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Swedish stoner metal trio Lommi pay homage to a favorite vampire movie in a video for “Rather” that doesn’t suck.

Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.

New Swedish melodic DM crew Abandon Agony start their ascent with full-length debut Endbringer.

Swedish grind masters Gadget blast through new banger, “Flatline.”

Swedish extreme metal multi-instrumentalist Oscar Rask returns with his death thrash project Since the Death and new album, Entangled.

Swedish desert rock worshippers New Mexican Doom Cult offer up their second psyched-out full-length, Ziggurat.

Hear Swedish trio Hexjakt rumble through a dank, depressive doomscape on their new full-length, Blessing of the Damned.

Hear Swedish DM duo Carnal Savagery go deep into the Crypt of Decay on their gnashing seventh full-length.

Swedish melodeath mashers After Earth dabble in cannibalism in new video for “Skinwalker.”

Unleashed talk new album and 35 years of death metal.

Hear Swedish riff-lords Lommi buzz through eight groove-laden tracks on new full-length, 667788.

Hear Swedish death thrashers Vittra do their own meaty version of death ’n’ roll on new single “Reign Supreme.”

Hear Euro doom crushers Anchorite lay the lumber on new single, “Devil on the Throne,” featuring a guest solo from Michael Denner (ex-Mercyful Fate).

Hear Swedish occult rock combo Skräcken spin their mystical, ’70s-influenced tales from the darkside on their debut full-length Echoes From the Void.

Swedish HM-2 stompers For the Pyres are burning for you on buzzing, thrashy new track “Downfall.”

Swedish death crushers Övervåld stomp their HM-2 pedals with impunity and bring the (sonic) rot in their new video for “Förruttnelse.”

Swedish metallic hardcore quintet Obstruktion are here to “Sow Fear” on the new track from their second full-length, The End Takes Form.

Sludgy Swedish post-metal trio Kazea chill out on frigid new single “Trenches,” featuring guest vocals from Black Birch’s Gina Wiklund.

Hear Swedish D-beat crusters Industrial Puke hurl their vitriol at “Hoax-Mongers” on their brand new single for Suicide Records.

Swedish post-metal collective Novarupta, headed by Alex Stjernfeldt, returns with a new single, “The Bullet Shines Before Impact,” from its final album, Astral Sands.

Check out the new video from old-school Swedish export in death metal excellence, Toxaemia off the band’s upcoming album, Rejected Souls Of Kerberus.

Listen to Nocturnal Will, a one-of-a-kind album from Dödsrit, a musical entity that combines mourning and triumph in equal measure.

Hear the HM-2 stomping OSDM of Swedish supergroup Grand Cadaver featuring members and ex members of Dark Tranquillity, Katatonia, Tiamat, Vorder and more.

The ever-prolific Rogga Johansson returns with — wait for it — more death metal, this time in the form of a new EP from To Descend. Hear it here.

Hear Swedish post-metal downers Vorder arise from the ashes of V on their latest apocalyptic full-length.

Hear Swedish D-beat crusters Industrial Puke disgorge some rotten sounds on their Suicide Records debut.

Hear the blackened death thrash of Sweden’s Last Legion as it was meant to be heard—in Swedish.

Swedish psych metal quintet Spiral Skies close out the ridiculous season with a ‘Boogie Nights’-meets-‘Eyes Wide Shut’ video for “Into the Night”

Swedish black thrash upstarts Sarcator ain’t afraid of “He Who Comes From the Dark”

Newjack Swedish heavy metallers Witch Blade stream new album, Månsken, at Decibel. Out worldwide October 21st on Dying Victims Productions.