Swedish death metal or Norwegian black metal?

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Swedish death metal:








Norwegian black metal:

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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.

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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).

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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.