Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Undeath Move From the Grave to the Stage, and More New Metal That’s only a slight exaggeration. In the ‘90s, Gothenburg’s melodic ...

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 […] ...

With the 2025 departure of co-founder Anders Nystrom after more than 30 years in the band, it feels like a new era for ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Gefle Metal Festival will sadly not return in 2024. According to festival organizers, it's been hard to make ends meet every year and that they'll be focusing on other things moving forward. Festival ...

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 ...

A well-known musician in the Swedish heavy metal scene has died. He was 63 years old. The Sweden Herald reports how Anders Möller — who was best known as the lead singer and guitarist for the Black ...

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 ...