Kristian Wåhlin is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 musician

Musician

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, graphic design

Graphic design

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er, and album cover

Album cover

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 artist for many bands in the extreme metal

Extreme metal

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal,...

 scene worldwide. He is often credited under his pseudonym, Necrolord.

Wåhlin's interest in art began while attending Schillerska Grammar School, a secondary educational institution in central Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

. He has referenced Romantic

Romanticism

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 and Renaissance

Renaissance

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 painters like Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning...

, Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...

 and Hieronymus Bosch as early influences.http://www.kristianwahlin.se/bio.asp This interest also coincided with the time in which he studied music

Music

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.

At the age of 17, Wåhlin formed Grotesque

Grotesque (band)

Grotesque was a Swedish death metal band formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in September 1988 from the remains of Conquest by Wåhlin and Nordgren with the addition of Lindberg . The band was however short-lived and recorded a few demos and an EP...

 (as guitarist

Guitarist

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) with school friend Tomas Lindberg

Tomas Lindberg

Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He teaches at a high school.-Career:...

 on vocals

Singing

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, Alf Svensson

Alf Svensson (guitarist)

Alf Svensson is a Swedish heavy metal guitarist. He initially played in Oral from 1984 to 1989. He temporarily entered Grotesque and Liers in Wait before joining At the Gates in 1990. He was their guitarist until 1993. In 1994, he reformed Oral to record an EP. He then formed Oxiplegatz, and went...

 on guitar

Guitar

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, and Tomas Eriksson on drums

Drum kit

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.http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=5303 The 1990 break-up of Grotesque would lead to the formation of At the Gates

At the Gates

At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...

, who would be credited as instigators of the "Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

 Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...

 sound". Wåhlin would collaborate with Lindberg and other At the Gates members a short time additionally in the death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Liers in Wait

Liers in Wait

Liers in Wait were a Gothenburg, Sweden-based death metal band active between 1990 and 1995.The group was formed by Kristian Wåhlin after the dissolution of Grotesque, a precursor to At the Gates, and for a very brief time featured the band's core members...

, and would go on to design the "Russian icon" cover-art of At the Gates' cornerstone release, Slaughter of the Soul

Slaughter of the Soul

Slaughter of the Soul is the fourth and final studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band At the Gates before their reunion in 2011. It is considered a genre classic by many fans, and was largely responsible for establishing the Gothenburg scene...

.

Dissection

Dissection (band)

Dissection was a black metal band from Strömstad, Sweden. The band was formed in 1989, by Jon Nödtveidt. The band released its first EP in 1991. They disbanded in 2006, after Nödtveidt's suicide.- Band overview :...

, who shared practice quarters with At the Gates, would display illustrations by Wåhlin on the cover of The Somberlain

The Somberlain

The Somberlain is the debut album by Dissection, released in 1993. It proved to be a highly influential release for both black metal and melodic death metal. The band dedicated the album to Euronymous, who was murdered the same year....

and also Storm of the Light's Bane

Storm of the Light's Bane

Storm of the Light's Bane is the 1995 album release by Swedish black/death metal band Dissection. That same year, Nuclear Blast released a Europe exclusive special digipak version of the album limited to 500 copies, which upon unfolding formed the shape of a cross with the song's lyrics printed on...

; the latter featuring the infamous scene of the "grim reaper horseman" in the middle of a snow-covered forest tundra. In the Nightside Eclipse

In the Nightside Eclipse

In the Nightside Eclipse is the first full-length album and fourth official release by Norwegian black metal band Emperor. It features one of Emperor's best-known songs, "I Am the Black Wizards". It was recorded in July, 1993 at Grieghallen and released in 1994 by Candlelight Records. The cover was...

, the debut of seminal Norwegian

Norway

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 black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Emperor

Emperor (band)

Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...

, would also be graced with his work on the cover. Wahlin would continue as an album artist for several other bands in the Europe

Europe

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an death

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

, black

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

, doom

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

, power

Power metal

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 and gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 collective throughout the 2000s.

Liers in Wait and Decollation would feature musical contribution by Wåhlin before both groups folded in the mid-1990s. In 1995 he started gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 band Diabolique

Diabolique (band)

Diabolique is a Swedish gothic metal band, formed in 1995 after the dissolution of Liers in Wait. The group is heavily influenced by The Sisters of Mercy, Black Sabbath, and Fields of the Nephilim, and in sound are similar to the styles of Charon, Tiamat, Moonspell, and Type O Negative.The band's...

, where he was joined by some musicians from bands in which he had previously participated. Diabolique

Diabolique (band)

Diabolique is a Swedish gothic metal band, formed in 1995 after the dissolution of Liers in Wait. The group is heavily influenced by The Sisters of Mercy, Black Sabbath, and Fields of the Nephilim, and in sound are similar to the styles of Charon, Tiamat, Moonspell, and Type O Negative.The band's...

's latest release was The Green Goddess in 2001. They are currently writing material for an upcoming 2010 album. Wahlin also collaborated with longtime friend Lindberg in the hardcore band The Great Deceiver

The Great Deceiver (band)

The Great Deceiver is a band featuring former At The Gates Frontman Tomas Lindberg. Their music is a mixture of hardcore and metal.-Current line-up:* Tomas Lindberg * Matti Lundell * Johan Österberg * Ulf Scott...

.

His art studio is located in Höganäs

Höganäs

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 municipality, Sweden

Sweden

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.

Discography

• Grotesque
  Grotesque (band)
  Grotesque was a Swedish death metal band formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in September 1988 from the remains of Conquest by Wåhlin and Nordgren with the addition of Lindberg . The band was however short-lived and recorded a few demos and an EP...
  
   - In the Embrace of Evil
  In the Embrace of Evil
  In the Embrace of Evil is a compilation album by the Swedish death metal band Grotesque. The album was re-released as a split CD with At the Gates' Gardens of Grief EP by Century Media in 2001.-Track listing:# "Thirteen Bells of Doom"...
  
  (guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• Liers in Wait
  Liers in Wait
  Liers in Wait were a Gothenburg, Sweden-based death metal band active between 1990 and 1995.The group was formed by Kristian Wåhlin after the dissolution of Grotesque, a precursor to At the Gates, and for a very brief time featured the band's core members...
  
   - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
  Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
  Spiritually Uncontrolled Art is an EP by the Swedish death metal band Liers in Wait. It was released in 1992-Track listing:# "Overlord" – 3:46# "Bleeding Shrines of Stone" – 3:00# "Malificent Dreamvoid" – 4:38# "Liers in Wait" – 4:07...
  
  (EP, 1992) (guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• Decollation - Cursed Lands (EP, 1993) (drummer
  Drummer
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  )
• Diabolique
  Diabolique (band)
  Diabolique is a Swedish gothic metal band, formed in 1995 after the dissolution of Liers in Wait. The group is heavily influenced by The Sisters of Mercy, Black Sabbath, and Fields of the Nephilim, and in sound are similar to the styles of Charon, Tiamat, Moonspell, and Type O Negative.The band's...
  
   - The Diabolique (EP, 1996) (vocals
  Singing
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  /guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• Diabolique - Wedding The Grotesque (1997) (vocals
  Singing
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  /guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• Diabolique - The Black Flower (1999) (vocals
  Singing
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  /guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• Diabolique - Butterflies (EP, 2000) (vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  /guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• Diabolique - The Green Goddess (2001) (vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  /guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• The Great Deceiver
  The Great Deceiver (band)
  The Great Deceiver is a band featuring former At The Gates Frontman Tomas Lindberg. Their music is a mixture of hardcore and metal.-Current line-up:* Tomas Lindberg * Matti Lundell * Johan Österberg * Ulf Scott...
  
   - Cave In (EP) (EP, 1999) (guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• The Great Deceiver - Jet Black Art (2000) (guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• The Great Deceiver - A Venom Well Designed (2002) (guitar
  Guitar
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  )
• The Great Deceiver - Terra Incognito (2004) (guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )
• The Great Deceiver - Life Is Wasted on The Living (2007) (guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  )

Album covers

• Ablaze My Sorrow
  Ablaze My Sorrow
  Ablaze My Sorrow was a melodic death metal band from Falkenberg, Sweden. The group formed in 1993, released three full-length albums for No Fashion Records through several lineup changes, and received significant exposure among metal press outlets before disbanding in August 2006.-History:The group...
  
   - If Emotions Still Burn
• Amorphis
  Amorphis
  Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other types of genres, which include heavy metal, progressive metal, and folk metal...
  
   - Elegy
  Elegy (Amorphis album)
  -2004 Digipak release:All songs are live performancesNote: "Against Widows" and "The Castaway" recorded live at Ilosaarirock on July 12, 1997-Personnel:*Pasi Koskinen – vocals*Tomi Koivusaari – vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, tambourine...
  
  
• Amorphis - Magic & Mayhem – Tales from the Early Years
• Antestor
  Antestor
  Antestor is an extreme metal band formed in 1990 in Jessheim, Norway. Credited for starting the whole northern European Christian extreme metal scene, Antestor is the only Christian band to have an album released by Cacophonous Records, which has also released records by bands such as Dimmu Borgir,...
  
   - Det Tapte Liv
  Det Tapte Liv
  Det Tapte Liv is an EP by the Norwegian unblack metal band Antestor, released in 2004.-Recording:The EP contains songs recorded at Antestor's studio sessions in 2004 at Top Room Studios. The band felt that these songs did not fit into the 2005's The Forsaken full-length and were released on this EP...
  
  
• Antestor - The Forsaken
  The Forsaken (album)
  The Forsaken is the third studio album by the Christian black metal band Antestor released in 2005 on Endtime Productions. The album features guest appearances of the established metal musicians Jan Axel Blomberg and Ann-Mari Edvardsen....
  
  
• Antestor - Martyrium
  Martyrium (album)
  Martyrium is the debut album of the unblack metal band Antestor. It is one of the earliest Christian extreme metal albums released in Norway...
  
  
• Apostasy
  Apostasy (band)
  -History:The original lineup from 2000 consisted of Håkan Björklund and Mathias Edin of Kramfors, Sweden. They recruited Mattias' brother Fredric Edin on vocals and bass, and Lars Engström on guitar...
  
   - Cell 666
• Atheist
  Atheist (band)
  Atheist is a technical death metal band from Florida, founded in 1984, whose music combines metal riffs with subtle Latin music arrangements and jazz fusion.- History :...
  
   - Elements
• At the Gates
  At the Gates
  At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...
  
   - Slaughter of the Soul
  Slaughter of the Soul
  Slaughter of the Soul is the fourth and final studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band At the Gates before their reunion in 2011. It is considered a genre classic by many fans, and was largely responsible for establishing the Gothenburg scene...
  
  
• Auberon - The Tale of Black
• Bathory
  Bathory (band)
  Bathory was a Swedish heavy metal band, formed by Quorthon in 1983. They are regarded as pioneers of both black metal and viking metal. Quorthon remained the main songwriter and member of Bathory for more than two decades. Bathory was permanently ended after Quorthon's death in 2004...
  
   - Blood on Ice
  Blood on Ice
  Blood on Ice is a concept album by the Swedish viking metal band Bathory. The master tapes were recorded in 1989, but the album was not immediately released, both because the album was never properly finished, and because founder and song-writer Quorthon was worried that it presented too drastic a...
  
   
• Bathory - Nordland I
  Nordland I
  Nordland I is the eleventh full-length album by Bathory, released in 2003. It is characterized by an unapologetic return to the Viking metal of Bathory's middle period, and features songs written mainly about Norse mythology...
  
  
• Bathory - Nordland II
  Nordland II
  Nordland II is the twelfth and final album by Bathory. It is the successor to Nordland I. Like its predecessor, it is characterized by an unapologetic return to the Viking metal style of Bathory's middle period, and the songs on this release deal primarily with Viking culture...
  
  
• Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. I
• Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. II
• Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. III
• Becoming the Archetype
  Becoming the Archetype
  Becoming the Archetype is a Christian progressive death metal band signed to Solid State Records and Century Media Records formed in 1999 in Dacula, Georgia. They have released four albums on Solid State Records. Dichotomy, released in November 2008, sold around 2,300 copies in the United States...
  
   - Dichotomy
  Dichotomy (album)
  Dichotomy is the third studio album by metal band Becoming the Archetype. The album features guest appearances by Devin Townsend, Ryan Clark, a soprano named Suzanne Richter, and Aslan.The Album is based heavily on C.S...
  
  
• Benediction
  Benediction (band)
  Benediction is a British death metal band from Birmingham, England. They were formed in February 1989.-Biography:The Birmingham-based death metal band Benediction were formed in February 1989 by Paul Adams , Peter Rew , Darren Brookes , and Mark "Barney" Greenway...
  
   – Organised Chaos
  Organised Chaos
  Organised Chaos is an album by the death metal band Benediction. It was released on Nuclear Blast in 2001.-Track listing:-Credits:*Dave Hunt - Vocals*Darren Brookes - Guitars*Peter Rewinsky - Guitars*Frank Healy - Bass*Neil Hutton - Drums...
  
  
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
  Nocturnal (The Black Dahlia Murder album)
  Nocturnal is the third album by heavy metal band The Black Dahlia Murder. Nocturnal was released by Metal Blade on September 18 2007. Nocturnal is the first album to feature new bassist Bart Williams, who replaced Dave Lock, and drummer Shannon Lucas, who replaced previous touring drummer Pierre...
  
  
• Cemetary
  Cemetary (band)
  Cemetary was a Swedish gothic metal band founded by Mathias Lodmalm in 1989. A few years later they signed a contract with Black Mark Productions and released their debut album An Evil Shade Of Grey in 1992. The band would record one more album before moving from death metal into a gothic metal...
  
   - An Evil Shade of Grey
  An Evil Shade of Grey
  An Evil Shade of Grey is the debut album by Swedish gothic metal band Cemetary, released in 1992 on Black Mark Productions.- Track listing :# "Dead Red"# "Where the Rivers of Madness Stream"# "Dark Illusions"# "An Evil Shade of Grey"...
  
  
• Cemetary - Sundown
  Sundown (Cemetary album)
  Sundown is the fourth album by Swedish gothic metal band Cemetary, released in 1996 on Black Mark Productions.All music and lyrics written by Mathias Lodmalm.- Track listing :# "Elysia" - 02:36# "Closer to the Pain" - 03:39...
  
  
• Cemetary - Last Confession
• Cemetary - The Beast Divine
• Cemetary - Phantasma
• Crimson Midwinter - Random Chaos
• Crown of Thorns
  The Crown (band)
  The Crown is a death / thrash metal band from Trollhättan, Sweden. Originally, they used the name Crown of Thorns but were forced to change their name due to another band already using that name. Their music and lyrics are inspired by death, antireligious themes and rebellion. They are known to...
  
   - The Burning
  The Burning (Crown of Thorns album)
  The Burning is the debut album of Crown of Thorns. It was originally released in 1995 and later re-issued as a The Crown album.The song "Night of the Swords" attacks Holocaust deniers.-Track listing:# "Of Good and Evil" – 3:27...
  
  
• Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death
  Eternal Death
  Eternal Death is the second album of Crown of Thorns. It was originally released in 1997 and later re-issued as a The Crown album.-Track listing:# "Angels Die" – 4:52 # "Beautiful Evil Soul" – 4:10...
  
  
• Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons
• Crystal Eyes
  Crystal Eyes
  Crystal Eyes is a Heavy Metal band from Sweden formed in 1992. Singer, guitarist and songwriter Mikael Dahl is the only ever-present in their line-up...
  
   - Vengeance Descending
• Crystal Eyes - In Silence They March
  In Silence They March
  In Silence They March is Crystal Eyes' Second album released in 2000 by Crazy Life Music. Released again in 2005 under Crystal Eyes' new label, Heavy Fidelity.-Track listing:#"Time Flight" - 6:17#"Cursed and Damned" - 4:44#"Sons of Odin" - 6:22...
  
  
• Dark Funeral
  Dark Funeral
  Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal....
  
   - The Secrets of the Black Arts
  The Secrets of the Black Arts
  The Secrets of the Black Arts is the debut album by Dark Funeral released on January 28, 1996 by No Fashion Records. It was re-released on July 31, 2007 with a bonus disc consisting of the album original recording....
  
  
• Dark Funeral - In the Sign... (reissue of Dark Funeral EP)
• Dark Tranquillity
  Dark Tranquillity
  Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene, and are one of the most integral pioneers of the melodic death metal genre of music....
  
   - The Gallery
  The Gallery (album)
  The Gallery is the second full-length studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity, released on November 27, 1995. It was the first full-length release to feature Mikael Stanne on lead vocals, while passing down his position of guitarist to Fredrik Johansson...
  
  
• Decollation - Cursed Lands
• Desecrator - Black Sermons
• Desultory
  Desultory (band)
  Desultory was part of the first wave of Swedish death metal bands, alongside Entombed, Dismember, and others. Into Eternity, their Metal Blade debut following a lesser-known EP release, is standard for the genre, energetic and forceful, straddling the line between the more brutal American death...
  
   - Bitterness
• Diabolique
  Diabolique (band)
  Diabolique is a Swedish gothic metal band, formed in 1995 after the dissolution of Liers in Wait. The group is heavily influenced by The Sisters of Mercy, Black Sabbath, and Fields of the Nephilim, and in sound are similar to the styles of Charon, Tiamat, Moonspell, and Type O Negative.The band's...
  
   - Wedding the Grotesque
• Diabolique - The Diabolique
• Diabolique - Black Flower
• Diabolique - Butterflies
• Diabolique - The Green Goddess
• Dismember
  Dismember (band)
  Dismember was a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1988. They are well known in the death metal underground. They split up in October 2011.-History:...
  
   - Massive Killing Capacity
  Massive Killing Capacity
  Massive Killing Capacity is the third album by Dismember. It was re-released by Regain Records in 2006. A music video was made for the track "Casket Garden".-Track listing:-Personnel:* Matti Kärki - Vocals* Fred Estby - Drums...
  
  
• Dissection
  Dissection (band)
  Dissection was a black metal band from Strömstad, Sweden. The band was formed in 1989, by Jon Nödtveidt. The band released its first EP in 1991. They disbanded in 2006, after Nödtveidt's suicide.- Band overview :...
  
   - The Grief Prophecy
• Dissection - Into Infinite Obscurity
  Into Infinite Obscurity
  Into Infinite Obscurity was the first EP recorded by the Swedish blackened death metal band Dissection, first released on September 5, 1991 in a limited edition of 1000 copies by the French record label Corpsegrinder Records. A second edition was released in 1999 by Nuclear Boom Records.-Track...
  
  
• Dissection - The Somberlain
  The Somberlain
  The Somberlain is the debut album by Dissection, released in 1993. It proved to be a highly influential release for both black metal and melodic death metal. The band dedicated the album to Euronymous, who was murdered the same year....
  
  
• Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
  Storm of the Light's Bane
  Storm of the Light's Bane is the 1995 album release by Swedish black/death metal band Dissection. That same year, Nuclear Blast released a Europe exclusive special digipak version of the album limited to 500 copies, which upon unfolding formed the shape of a cross with the song's lyrics printed on...
  
  
• Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie
  Where Dead Angels Lie
  Where Dead Angels Lie is an EP by the Swedish black metal band Dissection. It was first released as a shaped CD in the form of the Dissection cross in 1996 by Nuclear Blast Records...
  
  
• Dissection - Live Legacy
  Live Legacy
  Live Legacy is a live album by the Swedish black metal band Dissection. It was released in 2003 by Nuclear Blast. It was recorded during a show at the Wacken Open Air festival, Germany, 8 August 1997. It was first released as a bootleg called Frozen in Wacken, which featured the art of romantic...
  
  
• Dissection - Maha Kali
  Maha Kali
  Maha Kali is an EP by the Swedish black metal band Dissection. It was the first release after the re-birth of Dissection, shortly after Jon Nödtveidt was released from prison. It represents the bands change from a melodic black metal sound to a more Gothenburg-based sound of melodic death metal....
  
  
• Earth Flight - Blue Hour Confessions
• Ebony Tears
  Ebony Tears
  Ebony Tears was a Swedish death metal band that started out playing melodic death metal which was prevalent in the Swedish death metal scene at the time, bearing a strong resemblance to the latter-day sound of At the Gates....
  
   - Tortura Insomniae
• Edge of Sanity
  Edge of Sanity
  Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...
  
   - Purgatory Afterglow
  Purgatory Afterglow
  Purgatory Afterglow is the fourth full-length studio album by the Swedish death metal band Edge of Sanity. The album was recorded by Dan Swanö in Unisound Studios, Örebro, Sweden in July 1994 and released in 1994 by Black Mark Productions. Purgatory Afterglow is dedicated to the loving memory of...
  
  
• Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
  Crimson II
  - Credits :* Dan Swanö − vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, animal sounds, music composition, production, mixing & engineeringGuests* Roger Johansson − lead death growl* Jonas Granvik − Backing death growl* Mike Wead − lead guitar & engineering...
  
  
• Emperor
  Emperor (band)
  Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...
  
   - In the Nightside Eclipse
  In the Nightside Eclipse
  In the Nightside Eclipse is the first full-length album and fourth official release by Norwegian black metal band Emperor. It features one of Emperor's best-known songs, "I Am the Black Wizards". It was recorded in July, 1993 at Grieghallen and released in 1994 by Candlelight Records. The cover was...
  
  
• Ensiferum
  Ensiferum
  Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...
  
   - Ensiferum
  Ensiferum (album)
  Ensiferum is the first album by the Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum. It was released on January 7, 2001 on Spinefarm Records.-Track listing:# "Intro" – 1:50# "Hero in a Dream" – 3:40...
  
  
• Ensiferum - Iron
• Ensiferum - Victory Songs
  Victory Songs
  Victory Songs is the third full-length album by the Finnish viking / folk metal band Ensiferum. It was released on April 20, 2007 by Spinefarm...
  
  
• Ensiferum - From Afar
  From Afar
  -Track listing:-Charts:-Band members:*Petri Lindroos – harsh vocals, guitars*Markus Toivonen – guitars, clean and backing vocals*Sami Hinkka – bass, clean and backing vocals*Janne Parviainen – drums*Emmi Silvennoinen – keyboards, backing vocals...
  
  
• Epitaph - Seeming Salvation
• The Equinox ov the Gods - Images of Forgotten Memories
• The Equinox ov the Gods - Fruits and Flowers of the Spectral Garden
• Evergrey
  Evergrey
  Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1995 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998. Their most recent album Glorious Collision was released in 2011.-Lyrical themes:...
  
   - The Dark Discovery
  The Dark Discovery
  The Dark Discovery is the debut album by Swedish progressive metal band Evergrey.-Track listing:#"Blackened Dawn" – 3:52#"December 26th" – 5:05#"Dark Discovery" – 3:35#"As Light Is Our Darkness" – 2:00#"Beyond Salvation" – 4:03#"Closed Eyes" – 6:39...
  
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• Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
  Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
  Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy is the second album by the progressive power metal band Evergrey.-Track listing:#"Solitude Within" - 5:32#"Nosferatu" - 5:39#"The Shocking Truth" - 4:34#"A Scattered Me" - 4:16#"She Speaks to the Dead" - 4:57...
  
  
• Extol
  Extol
  Extol is a Christian progressive extreme metal band from Bekkestua, Norway, that was formed in 1993. In 2007, they announced they were splitting up to work on separate projects. The band is known for playing a variety of different styles of metal which include progressive death metal, melodic death...
  
   - Burial
  Burial (Extol album)
  Burial is the first album by the Norwegian Christian metal band Extol. It was released on Endtime Productions and then Solid State Records the following year. According to Allmusic, Burial was "a breath of fresh air among a genre that relies on satanic gimmicks", and marked a renewal in the...
  
  
• Extol - Mesmerized
• Firewind
  Firewind
  Firewind is a Greek power metal band. Formed in 1998, the group is currently signed to Century Media Records and was originally a small project created by guitarist, Gus G. to showcase his demo, Nocturnal Symphony in 1998. Firewind later became a full band over three years later when they recorded...
  
   - Between Heaven and Hell
  Between Heaven and Hell (album)
  Between Heaven and Hell is Firewind's first album released in 2002 through Massacre Records in Europe, Leviathan Records in the US, EMI in Japan and Rock Brigade in South America...
  
  
• The Generals - Stand Up Straight
• Godgory
  Godgory
  Godgory was a Swedish melodic death metal band that was formed August 1992 by Erik Andersson and Matte Andersson of no relation.- Formation :...
  
   - Resurrection
  Resurrection (Godgory album)
  Resurrection is the third full-length album by the Melodic death metal Doom metal band Godgory. In October 1998 the band went to studio "Fasaden" and spent 5 weeks in there. Session musicians were Mikael and Thomas. Godgory also invited Fredrik Olsson as a reciter...
  
  
• Godgory - Way Beyond
• Grand Magus - Hammer of the North
  Hammer of the North
  Hammer of the North is the fifth full-length album by Swedish heavy metal band Grand Magus. The CD was recorded at 301 studios outside of Stockholm, Sweden, and features artwork by Necrolord...
  
  
• Graveworm
  Graveworm
  Graveworm is a symphonic black metal band from Bruneck, Italy with strong influences from gothic metal .-History:...
  
   - Engraved in Black
  Engraved in Black
  Engraved in Black is the fourth studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2003 through Nuclear Blast. This is the first Graveworm album to feature guitarist Eric Righi, who also played bass on this recording.-Track listing:...
  
  
• The Great Deceiver
  The Great Deceiver (band)
  The Great Deceiver is a band featuring former At The Gates Frontman Tomas Lindberg. Their music is a mixture of hardcore and metal.-Current line-up:* Tomas Lindberg * Matti Lundell * Johan Österberg * Ulf Scott...
  
   - Jet Black Art
• The Great Deceiver - Terra Incognito
• The Great Deceiver - A Venom Well Designed
• The Great Deceiver - Life Is Wasted on the Living (collaboration with Converge's
  Converge (band)
  Converge is an American band from Salem, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the elements of the metalcore genre.-Description:...
  
   Jacob Bannon
  Jacob Bannon
  Jacob Bannon is the vocalist, lyricist, and graphic artist for the American metalcore band Converge. He is also the founder and owner of the label Deathwish Inc...
  
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• Heads or Tales - Eternity Becomes a Lie
• Heavenly
  Heavenly (French band)
  Heavenly, a power metal/neo-classical metal band from Paris, France, was formed in 1994 by vocalist Benjamin Sotto and drummer Max Pilo. They were originally a cover band and played under the name of 'Satan's Lawyer' before evolving into a full-fledged Helloween-influenced power metal outfit, and...
  
   - Coming from the Sky
  Coming from the Sky
  Coming from the Sky is the first full-length album by the French power metal band Heavenly. It was released on July 25, 2000, by Noise Records.-Track listing:All songs written by Ben Sotto# "Coming from the Sky" – 1:39# "Carry Your Heart" – 4:17...
  
  
• Hexenhaus - Deja Voodoo
• Hollow - Modern Cathedral
• Hollow - Architect of the Mind
• Hypocrisy
  Hypocrisy (band)
  Hypocrisy is a melodic death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren.Musically, the band started off with a traditional death metal sound on their first albums, and soon drifted to become a melodic death metal band. The lyrics in their early stages -...
  
   - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
  A Taste of Extreme Divinity
  -Band members:* Peter Tägtgren – vocals, guitar* Mikael Hedlund – bass guitar* Horgh  – drums...
  
  
• Hypocrisy - Hell Over Sofia - 20 Years of Chaos and Confusion
• Impious
  Impious
  Impious is a Swedish thrash/death metal band.-History:Swedish Swedish thrash/death metal band Impious was formed by Valle Adzic and Martin Åkesson in April 1994. The band had some difficulties finding a permanent drummer, so a friend of theirs, Johan, filled in as a session drummer. Shortly after...
  
   - Evilized
• In Aeternum - Forever Blasphemy
• In Aeternum - The Pestilent Plague
• Incrave - Dead End
• Iron Fire
  Iron Fire
  Iron Fire is a Danish power and speed metal band which was formed in 1995 under the name Misery. The name was soon changed to Decades Of Darkness and finally to Iron Fire.During their history, Iron Fire had a very unstable line-up...
  
   - Thunderstorm
  Thunderstorm (album)
  Thunderstorm is the debut album by the speed metal band Iron Fire. The album was produced and mixed by Tommy Hansen and released in March 2000.-Track listing:#"Final Crusade" - 4:37#"When the Heroes Fall" - 4:48#"Rise of the Rainbow" - 4:21...
  
  
• Jennie Tebler's Out of Oblivion - Till Death Tear Us Part
• King Diamond
  King Diamond (band)
  King Diamond is the heavy metal band that King Diamond formed after the split up of his heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, and the departure of Hank Shermann. He was joined by most members of the then defunct Mercyful Fate. The Satanic focus was replaced by a focus on horror stories...
  
   - Voodoo
  Voodoo (King Diamond album)
  Voodoo is a concept album by King Diamond. The album was released in 1998. The album cover is drawn by Kristian Wåhlin.The album was remastered by Andy LaRocque and was re-released in 2009.-Plot:...
  
  
• Lake of Tears
  Lake of Tears
  Lake of Tears is a Swedish band, generally considered to play gothic metal and doom metal. However, their sound has evolved considerably over the course of their career, expanding to include psychedelic rock, progressive metal, and, most recently, death metal....
  
   - Greater Art
  Greater Art
  Greater Art is the first studio album by gothic metal band Lake of Tears. It was released in 1994 and, unlike their later albums, Greater Art is stylistically straightforward doom metal.- Track listing :# "Under the Crescent" - 3:42...
  
  
• Lake of Tears - Headstones
  Headstones (album)
  Headstones is the second studio release of the gothic metal band Lake of Tears. It was released in 1995 and still has many doom metal influences; future albums have a more gothic and melodic approach in music, though there are songs up to the band's latest release that still take inspiration from...
  
  
• Lake of Tears - A Crimson Cosmos
  A Crimson Cosmos
  A Crimson Cosmos is the third studio release by the gothic metal band Lake of Tears. It was released in 1997. Its melodic sound with psychedelic influences reappeared in most of the band's later releases. The song "Lady Rosenred" was released as a single, also in 1997, with "Devil's Diner" and "A...
  
  
• Lake of Tears - The Neonai
  The Neonai
  The Neonai is the fifth studio release by the gothic metal band Lake of Tears. It was released in 2002, being finished off by Daniel Brennare alone, with little help from the other band members. The album was hastily completed to honor the band's contract with Black Mark Productions...
  
  
• Lake of Tears - Greatest Tears Vol I
• Lake of Tears - Greatest Tears Vol II
• Laudamus - Lost in Vain
• Liers in Wait
  Liers in Wait
  Liers in Wait were a Gothenburg, Sweden-based death metal band active between 1990 and 1995.The group was formed by Kristian Wåhlin after the dissolution of Grotesque, a precursor to At the Gates, and for a very brief time featured the band's core members...
  
   - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
  Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
  Spiritually Uncontrolled Art is an EP by the Swedish death metal band Liers in Wait. It was released in 1992-Track listing:# "Overlord" – 3:46# "Bleeding Shrines of Stone" – 3:00# "Malificent Dreamvoid" – 4:38# "Liers in Wait" – 4:07...
  
  
• Light This City
  Light This City
  Light This City was an American melodic death metal band from the Bay Area of San Francisco that was active between 2002 and 2008.-History:They released one independent album and three albums with Prosthetic Records before disbanding in 2008...
  
   - Stormchaser
  Stormchaser (album)
  Stormchaser is the fourth and final studio album by the melodic death metal band Light This City-Track Listing:# "Stormchaser" – 5:25# "Fragile Heroes" – 4:01# "The Anhedonia Epidemic" – 4:53# "Beginning with Release" – 4:54# "Firehaven" – 3:35...
  
  
• The Man from the Moon - Rocket Attack
• Meduza - Now and Forever
• Memento Mori
  Memento Mori (band)
  Memento Mori was a Swedish doom metal band with power metal influences. The band was founded by Messiah Marcolin and Mike Wead in 1992 after Messiah left Candlemass. After two albums, however, Messiah left the band; the third album was sung by a different singer. For the fourth album, Messiah...
  
   - La Danse Macabre
  La Danse Macabre (album)
  La Danse Macabre is the third album by the Swedish doom metal band Memento Mori. It is their only album without singer and founder Messiah Marcolin...
  
  
• Memento Mori - Songs for the Apocalypse Vol. IV
• Memory Garden
  Memory Garden
  Memory Garden is a doom metal and heavy metal band from Kumla, Sweden. They were signed to Metal Blade Records until 2002, and signed with Vic Records in 2006....
  
   - Mirage
• Memory Garden - Forever
• Memory Garden - Verdict of Posterity
• Merciless
  Merciless
  Merciless is a Swedish death/thrash metal band. The band was formed during the summer of 1986 in Strängnäs, Sweden by Erik Wallin Fredrik Karlén and Stefan Carlsson . They were inspired of the early fast-playing bands such as Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Bathory...
  
   - Unbound
• Mercyful Fate
  Mercyful Fate
  Mercyful Fate was a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen. Initially active from 1981 to 1985, they reunited in 1992. The band went on hiatus again in 2000, when frontman King Diamond decided to continue his solo career...
  
   - Dead Again
• The Moaning - Blood From Stone
• Morbid
  Morbid (band)
  - Biography :Morbid was formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1986. With Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin as the group's founder and mastermind, they had a revolving door of members before settling on the line-up of John "John Lennart" Hagström and "TG" on guitars, Jens Näsström on bass and Lars-Göran Petrov on...
  
   - December Moon
• Morgana Lefay
  Morgana Lefay
  Morgana Lefay is a power/thrash metal band from the town Bollnäs in Sweden. It is named after Morgan Le Fay of the Arthurian cycle....
  
   - Knowing Just as I
  Knowing Just as I
  Knowing Just As I is the second album for Swedish heavy metal band Morgana Lefay.-Track listing:All music & lyrics written by: Morgana Lefay...except "Razamanaz" by: MacCafferty/Sweet/Charlton/Agnew.#Enter the Oblivion - 5:22#Red Moon - 6:16...
  
  
• Morgana Lefay- The Secret Doctrine
  The Secret Doctrine (album)
  The Secret Doctrine is the third album for Swedish heavy metal band Morgana Lefay.-Track listing:All music & lyrics written by: Morgana Lefay#"Rooms of Sleep" - 4:57#"What Am I" - 5:31#"Alley of Oaks" - 5:29#"Soldiers of the Holy Empire" - 4:01...
  
  
• Morgana Lefay - Sanctified
• Morgana Lefay - Maleficium
• Morgana Lefay (Lefay) - The Seventh Seal
• Morgana Lefay (Lefay) - ...---... (SOS)
• Morgana Lefay - Grand Materia
  Grand Materia
  Grand Materia is the eighth album for Swedish heavy metal band Morgana Lefay.-Track listing:All songs composed by: Morgana LefayLyrical concept by: Charles Rytkönen#Grand Materia - 5:47#My Funeral Is Calling - 6:25...
  
  
• Morgana Lefay - Aberrations of the Mind
  Aberrations of the Mind
  Aberrations of the Mind is the ninth album for Swedish heavy metal band Morgana Lefay, released March 19, 2007. This is the first album with Pelle Åkerlind on drums.- Songs :All music & lyrics written by Morgana Lefay#"Delusions" – 3:14...
  
  
• Narnia
  Narnia (band)
  Narnia is a Christian neo-classical progressive power metal band founded by guitarist Carl Johan Grimmark and singer Christian Liljegren. The band formed in Sweden in 1996. Their album themes heavily reference The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis....
  
   - Awakening
• Narnia - Long Live the King
  Long Live the King
  Long Live The King is the second album by the Power metal band Narnia.Some versions of Long Live the King omit track 7 but some versions have a bonus track: "Star Over Bethlehem"...
  
  
• Narnia - Desert Land
  Desert Land
  This article is about the album by the band Narnia. For the Super Mario Bros. 3 World, see Super Mario Bros. 3.Desert Land is the third album by the Swedish Christian power metal band Narnia...
  
  
• Necrophobic
  Necrophobic
  Necrophobic is a Swedish death metal band formed in 1989 by drummer Joakim Sterner and guitarist David Parland. It is believed that the band named themselves after a Slayer song from the 1986 seminal album Reign in Blood. The pair played with a 'revolving door' line-up of musicians until the...
  
   - Darkside
• Netherbird - Monument Black Colossal
• Nifelheim
  Nifelheim
  Nifelheim is a Swedish black metal band. The band was formed in 1990 by the twin brothers Erik and Per Gustavsson, under the stage names Tyrant and Hellbutcher...
  
   - Nifelheim
• Nifelheim - Devil's Force
  Devil's Force
  Devil's Force is the second album of Swedish metal band Nifelheim. It was released in 1997 on CD and LP-Track listing:#"Deathstrike from Hell" – 3:48#"The Final Slaughter" – 4:45#"Desecration of the Dead – 4:48#"Demonic Evil" – 3:16...
  
  
• Opprobrium
  Opprobrium (band)
  See also opprobriumOpprobrium is a death metal band from Metairie, Louisiana. Founded in 1986 by brothers Francis and Moyses Howard under the name Incubus, Natives of Rio de Janeiro, the Howards emigrated to New Orleans and formed the band...
  
   - Discerning Forces
• Opprobrium - Serpent Temptation
• Phlebotomized - Preach Eternal Gospels
• Rosicrucian - Silence (Rosicrucian album)
• Rosicrucian - No Cause for Celebration
• Raise Hell
  Raise Hell
  Raise Hell is a thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. The group changed names several times in their early history; their first demo, 1997's Nailed, was released under the name In Cold Blood, a name they abandoned for Raise Hell after signing with Nuclear Blast--which they did while still in...
  
   - Holy Target
• Sacramentum
  Sacramentum (band)
  Sacramentum were a black metal band from Falköping, Sweden, formed by Nisse Karlén in the summer of 1990 under the name of Tumulus...
  
   - Far Away from the Sun
• Sacrilege - Lost in the Beauty You Slay
• Sacrilege - The Fifth Season
• Sathanas - Crowned Infernal
• Setherial
  Setherial
  Setherial is a Swedish black metal band founded in 1993 by guitarists Alastor Mysteriis and Devothan. They play a faster style of black metal like certain popular bands Marduk and Dark Funeral...
  
   - Endtime Divine
• Sins of Omission - The Creation
• Soul Reaper - Life Erazer
• Tad Morose
  Tad Morose
  Tad Morose is a Swedish progressive / power metal band formed in 1991 and led by guitarist Christer 'Krunt' Andersson.-Biography:Their full-length debut was Leaving the Past Behind, a minor hit that established the band within the continental European heavy metal community. Sender of Thoughts was...
  
   - Leaving the Past Behind
  Leaving the Past Behind
  Leaving The Past Behind is a 1993 album by Tad Morose.-Track listing:# Eternal Lies # Miracle # Voices Are Calling # Reach for the Sky # Eyes of a Stranger # Save Me # 8 # Leaving the Past Behind...
  
  
• Tad Morose - Sender of Thoughts
• Tad Morose - Paradigma
• Therion
  Therion (band)
  Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...
  
   - Beyond Sanctorum
  Beyond Sanctorum
  Beyond Sanctorum is the second studio album released on January 1992 by Swedish band Therion. The album was re-released on November 27, 2000 under Nuclear Blast label as a part of The Early Chapters of Revelation box-set...
  
  
• Therion - Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas
  Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas
  Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas is the third studio album released on April 1993 by Swedish band Therion. The album was remastered and re-released by Nuclear Blast in 2000 as part of The Early Chapters of Revelation box-set.- Etymology :...
  
  
• Therion - Lepaca Kliffoth
  Lepaca Kliffoth
  Lepaca Kliffoth is the fourth full-length studio release by Swedish heavy metal band Therion. The title refers to the Qliphoth.-Track listing:# "The Wings of the Hydra" – 3:33# "Melez" – 4:07# "Arrival of the Darkest Queen" – 0:54...
  
  
• Thulcandra - Fallen Angel's Dominion
• Thulcandra - Under a Frozen Sun
• Thundersteel - Thundersteel
• Tiamat
  Tiamat (band)
  -Biography:Initially, the band played straightforward black metal under the name Treblinka. After having recorded the album Sumerian Cry in 1989, vocalist/guitarist Johan Edlund and bassist Jörgen Thullberg parted ways with the other two founding members, and subsequently changed the name to Tiamat...
  
   - Sumerian Cry
  Sumerian Cry
  Sumerian Cry is the debut album from the Swedish then-death metal band Tiamat.The album was recorded at Sunlight Studio, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989, when the band was known under the original name Treblinka. The track Sumerian Cry, Pt. 1 is a re-interpretation of the intro melody from Crawling in...
  
  
• Tiamat - A Winter Shadow
• Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
  The Astral Sleep
  The Astral Sleep is the second album from Tiamat. It marks their debut on longtime label, Century Media. This album was reissued in 2006 with two tracks from A Winter Shadow single, released in 1990.-Track listing:# "Neo Aeon " – 2:09...
  
  
• Tiamat - Clouds
  Clouds (Tiamat album)
  -Track listing:All tracks by Tiamat#"In a Dream" – 5:12#"Clouds" – 3:40#"Smell of Incense" – 4:29#"A Caress of Stars" – 5:26#"The Sleeping Beauty" – 4:10#"Forever Burning Flames" – 4:22#"The Scapegoat" – 4:56#"Undressed" – 7:10-Credits:...
  
  
• Tiamat - The Sleeping Beauty (Live in Israel)
• Tiamat - Wildhoney
  Wildhoney
  Wildhoney is the critically acclaimed 1994 album by Tiamat. Released after their worldwide tour with Entombed and Unleashed, the record made the band one of the first to progress beyond genre lines in the renowned Swedish death metal scene....
  
  
• Utumno - Across the Horizon
• Vicious Art - Fire Falls and the Waiting Waters
• Wintersun
  Wintersun
  Wintersun is an extreme metal band from Helsinki, Finland.Wintersun was originally created by guitarist Jari Mäenpää as a side project to folk metal band Ensiferum, for whom he was lead singer and guitarist. In 2003, Mäenpää began culling together songs that he'd been working on since 1995. These...
  
   - Wintersun
  Wintersun (album)
  Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic calls Wintersun a blend of "the hyper-fast precision of Yngwie Malmsteen-like guitar playing with the melodic sensibilities of post-Helloween power metal and a homegrown passion for folk-styled songwriting descended straight from trailblazing compatriots Amorphis,"...
  
  
• Witchery - Restless & Dead
• Witchery - Witchburner
• Witchery - Dead, Hot & Ready
• Witchery - Symphony for the Devil
  Symphony for the Devil (Witchery album)
  Symphony For The Devil is Witchery's third full-length studio album after Restless & Dead in 1998 and Dead, Hot And Ready in 1999. "Symphony..." was released in 2001 and has received underground acclaim from metal fanzines and webzines...
  
  
• Woods of Infinity - Förlåt
• Wuthering Heights
  Wuthering Heights (band)
  Wuthering Heights is a Danish heavy metal band, with a somewhat eclectic musical style which falls in somewhere between progressive, folk, and power metal.- Biography :...
  
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• Various Artists - Beauty in Darkness
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• Various Artists - Tyrants of the Abyss: A Tribute to Morbid Angel