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 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 ...

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 ...

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

Musically, the most infamous bands of the bunch captured imaginations along the way with their blistering blasts, chilling ...

Opeth released their tenth studio album, "Heritage," last month on the legendary Roadrunner Records, and last night brought their highly anticipated Heritage Tour to The Rave. The Swedish progressive ...

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 ...

[ { "name": "GPT - Billboard - Slot Inline - Content - Labeled - No Desktop", "component": "16971022", "insertPoint": "2", "requiredCountToDisplay": "2" },{ "name ...

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 ...

Sweden, in the northernmost corner of Europe, has a population of just over 10 million people. But somehow, the Swedes have been punching way above their weight on the global music scene for close to ...

Blackbraid, aka Sgah'gahsowáh, begins his first-ever national tour this week. Living in the southern Adirondacks is a star among black metal fans. In the next couple months, his profile within that ...