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The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2018.
(Go to last year in Scandinavian music or next year in Scandinavian music.)

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

September

November

December

Albums released

January

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
5 Trident Wolf Eclipse Watain Century Media [30]
19 Contra La Indecisión Bobo Stenson Trio (Anders Jormin, Jon Fält) ECM Produced by Manfred Eicher [31]
Elvesang Sigurd Hole Elvesang [32]
Lucus Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide ECM [33]

February

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
2 Delights Of Decay Batagraf Jazzland Produced by Jon Balke, Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim [34]
Live at Victoria Solveig Slettahjell Jazzland Produced by Solveig Slettahjell [35]
9 History Emmelie de Forest Cosmos First album after two-year break from recording [36]
13 Heat Knut Reiersrud Band Jazzland [37]
23 Reformation Part 1 Super8 & Tab Armada Music [38]
Pilgrim Janne Mark with Arve Henriksen ACT Produced by Esben Eyermann and Janne Mark [39]

March

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
1 Takker Thomas Helmig Genlyd Grammofon [40]
2 Ravensburg Mathias Eick ECM Produced by Manfred Eicher [41]
9 Decades Nightwish Nuclear Blast [42]
23 Returnings Jakob Bro with Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Morgan, and Jon Christensen ECM Produced by Manfred Eicher [43]
30 Geimvísindi Hildur Vala Einarsdóttir The singer's first album to contain original material [44]

April

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
6 Polarity Hoff Ensemble - Jan Gunnar Hoff, Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive 2L Produced by Morten Lindberg [45]
20 Barxeta II Per Mathisen & Jan Gunnar Hoff feat. Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez Losen Produced by Jan Gunnar Hoff and Per Mathisen [46]
Freedoms Trio II Steinar Aadnekvam Losen Produced by Steinar Aadnekvam [47]
Ultra Sivas Disco:Wax #1 in Danish album chart [48]
27 Större Molly Sandén unknown [49]
Ootsä nähny Nikkee Nikke Ankara unknown [50]
Wild Wild Wonderland Saara Aalto Warner Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[51] 2

May

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
4 Sway Tove Styrke RCA Records [52]
18 A Suite of Poems Ketil Bjørnstad, Anneli Drecker, poems by Lars Saabye Christensen ECM [53]
25 Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel Agnes Obel Night Time Stories Ltd [54]

June

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
1 Ääripäät Mikael Gabriel Universal Music Group [55]
Bertolt Brechts Svendborgdigte Søren Huss BaggårdTeatret [56]
8 So Sad So Sexy Lykke Li RCA Executive producer Malay [57]
29 Sometimes the World Ain't Enough The Night Flight Orchestra Nuclear Blast [58]

July

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
27 Act II Tarja Turunen earMUSIC Live album [59]

August

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
24 ‘re:member Ólafur Arnalds Mercury KX [60]
31 Helsinki Songs Trygve Seim ECM [61]
The Other Side Tord Gustavsen Trio ECM [62]

September

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
21 Immortelle Say Lou Lou à Deux Produced by Trent Mazur and Dash Le Francis [citation needed]

October

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
5 Bay Of Rainbows Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, and Joey Baron ECM Records [63]
12 Sorgir Skálmöld Napalm Records [64]
19 Forever Neverland MØ Columbia Records [65]
26 Christmas With My Friends VI Nils Landgren ACT Produced by Nils Landgren with Johan Norberg [66]
My Soul Kitchen Ida Sand ACT Produced by Nils Landgren and Siggi Loch [67]
Honey Robyn Konichiwa Records [68]

November

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
13 Deep Snow Simon Lynge Atlantic Music [69]
16 The Pursuit of Vikings: 25 Years in the Eye of the Storm Amon Amarth Live album [70]
23 The Ghost Ward Diaries Electric Boys Mighty Music Produced by David Castillo [71]

December

Day Album Artist Label Notes Ref.
13 Plays Metallica by Four Cellos – A Live Performance Apocalyptica Live album - 2CD+1DVD digipak [72]
14 Let's Boogie! Live from Telia Parken Volbeat Republic Records Live album [73]

Film and television scores

Films

Television

Eurovision Song Contest

Deaths

References

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