Welcome to the forums lillumultipass.
I echo some of the comments, especially Werthead's, already mentioned. Eriksson is more difficult to get to grips with, initially, than George Martin's are. Both are very good fantasy worlds and are different enough that they don't fit your cliche at all.
The only spanner in the works as far as ASOIAF series goes is that it's uncompleted! A poor guy like me who picked up A Game of Thrones when it was first released has watched a decade of his life go by and we're still only halfway through!
Oh and I fully endorse the Lion of Macedon/Dark Prince selection. Gemmell is vastly underrated as a fantasy author and those two books in particular are cracking reads.