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Advantages: Things to see, Things to do, The women Disadvantages: Beer not cheap!, Vodka not cheap!, None!
I guess Gothenburg might not seem like the ideal weekend destination for a trip with the lad's but let me reassure you it would be one to remember. Now I have to be honest here, as I am a bit of a Jackal and Hyde character when it comes to weekend trips away. Yep I like to have more than a few drinks but I also like to have a good look around at what attractions my resident city has. Anyway let me first run you through how you can get to this fine city. First off you can go by ferry from Newcastle or you can fly. We did the latter. My advice is try and get the cheapest flight possible and then just have a go at knocking some money off at Priceline (www.priceline.co.uk) - it worked for us. Anyway what to see and do and drink. We arrived around tea on the Friday night and headed to our hotel where we picked up our Gothenburg Card's (see ...
Advantages: beautiful town, plenty to do, easily reachable, Disadvantages: can be cold in winter
I am currently living in Sweden and one of my favourite places to visit is Gothenburg, or to give it its Swedish name 'Göteborg' (pronounced Yur-te-boy). Gothenburg is a compact town with less than a million inhabitants, but it still has plenty to keep you occupied...
**History**
Gothenburg was designed by the Dutch in 1621 and bears more than a passing resemblance to Amsterdam, with pretty tree lined avenues running alongside the many canals. Gothenburg made its name during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as an industrial and trading centre, and the British, Dutch and German traders who settled in Gothenburg left a rich architectural and cultural legacy. The Orient also has a strong influence over Gothenburg, due to the strong trading links between Sweden and the Far East, and many Oriental design features can be spotted ...
Advantages: Some good riffs, good vocals Disadvantages: Fairly derivative and unoriginal
Released in 2002, Corporation 187's 'Perfection in Pain' is a mixture of melodic death metal in the gothenburg vein and thrash, with the ten songs on offer all filled with angular, ascerbic riffs, chuggy, stop-start grooves and lamenting guitar solos, that remind of fellow swedes At The Gates, ('Slaugher of the Soul' era).
The vocalist also does a fairly good job of impersonating At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg, spewing forth some nasty abrasive, rasping screams over the galloping, despondent thrash riffs. The production is pretty good but perhaps a little tinny, and although the album is fairly well written and enjoyable there is a nagging feeling throughout that its all been done better elsewhere. It would be reasonable to say that the whole thing sounds like Slaugher of the Soul-lite, but given that that 'Slaughter...' was ...
