Perhaps in retrospect overlooked, although at the time many thought it was overrated. American death metal evolved from Possessed/Morbid An(g)el/Master stuff influenced by Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Sodom, etc.

Then metal crossed the ocean again and Europe came up with stuff in 1988-1993 period which was massively influential because of its emphasis on brutally distorted guitar. This in turn increased natural sustain to the sound, and encouraged fast and vicious melodic composition instead of rigid rhythm riffing in the American style.

The Worthy

Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
At the Gates - Gardens of Grief
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Dismember - Like an Ever-Flowing Stream
Carnage - Dark Recollections

Related

Asphyx - The Rack
Sinister - Cross the Styx
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Demigod/Adramelech
Divine Eve (Texas)

thanks

Nothing Swedish will ever compete with Yngwie Malmsteen!:D

Dude you forgot In Flames!

Not hard to forget, are they? ;)

Isn't Amorphis from Finland?

I think Dissection should be included...

Dissection owns.

In Flames doesn't.

Dissection is Swedish? I thought they were Finnish.

nope. they're from gothenburg sweden.

to check out good swedish death metal bands go to www.swedishmetal.net

All girl Swedish goth.

Fraggle Rocker:
I believe this thread is about metal, not "pop whores".

*Points at the topic title*

Illusion:
No shit.

What about Abba's heavy years?

Are you serious?

(insert Ikea joke here)

Originally posted by Xev
I believe this thread is about metal, not "pop whores".Heehee. They're the Blue Oyster Cult of Swedish goth-metal.

Originally posted by BloodSuckingGerbile
Dude you forgot In Flames!

How could he!
the best one of them going around!

Are Soilwork swedish?

I think Soilwork are Swedish.

Not everything Swedish is great - Arch Enemy comes to mind.

But... the classics of the genre are Scandinavian.

Illusion:
No shit.

*sigh*
just trying to help those who don't know.

How could he!

Probably because they are eminantly forgettable.

Illusion:
Mm, and thanks. I don't normally pay a lot of attention to where a band comes from, unless it's something esoteric (CNN or someone profiled an Iraqi death metal act a while back.) or quintessential - Burzum, for example.
Suppose that ought to change.

Ildjarn isn't death metal, nor is it Swedish, yet...

http://ildjarn.home.no/

Originally posted by -iLluSiON-
Isn't Amorphis from Finland?

Yes.

If you want proper Black metal, you need to check out
Norwegian black metal......its birth place.


The list is long, perhaps Satyrycon or Dimmu Borgir will
suit your taste?

Play List:

Mourning palace
King Of the carnval creation
In deaths embrace
Burn in Hell
Reptile
Dark Army
StormBlast
dreamside dominions
Hybrid Stigmata

Originally posted by The Duke
Nothing Swedish will ever compete with Yngwie Malmsteen!:D


Dont you mean Yngve Melmsteen?

He IS swedish

Judas, in American English, his name is translated as "Yngwie Malmsteen" :) although it's pronounced "ing-vey" I believe.

heh, naturally. My bad, should have known. My brother in law
is an Amercian, and nothing is more hillarious than to hear him
pronounce Scandinavian words and names.