The designs on goalie masks are not just works of art. They can also be a reflection of the player's personality and interests off the ice. Some goalies over the years have taken their designs in a ...

Swedish prog metallers Opeth will also play concerts in Halifax, Dublin and Rättvik in support of The Last Will And Testament ...

Metal can’t get any more cold blooded than in Sweden, where you’ll find brain-freezing, below zero temperatures and snow drifts taller than concert halls. Despite having the most frostbitten, ...

Swedish metal band Feared feature some serious heavyweights amongst their ranks: band mastermind Ola Englund currently plays guitar for both The Haunted and Six Feet Under while drummer Kevin Talley ...

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 ...

Why is Swedish metal so melodic? That's the question we propose in Ep. 13 on Loudwire's ongoing video series, "50 Years of Heavy Metal." Akerfeldt and the members of In Flames recall a nationally ...

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 ...

Now that you’ve watched our countdowns for the greatest U.S. and U.K. metal acts, Loudwire continues its world tour with the 10 Greatest Swedish Metal Bands! Sweden is one of the promised lands of ...

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 ...

The events of Operation Overlord inspired the Swedish power metal battalion’s 2005 fan-favourite single, Primo Victoria ...

Watain, a Swedish metal band, announced it has temporarily parted ways with its guitarist after a picture circulated online showing the musician making the Nazi salute. The band’s frontman, Erik ...

On the international heavy metal scene, it is well known Sweden is the place to be, when it comes to heavy metal music. Aside from bikini models and extravagant chocolate, heavy metal, in all its ...