Country of origin
Sweden music genres
Explore music genre guides with documented origins in Sweden.
5 genre guides
1964Vispop
A Scandinavian singer-songwriter tradition with Swedish roots, vispop sits between the old visa and a more polished pop sensibility.
1967Dansband
A Swedish dance-music tradition that grew into a named genre in the late 1960s and early 1970s, built for social dancing and sustained by long-running bands with strong ties to live venues and mainstream Nordic pop.
1984Doom Metal
A slow, crushing metal style that emerged in the mid-1980s from Black Sabbath’s shadow and was sharpened by bands like Saint Vitus, Pentagram, Trouble, and Candlemass.
1987Death Industrial
A grim, subterranean branch of industrial music that took shape in the late-1980s European underground, death industrial pairs crushing atmosphere with bleak electronics and a patient, diseased sense of dread.
1994Math Metal
A flexible metal label for music that twists heavy riffs through strange meters and sharply interlocked patterns. The term is documented, but it is not a single neatly bounded scene, so the best way to understand it is through the bands and recordings that people have used to anchor it.