* Adrian Erlandsson ( born 1970 ), Swedish heavy metal drummer

* 1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.

Lingonberry jam, still a favourite, may be the most traditional and typical Swedish way to add freshness to sometimes rather heavy food, such as steaks and stews.

The word tungsten comes from the Swedish language tung sten directly translatable to heavy stone, though the name is volfram in Swedish to distinguish it from Scheelite, in Swedish alternatively named tungsten.

* July 25 – south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship SS Stockholm in heavy fog, killing 51.

* February 11 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.

The Swedish forces fought off heavy Russian attacks against the wagon fort and the attackers received heavy losses before withdrawing for the day.

Gniezno was hit by heavy fires in 1515, 1613, was destroyed during the Swedish invasion wars of the 17th-18th centuries and by a plague in 1708-1710.

The city also suffered destruction and heavy population losses during the Polish – Swedish wars.

In 1979 he joined ASEA, a leading Swedish heavy industrial company based in Västerås.

Category: Swedish heavy metal musical groups

His crowning achievement was the great victory near the Dvina River in the Battle of Kircholm ( modern Salaspils, Latvia ) on September 27, 1605, when with barely 4000 troops, mostly the famous heavy hussars, he annihilated a threefold larger Swedish army ; for which feat he received letters of congratulation from the Pope, all the Catholic potentates of Europe, and even the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia.

Tomas " Tompa " Lindberg ( born October 16, 1972 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish musician who has fronted many heavy metal bands.

Category: Swedish heavy metal singers

Swedish power metal is generally harder and less speed-oriented than Italian, but not so heavy as German.

* Finnish: Thanks to pioneering Stratovarius influence, Finnish bands make heavy use of keyboards and make generally very melodic and " softer " music, compared to German or Swedish scene.

* ATC ( Above The Clouds ), a Swedish heavy metal band ( 1979 – 85 )

* Alive ( Meshuggah video ), a 2010 concert film by Swedish heavy metal band Meshuggah

* M / 40, a Swedish heavy machine gun

The Swedish infantry assaulted the Saxon-Russian line frontally, under heavy cannon and musket fire.

* The Haunted, a Swedish heavy metal band

Another major influence on black metal was the Swedish band Bathory, led by Thomas Forsberg ( under the pseudonym Quorthon ).

* Chimera ( Andromeda album ), a 2006 album by Swedish progressive metal band Andromeda

The Swedish progressive extreme metal band Opeth released two concept albums in the late 90s.

* Fission ( band ), a Swedish melodic death metal band

Nasum, who emerged from the Swedish death metal scene, became a popular group, addressing political topics from a personal perspective.

In 1842 the Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius proposed the term " halogen " – ἅλς ( háls ), " salt " or " sea ", and γεν-( gen -), from γίγνομαι ( gígnomai ), " come to be " – for the four elements ( fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine ) that produce a sea-salt-like substance when they form a compound with a metal.

* 1969 – Per " Dead " Ohlin, Swedish black metal vocalist ( Mayhem and Morbid ) ( d. 1991 )

* Legion, stage name of Erik Hagstedt, Swedish vocalist in the black metal band Marduk

*" The Moor ", a song by the Swedish progressive death metal Opeth on their album Still Life

* " Madrigal ", a song by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, from the album My Arms, Your Hearse

Queen have been cited as a major influence on the " neo-classical metal " genre by Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen.

The Swedish metal band Ghost titled their debut album Opus Eponymous.

Category: Swedish progressive metal musical groups

Category: Swedish death metal musical groups

* BE, a concept album by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation, tells that in this year the human population will be reduced to only 1. 2 million.

Swedish progressive metal band Seventh Wonder's 2010 album The Great Escape ( Seventh Wonder album ) contains a 30 minute track of the same name which is based on the Aniara saga.

* The Abyss, a black metal side project by the Swedish death metal band Hypocrisy

* Nihilist ( band ), a Swedish death metal band

* The Alchemist ( Witchcraft album ), the third album by Swedish doom metal band Witchcraft

* The Swedish symphonic metal band Therion used the Enochian word for dragon (" vovin ") as the title of their 1998 album, Vovin.

Though the 1983 song " Stronger Than Evil " by Swedish band Heavy Load establishes a case for this band as the first Viking metal group, the roots of Viking metal are generally cited to be later in the Scandinavian metal scene, particularly the death and black metal scenes of the late 1980s.