After 30 years, 13 albums and thousands of shows, Amon Amarth bassist Ted Lundström is still here. We talk surviving metal, touring, songwriting and The Allfather Awakens. Read More …
Tag: Swedish metal
TUNGSTEN’s Mike Andersson on Ashes: Rising Again, Pushing Boundaries and Keeping Metal Fun
There is something pretty bloody satisfying about catching up with an artist a couple of years down the track and being able to pick up the conversation almost exactly where you left it. The last time I caught up with TUNGSTEN vocalist Mike Andersson, the Read More …
SOEN’s Joel Ekelöf On Reliance, Vulnerability And Finally Reaching Australia
There are bands that build their identity around technical ability, bands that chase heaviness, bands that live in atmosphere and bands that reach for something deeply emotional. SOEN have somehow spent more than a decade existing in that space where all of those things collide. Read More …
AMON AMARTH’s Ted Lundström on The Allfather Awakens, Norse History & Australia
There are bands you listen to because the riffs hit hard, the songs get into your blood and they sound fucking enormous when you crank them. Then there are bands that send you somewhere beyond the music itself. Amon Amarth have always been both of Read More …
Sarcator’s Mateo Tervonen: The Ones We Follow, Death “N” Roll & Breaking Boundaries
There are albums that introduce you to a band, and then there are albums that immediately make you stop what you’re doing and pay attention. For me, Sarcator’s Alkahest was absolutely the latter. I first came across the Swedish band properly when that record landed Read More …
Bloodstain From Schoolmates To Sweden Rock & Beyond
The first time I heard Bloodstain, I had to go and find out more about them. These guys were playing with a confidence that made it hard to believe how recently they had come together. Finding out the band had formed in Stockholm in late Read More …
Inside METALITE’s Discovery: Edwin Premberg on Sci Fi Storytelling, Heavier Riffs and What Comes Next
When Edwin Premberg begins creating a new METALITE album, he does not sit down with every planet, character and destination already mapped out. He starts with the music, captures whatever melodies and riffs arrive, experiments with the sounds and allows the story to reveal itself Read More …
METALITE: “The Sci-Fi Is Now” – Edwin Premberg Talks DISCOVERY
METALITE mastermind Edwin Premberg talks DISCOVERY, the band’s evolving sci-fi universe, heavier production, songwriting, Jacob Hansen and new drummer Erik Junttila. Read More …
Candlemass’ Johan Länquist Comes Full Circle Ahead of Historic Australian Debut Tour For The Doom Metal Legends
Four decades after Candlemass helped shape the foundations of epic doom metal, Australian audiences are finally about to experience that monumental sound live. This September and October, the Swedish legends will make their long awaited Australian debut with two nights in Melbourne, followed by Sydney Read More …
Frusen Sorg: The Sound of Frozen Grief Finally Breaking
Sweden’s Frusen Sorg are turning trauma, instinct and emotional honesty into some of the most compelling extreme music of 2026. We sat down with Kalle Mattsson to discuss Smärtpunkter and the philosophy behind the chaos. Read More …
AVATAR’s Johannes Eckerström On Forbidden Knowledge, The Forest & Why We Crave Chaos
AVATAR frontman Johannes Eckerström talks Don’t Go In The Forest, Australian tour plans, stage transformation, literature, fear, ritual and why the scariest thing in the forest might be yourself. Read More …
Clawfinger Interview | Bård Torstensen on Before We All Die and the Band’s Return
There are comeback records, and then there are records that arrive sounding like the world has caught back up with the band that made them. For Clawfinger, Before We All Die feels exactly like that. Released on February 20th, the Swedish Norwegian crossover pioneers have Read More …