Orvar Säfström is one of Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

's most popular film reviewers

Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory and...

 and video game journalists. Together with Emma Gray, he hosted Filmkrönikan

Filmkrönikan

Broadcast from 1956 , Filmkrönikan was Sweden's longest-running television program. It was broadcast on Sveriges Television.- History :Arne Weise was the first host but was replaced after just 4 episodes by Gunnar Oldin...

on the Swedish television network SVT

Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

 from 2003 to 2006. Before that, Orvar was employed at ZTV

ZTV

-History:The channel started in Sweden as a daily afternoon show in TV3 and TV4 in February 1991. The channel got its name as it was a simulcast version of the radio station Z Radio. There was also a Z magazine available for some time....

, where he hosted two other film review shows called Bio and Recensenten.

In recent years, Säfström has been shifting his focus more towards video games. He writes and lectures on gaming, produces symphonic concerts with game music and has written a book on the subject. He has also spoken in Swedish parliament at a seminar on gaming.

Orvar is also a former member of the Swedish death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Nirvana 2002

Nirvana 2002

Nirvana 2002 was a Swedish death metal band active between 1988 and 1992. The band was originally called Prophet 2002, but decided to change its name to Nirvana. However, it had to add the "2002" after seeing an advertisement for Nirvana's debut single, "Love Buzz/Big Cheese", released in October...

 and sang on Entombed

Entombed (band)

Entombed is a Swedish death metal band which formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist. Though Entombed began their career as an early pioneer of Scandinavian death metal which initially differed itself from its American counterpart with its distinct guitar tone, by the early 1990s their sound had...

's 1990 EP

1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...

 Crawl

Crawl (EP)

Crawl is an EP by the Swedish death metal band Entombed. It was released in 1990 by Earache Records as an appetizer to the new album Clandestine. This EP featured Orvar Säfström from Nirvana 2002 on vocals.-Track listing:# "Crawl" – 5:32...

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