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Ultima Thule (Latin for "Farthest North") is a Swedish rock band. Their style is based on what they call ''Vikingarock'' ("Viking rock"), which combines occasional folk melodies with rock, mixed with Oi!, street punk and Teddy Boy. Some of their lyrics are versions of poems and traditional songs by Evert Taube, such as "Änglamark". They have also released several versions of Sweden's national anthem, "Du gamla, Du fria'". They have been described as a white power band, though ethnomusicologist Benjamin R. Teitelbaum disputes this classification.〔Teitelbaum, Benjamin (2013). “Come Hear Our Merry Song:” Shifts in the Sound of Contemporary Swedish Radical Nationalism. Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University. p.61〕 ''För Fäderneslandet'' is Ultima Thule's most popular album, selling more than 100,000 copies. ''Vikingabalk'', their second best selling album, went gold with more than 80,000 copies sold. ==History== Ultima Thule was founded in early 1984 in Nyköping, Sweden. Band members have cited the Sex Pistols and late seventies punk rock as their main inspiration. Their songs were a mixture of Nordic folk music, rock and punk. The group has described this particular style of music as ''Vikingarock''. After a few years as an underground band, the band entered the mainstream in the early 1990s when they signed a record deal with Mariann Grammofon. Following media controversies, Mariann Grammofon quickly cancelled their record deal with Ultima Thule. After that, the band created their own record label, named Ultima Thule Records. Ultima Thule has sold one certified platinum and three gold albums in Sweden,〔Source: IFPI Svenska Gruppen〕 and managed to have three singles on the 20th-best hits list at the same time.〔http://www.hitlistan.se Sverige Topp Listan〕 Their lyrics are mostly in Swedish, with only a few songs in English, including covers of bands such as Sham 69 and Ronettes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ultima Thule (Swedish band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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