Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Undeath Move From the Grave to the Stage, and More New Metal That’s only a slight exaggeration. In the ‘90s, Gothenburg’s melodic ...

Johannes Eckerström, singer of Swedish melodic metal group Avatar, has explained why his home country has given the world so many heavy bands. “In Sweden, post-World War II, there’s this kind of […] ...

Why is Swedish metal so melodic? That's the question we propose in Ep. 13 on Loudwire's ongoing video series, "50 Years of Heavy Metal." Akerfeldt and the members of In Flames recall a nationally ...

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 ...

Here are Dark Tranquillity vocalist Mikael Stanne’s five favorite Swedish death metal albums. As a more than three-decade veteran of the Swedish metal scene, the 50-year-old Stanne is, of course, one ...

As every metalhead knows, the Academy of Country Music Awards are not a highlight of the year. And despite all of the troubles that 2020 has presented thus far, it has not proven to be an exception in ...

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 ...

The immensity of technical skill involved in writing and playing metal music is a done-to-death observation that’s been made more often than your bed, but one word that finds itself frequently ...

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 ...

Whether inspired by frigid temperatures, pre-Christian pagan mythology or brutally long winters, the Scandinavian nations of Northern Europe have produced more than their share of black-hearted metal ...

“Confess your sins” is carved in gothic letters on the wood above the crimson-curtained entrance to a strange little booth tucked inside the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles. And sure, rock stars ...

That’s only a slight exaggeration. In the ‘90s, Gothenburg’s melodic death metal scene took a simple idea — death metal should sound more like Iron Maiden — and ran with it. At one point, it was ...