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 […] ...

In 2019, when recording their album The Great War, Sabaton happened upon a news story. The Heugh Battery Museum, the site of ...

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 ...

Swedish metal band Feared feature some serious heavyweights amongst their ranks: band mastermind Ola Englund currently plays guitar for both The Haunted and Six Feet Under while drummer Kevin Talley ...

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 ...

On the international heavy metal scene, it is well known Sweden is the place to be, when it comes to heavy metal music. Aside from bikini models and extravagant chocolate, heavy metal, in all its ...

Watain, a Swedish metal band, announced it has temporarily parted ways with its guitarist after a picture circulated online showing the musician making the Nazi salute. The band’s frontman, Erik ...

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 ...

Now that you’ve watched our countdowns for the greatest U.S. and U.K. metal acts, Loudwire continues its world tour with the 10 Greatest Swedish Metal Bands! Sweden is one of the promised lands of ...

When a cache of Iron Age metalwork emerged from Swedish soil, it did more than add a few glittering artifacts to museum shelves. The find forced archaeologists to rethink how power, trade, and ...

Metal can’t get any more cold blooded than in Sweden, where you’ll find brain-freezing, below zero temperatures and snow drifts taller than concert halls. Despite having the most frostbitten, ...