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 […] ...

Quorthon has finally made it. Pioneering Swedish black metal band Bathory, the band headed up by Thomas Börje "Quorthon" Forsberg, was inducted into the Swedish Music Hall Of Fame on May 27. The ...

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 ...

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

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The skeptics of Ghost and the faithful of for KING & COUNTRY make for strange music bedfellows in a group of new releases that also includes Trey Anastasio of Phish’s first-ever ...

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 ...

Longtime Swedish metal band Meshuggah are heading out on tour in the spring, and they’re making a stop in the Valley. They’ll perform at Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix on April 13. Cannibal ...

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Founded in 1999, Swedish power-metal veterans Sabaton cast a microscopic gaze on the horrors of war with a sweeping, majestic, and anthemic sound that walks the line between empathizing with humans on ...

Things may be relatively dormant for Ghost lately, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t progressing for the ridiculously popular Swedish metal band. This week, two of the band’s most popular songs ...

Sweden's national football team (soccer for those of us in North America) has a rockin' new anthem courtesy of several of the country's prime heavy metal musicians. The song is called "Nu Jävlar!" — ...

They may be calling it quits following their recently announced farewell tour, but legendary Swedish band Refused were named to a pretty high honor in their home country, as they’ll be inducted into ...