Peter Lindgren and Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth, looking extremely metal (Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns via Getty Images) That’s only a slight exaggeration. In the ‘90s, Gothenburg’s melodic death metal ...

Orbit Culture is bringing Swedish death metal into the 21st century. The band from EksjÁ¶, a small city situated almost equidistant from Gothenburg and Stockholm, formed in 2013, a generation after ...

Death metal as we know it began crawling from the swamps of Florida in the mid-80s, but at the end of the decade a mutant ...

‘Under the Sign of the Black Mark’ 25th Anniversary: ‘Swedish Death Metal’ Author Picks the 5 Best Bathory Songs If you've clicked on this post, there's a good chance you already know who Daniel ...

Sweden. A country responsible for so many good bands that Avatar's frontman recently had to explain why. Asking our readers what the best death metal or black metal album to come out of the country ...

A debut album 35 years in the making is finally seeing the light of day—just as the band behind it prepares to fade into the shadows. Sweden's cult death-doom outfit Eternal Darkness just released ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

It goes without saying that Nita Strauss knows a thing or two about good guitar riffs, and recently the Alice Cooper electric guitar hero sat down with Guitar World to run through the five riffs that ...

A classic blueprint for the genre. This style has been mimicked by countless bands since and was gateway into ’90s death metal for our generation. One of the most sorrowful records from the ’90s. From ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In Sweden they never forgot. Indeed, during the 20 years since that distinctly dirty, punishing ...

Death Metal musician and author Ekeroth (Violent Italy) shows a true fan's dedication in this oral history/band index of the thunderous music scene that emerged from frozen, sparsely-populated Sweden ...