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Little Country, Loud Export: How Denmark Became a Metal Heavyweight

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Volbeat: How a Rockabilly-Metal Hybrid Became Denmark's Biggest Export

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000

King Diamond & Mercyful Fate: The Corpse-Paint Originators the World Forgot Were Danish

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Play a certain kind of metal fan a burst of high, keening falsetto over galloping twin guitars, show them a face painted white with black around the eyes and a microphone stand built from what looks like a human femur and an inverted cross, and they’ll nod along to a story about Norwegian forests, church fires and the early 1990s. They’ll be wrong by roughly a decade and about 900 kilometres. The man who assembled most of that vocabulary was a Copenhagen singer named Kim Bendix Petersen, and he’d finished doing it before anyone in Bergen or Oslo had recorded a note. That the wider public still can’t place him — or his country — is one of the stranger accounting errors in heavy music.

Pretty Maids: Denmark's Melodic-Metal Lifers

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Myrkur: Amalie Bruun and the Fight to Be Taken Seriously

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Baest: Aarhus Death Metal With a Butcher's Confidence

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Hatesphere and Illdisposed: Danish Death Metal's Workhorses

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0000