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

The Russian solo endeavor returns with another example of gothic death doom. Finally, the weekend is upon us. What better way to kick it off than with the latest installment of "Funeral Doom Friday".

Credited with coining the term ‘gothic metal’ with 1991’s Gothic, Paradise Lost have enjoyed three decades as a beloved – if ...

There can be a sense of diminishing returns with artists who have been around for a long time. It’s not always easy to get truly excited about a band’s 17th album but, on the flipside, if that band ...

It’s another dry, sweltering morning in Las Vegas, and the guitarist Zoltan Bathory has just left his Gothic castle. Bearded and dressed in black, with a bundle of dreadlocks piled high on his head, ...

Here are Dark Tranquillity vocalist Mikael Stanne’s five favorite Swedish death metal albums. As a more than three-decade veteran of the Swedish metal scene, the 50-year-old Stanne is, of course, one ...

What's the best death metal album of each year of the 1990s? You're about to find out! While death metal began five years earlier if you're among the true believers who agree that Possessed's 1985 ...

As country, hip-hop, rap, and acoustic folk rock collide at Summerfest 2025, one band's music style certainly sticks out: kawaii metal, a genre that blends death growl metal and pop sugar vocals.