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Heavy Metal and Its Variants

Sweden is known for a large number of heavy metal bands.

Swedish musicians are credited for creating melodic death metal, also known as Gothenburg metal, in particular the bands In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquility. Bathory is credited for helping create black metal, a style that became popular in Norway, as well as pioneering Viking metal. Dissection is also noted for their large influence on Swedish black metal, in particular melodic black metal. The country is also well known for death metal, progressive, doom and power metal bands. Opeth in particular have gained worldwide popularity.

Some of the prominent metal acts are:

  • Aeon
  • Amon Amarth
  • Angtoria
  • Arch Enemy
  • Arckanum
  • At the Gates
  • Bathory
  • Beseech
  • Bloodbath
  • Bloodbound
  • Candlemass
  • Cemetary
  • Crashdiet
  • The Crown
  • Cult of Luna
  • Dan Swano
  • Dark Funeral
  • Dark Tranquillity
  • Darkane
  • Deathstars
  • Deranged
  • Diabolique
  • Dismember
  • Dissection
  • Dream Evil
  • Edge of Sanity
  • Entombed
  • Europe
  • Evergrey
  • Ghost
  • Grave
  • HammerFall
  • Hardcore Superstar
  • Hypocrisy
  • In Flames
  • In Mourning
  • Kaamos
  • Katatonia
  • Lake of Tears
  • Liers in Wait
  • Lifelover
  • Lord Belial
  • Yngwie Malmsteen
  • Marduk
  • Meshuggah
  • MÃ¥negarm
  • Necrophobic
  • Nifelheim
  • Nightingale
  • Nocturnal Rites
  • October Tide
  • One Man Army and the Undead Quartet
  • Opeth
  • Ophthalamia
  • PAIN
  • Pain of Salvation
  • The Project Hate MCMXCIX
  • Sabaton
  • Saint Deamon
  • Scar Symmetry
  • Soilwork
  • Sonic Syndicate
  • Steelwing
  • Therion
  • Thyrfing
  • Tiamat
  • Unleashed
  • Watain
  • Witchery
  • Wolf
  • Valkyrja
  • Vildhjarta
  • Vomitory
  • Zonaria

Successful progressive/psychedelic acts are for example Bo Hansson, Dungen, Anekdoten, Morte Macabre, Opeth and Paatos. Finland and neighboring Norway are also crucial centers of controversial rock music genres, including black metal, death metal, and techno-rock movements since the 1980s and 1990s.

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