Artists like Swallow the Sun
Kindred artists that sit next to Swallow the Sun on the star chart — same era, adjacent sound, or overlapping influence. Tap any card to open its full page.
Daylight DiesartistDaylight Dies is an American melodic death-doom band from North Carolina, United States.
InsomniumartistInsomnium is a Finnish melodic death metal band formed in Joensuu in 1997. The sound and lyrical themes of their music portray darkness, sorrow, loss, pain, and nature. Their music includes elements of progressive metal and doom metal.
My Dying Brideartist
SentencedartistSentenced was a Finnish gothic metal band that played melodic death metal in their early years. The band formed in 1989 in the town of Muhos and broke up in 2005.
Paradise Lostartist
Mors Principium EstartistMors Principium Est is a Finnish melodic death metal band formed in 1999.
MoonspellartistMoonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band formed in 1989. The group released their first EP, Under the Moonspell, in 1994 and followed up with their debut album, Wolfheart, a year later. They quickly became the most recognizable metal band from Portugal and a key figure in gothic metal.
TiamatartistTiamat is a Swedish metal band founded near Stockholm in 1990 and led by Johan Edlund. To date they have released ten studio albums. The band went through a number of stylistic changes in their earlier releases before settling on gothic metal. Under Edlund's leadership, the band would modify their style with influences ranging from Black Sabbath, Mercyful Fate, Candlemass, Pink Floyd and King Crimson combined with Sumerian lyrical themes. H. P. Lovecraft's writings also appear to have influenced Tiamat's thematology, a development consistent with a broader trend in death metal culture.