WorldMusic

Northern Europe

19 genres

The Nordic countries — Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland. The region is known both for Swedish Europop and its songwriting export industry (ABBA, Max Martin) and for Norwegian Black Metal and Finnish Folk Metal at the opposite extreme.

Most popular

  • Rock & MetalBlack Metal1980年代末〜90年代の北欧で生まれた、ローファイで攻撃的なメタル。反キリスト教や虚無といった思想を掲げ、担い手が教会放火や殺人にまで及んだことでも知られる、音楽史でも飛び抜けて演劇的なジャンル。
  • Electronic & DanceTropical HouseMid-2010s slow-tempo house at 100-120 BPM with marimba or steel-pan leads, soft vocals, and a Caribbean-flavoured chord palette.
  • Rock & MetalAtmospheric Black MetalBlack metal slowed to a long horizon — tremolo guitars and blastbeats dissolved into wind, fog, and synth pads.
  • Rock & MetalSymphonic Black MetalNorwegian black metal augmented with orchestras and choirs — blastbeats under string sections, shrieks against cathedral synths.
  • Rock & MetalFolk / Pagan MetalMetal with bagpipes, accordions, and folk melodies — pre-Christian European imagery filtered through Marshall stacks.
  • Rock & MetalMelodic Death MetalDeath metal's growls and double-kick paired with twin-guitar harmonies and Iron Maiden-style melody — Gothenburg's signature export.
  • Rock & MetalDanish MetalMercyful Fate's Melissa (1983) invented the template Norwegian black metal later inherited; D-A-D and Volbeat carried the tradition forward into hard-rock and arena-metal territory.
  • Rock & MetalDjentProgressive metal subgenre built on palm-muted, polyrhythmic low-tuned guitar — named for the sound itself.
  • PopDanish PopFrom Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' (1997) to Lukas Graham's '7 Years' (2016): the Danish pop pipeline that writes in English for the world market from day one.
  • Rock & MetalDanish IndieThe 2000s-onward Copenhagen alternative scene — Mew, Efterklang, WhoMadeWho, Iceage, When Saints Go Machine — favouring low-saturation Nordic tone and international critical circuits.

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