Quote Originally Posted by -Jar-
Dude, Sweden, Norway, Finland, it's dark and depressing up there and there are a million metal bands. It's pretty amazing. There's an entire genre based on bands from Gothenburg, Sweden, but that's a full-on death metal style, so unless you REALLY like the cookie monster vocals, they're probably not for you. Soilwork is definately one of the better bands I've heard recently (Audiobill helped me out with some stuff). You might want to check out In Flames as well (also Swedish). Though I am by no means an expert. If I only had the time, there's really a lot of good metal out there these days..

-jar
Yeah. Exactly what Jar & Dusty just wrote.
Soilwork is definitely some of the best metal out there. Those crazy Swedes are producing an awesome hatchet-weilding kind of metal and Soilwork epitomizes the best of it.
Steel Bath Suicide & The Chainheart Machine are my favourites, along with Natural Born Chaos (underrated imo)

Check more of them out. I think you'll like them.

Cheers,
audiobill