About the Nordic heavy metal culture - the melody of Finnish metal is indeed very outstanding. Whether it is melody metal, energy metal, folk metal or melodic death metal, etc., there are all awesome groups, which is really exciting. When it comes to melody, Finland naturally comes to mind, because groups such as Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Children of Bodom (early days), Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Finntroll, and even Nightwish are so impressive.

But we can’t say that when it comes to melody, we only think of Finland, that would be bad. For example, as you said, Nordic history is a history of pirate plunder. In the Nordic language family, the word Viking refers to pirates. Viking pirates advocated force and liked to fight. Before Christianity invaded or there was no When the local culture was shaken, the pirates all believed in Odin, the king of gods in Norse mythology, and guided them in the battlefield. However, the invasion and assimilation of Christianity in the later period made this history sink with the pirates. Into the sea. It is against this historical background that a large number of creations with Viking culture as the theme were born in Northern Europe.

An extreme metal band that worships Odin and worships paganism. They combine Nordic folk music with metal music. The melody is beautiful and exciting, the music style is grand, and most of the lyrics are based on heroic poetry and mythological stories. The music produced not only has the heroic and passionate atmosphere of the Viking ancestral war, but also has a folk flavor, so fans like to call such bands Viking Metal, regardless of the musical form they adopt. Is it death metal, black metal or folk metal to express this theme.

In the early 1990s, the basements of most families across the United States became a paradise for children to shake their heads to this "noise". As for Sweden’s “Gothenburg Sound”, my personal understanding is that beautiful guitar and keyboard melodies were added to the thick sound wall and high-speed double pedals of old-fashioned American death metal, and melodic death metal was born. Of course, it must be mentioned that when death metal was born in the United States, people in distant Northern Europe were also exploring another path to extremes - black metal.