Vildhjarta might be my favorite band. They’re very much a Meshuggah descendent and started out doing Meshuggah riffs+metal/deathcore stuff with screechy horror soundtrack ass bits and spooky ambience and have really carved out their own niche that everyone refers to as “thall”

Both of their full albums are concept albums about a spooky old European kinda folktale woodcut vibe story about sentient critters in a critter town in the dark woods called Måsstaden (Seagull Town roughly in Swedish) that gets taken over by a cult, and the protagonist Snake 🐍 has to rescue his friend Bird 🐦 from them

Their early demo and unreleased stuff all whips ass and is mostly instrumental, look up “Vildhjarta 2007 demos” for their super crispy early production to get a feel for them, I fucking love the early version of Traces and Deceit, super fat punchy 7 string tone and great drums

Måsstaden, Thousands of Evils EP, and Måsstaden Under Vatten are their main releases, the first two got remastered and sound better imo

MUV is one of my favorite albums of all time

They released 3 singles after that which are basically an EP that are just named with “++” around the song titles but all go together and are an evolution of their style from MUV

“+den spänka kanslan+” (the Spanish feeling)

“+ylva+” (she-wolf)

“+kristallfågel+” (glass bird)

They’re linked to the band Humanity’s Last Breath (more deathcore-y) through Buster Odelholm, who is Vildhjarta’s drummer and producer and HLB’s main writer, guitarist (he plays left handed with the strings upside down on a 30" baritone 7 string lol) and vocalist

Vildhjarta’s guitarist has a solo instrumental side project called Stoort Neer that whips ass too if you like Vildhjarta’s guitar writing style

(sorry for the special interest dumping lol)