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

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.

Swedish heavy metal band Katana has a song entitled " The Wisdom of Emond ´ s Field " on their 2012 album " Storms of War ".

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.

* Alien ( band ), a 1980s Swedish rock group

* The Ark ( band ), Swedish glam-rock band

* The Ark ( EP ), the debut EP of the Swedish band The Ark

* Absolute Design, an album from the Swedish band Engel

* Cortex, a Swedish post-punk alternative band by Freddie Wadling

The song " Baby Doll " was used in the film Tapeheads, with newly recorded Swedish lyrics, and was credited to ( and shown in a music video by ) a fictitious Swedish band called Cube-Squared.

* Freestyle ( Swedish band ), a Swedish band

Swedish band Broder Daniel, who contributed three English language songs to the movie, released an EP titled Fucking Åmål.

* Kite ( band ), a Swedish synthpop duo

* Nemesis ( Swedish band ), featuring Leif Edling

* Page ( band ), a Swedish synth pop group

* Sverige ( band ), a Swedish band

Entombed is a Swedish death metal band which formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist.

The first wave of " Swedish death metal " consisted of the bands Carnage and Nihilist, who fragmented later into Entombed, Dismember and Unleashed.

Also in 1994, Dregen met singer and guitarist Nicke Andersson who at that time played drums with Swedish death metal outfit Entombed.

Nicke Andersson ( also known as Nick Royale ), born 1 August 1972 is a singer, guitarist, drummer, songwriter and composer most known for his work as the singer and guitarist of the successful Grammy award winning rock band The Hellacopters as well as the former drummer for Swedish death metal band Entombed.

Released after their worldwide tour with Entombed and Unleashed, the record made the band one of the first ( along with Opeth ) to progress beyond genre lines in the renowned Swedish death metal scene.

The Danish and Norwegian alphabets end with æ — ø — å, whereas the Swedish, Finnish and Estonian ones conventionally put å — ä — ö at the end.

His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.

Kindreds are usually grassroots groups which may or may not be affiliated with a national organization such as the Ásatrú Alliance, or The Troth, rather than the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly or the Odinic Rite.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Celsius ' participation in the Lapland expedition won him much respect in Sweden with the government and his peers, and played a key role in generating interest from the Swedish authorities in donating the resources required to construct a new modern observatory in Uppsala.

Zarah Leander played Madame Armfeldt in the original Austrian staging ( in 1975 ) as well as in the original Swedish staging in Stockholm in 1978 ( here with Jan Malmsjö as Fredrik Egerman ), performing Send In The Clowns and Liaisons in both stagings.

The Hep Stars got their breakthrough in March 1965 with their massive hit " Cadillac ", eventually becoming the most celebrated of the Swedish 1960s pop bands.

He also had a fruitful songwriting collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote several songs and submitted " Hej, Clown " for the 1969 Melodifestivalen-the Swedish Eurovision Song Festival finals.

In 1990, Andersson scored a Swedish # 1 hit with " Lassie ", sung by female cabaret group Ainbusk, for whom he also wrote the Svensktoppen hits " Älska Mig " and " Drömmarnas Golv ".

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

In 1987, Andersson wrote music and co-produced the soundtrack with Anders Eljas for the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, based on Swedish author Astrid Lindgrens Mio, my Mio.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

Beowulf decides to follow the dragon into its lair, at Earnanæs, but only his young Swedish relative Wiglaf dares join him along with Tinshaw.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

Swedish and Danish chronicles of the 16th century described the events as " black " for the first time, not to describe the late-stage sign of the disease, in which the sufferer's skin would blacken due to subepidermal hemorrhages and the extremities would darken with a form of gangrene, acral necrosis, but more likely to refer to black in the sense of glum or dreadful and to denote the terror and gloom of the events.

BRP was used ( through a special arrangement with Swedish Fredrik Malmberg ) as the base for the highly successful Swedish game Drakar och Demoner from Target Games.

They are also an ingredient of the gräddfil sauce served with the traditional herring dish served at Swedish midsummer celebrations.