There was a time when the phrase "Swedish death metal" was enough to send metalheads into a frenzy. But then Stockholm got stale and Gothenburg first got oversaturated and then immersed itself in mainstream pop mannerisms and generic clichés....

Judging the album by its cover, initially I thought this could be a gothic metal album but that couldn't be further from the truth. In reality, Feared is the brainchild of Ola Englund, known as the guitarist of Six Feet Under. He not only wrote the...