Death metal is a genre that prides itself on excess. Blood, gore, viscera, murder, serial killers and every other gnarly topic you can think are all within its lyrical crosshairs, and across its near-four-decade history there have been a host of bands who’ve matched those extreme themes with some truly disgusting music.
Lik, a Stockholm supergroup featuring members of Katatonia and Bloodbath, are historians of their genre. Their music revisits their genre’s early-90s Scandinavian sound, while their new album Necro features songs about war, death, necrophilia and other such lovely things. So, I sat down with guitarist (and Katatonia bassist) Niklas Sandin to get his picks for the most disturbing, offensive and violent-sounding albums death metal has ever spat up. Enjoy!
