Swedish Heavy Metal Scene
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Sweden became one of the major pioneering countries behind death metal. From Swedish death metal emerged the subgenre melodic death metal which sometimes referred to as Gothenburg metal because of the city in Sweden where it became popular. Famous bands include among others Meshuggah, At the Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Entombed, Dismember (band), Opeth, Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy and more. Swedish Bathory (band) is regarded as a pioneer of both black metal and Viking metal and had a huge influence on the Norwegian Black Metal scene.
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