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 […] ...

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 ...

A well-known musician in the Swedish heavy metal scene has died. He was 63 years old. The Sweden Herald reports how Anders ...

This time next week, Columbus resident Zach Dean will be across the Atlantic, performing with the Swedish metal group ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gefle Metal Festival will sadly not return in 2024. According to festival organizers, it's been hard to make ends meet every year and that they'll be focusing on other things moving forward. Festival ...

“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 ...