The affable Swede on how he got his big break in Six Feet Under, the amps that make him feel “terrible” about his playing, ...

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 ...

Peter Lindgren and Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth, looking extremely metal (Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns via Getty Images) That’s only a slight exaggeration. In the ‘90s, Gothenburg’s melodic death metal ...

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 ...

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 ...

A debut album 35 years in the making is finally seeing the light of day—just as the band behind it prepares to fade into the shadows. Sweden's cult death-doom outfit Eternal Darkness just released ...

Tomas Lindberg, vocalist for Swedish melodic death metal band At the Gates, died Tuesday morning at the age of 52 following complications related to ongoing cancer treatment, according to a statement ...

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 ...

A classic blueprint for the genre. This style has been mimicked by countless bands since and was gateway into ’90s death metal for our generation. One of the most sorrowful records from the ’90s. From ...

The internet has a lot of questions about death metal so, here, we answer the most frequently asked ones, touching on some crucial history while doing our best to try to reason why someone could ever ...

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