Ever wondered what it would sound like if The Cure suddenly became an extreme metal band? No, of course you haven’t. But, thanks to intrepid Swedish tandem Floating, the question you never asked has an answer – and it turns out, it sounds absolutely incredible.
This pair make no secret of their genre-smashing ambitions. Composed of singer/guitarist Arvid Sjödin and bassist/drum programmer Andreas Hörmark, they promote themselves as “death metal/post-punk”, and that descriptor is lethally accurate. Their bread and butter is in screaming, blasting, gut-churching volume, yet all of their songs come adorned with gloomy guitar parts that sound as if they’re fresh from Robert Smith’s fretboard.
