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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get ready to jump back into the fire, because Crucified Barbara are back! The Swedish metal goddesses, Crucified Barbara, put out their last album In the Red 10 years ago, and played their last shows ...

Swedish Goth-metal band Ghost won a Grammy for Best Metal Performance for the song “Circle” from its 2015 album “Meliora.” But the group, with Papa Emeritus III (whose face is painted and is dressed ...

“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 ...

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 variation emerged on the other side of the Atlantic – specifically in Sweden, ...

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 ...