Swedish metal rules!

[Hellion]

Well come on it does doesn't it!!!

In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Soilwork, The Haunted, Opeth, At The Gates, Misery Loves Company, Arch Enemy, Buried Dreams! This country really has it down to a fine art...

THREE CHEERS FOR SWEDEN! THATS WHAT I SAY! Roll on Wacken 2001....

 

[The Wanderer]

if you're talking about the melodic death metal band buried dreams that released perceptions, they aren't from sweden. they are from mexico. they are ok at best. nothing special at all...but not from sweden. the recorded at fredman and they wish they were sweden.

 

[Heliologue]

more than just those few, even. you're write, though: sweden does have some of the most talented musicians in the world, and certainly represents the highest number of bands in my collection.

for more info, go to www.swedishmetal.net

 

[Onan]

what about Norway? Dissection, Emperor, Limbonic Art, Arcturus, Immortal, Darkthrone...

 

[justHerb]

Lest we not forget the mighty ABBA!!!!

 

[HoserHellspawn]

Hail ABBA!

Heh. Well... maybe not.
Sweden does seem to produce the vast majority of good melodic/progressive/interesting metal in the world today and they have for awhile. There's a plethora of reasons why this may be (I remember we discussed this one a long time ago...) including the country's social democratic system with the various levels of free musical education citizens can benefit from, influences to draw on, the fact that in countries where it's colder people have nothing better to do than sit around inside where it's warm and make up cool stuff (this always came back to me with a shot at Canada... heh), being far away from the U.S. and their continuous proliferation of commercial crap (I always get in trouble with Americans for this point) and apparently there's just something in the water there. My music collection is also quite disporportionally Swedish. Swedish metal just plain (like the thread title suggests) rules.

 

[Zemb]

Dissection ==> Swedish

 

[Johan]

The reason why Sweden is big in the progressive metal scene has a name: Dan Swanö.
Everything this man touches turns to gold, as with Orchid and Morningrise.

A lot of credit also goes to Peter Tägtgren.

 

[Hellion]

Lets not forget the magic that comes out of Studio Fredman and Fredrick Nordstrom.

 

[ante]

Johan, you are rigth...Dan Swanö is great, he is not only a great musician but also a great producer

 

[Tabasko]

To Hellion!

I can totally agree with you! The bands you mentioned above are of the best metal bands ever! My favourite is dark Tranquillity! They made the best melodic death album "The Gallery"!!!
And its true that the best melodic death bands come from sweden!

Hey, you said something about Wacken! I'll be there as well! Hope to see everyboda there!

 

[svenske kocken]

Yes, yes, I know that we make the best music in the world. =)
Even though we have many good metal bands here, the interest for them is extremely small. Well, commercial shit like HammerFall, Backyard Babies and The Hives get some attention, but none of the good bands.

But we have no band here in Sweden named Buried Dreams, and Dissection is very much from Sweden. To be more exact, from the beginning they hailed from Strömstad, a nice little town, just a couple of miles from the norweigian border.

 

[benny]

Opeth and Vintersorg are the two greatest things to come out of Sweden.

 

[svenske kocken]

Nope, the best band ever from Sweden is Philemon Arthur & the Dung, or maybe Dissection.

 

[benny]

Oh yeah I forgot

 

[Johan]

LOL

Philemon Arthur & the Dung isn't music, it's an outrage
But very funny!

 

[svenske kocken]

Just kidding, boys! The best swedish band ever is, of course, Dissection, followed by Opeth and At The Gates.

 

[Hellion]

IN FLAMES!

 

[Triste]

Of course we can't forget the Gods of Doom Metal--CANDLEMASS....also what about SACRILEGE or THE CARDIGANS (not metal but they do rock) ...I would have to say overall that Scandinavia in general has some awesome bands...

 

[benny]

Hey Johan weren't you friends with Nevyn? What ever happened to that guy? He was cool!