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 ...

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 ...

However, anonymous metal bands such as Ghost, Sleep Token and Dragged into Sunlight draw attention to a paradox—concealment ...

Swedish heavy metal band Ghost will return to Syracuse this August. The Grammy-winning band will perform at St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview on August 18 as part of its “Re-Imperatour” U.S ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are 10 one-woman black metal bands you need to know about. From Onielar, helmswoman of Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult and Bethlehem, to Sarcana, ex-Gehenna’s “Spell Trilogy” keyboardist, there ...