Alright, let's look at that cover art. It's terrible. Absolutely, irredeemably terrible. What kind of a band would choose somethi...

It seems like only yesterday that I first heard Wolf 's explosive revival of pure 80s heavy/speed metal motif, anchored by Niklas Stålvi...

I feel like a separate blog may be in order just to cover all of Rogga Johansson's many projects, since the man has almost single-handed...

Maranatha marks the turning point of Funeral Mist 's transformation into a solo project, with Arioch helming all instruments except dru...

The transformation from Katatonia 's death/doom roots into the melodic and somber entity they are today was a gradual one, through the b...

Yet another band to slip through the cracks during the explosion of melodic Swedish death metal in the late 20th/early 21st centuries is Unm...

Sometimes an album will come along that is just so damned unique and wonderful that you will find yourself screaming from the rafters on the...

Doom:VS ' debut in 2006 firmly established the project as a second-tier melodic death/doom outfits with it's solid, yet not quite am...

Though it was their fourth full-length, and we had been given a sampling of their symphonic/gothic direction with Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon...

There are classic albums and there are cult albums. The Nocturnal Silence is both, one of the best early statements of the Swedish death me...