ratings of online stores.
Dolores Records mailorder - CD's, clothes and videos at decent prices. Swedish company, but they take international orders.
Net-stickers - stickers with various metal bands.
Alchemy Gothic - clothing & jewelry for goths and metalheads.
Blue Grape Merchandising - clothing & apparel.
Computers and software
C|Net - a great site that can only be described as an online computer magazine.
FTP search is the place to try if shareware.com doesn't give you what you want.
FAQS.ORG - huge collection of FAQs.
Computer news
News.com - great computer & net news site.
BetaNews - the latest info about beta and unreleased software.
SlashDot - "news for nerds".
Windows software
Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps List - an excellent collection of Winsock applications, complete with reviews and ratings.
ZD Net Software Library - thousands of reviews of shareware programs!
TUCOWS (The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software) - another great software site in the style of Strouds.
NoNags - a software library with only nag-free software.
Windows 95 & 98
Windows95/Winfiles.com is a great place for Windows shareware and info.
Registry FAQ - a big Acrobat file with tons of tips about the Windows registry.
Regedit.com - a site dedicated to hacking the Windows registry.
Windows 95 Annoyances - how to get rid of them. Loads of hints and tricks!
Gionet's Themes Pages - a collection many Plus themes. ???
XrX Animated Logo Home Page - a tool to watch the animated startup screens under W95, also many replacement screens available for download!
NT FAQ - huge FAQ about Windows NT.
WinDrivers.com - huge collection of link to hardware drivers for Windows.
Security
PGP international - Pretty Good Privacy, the world's most popular encryption standard.
SamSpade.org - a lot of web-based tracing tools.
Shields Up! - Internet connection security for Windows users.
Hardware
Sharky Extreme - very good gaming and hardware site with in-depth reviews.
Thresh's FiringSquad - hardware and gaming news and reviews by Thresh, the Quake master.
Tom's Hardware Guide - hardware reviews, finetuning tips etc etc... Great resource for techies. :)
Anand's Hardware Tech page - another site with hardware reviews.
Tweak 3D - optimize your video card and 3D games. Features cool autoexec creators for Quake 2, Sin and Half-Life.
Ars Technica - "the PC enthusiast's resource".
Reviews
Storage review - testing and comparing all kind of hard drives.
ReviewFinder - indexed links to thousands of product reviews.
ReviewBooth - similar service.
ReviewClick - another good review finder.
Building a PC
GameSpot's computer building tutorial - a nice illustrated tutorial on how to assemble a complete PC.
PC Mechanic - a guide to do-it-yourself computing.
System Optimization - how to tweak and tune your PC.
PC Guide - huge site with hardware reference and optimization info.
BX Boards - great page about ABit BX6 & BH6 motherboards.
Retailers
Buyer's Guide - hardware agent with powerful search capabilities.
Skribo Font - good Swedish computer store. (Stockholm)
Datorbutiken.com - cheap hardware retailer. Mailorder only.
Customize the look of your computer
Skinz.org - thousands of skins for various Windows software.
Customize - reviews of different MP3 players and lots of skins!
Litestep - awesome Unix-like shell replacement for Windows. Makes your desktop faster and more attractive!
WindowBlinds - alters the look of your windows.
eFX - same possibilities as with WindowBlinds above, but a much smaller program.
Samples and sounds
The WAV Place - a collections of WAV (Windows) samples - sounds, effects, music, TV themes and more...
Sound Ring - a "ring" of linked sound and sample sites, just follow the ring until you find what you're looking for.
The Wav Place
Games
Games Domain - lots of reviews, downloads and gaming news.
Speltorget - good Swedish gaming site.
FragZone - great Swedish 3D gaming site, mostly dealing with Quake.
Id Software - makers of Doom and Quake.
The Quake Stomping Grounds - a good place for all Quake related info and files.
Duke Nukem 3D links
The official Duke Nuke'em 3D homepage.
Stereo's Duke Nukem homepage - an extensive filelist.
Mike Millers Duke Nukem site - many user created levels and lots of strategies.
EliteGames.com - another excellent Duke site.
Quake 2
Gamers Extreme Quake II Bible - multiplayer strategies, tactics, tips and hints written by Thresh himself.
Quake 2 tactics & psychology
Quake benchmarks - including some tweaking tips.
GameSpot's Quake 2 guide
Unreal
GameSpot's Unreal strategy guide
Planet Unreal - big Unreal site.
Unreal oddities - funny mods for Unreal, including blood thirsty rabbits and flying cows. :)
Starsiege Tribes
News sites
Planet Starsiege
Tribal War
[MAD] - my tribe/clan.
Scripting
PrestoPack - a script package required by most other scripts.
Zear's client-side scripting
Cowboys scripts - home of several cool and useful scripts.
Writer's scripts - dozens of small and useful scripts.
Rayn's scripts
Spoonbot - a cool bot for Tribes.
The Scripters Underground
Graphics, icons and backgrounds
Eye-candy
Dr Ozone is an awesome graphics artist... He also features a good collection of links to other background pages.
Infinite Fish Productions - this is certainly one of the coolest graphics sites I've seen on the web so far... Computer art & backgrounds.
Andy's Art Attack - an extremely well-designed site with free images, graphics tips and a whole lot more.
Digital Blasphemy - awesome raytraced images, good for desktop use.
Fonts
The Internet Font Archive - lots of free fonts.
Fonts For Free
Font Pool - a big selection of free TrueType (Windows) fonts.
!Fontastic! - great font collection, sorted by font name AND cathegory.
Font Pool
Home page graphics
Button World features blank buttons for use on WWW pages... Add text and use them yourself.
The Freeart page features 3-D letters and more, use freely but credit the author.
PixelSight - an extremely cool place where you can design quite complex logos - for free!
Iconbazaar - one of the best icon collections I've seen, thousands of carefully sorted icons.
Software
POV-Ray is an excellent freeware ray-tracer available for most platforms.
PaintShop Pro
PaintShop Pro - a great shareware competitor to PhotoShop.
Jeff's Home Page - a humble name for a great site with PaintShop Pro tips, and much more.
PaintShop Pro tips and tricks - a few very useful tips for PSP.
T. Michael Clark PSP Tutorials - another page with some good PaintShop Pro tutorials.
PhotoShop
PhotoShop Web Reference - an excellent tutorial on PhotoShop 3 and 4.
The Ultimate Compendium of Photoshop Sites - well-sorted index of many PS resources on the web.
Action XChange - a collection of PhotoShop 4 actions.
PhotoBooks - a site with excellent reviews of most PhotoShop books available.
Backgrounds
Texture Land - great backgrounds for your homepage or computer workbench.
Texture Woild - Strange, Bizarre and Kinky backgrounds.
Webground - another huge archive. Great site!
GIF animations
DareDevil animated GIF collection - hundreds of great anims.
Guitar resources
Manufacturers
Jackson/Charvel
Jackson/Charvel World - a cool page dedicated to Jackson/Charvel guitars.
Washburn Guitar
Marshall - finally an official home page, too bad it requires Shockwave. :(
The Unauthorized Marshall home page - info about the current and past product line.
Boss - effects.
Guitar magazines
Guitar World Online - good guitar mag with lessons (& soundclips) online!
Total Guitar is a magazine for guitarists with some articles on line - lessons, reviews, tests, interviews and more...
Tablature
The On-line Guitar Archive - now on the web! An enourmous archive with tabulature and chords to thousands of songs. A must for every guitarist.
Cherry Lane - online catalog of their sheet music.
Displacer's Death Tab - hundreds of thrash and death tablature files. Excellent site!
Metaltabs - another site with lotsa metal tablature.
rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature - essential for tab-hunters :)
Guitar.net
Effects Schematics Web Page - Postscript pictures of a lot of guitar effects - find out how to build that ol' distortion.
Easy Air Guitar Volume 1 - for those of ya who wish you could act like a guitar pro... :) Check it out, it's hilarious!
HTML
Weblint - a script that checks your html-pages for errors. Online checking too!
Superstars of HTML - a good page with HTML tips and tricks (in Swedish only).
Fefe's transparency apparatus - converts your GIFs to transparent ones in a minute - online!
Digits.com offers free page counters!
More links on the links-page of the Homepage Testing Ground.
GeoCities offers free homepages for anyone with an email address.
Humour and fun stuff
Darwin Awards - awarded to those who managed to remove themselves from the human gene pool in the most spectacular fashion. In other words: people who killed themselves in incredibly stupid ways.
A Course in Swedish Cursing - complete with audio!
Cat Scan - hilarious contest with pictures of scanned felines!
Dumb Laws from USA and other parths of the world.
Dumb Criminal Acts by dumb criminals. :)
Urban Legends - true and false stories.
Bloopers
Radiosportens grodor
Ekots grodor
Cartoons & animations
The Joe Cartoon Co. - "Specializing in the sick and wrong" - great cartoons and some hilarious Flash animations. Gore warning!
Doodie - a new potty-humour animation every day! A classic!
Herman Hedning - cool Swedish cartoon.
Jokes
Jokes about instruments and instrument players
Blonde jokes in Swedish.
Swedish humor sites
Dumheter - att roa och oroa
SkrattNet
Avigsidan - funny translations, bad langauge etc etc.
The Klyscherizer - making fun of common Swedish clichées.
Monty Python
Pythonline - the official Monty Python site.
Monty Python sound files
PythoNET
TV, movies & media
Beavis And Butthead
The Movie Cliches List
Troops! the movie - a "Star Wars"-style remake of Cops!
Ankor - Swedish site with funny blurbs and mistakes from newspapers.
South Park
Mr Hat's Hell Hole
South Park HTML
Computer funnies
Stupid Shell tricks - probably only appreciated by Unix hackers/nerds. :)
Tech support calls - experience the horror of stupid customers.
True helpdesk and tech support stories
MegaHAL - talk to an Artificially Intelligent program - great fun!
Cool stuff
Gabocorp - very cool Flash (ShockWave) presentations.
Phonespell - what does your phone number spell?
IRC
mIRC is said to be the best IRC client for Windows. Well, it does the work...
the Eggdrop bot homepage - home of one of the most frequently used bots on the IRC.
IRC channels
#love homepage - homepage of our favourite IRC channel.
#moonlighting homepage - another nice IRC channel.
#lovechat - a nice alternative to #love.
Java & javascript
Java Applet Rating Service - the best applets around.
Gamelan - a huge Java applet index.
JavaScript Tip of the week - great tips for better looking pages using JavaScript.
the JavaScript Index - an excellent collection of JavaScript links.
Literature
Project Gutenberg (UK)
Project Runeberg (Sweden)
These two contain a lot of national litterature in electronic form.
Authors
Usul.net - a good Dune & Frank Herbert site.
Tom Clancy...
Douglas Adams...
Isaac Asimov
Larry Niven
Book stores
Amazon.com - the famous net book store.
Science-Fiction Bokhandeln - excellent Swedish SF, fantasy and horror book store.
Bokus - Swedish net book store.
Asces - helps you find the book you're looking for in more than 20 online book stores!
BokBot - Swedish book agent that finds the cheapest books.
Media and magazines
Aftonbladet - Swedish daily newspaper with news on-line.
Dagens Nyheter - the largest Swedish daily newspaper.
Expressen - another newspaper with a good web site.
CNN Online
MTV has a pretty good website with samples, movies and pictures from Beavis and Butthead and other animated series.
Nöjesguiden - the swedish free entertainment mag features articles about music, films, the net and more...
P3 live - Swedish radio show with live shows only!
Miscellaneous
Earth viewer - catch a satellite picture of the earth in this minute!
Movies & TV
The Internet Movie Database - UK, USA - huge movie database including artist names, quotes, reviews, plots and MORE. Check it out!
Movie Critic - rate a few of movies and it will list other films you might like, based on your ratings.
Videobutiken - the largest Swedish VHS rental chain.
MicroScripts - short and funny summaries of a lot of movies.
epguides.com - episode guides for hundreds of TV series.
Music
For guitar resources - see the guitar section.
Harmony Central - a great page for all musicians like guitarists, bassists, drummers and keyboardists. Features a large effects database with reviews of most guitar effects.
ChordPro archive - a large archive containing .chopro chord files.
Brent Hugh's Music Instruction Software Page - links and info about lots of programs.
Music FAQs - a collection of music FAQs.
WWW Music Database - track listings, info and reviews of hundreds of records. Good!
Addicted To Noise - an online music magazine.
Tunes.com - thousands of sound clips you can listen to with RealAudio.
Home recording
The Home Recording Website - features a pretty good home recording FAQ.
The Recording Website - tips on 4-track & studio recording, micing and processing hints and more...
Gear shopping
Jam - nice store specializing in synths and electronic music gear. This is where my band bought our PA and portastudio!
Musikbörsen - chain of music stores.
MOD & MIDI
Maz's MOD page - a good MOD/tracker page, aswell as a lot of intrument samples for FT2.
Andre's modpage
the MOD4WIN homepage - the best MOD-player for Windows.
the Classical MIDI Archives - over 2000+ MIDI files with classical music!
the Freeze FastTracker 2 page
MP3
WinAmp is a great uncrippled MP3 player.
ShoutCast - streaming MP3's, radio on the net!
MP3.com - another good MP3 site.
The Breathtaking Hellride of MP3 - a good general MP3 site with player reviews, info about the format and more...
MP3Bench - benchmarks on MP3 players and encoders.
#metalmp3 - home page of the metal MP3 channel.
MP3 search engines
MP3 search
Palavista
Oth.net
DejaNews - huge archive of old and new usenet posts. Search, read and post from your browser!
Newzbot.com/ - frequently updated list of free usenet servers.
For Perl and CGI links, check out the links section of the Homepage Testing Ground.
Language translation
Babelfish - translate any text or a web page.
Eurodic Autom - translate between many European languages.
Lexin svensk-engelskt lexikon - translate between Swedish and English.
Webster gateway - look up any term in the Webster dictionary.
Svenska Akademins ordbok
Acronym Finder - huge index of acronyms and abbreviations.
Computer lingo
PC Webopedia - good glossary of computer terms.
C|Net glossary - anoter good PC glossary.
Geographical reference
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - look up any city in the world.
Flags of the World - thousands of flags, both national and other.
SUNET - Swedish University Network - a good Yahoo-style index of Swedish WWW-pages.
Arbetsförmedlingen - the Swedish labour exchange.
Torget - great online marketplace.
Svensk Pantbelåning - the biggest Swedish pawnbroker.
Gula Sidorna - the Swedish yellow pages.
Stockholm
City Navigator Stockholm - enter two addresses and find out how to travel between them.
Road map and travel info for the Stockholm metro.
SL (Storstockholms Lokaltrafik) - timetables for the Stockholm subway and buses.
AU-System lets you check out the weather in Stockholm - right this minute!
Foreign Languages for Travelers - a great site where you can learn basic words and phrases in a lot of different languages.
Guide to Sweden - a good place to learn about Sweden and its inhabitants.
Stockholm Information service - the official tourist site for Stockholm.
The Official FVWM page
The Official FVWM '95 page - a Unix Window manager that looks exactly like Windows 95! Very cool!
Windows Managers for X - a good guide to the different windows managers for the X Window System.
Unix and Windows
Virtually Unix! - a site with ported Unix programs and utilities.
The GNU-Win32 Project Page - many ported unix utilities.
I apologize for any broken links on this page, it's hard to keep up with them all. Please mail me if a link is broken, and I'll fix it ASAP. Surf on!
Janek Hellqvist, janek@slaytanic.com
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