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 […] ...

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 ...

When the Ronnie James Dio-curated charity album Hear n' Aid was released in 1986, it was the best part of a year late. The original sessions had taken place 12 months previously, but, appallingly, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get ready to jump back into the fire, because Crucified Barbara are back! The Swedish metal goddesses, Crucified Barbara, put out their last album In the Red 10 years ago, and played their last shows ...

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 ...

Why the hell does Sweden have so many metal bands? It's a joke we've all made before, but seriously – why. What's going on over there. We don't know, but actual Swede and Avatar vocalist Johannes ...

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 ...

“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 ...