Johannes Eckerström, singer of Swedish melodic metal group Avatar, has explained why his home country has given the world so many heavy bands. According to the frontman, the country responsible ...

A CULT metal band has had a major lineup change after a founding member announced they’ve quit. Swedish outfit Katatonia, who ...

Swedish trailblazers Meshuggah are one of the most innovative and influential bands of the last 30 years. In 2012, as they ...

Swedish metal band Katatonia have parted ways with founding guitarist Anders Nyström after 34 years. Read more.

and when I was growing up and getting into heavy music, I was always really drawn by these sort of inversions and chords that Swedish melodic death metal bands used, and this is a song called ...

And, during her selection, Strauss named a cut from a Swedish melodic death metal group, whose music had the same informative and influential effect on her as The Beatles had on the wider musical ...

We’ve all known this album was a banger since its release, but Opeth ‘s most recent full-length effort The Last Will & ...