Do they all have the same sound?

What do you think of all the Swedish bands?
There are older Swedish bands and brandnew bands.
What I mean is doesn't have all those Swedish bands a similar sound?
The drummer of this band is now playing in that band.
A member of the older bands is starting a new band with members of other Swedish bands.
For example, Christian Liljegren is the vocalist of Audiovision, started a new band Golden Resurrection and is singing the vocals for 7Days too.

Do you think all those new Swedish band with old members of other bands has their own sound, or do you think most Swedish bands have almost the same sound?

I feel that many of them do have similarities, but you can still tell them apart once you listen to them a bit and learn the differences. To someone who did not like that scene, they would sound alike.

I agree with Alldat. I can definitely tell a difference between Audiovision, Golden Resurrection, and Narnia. But to somebody completely new to the scene and not used to the style, they may sound the same.

Many of those neoclassical bands sound almost identical to me (ReinXeed, Majestic Vangard, Golden Resurrection etc) with the exception of the singers. I agree, I think it really depends on if you are into that style.

Some of those Scandinavian (sp?) bands sound very different from each other, Audiovision, Hero, HB, Veni Domini, Random Eyes, Venia.

I agree with the previous posts.

Yes, there is a difference between Harmony (melodic metal), Darkwater (progressive metal) and ReinXeed (epic metal). And besides, Narnia has been all over the map musically, ranging from neo-classical metal to power/progressive metal to melodic metal.

At the same time, Veni Domine (progressive doom metal) has their own distinct style while the same can be said for Leviticus.

Yep, I chose what turned out to be the majority here:

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Some bands have the same sound, but other bands really have their own sound.

I hafta listen to these albums several times to begin differentiating sounds. A lot of these albums I could just put on and mix for background rock while I'm doing other things and not be distracted. By distracted I mean, if I put on a mix that included, say, X-sinner, I would be doing whatever then stop what I'm doing cuz a certain song comes on by X-sinner, and I find myself singing along and doing the rock thing with my head (used to be called "headbanging", but at 40 and having degenerated discs in my spine, it's kind of a "slow nod of agreement").

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I find myself singing along and doing the rock thing with my head (used to be called "headbanging", but at 40 and having degenerated discs in my spine, it's kind of a "slow nod of agreement").

I don't have the degenerated discs, but that's all I do now. I went to a Disciple show in my early thirties, and I did some major headbangin' at that show. My neck hurt for nearly a week after. I decided that I probably didn't need to do that much anymore. The slow nod is plenty for me now.

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I find myself singing along and doing the rock thing with my head (used to be called "headbanging", but at 40 and having degenerated discs in my spine, it's kind of a "slow nod of agreement").

That's a good way to avoid having a "bangover" the next morning (A bangover consists of intense headaches due to excessive headbanging)

Im with the other old farts, my head-banging days are long gone, and all I do is the "nod".

No bangovers for this dude.

Isn't headbangin' for the younger people?
We old rockers don't have to headbang to enjoy the music.

In Germany I saw people shakin' with their head on the rhythm of the music.

They all sound the same. The Euro style of power/neoclassical metal is so tired, it needs to be done away with! I hate it.