#bands from sweden

[copias-juicebox]

[styona]

[vanmec]

THIS IS CARDINAL DOUG

[My Socials] | [Prints]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Bathory - Woman Of Dark Desires

[skywarpie]

In his drag queen era

[thebandghostofficial]

[MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY]

We wish to inform you Ghost is honored to be nominated for a P3 Guld Award for Artist Group Of The Year.

Children of Sweden, you can vote for Ghost here.

Thank you for your support.

[nightly-sun]

A rare original post from me. I have been reading the works of Jung and his pupils for the past couple of months, and much of it has resonated with me. Since my early years, I have looked at my surroundings through an allegorical and oftentimes mystical lens, and now it's all starting to come together. But that isn't why I'm sharing this. As I was reading it, I recognized the passages I highlighted as the inspiration for the lyrics to Tribulation's song, "Cries from the Underworld".

[atlxolotl]

SWEDISH PEOPLE I NEED YOUR HELP

So there's this song from what I am like 85% was a Swedish punk? band from the 80s? maybe 70s, I don't know.

All I know is it goes

Mentaaaaaaal, meeentaaaal, mental ice ageee

Does anyone know the name of the song/band?

[doueverwonder]

BONEY M IS FROM GERMANY

[seaviewandmaine]

Got Kent tickets! For once luck was on my side.

[copias-juicebox]

[exculis]

i also tend to be wary of metal bands just like. from italy in general. a lot of the ones that have found there way into my peripheral vision have been fascist.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔈𝔲𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔢  – ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔒𝔣 𝔖𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔢

[skywarpie]

living in sweden is scary because at any moment you can run into mr. ghost himself and I wouldn't know what to do

how's it feel to live my dream

[carnivore-voyeur]

Me, finding a new metal band thinking I've escaped the Nordic triangle of metal:

I can finally leave! Martha, I'm coming home swee-tee.

*finds out the band is from Sweden*

I'M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN

European countries with largest number of metal bands

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

ABBA - Waterloo 1974

"Waterloo" is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA, with music composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and lyrics written by Stikkan Anderson. It is first single of the group's second studio album of the same name, and their first under the Atlantic label in the US. This was also the first single to be credited to the group performing under the name ABBA. The title and lyrics reference the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, and use it as a metaphor for a romantic relationship.

In 1974, "Waterloo" represented Sweden in the 19th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Brighton, winning the contest and beginning ABBA's path to worldwide fame. The song differed from the standard "dramatic ballad" tradition at the contest by its flavour and rhythm, as well as by its performance. ABBA gave the audience something that had rarely been seen before in Eurovision: flashy costumes (including silver platform boots), a catchy uptempo song and simple choreography. It was the first winning entry in a language other than that of their home country; prior to 1973, all Eurovision singers had been required to sing in their country's native tongue, a restriction that was lifted briefly for the contests between 1973 and 1976 (thus allowing "Waterloo" to be sung in English), then reinstated before ultimately being removed again in 1999. Watch the performance in Swedish here. Sveriges Radio released a promo video for "Waterloo" that was directed by film director Lasse Hallström, whose first notable English-language film success was What's Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993. ABBA recorded the German and French versions of "Waterloo" in March and April 1974; the French version was adapted by Alain Boublil, who would later go on to co-write the 1980 musical Les Misérables.

The song shot to number 1 in the UK and stayed there for two weeks, becoming the first of the band's nine UK number 1's, and the 16th biggest selling single of the year in the UK. It also topped the charts in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, West Germany, Ireland, Norway, and Switzerland, while reaching the Top 3 in Austria, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. Unlike other Eurovision-winning tunes, the song's appeal transcended Europe: "Waterloo" also topped the charts in South Africa, and reached the Top 10 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia, and the US (peaking at number 6, their third-highest-charting US hit after number 1 "Dancing Queen" and number 3 "Take a Chance on Me"). In 2005, at Eurovision fiftieth anniversary competition Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest, "Waterloo" was chosen as the best song in the contest's history.

"Waterloo" is featured in the encore of the musical Mamma Mia!. The song does not have a context or a meaning. It is just performed as a musical number in which members of the audience are encouraged to get up off their seats and sing, dance and clap along. The song is performed by the cast over the closing credits of the film Mamma Mia!, but is not featured on the official soundtrack. It is also performed as part of the story in the sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, by Hugh Skinner and Lily James.

The Australian film Muriel's Wedding (1994), features "Waterloo" in a pivotal scene in which lead Toni Collette bonds with the character played by Rachel Griffiths. The film's soundtrack, featuring five ABBA tracks, is widely regarded as having helped to fuel the revival of popular interest in ABBA's music in the mid-1990s. "Waterloo" features prominently in the 2015 science-fiction film The Martian. The song plays as the film's lead, played by Matt Damon, works to ready his launch vehicle for a last-chance escape from Mars. In "Mother Simpson", the eighth episode of the seventh season of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns plays "Ride of the Valkyries" from a tank about to storm the Simpson home, but the song is cut-off and "Waterloo" is played, to which Smithers apologizes, advising he "must have accidentally taped over that".

"Waterloo" received a total of 89% yes votes!

(the video is posted by ABBA's own account, not Eurovision's = safe to watch)