Johannes Eckerström, singer of Swedish melodic metal group Avatar, has explained why his home country has given the world so many heavy bands. “In Sweden, post-World War II, there’s this kind of […] ...

Swedish heavy metal band Ghost returned to Syracuse on Friday. The Grammy-winning band performed at St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview as part of its “Re-Imperatour” U.S. tour. Swedish death ...

It’s not even Halloween, yet, but Knoxville should get ready for Ghost! The band, not the ghouls. The masked Swedish heavy metal band will play Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center Jan. 24.

According to Johannes EckerstrÁ¶m, metal music should make you move in some way. Of course, that typically means headbanging or moshing, but as he sees it, that’s a form of dancing. “Heavy metal is a ...

Military history is filled with stories about great battles, heroic warriors and incredible acts of courage. There are so many great stories from around the world, in fact, that many of them tend to ...

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 ...

Heavy metal legend Ragne Wahlquist has died. Wahlquist, who was 69, actually died back on Jan. 7. Wahlquist was described as the “Godfather of Swedish heavy metal,” by Blabbermouth.com. The site said ...

When a cache of Iron Age metalwork emerged from Swedish soil, it did more than add a few glittering artifacts to museum shelves. The find forced archaeologists to rethink how power, trade, and ...