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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Avatar vocalist Johannes Eckerström is dressing up for Halloween. This might seem like a given, considering each time the ...

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 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 ...

Rose Music Center in Huber Heights launched a new season of outdoor concerts in early May with an evening of death metal. Swedish band Amon Amarth brought its Metal Crushes All Tour to the Miami ...

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 ...

"Eaten," the 2004 death metal song by the Swedish act Bloodbath, is transformed into a high-octane tribute to kittens and the throes of cat ownership in a vocal cover with new lyrics written and ...

The internet has a lot of questions about death metal so, here, we answer the most frequently asked ones, touching on some crucial history while doing our best to try to reason why someone could ever ...