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 ...

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

An investigation of 13 recycling companies in Sweden has found widespread exposure to hazardous metals such as lead, arsenic ...

Swedish melodic metal supergroup CYHRA have released Box With Spirits, an atmospheric new single that interrogates the cost of hiding emotions. Stream and watch now.

When a cache of Iron Age metalwork emerged from Swedish soil, it did more than add a few glittering artifacts to museum ...

In an early scene of Until the Light Takes Usa new documentary about the rise of the enigmatic and infamous Scandinavian black metal scene during the last two decadesa pale, beatific man with tattooed ...

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 ...

With three songwriters, five members, and a genre running the gamut of folk, progressive, and doom metal, Iowa City metal quintet Insanguine faces a lofty challenge in condensing influences into a ...

Unleashed bassist/vocalist Johnny Hedlund is a cheerful, friendly guy who happens to play in one of the most ferocious and consistently powerful death-metal bands ever to emerge from Sweden. Since ...

Legendary Swedish doom metal titans Monolord are known for bringing the riffs, but they haven’t done so here in the states ...

The only band on this year’s list to have also been nominated last year, Wolfheart are producing quality albums at a pace that few bands can keep up with. “Breakwater,” off of their latest release, is ...

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 ...