Swedish death metal or Norwegian black metal?

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Swedish death metal:








Norwegian black metal:

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Both are absolutely f[inks]ing terrible. Go listen to some real music like Rites of Spring or Jawbreaker. Or for Swedish music, Refused.

[rejectamenta]

Norwegian black metal I suppose. Nihilist/Entombed was great, but Swedish DM was too candy coated compared to their American counterparts. Plus we can thank them for atrocities like At the Gates and melodic pop metal in general.

Also Behemoth is Polish

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     Norwegian black metal is amazing. I'm not too crazy about Swedish death metal overall. Swedish black metal is cool, though. *cough*Marduk*cough*

[Meursault]

Swedish death metal. I actually happen to like melodeath *jams out to Eucharist*

[traininthedistance]

Write-in: Finnish classical music.

[CatoMinor]

American Thrash Metal and British Heavy Metal (sane)

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Or for Swedish music, Refused.

Was just listening to The Shape of Punk to Come earlier today actually.

Nihilist/Entombed was great, but Swedish DM was too candy coated compared to their American counterparts.

I don't know that I'd say that, unless you're equating the Gothenburg scene with all of Swedish DM. When I think Swedish DM, I think Entombed, Grave, and Dismember, and - not In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquility. Can't tell me the former three are more candy coated than Morbid Angel, Death, or Cannibal Corpse.

Plus we can thank them for atrocities like At the Gates and melodic pop metal in general.

vvovv.

such kvlt.

so trve.

[Pingvin]

Of these two I pick Swedish death, but I enjoy some black too.
Finnish power (Stratovarius, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica) should be the 3rd option.
P.S. LOL at the BRTD's meaning of "real music".

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Of these two I pick Swedish death, but I enjoy some black too.
Finnish power (Stratovarius, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica) should be the 3rd option.

Finland is pretty diverse when it comes to metal. They've got good folk metal (Ensiferum, Finntroll), black metal (Impaled Nazarene), melodeath (Insomnium), and some weird power metal/melodeath hybrid (Children of Bodom, Wintersun).

[Meursault]

Kalmah is a decently famous representative of that third type. Norther is another. I've always felt there to be a stronger speed metal influence in Finnish "power death" than actual power metal, myself.

[Pingvin]

Of these two I pick Swedish death, but I enjoy some black too.
Finnish power (Stratovarius, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica) should be the 3rd option.

Finland is pretty diverse when it comes to metal. They've got good folk metal (Ensiferum, Finntroll), black metal (Impaled Nazarene), melodeath (Insomnium), and some weird power metal/melodeath hybrid (Children of Bodom, Wintersun).

Children of Bodom's genre is friggin' hard to describe. Last album actually got a lot of melodic black elements.

[Meursault]

Only really in the vocals, and even then mostly because Alexi Laiho is better as a shrieker than as a thrash vocalist. The "blackened power metal" aperture is wrongheaded, imo.

It isn't an uncommon sound in Finland. Kalmah, Wintersun, Norther, etc. all sound similar to it.

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"blackened power metal"

Very strange.

I'm still waiting for national socialist glam metal and depressive suicidal power metal to emerge.

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Plus we can thank them for atrocities like At the Gates and melodic pop metal in general.

vvovv.

such kvlt.

so trve.

That's a pretty surface position honestly, but you're right, it's disingenuous of me to lump Gothenburg stuff in with traditional Sunlight Studios-style Swede DM. Even so, nothing out of the scene scalds me like Suffocation or Incantation or whatever does.

On the subject of oddities: Nazi power metal (seriously just last until the chorus, it's unbelievable) and Gothic Nazi doom are/were things. lol at the Law & Order font on the second one.

[Cranberry]

Of these two I pick Swedish death, but I enjoy some black too.
Finnish power (Stratovarius, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica) should be the 3rd option.

Finland is pretty diverse when it comes to metal. They've got good folk metal (Ensiferum, Finntroll), black metal (Impaled Nazarene), melodeath (Insomnium), and some weird power metal/melodeath hybrid (Children of Bodom, Wintersun).

When talking about Finnish metal one may also never forget Apocalyptica...