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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 Europe’s leading metal sound. A decade later, in the 2000s, a whole host of American metalcore bands took from … The 15 Best Swedish Metal Records Read More » The post The 15 Best Swedish Metal Records appeared first on SPIN.

ENTOMBED is marking the 25th anniversary of its long out of print classic album "DCLXVI: To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth" by reissuing it with packaging as originally intended by the band, and brilliantly remastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studios. The CD version includes the orig...

Weve whittled down decades of distorted riffs, dimed tones and doom-laden arrangements to bring you the 30 weightiest guitar outings ever recorded

Legendary Swedish death metallers ENTOMBED will play "one exclusive show" at next year's edition of the Gefle Metal Festival, set to take place Jul...

Lars-Göran "LG" Petrov. The pioneering ENTOMBED and ENTOMBED A.D. singer died on Sunday, March 7 after a battle with bile duct cancer. He was 49 years old. Hellid, Cederlund and Andersson wrote: "All the years, all the toil, all the dreams, the struggle, the rewards, the humor, the laughter, and the tears. Its been a long damn journey and the memories are many and fantastic. Everything weve experienced and laughed at together, the big and the small, from being teenage kids to almost growin...

One of the most influential figures in Swedish death metal has passed.

Iconic death-metal frontman passed following cancer battle photograph by Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns March 8, 2021 Revered Swedish death-metal vocalist LG Petrov, best known for his work with Stockholm pioneers Entombed, has died following a hard-fought battle with bil duct cancer. He was 49. The news was confirmed on Facebook by Petrovs bandmates in his recent projects Entombed A.D. and Firespawn. "We are devastated to announce that our beloved friend Lars-Göran Petrov has left u...