Orbit Culture is bringing Swedish death metal into the 21st century. The band from Eksjö, a small city situated almost equidistant from Gothenburg and Stockholm, formed in 2013, a generation after the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In Sweden they never forgot. Indeed, during the 20 years since that distinctly dirty, punishing ...

It goes without saying that Nita Strauss knows a thing or two about good guitar riffs, and recently the Alice Cooper electric guitar hero sat down with Guitar World to run through the five riffs that ...

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 ...

The Swedish metal powerhouse Orbit Culture released their newest album, Death Above Life on October 3rd alongside focus track ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fredrik Lindgren, the founding guitarist of the Swedish death metal band Unleashed, has passed away at the age of 53. The ...

Chuck Eddy’s got me reading Are You Morbid, the memoir of Celtic Frost frontman Tom G. Warrior (check for the interview next week), and it’s full of this type of thing: “We can’t even afford a damned ...

Sweden. A country responsible for so many good bands that Avatar's frontman recently had to explain why. Asking our readers what the best death metal or black metal album to come out of the country ...

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 ...

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 ...